CANNING TIPS
By jimcain207
What to do with leftovers
I don't claim to be an expert, but I can offer some canning tips for those of you that do your own canning. This works for us.
On our farm, we grow our own vegetables and try to preserve as much as we can by canning vegetables. We have noticed, however, that not all vegetables are harvested at the same time. We process each vegetable as they are harvested. Nothing goes to waste.
So the day comes that you have an assembly line of a busy process in the kitchen, endeavoring to get everything canned. You have processed the vegetable in a stock pot and finished the last batch.
WHAT TO DO WITH THE LEFTOVER VEGETABLES THAT DOES NOT GET CANNED??
1. Let the vegetables in the stock pot cool to room temperature.
2. Place the leftover vegetables in a freezer bag with as much of the juice as possible.
3. Temporarily, store in the refrigerator or freezer.
These vegetables can be used to make homemade beef stew, or soup.
Normally we try to can at least 28 quarts of Beef stew to keep on hand.
ADVANTAGES:
1. It is an instant meal. Just heat and serve.
2. You can always fall back to the beef stew for those times that supermom is too tired to cook. Let face it. Sometimes you just don't feel like cooking..........
3. It is always good to have on the shelf for a quick meal for unexpected guests.
4. In the event of an ice storm or a situation where it is impractical to prepare a full meal, it sure comes in handy.
There is nothing like homemade beef stew or soup on a cold icy day. Now this....works for us!!
Comments
Thanks for your comment. Ya know, since we came from the city to the country, the word canning meant someone was getting fired. This is how much we knew about it. We learned how to do our own VEGETABLE canning.
Very good idea. Good food, home frozen and convenient.
A very helpful household hub. Theres nothing like the freshness of country vegetables, fresh picked and canned properly. By the way, the 2 quarts of canned purple hull peas that you gave me were mouth watering good. There is no comparison to a store bought can of peas, next to a home grown and canned mess of peas.
Hi ! I enjoyed your hub on canning...I have an orchard, with peach trees and pear trees...I did can, for the first time, year before last..last year, we had an late spring frost and I did not get any fruit...do you have any good recipes for canning peaches or pears? The recipe I used, was really really sweet..much more than I had hoped for...Please post some of your recipes for vegetables, and how to can them, as I am starting a garden, (for the first time) this year...I am going to have tomatoes, okra, corn, potatoes, peppers, and squash... I love your hubs...they are so good..and I can relate to so much of it!! I love Arkansas...dont you?
Art 4 Life--thanks for coming by.Count yourself fortunate to have an orchard of peach and pear trees. We had to plant from scratch our fruit trees. We did make some plum jelly that turned out good. I love it. We love to garden every year. Love to give away food especially to the elderly and needy, and also canning. Last year we lost our garden twice because of record rain fall in Arkansas. Hoping this year will be better. I plan on writing all about it. A typical day in the summer is to work all day and to can up until about midnight with two pressure cookers going at the same time. That's 14 qts canned at a time. We love Arkansas and we also have rich soil here. Grandkids spend the summer with us and always digs for potatoes like a hidden treasure and seeing who can find the largest ones.Ahhhhhhhhhh...I love it!!
Any recipe for beef stew? :-)
De Greek--that is a hard request. When we make a pot of beef stew to can, we start with at least 2 lbs of stew meat or cubed pot roast in a 14 qt pot. We brown it and then add it to the pot. After that, 2 pkgs of beef stew seasoning, then all kinds of vegetables. Many times we use up the vegetable remnants after we do our canning that is left over. Sorry, no measuring at this point. We add everything but the kitchen sink.....But it sure is good on a blistery winter night.Hope this helps.
fastfreta 2 years ago
This is a hub that my mother could relate to easily. She never taught me the wonderful art of canning, and to be quite honest I never wanted to learn. Now I wish I had taken the time to learn. Maybe one day, nah, will never happen. Good hub though.