Home canning pumpkin butter is not recommended. There is no USDA- or Extension-tested process for making it shelf-stable in a home kitchen—not in a boiling-water canner, and not in a pressure canner. Sugar, extra lemon juice, a longer process time,…
A low-sugar strawberry jam that is safe to can needs a pectin made for reduced sugar. Regular jam pectin only gels when sugar is high, often close to equal parts fruit and sugar. Low-methoxyl pectin, such as Pomona’s Universal Pectin…
Plain beans cannot be canned safely in a water bath. Green beans, wax beans, lima beans, and dried beans such as pinto, black, navy, kidney, and chickpeas are low-acid foods. A boiling-water bath tops out at 212°F at sea level.…
Canning meatballs is possible, but only if you treat them as shaped ground meat—not as the breadcrumb-and-egg meatballs most people cook for dinner. Meat is a low-acid food. In a sealed jar, Clostridium botulinum spores can survive ordinary boiling-water temperatures…
A safe pickled asparagus recipe for canning uses equal parts water and 5% vinegar, canning salt, and a short boiling-water process in pint or 12-ounce jars. That acid ratio is what makes asparagus, a low-acid vegetable, safe for the pantry.…
Strawberry lemonade concentrate canning turns a flat of berries into shelf-stable jars you can mix into a pitcher later. The tested formula from Ball and Bernardin is simple: 6 cups hulled strawberries, 4 cups lemon juice, and 6 cups sugar.…
Canning bean soup is a pressure-canner job, not a water-bath project. Dried beans must be soaked and heated first, jars should hold solids only about halfway, and dairy, pasta, rice, flour, and other thickeners stay out of the jar. Follow…
Homemade grape juice can sit on a pantry shelf when you extract the juice, chill out the grit, heat it until it boils, and process hot-filled jars in a boiling-water canner. That is the tested path for canning grape juice,…
Corn is a low-acid vegetable. The only tested way to can it at home is in a pressure canner that holds 240°F long enough to destroy Clostridium botulinum spores. A boiling-water bath never reaches that temperature. Whole-kernel corn is processed…
A shelf-stable tomatillo salsa canning recipe has to be a tested formula, not the salsa verde blended for dinner tonight. The version published by the National Center for Home Food Preservation (NCHFP) uses 5 cups of chopped tomatillos, a fixed…