Home Canning your Food

I'm confused. I have a pressure cooker and I don't need cans. I use it mostly for cooking lentils or chick peas or meats. The dry beans take longer than meat and both need water in the cooker. Also, the beans have to be soaked overnight before cooking.

I think you were talking about a pressure canner. I have one of those but have never used it because the cost of meat is so high as well as the cost of produce. I wouldn't bother with canning unless I could buy the food in bulk and it's too expensive. Maybe food costs are more reasonable in Australia.

I used to can applesause and apple butter in the fall but it's a lot of work.

I hope you'll enjoy the canning!

I am sort of new to it and likely over did things a bit. LOL... But still I would advise all to invest in some good PH strips.

PS. I made some of the best home made habanero mango sauce! YUM!

omg make blackberry cobbler

Cook blackberries with equal part sugar , until all nice and melted , then strain , put back into pot , bring back to low simmer ,

Now take Biscuit dough and spoon off into cooked simmering black berries , you will know when enough. cover with lid and let cook for around 20 minutes.


PS , i really like using buttermilk biscuit dough in this the touch of sour sets it off.

Perhaps making a 3 bean salad with vinegar would be ok. Need to check the PH.

You know using a dehydrator is pretty awesome also. And this year I have a vacuum sealer for my dried goods. Some of that stuff will last 25 years although it is not suggested. But it will prolong the life of dehydrated food.

I am making home made chipolte and chili powder this year.

Thanks dude

Sounds very good but I would be canning them. Freezers go out when power goes out. Also they now have some pressure cookers without gaskets and reusable canning lids.

a pressure canner works exactly the same as a pressure cooker... different pressure levels, but the same results...

Make sure you can it in GLASS!

Thanks for this. These are a lot of good sites.

I have a lot of the supplies, I've been meaning to do this for years but I always just choke up and put it off because there's so much to it and I get scared that I'd mess it up.

But our peach tree is just beautiful this year. No fruit last year because of a terrible winter. This year they're back and big and plentiful. I'm just going to have fun with it this year, take a chance, and make it happen. Would love some summer peaches for the winter.

Yup, "home made fruit" until the GMOS contaminate your supply, Obummber protected them.
Not sure your set-up, keep it covered.

I don't think that a full grown peach tree can itself be contaminated by GMOs. That would have to happen in the pollination process, so I think that unless there are GMO trees close enough to your fruit trees for cross pollination fruit will be OK. Our old peach tree was 20 feet high, couldn't have covered it if we'd wanted to. LOL

What we have to worry about here is stuff in the air from light industry.

Fruits (esp berries) can be prepared like for a jam and dehydrated in flat blobs -- like making your own "fruit roll up." Smoke/dry, dehydrate or can -- freezing can quickly become unreliable IMO.

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