So...I am going to become a canner. Problem is....I have NO CLUE where to begin. Do I need special tools? Can you only can vegetables from your own garden? Is it expensive? Does it take a long time to can something?
So...I am calling upon you...my fellow bloggers and blog-stalkers...to help me. Any ideas or helpful hints or recommendations? Recipes? Tips? Books I should get?
8 comments:
I'm no experienced canner, but usually you need either a pressure cooker/canner OR a hot water bath (I'm not sure the real name for it. It's a pan that steams the cans to seal them...not in a real hot-water-bath). All I've done is freezer jam (which is so easy and SO yummy!!) and applesauce (which wasn't too hard, but messy). The applesauce you can get a special tool/appliance type of thing that will get the core and skin off, but I really didn't find that any easier or faster than getting a peeler-corer-slicer- and doing them that way. Good luck! HOpefully someone with more experience than me will respond and can enlighten both of us!!
Katy I couldn't tell you how to can a fruit or vegetable anymore than I could tell Texas how to be a smaller state, but I'm sure that when you find out and get all the gizmos and doo-dads that you need, you'll be swell. You CAN do eeet!!!
I did tomatoes last year and they seemed pretty easy. Although I couldn't tell you exactly how 'cause I had my mom-law-help me. But a good tip I have always found is YouTube. It seems to have answers to everything :-)
I don't even know what to say....
it doesn't have to be your own vegetables/fruits, you can buy them it just tends to be more expensive that way. and Connie is right, youtube does have tutorials for everything!
I certainly don't know how to can...but you should invite me over when you do it and we can learn together!
I'm no expert either, but Monda and I have canned a few things. You should come over sometime and we'll have a canning party :)
alas.. I do not know anything, but that is a good idea!
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