Yesterday's trip to the Westminster Walmart yielded a bonanza of regular and wide-mouth Ball lids. Got six packs of each, with plenty left behind. It also looked like they had a bunch of different jar sizes.
The Canning Thread
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1 venison heart
1 Head of garlic
2 small onions
2 quarts of cider vinegar
1 cup of brown sugar
2 tablespoons of seasoned salt or Old Bay
1 tablespoon of pickling spices
1 head of garlic, diced
hot pepper flakes
1/2 cup of water
Makes enough for 4 hearts or tongs
Trim off the fat cap and any vessels that didn’t get trimmed during field dressing. Simmer on the stove top for 45 minutes, avoid a rolling boil.
While the heart is cooking, place all the other ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil, stir, and remove from heat. Take the heart and rinse it under cold water. Or let it cool on a plate.
Cut the heart in quarter inch slices and clean out the little artery branches because they can be chewy.
Place the sliced heart in an appropriately sized jar, and cover with the pickling fluid. Heat in hot water bath for 10 minutes.
You can also use dill or sweet pickling spice
Archeryrob
Undecided on a great many things
1 heart or four hearts for the recipe??
4 Hearts
Archeryrob
Undecided on a great many things
Okay, where is everyone buying canning lids? There doesn't seem to be anything available except for the Chinese 100 packs on Amazon. Walmart never seems to have anything but lids with bands. It seems this might be as bad as reloading
Do the Chicom lids suck? I just checked and most of the ratings seem OK...
I scored Ball lids at Walmart a week or so ago, 6 boxes each of regulars and wides, just the lids. They had a couple cases of each on the shelf. Definitely hit or miss, but you can at least check Walmart’s web site to check your area stores for stock before you head out.
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ToBeFree
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Picked up a couple of cases of qt. jars w/ bands & lids a couple of weeks ago.
Monterey Va Dollar General. $9 each.
Monterey Va Dollar General. $9 each.
Archeryrob
Undecided on a great many things
Don't know, but the daughter wants to can and we are planting and i can't find them. Aliexpress, if I am getting chinese lids, I might as well order direct from China. I can get 40 for about $10. Most stuff would get used in a year but stuff like jellies and pawpaw butter might last several and don;t want to risk cheap lids. I tested their broadheads and was not terrible impressed.
Also consider Tattler reusable lids. They’re 2-3x more expensive than Ball lids but they’re indefinitely reusable. I have used them with good success.
https://reusablecanninglids.com/products
There’s also another company that makes similar and slightly expensive reusable lids, but I haven’t used them yet:
https://canninglids.com/shop/
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https://reusablecanninglids.com/products
There’s also another company that makes similar and slightly expensive reusable lids, but I haven’t used them yet:
https://canninglids.com/shop/
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Archeryrob
Undecided on a great many things
Yea, i saw them and was thinking pickles (tamerac) and tomato sauce was going to stain them. Harvest guard is sold out.
ToBeFree
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Looks like delays are a month out.
You would still get them in time for harvest.
I might give some a try.
See my old 'canning sins' post... I often reuse lids (but have only ever used ball lids). Never had a lid fail that sealed correctly initially..
Today’s efforts yielded 9 pints of sweet & hot sandwich pickle chips.
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So a 6 month update to this:
I've been pulling a jar every so often, including one this morning. I'm pretty pleased with the flavor but the consistency is NOT that of a just purchased sausage link. They just won't stay together and are generally soft and easily breakable.
I've found they're more suited to cutting in small pieces and mixing into scrambled eggs with onions peppers mushrooms etc.
When I did this I wasn't sure what to expect and was a little disappointed when they kept breaking apart on me but overall I'm pleased with the results.
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Got 9 half-pint jars of strawberry preserves from roughly 2.5 quarts (3+) lbs. of local strawberries this morning.
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Archeryrob
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Looks like delays are a month out.
You would still get them in time for harvest.
I might give some a try.
I got 100 on order today. We shall see. My daughter found some Balls at Walmart and I'll probably use the Harvest guards for pressure cooking and non-staining stuff like stoganoff, soups and corn and veggies.
buellsfurn
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So if a total novice wanted to get into canning can it be done with out buying specialty cookers etc. ? Want to dabble to see its for or not for me and don't want to throw hundreds of dollars. Thank You
wilcam47
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Depends what you are doing. If you do jellies and jams etc. Just need a large cooking pot and pint jars/lids/caps. Make some homemade apple butter, you wont be disapointed
buellsfurn
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possibly jellies jams but thinking more vegis and maybe bbq sauce the bbq sauce will have bourbon in it
