Pork and Vegetable Soup

Soup

Vegetable, dried bean or pea, meat, poultry, or seafood soups can be canned. These directions are intended for use with ingredients that already have separate canning recommendations for those foods.

Caution: Do not add noodles or other pasta, rice, flour, cream, milk or other thickening agents to home canned soups. If dried beans or peas are used, they must be fully rehydrated first.

Procedure: Select, wash, and prepare vegetables, meat and seafoods as described for the specific foods in their own canning instructions. Cover meat with water and cook until tender. Cool meat and remove bones. Cook vegetables as described for a hot pack. For each cup of dried beans or peas, add 3 cups of water, boil 2 minutes, remove from heat, soak 1 hour, and heat to boil; drain.

Combine solid ingredients with meat broth, tomatoes, or water to cover. Boil 5 minutes.

Caution: Do not thicken. Salt to taste, if desired. Fill jars halfway with solid mixture. Add remaining liquid, leaving 1-inch headspace.

Adjust lids and process following the recommendations in Table 1 or Table 2 according to the method of canning used.

Table 1. Recommended process time for Soups in a dial-gauge pressure canner.
			Canner Pressure (PSI) at Altitudes
Style of Pack	Jar Size	Process Time	0 - 2,000 ft	2,001 - 4,000 ft	4,001 - 6,000 ft	6,001 - 8,000 ft
Hot	Pints	60* min	11 lb	12 lb	13 lb	14 lb
	Quarts	75*	11	12	13	14
* Caution: Process 100 minutes if soup contains seafoods.

Table 2. Recommended process time for Soups in a weighted-gauge pressure canner
			Canner Pressure (PSI) at Altitudes of
Style of Pack	Jar Size	Process Time	0 - 1,000 ft	Above 1,000 ft
Hot	Pints	60* min	10 lb	15 lb
	Quarts	75*	10	15
* Caution: Process 100 minutes if soup contains seafoods.

BANANA PEPPERS

BANANA PEPPERS (LIKE VLASSIC OR SUBWAY)
4 pints



1.) Slice your banana peppers into rings (2 pounds)

2.) Put them into your sanitized jars. (To sanitize the jars, boil them for 5 minutes)

3.) Mix your brine:

5 c. white vinegar

1 c. water

4 tsp. of Pickling Salt

2 T. Sugar

2 garlic cloves

Put all of this into a pot and bring to a boil. Once it has boiled for 2 minutes remove the garlic cloves.

4.) Pour the brine over your pepper rings, leaving 1/2 inch headspace

5.) Add 1/4 tsp. of pickle crisp  to each pint jar

6.) Put your sanitized lids and rims on

7.) hot water bath for 10 minutes.

  Allow 1 week before eating!

Sweet & Sour Pickled Sweet Peppers

Sweet and Sour Pickled Sweet Peppers


3 pounds red, green, yellow and/or orange sweet peppers, sliced into bite size strips or rings
2 large onions, halved and thinly sliced
4 cups sugar
4 cups water
3 cups white vinegar
2 cups cider vinegar
1 tablespoon celery seeds
1 tablespoon whole black peppercorns
1 teaspoon mustard seeds
4 cloves garlic, smashed
4 bay leaves
2 teaspoons Kosher salt

Combine pepper strips and onions in large bowl.  Set aside. In cooking pot combine all other ingredients.  Bring to boiling, stirring to dissolve sugar and salt.  Reduce heat to low.  Simmer, covered, for 15 minutes.  Discard garlic and bay leaves.  Pack pepper-onion mixture into hot sterilized pint canning jars, leaving 1/2 inch head space. Pour hot vinegar mixture into jars, maintaining the 1/2 inch head space.  Discard any remaining vinegar mixture.  Wipe jar rims; adjust lids and screw bands.  Process filled jars in a boiling water canner for 10 minutes (start timing when water returns to boiling).  Remove jars from canner.  Cool on wire racks.  Wait for the "ping" sound of sealed jars. Rejoice.  Enjoy.  Makes 7 pints.

Easy Hot Sauce

Easy Hot Sauce

8 cups (64 ounces) canned, diced tomatoes, undrained

1½ cups seeded, chopped cayenne peppers*

4 cups distilled white vinegar (5%)

2 teaspoons canning salt

2 tablespoons whole mixed pickling spices

*Caution: Wear plastic or rubber gloves when handling, cutting and seeding hot peppers

or wash hands thoroughly with soap and water before touching your face or eyes.

Yield: About 7 to 8 half-pint jars

Please read Using Boiling Water Canners before beginning. If this is your first time canning, it is recommended that you read Principles of Home Canning.

  1.   Wash and rinse half-pint canning jars; keep hot until ready to use. Prepare lids according to manufacturer's directions.

  2. Place mixed pickling spices in a spice bag and tie the ends firmly. Mix all ingredients in a Dutch oven or large saucepot. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Simmer another 20 minutes, until tomatoes are soft.

  3. Press mixture through a food mill. Return the liquid to the stockpot, heat to boiling and boil for another 15 minutes.

  4. Fill hot sauce into clean, hot half-pint jars, leaving ¼-inch headspace. Remove air bubbles and adjust headspace if needed. Wipe rims of jars with a dampened clean paper towel; apply two-piece metal canning lids.

  5. Process in a boiling water canner 10 min 1/2 pints

Notes* 

1. we quadrupled this recipe but only used the 2T of pickling spices 

2. we sliced peppers in half and used a spoon to scrap out seeds and pith rinsed with water and stick blender insted of a food mill. 

3.  added 1 C sugar to cut the heat and 1 T garlic powder

4. canned in pints and quarts (although not recommended  by NCFHFP) Pints 15min quarts 20 min.

Picking pecks of peppers

The peppers loved all of the heat this year.

Sweet Corn

Sweet Corn

3 to 6 lb corn in husks (about 10 to 19 ears) per quart jar
Water
Salt, optional
jars with lids and bands  


DIRECTIONS

PREPARE pressure canner.
Wash lids in warm soapy water and set bands aside.

HUSK corn and remove silk. Wash corn cobs. Cut corn from cob and measure.
PACK corn into hot jars according to raw pack or hot pack recipe below.

Add 1 tsp salt to each quart jar, 1/2 tsp to each pint jar, if desired.
REMOVE air bubbles.
Wipe rim.
Center hot lid on jar. Apply band and adjust until fit is fingertip tight.

PROCESS filled jars in a pressure canner at 10 pounds pressure 55 minutes for pints and 1 hour and 25 minutes for quarts, adjusting for altitude, according to your pressure canner instructions. Remove jars and cool. Check lids for seal after 24 hours. Lid should not flex up and down when center is pressed.

Raw Pack
PACK corn loosely into hot jars leaving 1 inch headspace.
LADLE boiling water over corn leaving 1 inch headspace.

Hot Pack
PLACE corn in a large saucepan. For each 4 cups corn, add 2 cups water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes.
PACK corn and liquid into hot jars leaving 1 inch headspace.

Onions

We actually got a few onions this year.