Category Archives: Canning Meat

Recipes for pressure canning meat

Why is Canning Headspace Crucial

Food preservation has a long history.  Canning food is a recent development in that history.  Preserving food by heating and sealing in an airtight environment didn’t come along until 1795 when Napoleon offered a reward for developing a reliable and safe way to preserve food because his traveling army of men were hungry.  A method […]

Canning Methods

The 2 methods to process home canned food are water bath canning and the other pressure canning. Water bath canning is used for high acid recipes.  Pressure canning is used for pretty much everything else.  Pressure canning takes much less time to process food. Pressure Canning It is widely known now that adding acid to […]

Putting Up Food

Canning or “putting up “food is a process I love. I have gone back to many of the old ways my grandmother knew and practiced every year. Yes, it’s hard work but my grandparents enlisted the whole extended family to help. I remember how labor-intensive certain tasks were when I was growing up — some […]

Canning Basics 101

One way to stock your pantry with some foods that you love is to preserve them. Are you new to the idea of canning and preserving? This article will give you an overview of what the process is all about and how it can help you to store delicious items to eat later. What is […]

Let’s Start Canning

Basic Canning Procedure When selecting fruits and vegetables that you want to can, you want to pick and process those as quickly as possible before losing their freshness and become spoiled. One trick shared by home canners for tomatoes is to core the tomatoes and freeze them as they become ripe. Then thaw them out […]