What are you canning now?

[BabydollAdams]

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When you make strawberry jam add a little butter to your misture while your cooking it, this will help with the foaming and keep it down or have no foaming at all.

 

[Momagain1]

Dont forget peeps...add your cannign recipe not only on this thread; but copy/paste it to the recipe database so we can have a section for the canning recipes
that we can keep all year long!!

 

[BarefootMom]

pics of my chicken

Chicken Breast (4 pints packed raw no liquid added) Pressure for 75 minutes at 10lbs pressure

Chicken broth

For the chicken broth-

Made it in my water bath---it takes a large POT!

7 Chicken backs along with some extra skin
3 onions
1 bag of whole carrots
water to cover
salt- I didn't measure it and I used canning salt
pepper and a few other spices

Simmer everything in a LARGE POT for 8-10 hours remove all the veggies and chicken from the broth. Put broth in jars and process at 10lbs pressure for 25 minutes for quarts or 20 minutes for pints.

The recipe also said to use celery-but I didn't have any celery

 

[vfem]

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I have SEA SALT . . . .can I use that instead of KOSHER SALT ? ? ?

Use canning salt

Canning salt and kosher salt with non of the anti-clumping stuff is what you need. So just check the package before adding it.

 

[Chick named Lola]

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how do you make the pie fillings? i would love to make some (i love pies

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Here are some recipes I use from an Amish canning book I have.


Apple pie filling
6 lbs. tart apples
4 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup corn starch
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
3Tbs.Lemon juice

Blend together sugar cornstarch spices and tsp. salt.stir in 10 cups water.
Cook and stir untill bubbly. Add lemon juice .Add apples and put into hot jars leaving 1/2 inch head spce.Seal process in boiling water bath for 20 minutes.Makes 6 quarts.

Blueberry pie filling
3qts blueberries
1-2 Tbs. clear jell
3 c. sugar 1 qt. water
In a large saucepan bring sugar water and berrries to a boil.mix clear jell with about 1 cup of water in a bowl.
Dissolve well and add to boiling blueberry mixture.When thickened spoon into clean jars .Seal and process at 5 lbs. pressure for 5 min. If no pressure cooker i available,process in hot water bath for 15-20 min
Makes 8 pints.

I use this for Blackberry also.

I've got 4 pints of blueberries. I may just freeze one for a mixed fruit jam later... thank you so much for these idea's! I want to try the apple as well....mmmmm

 

[cackydoodledoo]

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Where is this database? I just found this thread and thinking 400 some pages is alot to go through to find recipes!!!

 

[bockbock2008]

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vfem and anyone else with flower jelly knowledge!!! Should I rinse the flowers before I use them? I know I will have to pick some more to make the jelly and throw out what I've already picked but I would like to find this out before I go pickin' again

 

[sparkles2307]

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vfem and anyone else with flower jelly knowledge!!! Should I rinse the flowers before I use them? I know I will have to pick some more to make the jelly and throw out what I've already picked but I would like to find this out before I go pickin' again

I'd like to know if I need to rinse them as well. I'm filling a jar with violets, the lilacs are about to bloom, and I need to know what to do.

 

[sparkles2307]

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how long does the chicken breast keep?

 

[sparkles2307]

For flower jellies, I'm gathering that i need to use only the petals... is that right? I want to make crabapple blossom jelly but am not sure what parts of the blossom to use....