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  • How to Can – Canning Tomatoes, Fruit, Vegetables : GF Video

    How to Can – Canning Tomatoes, Fruit, Vegetables : GF Video

    How to can video! Learn how to can food: apples, peaches, can tomatoes, vegetables. Canning food is easy using the waterbath method. Use a big pot you already have as a canning pot and buy a funnel and a  grabber tool and you are good to go.

    Home Canning How To

    This waterbath method is for high-acid food like fruits, tomatoes, pickles. You should use pressure cooker canning for low acid foods like meat and fish. You can buy a canning pot to boil the jars, but we use a big metal stockpot, the same one we use for brewing beer and cooking pasta. When using a stockpot for canning, place a towel in the bottom of the stockpot to keep the jars from touching the metal bottom of the pot. A GF viewer suggested tying together some jar bands with twist ties to form a base for the jars to rest on in the pot.

    Some things to keep in mind when canning food:

    • Be sure to wash the jars, lids, and bands with hot soapy water
    • Do not allow any food to get on the rim of the jar or on the rubber area of the sealing ring. Wipe off any mistakes
    • Allow the jars to cool for 12 hours and test the lids for seal. Some jars lids may still make the pop sound when they are taken out of the waterbath.
    • Buy a canning funnel and tongs, they are worth it. Less spilled food and no burned hands!
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    Canning Funnel keeps the rim of the jar clean and sits nicely on top of the jar. Canning Tongs save your hands!

    We based our information on one of the experts at Ball Jar Company, they have a great PDF on canning.

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    Watch our other canning videos here!

    What are your canning tips? Let us know below:

  • How to pickle beets and a pickeled beet recipe

    I am big into pickling and canning these days, and beets are a natural for pickling and canning. Watch the show here and let us know what your thoughts and ideas are. I’ll post the recipe in full after we get this new site set up.

  • Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe – GF Video

    Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe – GF Video

    My Bread and butter pickles recipe that’s easy to make and i love them. These are great to can and store for the winter. I love it when i open a jar in the snowy winter and crunch on summer. neat. Check out this bread and butter pickle recipe and video on canning pickles.

    Eric’s Bread and Butter Pickle Recipe

    This recipe will fill 4-5 8 oz canning jars, it depends on how packed the jars are.

    About 6-8 medium cucumbers, sliced thinly

    1 large sweet onion, cut in half, sliced thinly

    4 cups cider vinegar

    1 1/2 cup sugar

    Pickling spice

    Put a big pot of water on the stove to boil, the water should be high enough to cover the jars.

    salt cukes and onions in a colander with kosher salt

    place the colander in the sink or in a bowl

    let sit for an hour, then rinse off salt, shake the cukes and onions to dry.

    put the vinegar and sugar in a saucepan and heat to dissolve the sugar.

    when pot of water reaches a boil, place jars in water to sterilize, and simmer the canning lids in a small saucepan, do not boil the lids.

    put a tablespoon of pickling spice in each canning jar.

    pack the jars with cukes and onions so they reach 1/2″ below the top of the jars

    then pour the vinegar – sugar mix into each jar up to 1/2″ below the top of the jars. the liquid should cover the cukes and onions.

    place lids on each jar, making sure the tops of the jars are clean. secure with the screw-on bands. the bands does not need to be super tight, just barely tight.

    place the jars in the boiling water, the water should completely cover the jars.

    boil the jars for 10 minutes,

    set them to cool on a wire rack.

    the next day, check the lids to make sure they sealed. push each lid down, if the lid pops up and down, the jar is not properly sealed. You can either refrigerate this jar and eat the pickles within a week or put on a new jar lid and boil again for 10 minutes.

    ©2008 Eric Rochow  photo from MorgueFile

  • Eric’s Rhubarb Jam Recipe with Canning How-to GF Video

    Eric’s Rhubarb Jam Recipe with Canning How-to GF Video

    Here’s is my rhubarb jam recipe:

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    Wow. what fun it was to make and can our own rhubarb jam.Rhubarb Jam Recipe

    5 cups of chopped rhubarb

    2 cups of sugar

    1 cup of water

    2 to 4 packets of unflavored gelatin

    optional:

    1 carton of strawberries, chopped

    1 20 oz can of crushed pineapple

    zest of one orange, or whole orange slices

    Place all ingredients except gelatin in a large pot, and cook for 15-20 minutes, until rhubarb has broken down to your liking . Turn off heat, and add gelatin. How much gelatin depends on how thich you like your jam. More gelatin means a thicker jam.

    Can jam according to canning instructions that come with your canning jars.

    recipe ©2007 eric rochow

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