Posted: 4/21/2007 5:58:25 PM EDT
| Ok guys I am new to this canning thing and am totally dumb to it. So after reading the post on here a while back, I bought a canner, the 22 quart mirro, that the Original poster suggested. I bought some jars, and the canning kit, with the ladle, funnell, grabbers and all that stuff. So lets hear some directions for some of you guys favorite recipes. I have a senseless load of beans and rice so I was thinking maybe if someone had a red beans and rice recipe would be killer, But I want to hear em all. |
I already googled some recipes, But googleing "arfcom survival forum members favorite canning recipes" only brings up one site that really has nothing to do with canning and the members here. Thats why I came here and asked for the members who can stuff for the recipes that they use. as there are 1,010,000 hits for canning chili, and i really dont have time to try em all....Butthanks for the help |
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You might have a hard time finding that "beans and rice" recipe you want. White rice has a reputation for not canning particularly well....it gets overcooked and mushy. Here's some stuff on canning beans, though: Beans I personally (YMMV) don't find it worth the effort to can stuff that will keep indefinitely when stored dry. Beanless chili (can add beans at cooking time) and spiced meat are another matter. I particularly like the spiced meat option as it lets me add whatever additional ingredients I want later. I basically use the Ball recipe for spiced beef: From this thread:
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Thanks feral, is gettn pretty rare that someone helps out around here. Usually a plethera of people either trying point how you are stupid or wrong. Or people pointing out how other people trying to help you are wrong. Thanks, any ideas on where to get supplies on the cheap? |
Thanks also, what 762 said. |
Don't know. I've never bought supplies online. I occasionally see jars on sale for $1 or so off a case. I'll buy a case if I see that, but we really don't need jars. I make a point to buy lids throughout the year.....buy a box here, buy a box there.....by canning time there's a big supply laid in. |
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Mom was both a canning expert and a pack rat. She'd buy stuff, not be able to find it, go buy more, hide that because the other might have been "stolen", not be able to find it, go buy more, etc. When she passed, dad went on a pogram rto purge the house of four decades of accumulated stuff. It took him months. He was going to toss mom's canned tomatoes, but I swooped in and saved them from waste, about 90 quarts worth, also some beans and some candied peaches. About two weeks ago I decided to flesh out the full but re-usable jars with a whole canning "system". I like "systems", since if you're missing even one lousy component, you are basically screwed. I bought 4 dozen rings and 8 dozen lids (the rings came with lids plus I bought extra)at the grocery store. Then, bass ackwards as usual, I called dad and he allowed there might be some canning stuff around the house, and if I wanted it, I was welcome to it. I'm sure he was snickering a bit, thinking he was unloading unusable stuff on someone else, and getting it out of the house, without having to haul it himself to boot. I now have two giant blue speckle canning pots with lids and wire racks, good to hold 7 quart jars each, a giant stainless steel pot for stewing up stuff to go in cans, a giant plastic tub good for holding fresh fruit or vegetables ready for canning, ("giant" means bigger than a bushel basket, not quite as big as a clothes washing tub), a total of 200 canning jars, 95% narrow mouth quarts, a few wide mouth quarts, pints and smaller jelly jars, all (except the wide mouth quarts)using the same size rings and lids, two sets of tongs, one funnel, 4 different Ball Mason recipe books, and the mother lode, about 2000 rings. Yes, two thousand, they filled one 80 pound bag that used to hold water softener salt, and five or six plastic grocery bags, plus various and sundry other containers that mom had squirreled them away in. I kind of wish mom had mother-loaded the lids instead of the rings, because if the S ever really HTF, rings are re-usuable, but the lids are less so. Ten reloads for 200 jars runs to 2000 lids, and they go 12 to the buck around here, new. I have about 10 dozen lids now, and plan to increase the stockpile to ten times that before I call it good. Need a big pressure cooker too, with spare parts. Point of ths long ramble being... ...look in the local newspaper for rural estate sales that seem to offer huge quantities of female stuff, and you might find a bonanza. If you come up short, I got rings to trade, about 1600 of them. Now really...wouldja rather sit on all that 7.62 ammo, or wouldja rather eat fresh canned decent food, ALL winter long? :-) |