Home preserving that's as good for the body as it is for the mind
This is a delicious mixture of chicken, beans and salsa in a jar. The prep work for canning is also really fast: the entire mixture is raw pack. This recipe comes from the Ball All New book (2016). It uses another home-canned product from that book, Roasted Salsa Verde, as an ingredient. You can reduce the salt,…
Instant Sunday dinner: just serve this pot roast with its delicious gravy over mash, with a few of your home-canned veg for sides. The prep work for canning is also really fast: the entire mixture is raw pack. This recipe comes from the Ball All New book (2016). Like many Ball recipes, the sodium in this can…
Minnesota Mix is a delicious, aromatic stewed tomato mixture including celery, onion and pepper. Use it as a base for baked pasta dishes, casseroles, rice dishes, curries, soups and stews, etc. Once you get used to the convenience of having it on hand, you won’t want to be without it. Make it at the end…
Delicious, home-canned Sloppy Joes makes for quick, healthy and nutritious lunches or suppers. The ingredients are really easy to assemble for home pressure canning. This is a safe, tested recipe from Dr Barb Ingham at the University of Wisconsin Extension Service. A quarter-litre (half US pint / 8 oz ) size jar makes enough filling for four buns…
This is the USDA’s “Beans, Dry, with Tomato or Molasses Sauce” recipe: we just adjusted the seasoning of it so that the beans will taste like baked beans, even though they aren’t actually (neither are tinned baked beans from the store! Though you could say, they are baked in the jar.) If your audience prefers…
You can dehydrate many of the cultivated long podded-beans meant to be eaten in the pod. Such beans are often treated by cooks as a vegetable rather than a carbohydrate (as are individual, shelled dried beans). They are known under names such as Green Beans, Italian Beans, Snap Beans, String Beans, Runner Beans, Wax Beans,…
You may home can either variety of sweet potato: the orange, or the white. You need around 1 kg (2.25 lbs) per 1 litre (1 US quart) jar. In 1930, the Ball Blue Book advised that “some of the best varieties for canning are the Nancy Hall, Triumph and Southern Queen.” [1]Ball Blue Book. Edition O. 1930….
Rutabaga (aka “Swede”) is very similar to turnip, being just a few genes away. It is round, with an orangish flesh inside. In North American stores, it often has PLU code 4747, meaning apparently just “generic variety” of rutabaga. It is usually sold coated in food-grade wax to extend its shelf life. Rutabaga can be…
These canning directions concern plain unroasted fresh peppers, blanched and packed in water. These directions apply to fresh peppers regardless of the colour and they also apply to hot peppers (aka chiles.) You may can peppers (hot or sweet). You can can them, pickled, or plain. Pickled peppers can be water-bathed or steam-canned. Unpickled plain…
Parsnip can be safely canned at home using a pressure canner. Some people say they don’t like the taste afterwards; but some parsnip lovers counter that those people probably didn’t like the taste of parsnip before much, either. Delicious as part of a mash including home-canned carrot and squash. This procedure comes from Ball and…
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