Posted: 11/18/2009 5:03:43 PM EDT
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Hi guys,
I need to put a substantial amount of butter away for my SHTF stash, but money isn't flowing like it used to so canned butter is a hard purchase to justify anymore. I did a little research online for canning butter and most of the sites had very similar directions and the butter that was canned was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Well, I came across a few sites that also warned against canning butter due to the risk of Salmonella poisoning... that put me off for a few months but I did go ahead and buy the jars at the time. Well, today I thought to myself: "People can foods all the time safely, and it's not uncommon to hear about Salmonella poisoning from other foods people can, so butter can't be that much greater of a risk...." and I bought all the butter I need. Now I just need a few words of encouragement and signs to look for that my butter went badly. Thanks in advanced guys, Dave |
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Why not just buy Red Feather brand canned butter? Tastes great, indefinite shelf life, easy to get from www.mrefoods.com.  +1 I agree. On ebay you can get 24 cans for $98 shipped. ive never seen it that cheap I don't see any for that price now but I swear I saw it this week. |
| ...apparently you can put up butter in a pressure canner, we recently got Jackie Clay's book on growing and canning your own food..its an awesome book, with that said she does have a reciept for doing this.however what you are really ending up with after following her is Clarified canned butter...Ghee for those who prepare Indian style food....I have a case of Red feather I got a couple years back.its terrific, but if you can your own it wont be like that...just a heads up...but it can be done successfully..... |
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The reason I am not hip to getting the canned butter is that I was laid off for the summer while building a "root cellar". That put a significant dent in my savings, but I now have a place I can store preps on my BOL. Concrete and masonry construction was a lot more expensive than I thought it would be even with the help of friends negating labor costs.. As a result, I am having to be more discrete on how I spend my remaining funds on preps given a change in income etc. I would like to have some of the canned butter as a backup should this not go well, but $100 is a lot of money right now.
I have bought a few jars of Ghee, but damn.... that's definitely and acquired taste. |
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Here is a link I found while researching the subject....http://mrskitty.org/news7march.html
Hope it helps.... |
| add the phrase [/url] after the link and [url] before include the brackets. As for canning... if Balls said it is not safe, then why risk it. But I do own a few cases of red feather... I picked mine up from MREdepot and Walmart (great to live in Utah). Walmart is cheap, MREdepot is cheaper on specials. Steve used to kick out awesome specials. Like buy 2 for 150 shipped. like he had last year or 2 ago.. Bought my last 2 cases then. I use it camping, at home when I run out of landolakes unsalted, I gave it away to friends and family in preparedness stockings last year, along with MREs/ MH packets, canned cheese, MP1 tablets, books, and info etc.. I even took a can into work to go with the cornbread and sourdough I made at the last pot luck... got some weird looks but they all agreed its great stuff. |