Canning and Home preserving

[BullChick]

Thanks for the recipe! I'd really like this without the sugar!!!

Yeah, the sugar is daunting, but since it’s a relish, you only eat a little.

 

[FortCluck]

Yes... and If you want you can use your pressure canner as a pressure cooker. There are even instructions in the literature that comes with the pressure canner.

The only problem I have with using the pressure canner as a cooker is they are made of aluminum. Aluminum should not be used to cook high acid foods like tomatoes, unless it has a protective coating like a non stick or ceramic. If you noticed most modern pressure cookers have a removable stainless or non stick liner.

Great article
https://www.livestrong.com/article/475155-health-risks-of-cooking-in-aluminum/

Hard anodization is a good protective coating for aluminum. But its only a few microns thick and though it makes the surface tougher it still can be scratched off over time.

There ARE health benefits to eating food cooked in Cast iron... Iron from the pan does get into the food and can add Iron to your diet. Same goes for copper to some degree.
I prefer Stainless or inert as in Ceramic coated or Non stick aluminum.

deb

I cook with cast iron and nothing else. Not for health benefits but because my husband is obsessed with them... I'll admit that I am too. I got rid of all my other pots and pans.

 

[ValerieJ]

Yeah, the sugar is daunting, but since it’s a relish, you only eat a little.

I never use relish because it's sweet, and I just don't like sweet stuff on my hamburgers and hotdogs. But, having a recipe I can make sans the sugar is a good thing!!!

 

[ValerieJ]

I cook with cast iron and nothing else. Not for health benefits but because my husband is obsessed with them... I'll admit that I am too. I got rid of all my other pots and pans.

Seriously? How do you boil pasta? Or steam veggies? But, I get your point. I pull out cast iron for something nearly every dinner.

 

[R2elk]

I never use relish because it's sweet, and I just don't like sweet stuff on my hamburgers and hotdogs. But, having a recipe I can make sans the sugar is a good thing!!!

The type of sweet relish that @BullChick makes, tastes nothing like the kind of sweet relish that you would buy in a store. I make a similar green tomato relish that is sweet and people that don't like sweet relish (me and others) do like it.

Leaving the sugar out of that recipe will just make a sort of salsa and there are better salsa recipes.

 

[ValerieJ]

The type of sweet relish that @BullChick makes, tastes nothing like the kind of sweet relish that you would buy in a store. I make a similar green tomato relish that is sweet and people that don't like sweet relish (me and others) do like it.

Leaving the sugar out of that recipe will just make a sort of salsa and there are better salsa recipes.

You have dashed my hopes of having a relish for my burgers. (need fainting emoticon here) Why can't a relish be made with dill pickles, for example, instead of sweet pickles, which is what it always tastes like at my local burger joint when I forget to say "hold the relish", and then have to scrape it off the bun?

 

[R2elk]

You have dashed my hopes of having a relish for my burgers. (need fainting emoticon here) Why can't a relish be made with dill pickles, for example, instead of sweet pickles, which is what it always tastes like at my local burger joint when I forget to say "hold the relish", and then have to scrape it off the bun?

There is no reason that you couldn't make a relish using dill pickles. My point is that the types of "sweet relish" that @BullChick and I make taste nothing like the sweet relishes that you know. You might be pleasantly surprised if you could try some. My green tomato relish uses no pickles of any kind. Because my version has a lower ratio of onion plus different spices, it tastes different from what Bullchick makes.

 

[21hens-incharge]

You have dashed my hopes of having a relish for my burgers. (need fainting emoticon here) Why can't a relish be made with dill pickles, for example, instead of sweet pickles, which is what it always tastes like at my local burger joint when I forget to say "hold the relish", and then have to scrape it off the bun?

I buy a vlassic dill relish for us. It is decent.
I also make my own....kind of.
I dice up a real pickle add finely fixed onion and call it good.

 

[ValerieJ]

I buy a vlassic dill relish for us. It is decent.
I also make my own....kind of.
I dice up a real pickle add finely fixed onion and call it good.

That actually sounds good to me.

 

[ValerieJ]

I buy a vlassic dill relish for us. It is decent.
I also make my own....kind of.
I dice up a real pickle add finely fixed onion and call it good.

I'll have to look for that.