What are you canning now?

[Ridgerunner]

A restaurant in Somers Point, NJ has deep fried chicken feet, and pig snout on the buffet.

Welcome City Girl. Glad you joined.

 

[City Girl Farms]

Thank you

 

[Nyboy]

Did you grow the apples you just canned ?

 

[City Girl Farms]

Sadly, no. I have two trees, and one bore fruit for the first time this year. Five apples make a nice pie or two, but the bugs destroyed them quickly.
The HC came from an orchard near my sister’s house.

 

[baymule]

I rendered hog fat yesterday and canned lard. I got 12 quarts of white lard and made cracklins too. Simmering more chicken feet today, will get the broth all canned up later in the afternoon.

 

[ducks4you]

My friend visited China about 15 years ago. All chicken dishes where served with feet still on bird. Nothing like Chinese food here.

YEECH!!! I won't use the feet for ANYTHING I want to eat!! I just keep thinking about all of the poo that they get on their feet. I KNOW there are folks who just love them, but the feet go to the dogs at my house. Period.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Keeping busy here. Pints are mango juice and brown sugar water. Quarts are plain salted water. One jar exploded when it was on the counter....sticky stuff everywhere!

 

[City Girl Farms]

I’m more worried about exploding jars than an exploding pressure canner.

 

[ducks4you]

I wonder if the explosion occurred bc of rapid temperature changes. You may want to consider putting jars out of either hot water bath or pressure canner onto a wooden cutting board. I do that, and it helps to insulate the jars against a counter that may be cold. Yes, it sometimes warps bc of the water, but it will also warp back into shape.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I put them on a towel to give a cushioned place to put them. I wonder if that jar was scratched or cracked to start with? No way to tell now.