What are you canning now?

[cravenchx]

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Enlighten me Oh Great Opawan Chickenobi ( that made me laff sorry) what are horticulture beans? I am unfamiliar with that term.

They are a stringless bush bean in the cranberry bean family. They can be eaten green as a snap bean, they can be allowed for the pod to become almost dried then shelled and canned, or they can be dried, shelled, and stored. They are a mild tasting firm bean with a nut like flavor. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/10233_horticulture_beans.jpg

I call these October beans. I have never eaten them in the pod, have started
letting them dry on the vines and vacuum packing.

 

[Opa]

While technically its not canning, I did press 8 gallons of apple cider today.

 

[booker81]

I'm freaking tired of canning tomatoes. 16 quarts yesterday, 12 quarts today, and probably 12-16 tomorrow. Friend let me glean out his 300 plants, and while I'm eternally grateful, my canning eyes were bigger than my stamina.

Of course, I'll probably go out Wednesday and clean out the green tomatoes and make relish out of them

Also got 13 quarts of sauerkraut fermenting away.

 

[DawnSuiter]

OH THE HUMANITY....


two days preparing my SPECIAL Black Beans, sorting, fermenting, cooking down, cooling, HAND SORTING EVERY SPOONFUL looking for bones and fragments, reheating again, cooking extra pork chops for it. I FINALLY get to measuring it out into 3 NAME BRAND Quart jars - "Don't use the Golden Harvest jars" I told my husband as we were selecting these from used jars my neighbor donated in the storage cabinet. I fill up my jars with the hot food, I get 3 precious jars of this beautiful recipe....and set them in the canner with the already hot water and I hear it...



>TING<

On jar broke.. the bottom just popped off. I lifted it out, all the beans pork & juices come out into my canner water.

Live & learn... pre boil ANY 2nd hand seriously old, stored for years and recovered under a pile of debris jars, no matter how clean you get them or how many times you wash them!

The other two jars are in the canner and are almost done now. I don't smell any black beans so I assume they are still intact after the process.


LONG DAY

glad to be back here too now that my canning season is starting!

 

[erinchelsea]

Dawn, that would make me SICK!

 

[vfem]

Oh Dawn

I completely understand!

 

[DawnSuiter]

Thanks for the support

The other 2 quarts are beautiful thank goodness now and sitting on the counter.

Now, up next, Split Pea Soup, Chicken Soup, Lentil Soup
this time with PRE BOILED JARS!

 

[marymac]

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Just had that happen to me with a batch of salsa. Had one jar with the bottom broke out the other was a recycled gravy jar that the lid popped off. like you said live and learn.

 

[CranberryCreekFarm]

Could I use my green tomatoes to make salsa??? How much different would it taste?

 

[Terri O]

Can someone please help? I have chicken and defatted stock ready to process. I am looking for a processing time to can the chicken WITH the stock! Does no one do this? All recipes on the web seem to be canned separately. I am thinking for quarts 11 pounds for 90 minutes....do you all agree? Prolly should have come here first! DUH....

Finished 6 quarts of stewed tomatoes this afternoon and am going out to pick more...

Thanks! Terri O

\\(PS) cranberry creek--I saw a recipe for green tomato salsa in my searches...it sounded YUMMY! Sorry, cant remember the site though....