Home Canning Recipes

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Collection of Home Canning Recipes and How-Tos

Home Canning is a great way to preserve quality, local grown food for later use. After canning food, it doesn't require electricity to keep it from spoiling like freezing food does. My lens contains a collection of my favorite home canning recipes, as well as some home canning basics to ensure food safety. Hope that you enjoy the lens and have fun stocking your pantry with your own home canning.

Home Canning Basics 

One of the first things you need to understand about home canning is which foods can be canned using a water bath canner and which foods require a pressure canner. This photo taken from a home canning guide prepared by Utah State University shows clearly which foods are acidic enough to be canned in water and which foods are not acidic enough. Low acid foods must be canned using a pressure canner. Foods like salsa, containing peppers, tomatoes, and a variety of other high and low acid ingredients, often have lemon juice or vinegar added to be safely canned at home in a water bath canner. If a home canning recipe calls for lemon juice, lime juice or vinegar to increase acidity, it is important that the ratios of the home canning recipe are maintained exactly.

Home Water Bath Canning Basics 

Here are the basics of water bath canning at home:

* A water bath canner should be filled full enough that the water is 2 inches above the top of your canning jars.
* If you live in an area with hard water adding a few tablespoons of white vinegar to the canning water will keep hard water build up off the canning jars.
* Use a canning jar lifter to place the canning jars into the boiling water. Be careful not to tip the canning jars to prevent leaking the contents of the canning jars into the seal.
* Keep adding boiling water as the canning jars are processing to keep the water level 2 inches above top of the canning jars.
* When the canning jars have processed, or boiled, for the recommended time, which varies depending on the contents and your altitude, turn off the heat and allow the canning jars to stand in the water for 5 minutes before removing.
* Use the canning jar lifter to remove the canning jars from the water being careful not to tip them.
* Let the canning jars stand, undisturbed for 12-24 hours until they have cooled completely.
* Check that the canning jars have sealed. Press the center of the canning jar lid, if it springs up when you release it the canning jar is NOT sealed.
* Label canning jars and store in a cool, dry place out of direct light.

Tomato Canning Recipes 

Tomato recipes with peppers, garlic or onions added need vinegar, lemon or lime juice added also. If you view the chart above, you can see that peppers, garlic and onions can cause the canned tomatoes to be less acidic. I make my tomato canning recipes that include these ingredients with lemon or lime juice rather than vinegar, because I prefer the flavor.

Salsa Home Canning Recipe
Tomatoes Home Canning Recipe

Canning Fruit at Home 

Fruit home canning recipes usually use a sugar syrup and vitamin c added to them to protect the fruit from browning and sweeten them. I rarely use sugar unless absolutely necessary and I use natural fruit juices to provide the extra vitamin c when canning fruit at home.

Applesauce Home Canning Recipe
Apples Home Canning Recipe
Apple Pie Filling Home Canning Recipe
Peaches Home Canning Recipe
Blueberry Syrup Home Canning Recipe

Pickle Canning Recipes 

I hope you enjoy my modified version of my great-grandmothers pickle canning recipes!

Pickle Relish Home Canning Recipe
Dill Pickle Canning Recipe

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