"How to -~Safely~- Can Pumpkin Butter?"........the 7th ?Wonder? of the world. Yea it seems to not be fair!.......that 'some' places can it & yet @ home it's a Severe no -no.
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Congrats & Good Luck on your new Canning Adventure! I too canned for the 1st time ever this year (making the Crockpot Apple Butter). I have the Ball Blue Book (1990 edition) & refer to it REAL often. What a good Hubby....Alot of us are Blessed with Good Hubbys. Canning is Soooo...
Very Welcome I always enjoy getting recipes & info I'm looking for, so I always try to help anyone looking for something. BYC is like an information SuperHighway, lol.
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The Apple Butter (or any of the butter recipes I listed on the previous page 11 of this post) call for 10 min in a BWB. & the Salsa recipe in my Ball Blue Book is:
Salsa
4 cups peeled, cored, chopped tomatoes (about 6 large)
2 cups seeded, chopped long green peppers (about 10 large)
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In my Ball Blue Book it has recipes varying from 10 minutes in the Boiling Water Bath, 15 mininutes, to I think up to 20 min in BWB. I guess it all depends on what you're canning. It doesn't have a standard time for all things BWB canned. If you're canning a specific item lemme know &...
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You can use a regular stockpot for water bathing, just put something on the bottom to disperse the heat.... in a large pot -a wire cookie cooling rack will work (if it'll fit), or you can use a kitchen hand towel folded to fit the bottom under the jars.
I have a Apple Chutney recipe from my Ball Blue Book:
Apple Chutney
2 quarts chopped, cored, pared, tart apples (about 16 medium)
2 pounds raisins
1 cup chopped onions (about 1 medium)
1 cup chopped sweet red peppers (about 2 medium)
4 cups brown sugar
3 tablespoons mustard seed
2 tablespoons...
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I have the Ball Blue Book & it has a few recipes, here are what they call for:
Apple Butter (Old-Fashioned Kind Using Whole Apples)
2 dozen, medium apples, quartered (about 6 pounds)
2 cups sweet cider
3 cups sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cloves (I Never use...
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Here's what it says online as a replacement:
Ingredient Substitutions
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon plus 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg plus 1/8 teaspoon cardamom
I personally leave out the cloves in Any way shape or form of Any recipe. My family hates the way cloves make things taste. & for my...
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What's a waterbath? Does that mean you have hot simmer (near boiling) apple butter put into out of the boiling water canning jars, then add the caps & rings to the jar then put the whole filled jar into boiling water to 'seal' it? If so do you put it in boiling water that only comes up...