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Canning Dried Beans, pinto, black, navy and more.

Canning Dried Beans, learn how to can dried beans at a fraction of the cost of store bought.

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Safe Food Storage - How? Why? Guidelines? Questions?

Safe food storage - what are your questions regarding home emergency food supply?

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Canning soup, Homemade soups and broth

Canning soup is a great way to have your own homemade soups ready for a quick lunch.

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Homemade Soup Recipes

Homemade Soup Recipes, Soup with home preserved foods.

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Reusable Canning Lids

Reusable Canning Lids - I love reusable items. I hope these canning jar lids work!

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Canning, Dehydrating, Freezing and Home Food Preservation.

Home canning and Preserving, Meat, Vegetables, Fruits, Jam or Jelly. Starting a vegetable garden.

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Long Term Food Storage with Shelf Reliance, every day cooking too!

Long Term Food Storage, I have found Shelf Reliance Thrive foods good for everyday cooking as well as long term...

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My question is regarding pressure settings.

My canner has settings for low (8.5 pounds) and high (15 pounds)- it is also a pressure cooker. How do I calculate the time to process when a recipe

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Can I use quart jars instead of pints for canning salsa?

I was wondering if I can can salsa in the quart jars instead of pints, every recipes says processing time for pints, but, we eat so much of it quart jars

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Oily canning jars

I just finished my second time of canning marinated mushrooms. They are a huge hit but I have real issues with my jars, rings, and lids being oily. What

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Will any deep pot do?

Hi there, Simply canning--Im new to this craft and am excited to make jams and apple butter for harvest gifting. Do you Have to have a water bath canner

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Is it okay to use old/antique canning racks?

Hi Sharon, I'm just starting out canning and don't yet have either a water bath or pressure canner. I'm going to start with jams and other high acid

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Raw Pack Chicken with liquid?

You are the first person or source to suggest adding liquid to raw pack chicken. I have been trying to find out why the instructions always say DO NOT

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Are the two part lid an absolute must in canning?

Every year, we make a hot spread type mixture with tomatoes, garlic, peppers and olive oil. We always use the two part lid. I am making favors for a

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We Love our 930 model

We love our 30 quart pressure canner. We do a lot of canning and we also do a lot of cooking like large roast, cook whole chickens and ribs. We use a

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Homemade Creamy Tomato Soup Recipe

This is an easy creamy tomato soup recipe using home canned tomatoes.

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Canning Jars, Canning Supplies for Home Preserving

Descriptions of many types of canning jars. Kerr, Mason or Ball canning jars are all suitable jars for canning.

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Just another fellow canner

No failures to seal yet in 2 years of using them. No staining, either. Not even concord grape juice seems to leave anything that won't wash off with

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Electric Pressure Canner?

My pressure cooker/canner is not working well. So I need to get a new one before our garden starts producing this year. When researching different types

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Volcano Stove or Grill... great emergency stove

The Volcano Stove or Grill is perfect for outdoor canning, emergency cooking or an easy portable camp stove.

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Cooking Venison for Thanksgiving -Creating an Authentic Thanksgiving Feast

Cooking Venison for an authentic thanksgiving feast.

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Soup Saver Scoop

Soup Saver Scoop. Ladle review, a great canning tool and great for soup.

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Canning Venison - canning meat ground and cooked before processing

Canning Venison, Canning meat, try it you'll like it.

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Canning Venison Cubed and Hot Packed

Canning Venison, cubed or strips, hot pack. So easy. Step by step directions. Try it you'll like it.

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Canning Venison

Canning Venison, raw packed, cubed or strips. So easy. The meat produces it's own juices. Try it you'll like it.

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Ball Blue Book,Canning Book, Canning Supplies for Home Preserving

Ball Blue Book: A Good Canning Book is a vital part of your canning equipment.

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Shop Simply Canning

Shop Simply Canning, My favorite products I recommend.

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Apple Slicer,If you are freezing, dehydrating or canning apples, apple sauce, or apple butter.... you need one!

Apple slicer that peels cores and slices.

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Water Bath Canner or Steam Canner, Learn about canning equipment here.

Water Bath Canner,also known as a boiling water bath

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Freezing Food, Fruit, Vegetables and Herbs

Occasionally freezing food, is preferable to canning or dehydrating.

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Canning Apple Pie Filling, How to make apple pie filling and process in a waterbath canner.

Canning Apple Pie Filling, with a waterbath canner.

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Clear Jel for canning pie filling

Once you get to using Clear Jel, you will never go back to reg. cornstarch again.

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Substitute Honey for Sugar for Sugarless Canning

How to substitute honey for sugar for healthy home canning.

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Pickled Carrots Recipe

How to make home canned Pickled Carrots. Step by step instructions with waterbath canning directions.

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Pressure Canner, All American, Presto, Mirro

Pressure Canner, How they work, types of gauges, and why you should give this canning method a try.

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My 70's Presto Pressure Canner

My Presto Pressure Canner was bought back in the late 70s from a neighbor who had only used it twice. It is a 21 qt. This ole gal can hold 18 pints stacked,

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Bread and Butter Pickle Recipe

How to make home canned Bread and Butter Pickle Recipe. Step by step instructions with waterbath canning directions.

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Is it safer to use a pressure canner for all home canning?

I do a lot of canning as I have a 3/4 acre+, organic vegetable and fruit and medicinal herb garden. I have asked the question a lot whether it is better/safer

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Problems with lid sticking and with broken jars

All the canning I had done so far has been just with the hot water bath method. Since everything I have canned was high acid, I did not need a pressure

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Canning with Splenda

Canning with Splenda: I know when cooking/baking you can substitute sugar with Splenda. Can that safely be done with canning? My extended family is diabetic

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Canning Apple Butter, How to make apple butter in a slow cooker or crock pot.

Canning Apple Butter, with a waterbath canner.

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All American Canner Not just for canning!!!

I own the 915 and 930 All American canner/cookers. I use the larger canner for big canning jobs and for making ribs for my cafe. Model 915 Pressure

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Canning Rack Replacements, Canning Supplies for Home Preserving

Canning Rack replacement

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Canning Salt and Processing Time

1. Is there a difference between table salt and canning salt? Answer: Yes table salt has fillers in it that will affect your food. Use canning salt

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Benefits of Organic Food and Home Canning.

Benefits of Organic Food. Combine Organics with Home Canning and you have a great source of healthy foods.

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Using canning lids that have been simmered but not used?

Is it safe to use new canning lids that have been simmered in hot water but not used? Hi, sometimes I heat extra jars and canning lids just in case the

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Have used a steam canner for many years

Have used a steam canner for 8 years. Got it from my grandmother who used it many years previous. I can peaches, pears and salsa and have never had a

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Presto Pressure Canner Rviews

I like it! hehehe... you wanted more than that. Well, it's pretty simple, it's easy to use. My friend's mother gave her an older Mirro canner. While

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Too salty pickles

I've been making bread and butter pickles for years. This year they turned out too salty. I think I let them sit too long in salt and didn't rinse them

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