Canning

better her then me as a Guinea pig.this way i can correct my mistakes,..

Brent S said:

I wish I could try it! I ended up getting about 15 cucumbers this year. They usually like heat, but not as much as we got this summer. I didn't make a single pickel this year. Although I did pickle some green beans, with a little kick to em.

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One day it will happen. . . it took me a heck of a time to locate Pickling Lime. Mom brought it home to me when she visited Colorado.

jimLE said:

better her then me as a Guinea pig.this way i can correct my mistakes,.. View attachment 6027

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Just be careful using mom as the guinea pig . As long as your doing the right processing time it should be fine. According to the canning gods pasta should never be canned since it contains flour and eggs. . . if you check with the Amish they do and so do other countries. The FDA is just trying to be on the 'safe' side of things when they 'recommend'. I break the rules all the time. . . a Rebel at Heart!

Well, I peeled the last bucket of apples today. The peeler/corer/slicer thing ey was a huge time saver, but it's still a lot of work. I made to large apple pies too. I also managed to pick the carrots from the greenhouse. I've started washing and sorting them, but won't get to canning them till tomorrow.

This is the peeler/corer/slicer thing ey.... 9.00 on Amazon. Great gadget. I peeled last years apples with a small knife.

Posted this in another spot, probably should have been posted here. But I didn't know this thread existed. Almost a year I've been on this page & still finding stuff I did not know was here! Anyway..........

We got all the peas shelled. Yay! And all canned. Yay! However, we sort of cheated on shelling them. Someone we know heard about our many bushels of black-eyes and loaned us their electric pea sheller. Yay. And brother, I mean YAY! I may never shell by hand again. We were 2 or 3 bushels in when we accepted the upgrade in technology. What took 2 hours by hand, took 20 minutes with the machine. We may even go get another batch next weekend.

Final tally.....149 pints & 42 quarts. Plus, 4 gallon zip-loc bags of shelled, un-canned peas( 2 for the people who loaned us the machine ) & a plastic grocery bag (about 2 gallons) to my sister. Big praises for my sweet wife for all her hard work washing jars & canning.

today im cooking 4LB'S of pinto beans for beans n ham.got the ham sliced n diced.got the beans rinsed.now im waiting for the water on the stove to get plenty hot..

P.S. edit..i'm getting 13 pints on this one..

I got all the posts in around the garden/orchard area but never put the wire up. Too many other projects. Just a few days ago the deer and elk found the garden. They've been eating the grapes, blackberry and raspberry plants. If I had my freezer set up it'd be full of deer and elk right about now.

I canned the last tray of carrots tonight, and I have 18 pints of turkey broth in the canner right now. Man, that stuff makes the house smell so good! I also had 3 pints of broth left that wouldn't fit in the canner, so they will go in the fridge tonight and will be turkey noodle soup in the next couple days. I can't believe all my life I used to throw out the chicken and turkey bones. Now they make the best soups and add flavor to most things I cook.

I just boiled up 50 lbs of chicken and deboned. Put in vacuum seal bags for the freezer. The broth went into the fridge since I worked today. I need to scrape off all the fat and can up.

Danil54grl said:

I just boiled up 50 lbs of chicken and deboned. Put in vacuum seal bags for the freezer. The broth went into the fridge since I worked today. I need to scrape off all the fat and can up.

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I just bought a 10lb bag of chicken leg quarters on sale. They just went in the freezer, but that's a great idea to can them. I'm really looking forwards to turkey getting cheaper at thanksgiving. It's my favorite meat and broth. I think I got 7 or 8 last year while on sale but they were eaten long ago.

Actually we bought 200 lbs of chicken leg quarters in total. Only 50lbs fit in my big pot so that is what I boil at a time. I will eventually boil around 150 lbs total. Once deboned, since I have already put up in the freezer, the next batch will get canned with broth. And then next time I boil up chicken will get dehydrated. The broth is always canned since I use it so often when I cook. Always think of more than just the freezer, cause you never know. I always get a freeby turkey during holidays with my job, but we also buy extra when on sale since they are so cheap! It is just too hard to beat the price!!

Danil54grl said:

Actually we bought 200 lbs of chicken leg quarters in total. Only 50lbs fit in my big pot so that is what I boil at a time. I will eventually boil around 150 lbs total. Once deboned, since I have already put up in the freezer, the next batch will get canned with broth. And then next time I boil up chicken will get dehydrated. The broth is always canned since I use it so often when I cook. Always think of more than just the freezer, cause you never know. I always get a freeby turkey during holidays with my job, but we also buy extra when on sale since they are so cheap! It is just too hard to beat the price!!

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I can't agree more with the freezer thing. There's just too many things that can go wrong. That old saying of don't put all your eggs in one basket thing. How do you dehydrate chicken? I've thought of making jerky with it but that's all. I only have two cases of chicken broth right now for cooking with, so need to get motivated and replenish soon.

today is beans n ham day.i got 2 ham steaks from HEB.the needed amount will be added to the ham we already have.i also had a look at the chicken they have on hand.in which i didn't like what i saw in the way of appearance.so no chicken this time around..

I just started snapping the ends off some green beans I just picked. I had planted one last round in the greenhouse recently as an experiment. They are producing better than the spring/summer crop. I'll can some of these but since I got hardly any okra this year most of these will become hot pickeled beans. Yum! Guess I'll have some of the small ones for dinner tonight too.

A couple months ago my wife ordered an All American pressure canner. The company cancelled the order saying their system didn't recognize our shipping address, which is my parents house. She reordered 5 more times since. The company representative isn't able to manually override their own computer system. It's too bad when a computer system takes control over human input. She'll take her business somewhere else now.

Arcticdude said:

A couple months ago my wife ordered an All American pressure canner. The company cancelled the order saying their system didn't recognize our shipping address, which is my parents house. She reordered 5 more times since. The company representative isn't able to manually override their own computer system. It's too bad when a computer system takes control over human input. She'll take her business somewhere else now.

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The average corporate company employee isn't paid to think, just to follow the rules.

Brent S said:

View attachment 6292 I just started snapping the ends off some green beans I just picked. I had planted one last round in the greenhouse recently as an experiment. They are producing better than the spring/summer crop. I'll can some of these but since I got hardly any okra this year most of these will become hot pickeled beans. Yum! Guess I'll have some of the small ones for dinner tonight too.

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Got the spicey pickeled beans made, but didn't get the green beans made for dinner. Settled for left over Mexican. There's always tomorrow.

The chicken is first boiled then dehydrated. . . Mainly I like to make it into something first like chicken pasta noodles and just dehydrate all at one time. But it can all be dehydrated separately and then combined later. I just think doing the meals altogether produces a better flavor cause w2hen you dehydrate, it also does the juice at the same time so the flavor goes back into whatever you made.

Danil54grl said:

The chicken is first boiled then dehydrated. . . Mainly I like to make it into something first like chicken pasta noodles and just dehydrate all at one time. But it can all be dehydrated separately and then combined later. I just think doing the meals altogether produces a better flavor cause w2hen you dehydrate, it also does the juice at the same time so the flavor goes back into whatever you made.

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How do you store it after dehydrating? Does it still need to be referigerated or anything?