Comments on: Gave Our Canned Butter A Try Today:

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:46:30 +0000

It’s NOT all about the seal, low acid foods must be heated to kill botulism spores and other bugs. Some foods, like pickles and jams, can be hot water canned due to the amount of acid or sugar, otherwise you need pressure canning or you’re risking sickness or death. Please be careful and believe that there’s a good reason for most of the things we do in canning, it’s not just for making more work.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:36:50 +0000

Ann,

Tell your Mom she must pressure cook non- or low- acid foods to kill the botulina spores. High acid foods can probably be canned in a water bath, but not beets (unless she adds a lot of vinegar and salt and turns them into beet “pickles”)

The “seal” is important, but unless you kill the spores, they will happily reproduce in the low level of oxygen that is typical in canned foods. Result? Sickness and death.

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:01:59 +0000

Chris, my mother has been canning since she was a child. She said that this year, instead of using a pressure cooker, she decided to run her jars and lids through the dishwasher on the hottest setting. While they were super hot, she pulled them out filled them with her hot beet pickles, and put the lids on and they sealed like a dream. She said she doesn’t know if she’ll ever get the pressure cooker out again. You may want to give it a try since it’s really all about the seal.

By: AoC

AoC — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:01:15 +0000

Now this is an interesting concept, but something I’d like to hear and see more of it.

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By: Sandra

Sandra — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:26:26 +0000

Could not wait for this one!
Looks good, color and texture. Where’s that honey?
How is the cow that gave up the butter? The butter’s shelf life
will outlast the cow’s. HAMBURGER! You may can that too.
You guys make my day every day. Keeps a smile in my heart.

By: Chris J

Chris J — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:41:47 +0000

Hi there, what kind of butter do you buy? Do you buy the blocks of Land O’Lakes type butter or the BIG kind sold at a Costco? Can you email a recipe? I am getting more into the canning. Mostly I am canning tomatoes and freezing beans and dehydrating tomatoes because I do not have a pressure cooker yet. I have made jerky in my dehydrator, but it never lasts long enough to store. LOL. I would like to try my hand at canning butter.

Thanks for any and all ideas or help.