It's Jam night! (whatchu canning?)

Anyone can soup?

DevilsBrew said:

Anyone can soup?

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My mom does an amazing turkey soup using the Bernardin book recipe (I think it's the Ball Blue Book in the US) - she adds veggies and rice while it's heating up on the stove after coming out of the jar.

I tried to find out a way if my favourite carrot and lentil soup could be canned - I even emailed Bernardin about it and got a very standard response about how it's not safe. So I gave up and just canned the carrots and made up little lentil and spice packages to go with each quart jar in the correct proportions - shouldn't take too long to make with the carrots already prepped and cooked and most of the other ingredients measured out.

Sockeye, 'Mom's Apple Pie Filling' and garlic from my friend's farm.

Adios Pantalones said:

Devils- I stick with accepted recipes and methods, which limits varieties of what I can do, but I have a pressure canner and am thinking about doing chili (which is the devil's soup)

I picked 3# cherry peppers! and 2# habaneros today to get them off the plants before we get a freeze. Pickled the cherries, and will ferment the habaneros in a couple of days when they ripen up a tad more

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If you try the chili, then please post.

Awesome haul you have there.

Cynnergy said:

I stand corrected. Good to know, thanks Adios! I haven't done any fermenting - I guess that's next on the list although for some reason it doesn't really appeal to me. Maybe I just need to taste real kraut .

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That'll do it for you. I just started this year and I'm hooked now.

15 pints of chicken breast canned last night. I told the wife they would look like science projects when they were done, but don't look quite as bad as I thought they would.

bsruther said:

15 pints of chicken breast canned last night. I told the wife they would look like science projects when they were done, but don't look quite as bad as I thought they would.
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What will you use it for? Are they your own chickens?

Cynnergy said:

What will you use it for? Are they your own chickens?

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Most of it will get used for soup. Makes cooking a lot easier and it's better than anything from a can. Not our chickens. I found chicken breast on sale and couldn't pass it up and it was taking up too much space in the freezer so I canned it. We have chickens, but just for eggs.