罐头是一个有趣的项目,既能让你的手变脏,又能让你的食物保持新鲜,还能在假期来临的时候给你一个最后的礼物选择。
The key to successful canning is starting with a recipe you can trust. We pulled these gems from our favorite homesteading and farming blogs. We also recommended the best foods to can, if you’re just starting out.
For more info about the science of canning, and about different canning methods,read our canning post. If you’re ready to get going, take a look at this list, find a project, and most of all have fun!
Tomatoes
Always a canning favorite since they tend to ripen all at once. Because some new varieties of tomatoes are so sweet, the USDA now recommends that you add a small amount of acid to eliminate the risk of botulism.
Canning Tomatoes recipe and photoby Candi of The Farm Barbie.
Tips for Canning Tomatoes
- Here’s a recipe for canning tomatoesif you don’t own any supplies beyond jars.
- 一些西红柿中的低酸可能会形成危险的细菌。This articlerecommends how much acid to addso that won’t happen.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning tomatoes.
Peaches
Peach-lovers won’t mind all the work of canning peaches. You have to remove the skins and pits. Then you have a couple of choices. If you want the peaches to keep their color, add ascorbic acid (you can get this in the form ofBall Fruit-Fresh Produce Protector). Then you’ll decide whether or not you want topack the peachesin a sweet syrup or juice.
Canning Peaches recipe and photoMarblemount家园。
Tips for Canning Peaches
- Get the skin off the peaches byblanching them, then putting them in a cold water bath.
- Add liquid to the peaches for the best results. This blog postsuggests water, apple juice, or light grape juice.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning peaches.
Salsa
Another way of preserving tomatoes is to turn them into salsa. Just as with whole tomatoes, you’ll want to add an acid component to prevent spoilage.
Canning Salsa recipe and photo和谐家园的蕾切尔·泰丝。
Tips for Canning Salsa
- For the chunkiest salsa,use Italian plum-style tomatoes. Big, liquidy tomatoes are better for sauce or soup.
- To get the peels off,try this broiling method.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning salsa.
Green Beans
Green beans, pickled in a spicy brine, are a crunchy, salty snack or a yummy add-on for your Bloody Mary bar. You can can them fresh, too, but as a low-acid food, they must be processed in pressure canner.
Canning Green Beans recipe and photoby Kathleen of Roots and Boots
Tips for Canning Green Beans
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning green beans.
- Check out our article forcanning green beans.
Applesauce
Homesteaders swear by home-canned applesauce as the best you’ll ever have. Slightly soup apples are the best. Peeling the apples will be a considerable chore, consider borrowing or buying anapple peelerif you’re going to do a big batch.
Canning Applesauce recipe and photoby Old World Garden Farms.
Tips for Canning Applesauce
- Use a potato masher or immersion blenderto get the consistency you want.
- Or use ahigh-speed stand blender—one good thing about doing this is that you can toss smaller apples in without coring them.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning applesauce.
Pickles
Since cucumbers don’t have much flavor on their own, they’ve become a canvas for creative cooks. You can try kosher dill, bread and butter, spicy…just make sure you’re using pickling cucumbers. The big ones we use for salad are too watery—you’ll end up with mush.
Canning Pickles recipe and photoby Connie of Urban Overalls.
Tips for Canning Pickles
- If you want a deeper flavor than you’d get from refrigerated pickles, trythis recipe for old-fashioned fermented pickles.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning pickles.
Tomato Sauce
If you want enough tomato sauce to spend the winter eating hearty pasta, make sure you have a big pot. You’ll only get about 10 pints of sauce for every 20 lbs of tomatoes.
Canning Tomato Sauce recipe and photo出自《新生活》的肯德拉。
Tips for Canning Tomato Sauce
- To get the seeds and skin off,run the tomatoes through a food mill.
- For the extra acidity that will make the sauce safer to eat,consider citric acid, which won’t alter the flavor of the sauce like vinegar or lemon juice do.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning tomato sauce.
Pears
Since pears are slightly firm, they are a good candidate for canning in slices. Other more tender fruits would just turn to mush.
Canning Pears recipe and photoby Jennie of Straight From The Farm.
Tips for Canning Pears
- If you’re short on time or patience, here’sa recipe for canning pears without peeling them or adding sugar.
- If you have small pears, here’sa recipe for canning them whole in cinnamon/vanilla syrup. Yum!
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning pears.
Apples
Firm apples hold up well to canning. “Hot packing” is the best way to can apples—that’s when you cook them slightly first.
Canning Apples recipe and photo橡树山家园的凯西。
Tips for Canning Apples
Potatoes
Potatoes are easy to store and nearly always available—so why can them? First, because when canned they are ready-to-use—you can justtoss them into soups或者把它们捣碎,方便食用。其次,当土豆降价时,你可以省下大量购买和装罐的钱。
Canning Potatoes recipeby Grow a Good Life.
Tips for Canning Potatoes
- Green spots on potatoes are toxic.Cut them out(剩下的土豆还好)。
- For extra flavor, trycanning potatoes in broth.
Beets
Pickling beets is a popular method of preservation since brine adds acidity to the beets and helps them keep longer. It also, for some, improves the flavor. If you don’t pickle beets, you must use a pressure canner.
Beets: From Growing And Preparing To Canning And Cookingby Insteading
Tips for Canning Beets
- Usually you can slide beet skins of with your hands, but if you’re having trouble,use a small paring knife to finish the job.
- Here’sa recipe for beets in water with a pressure cannerrather than pickling them.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning beets.
Jalapeños
I thought I’d through a slightly different recipe at you—this one describes how to “lacto-ferment” jalapeños. That’s giving them some natural fermentation agents, letting those do they’re trick, then refrigerating.
Canning Jalapeños recipeby Quinn of Reformation Acres.
Tips for Canning Jalapeños
- Here are a few ideas forhow to use pickled jalapeños.
- 使用jalapeños时,请戴手套。(尤其是如果你也戴隐形眼镜的话——这是我个人非常痛苦的经历。)
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning jalapenos.
Apple Pie Filling
A few hours of work, and you’ll be able to pop open a can and whip up hot apple pie whenever you want.
Canning Apple Pie Filling photo and recipeby Tammy Taylor of Taylor Made Homestead.
Tips for Canning Apple Pie Filling
- This homesteaderrecommends using ClearJel, a corn starch replacement, to thicken the filling.
- Here’s some info from the University of Minnesota aboutwhy they no longer recommend using cornstarch in canning.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning apple pie filling.
Corn
If canned or frozen corn is a big part of your diet, you’re almost surely eating GMO food. Nearly all processed corn is from genetically-modified seed. Buying organic corn and canning it yourself is the only way to be sure you’re eating GMO free.
Canning Corn recipe and photo by Angelia of Shepherds Hill Homestead: shepherdshillhomestead.com
Tips for Canning Corn
- If you’re canning lots of corn,invest in a corn cob scraper.
- GMO corn will look too perfect.Truly organic corn will have imperfections, like little worms you can easily cut off.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning corn.
Apple Butter
The classic food gift and the sweetest way to preserve your bounty of apples.
Canning Apple Butter recipe作者:Homestead Acres的Kim
Tips for Canning Apple Butter
- This 19th century recipecalls for boiling the apples in a giant copper kettle over a fire. Fun!
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning apple butter.
Banana Peppers
This recipe is for pickled pepper rings, which will preserve them longer. Use this basic recipe for whichever peppers you want to pickle.
Canning Banana Peppers recipe and photoby Amanda of Amanda The Virtuous Housewife.
Tips for Canning Banana Peppers
- Include banana peppers as just one of the peppersin a sweet & sour mix.
- Consider packing the peppers in half-pint jars—you may find (like this homesteader did) that a full pint is more peppers than you can use.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning banana peppers.
Carrots
松脆的胡萝卜很适合做成罐头。如果你要用新鲜的罐头而不是腌制,你必须使用压力罐头。
Canning Carrots recipe and photoby Laurrie Basiletti of The Redneck Homestead Family. She says she uses her canned carrots in homemade chicken pot pie.
Tips for Canning Carrots
- Cut your carrots into “coins” of equal thicknessso they’ll all have a similar consistency.
- For flavor,consider adding brown sugar.
Tomato Juice
你要用最结实的西红柿做酱汁或莎莎酱。对于大而多水的西红柿,把它们的汁液装在罐里可能是最好的选择。
Canning Tomato Juice recipe and photoby Merissa of Little House Living.
Tips for Canning Tomato Juice
- Here’s a recipe if you want tomake something similar to V-8.
- Some recipes call for you to seed the tomatoes before cooking them, butthis homesteader found that the strainer did this just fine.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning tomato juice.
Chicken
Freezing and canning are the two best ways to store meat. With freezing, the upfront work is as simple as wrapping, tossing in, and shutting the door. Then, when you want to use it, you have to remember to defrost, and then cook. Canning chicken moves all of that work up to the start of the process. Once you’ve cut up and pressure canned chicken meat, it’s ready to use in tacos, soup, pasta…for a busy or forgetful cook, having canned chicken on hand saves scads of time and worry.
Canning Chicken recipe and photoby Erin Harrison of Keeper Of The Homestead.
Tips for Canning Chicken
- To prevent oil seepage from causing the lids to get loose,remove as much fat as you can.
- Here’s part one ofa video series from a chicken farmerwho shows you the whole process of raising 100 meat chickens—from buying them to processing them for meat. Fascinating stuff.
Stewed Tomatoes
Stewed or herbed tomatoes have long been a nice shortcut for making pasta sauce. Homesteaders who’ve made their own swear that home-canned stewed tomatoes are much, much better than what you can get at the supermarket. You’ll want to experiment with the herb mix to find one you like best.
Canning Stewed Tomatoes recipe and photo谢雷尔在《我作为一个农夫的妻子的疯狂生活》一书中写道。
Tips for Canning Stewed Tomatoes
Zucchini
Many homesteaders say that canned squash comes out mushy—good for baby food but not much else.
Here isa recipe from New Life on a Homestead—though as you’ll see, even the person who wrote it said they wouldn’t try canning zucchini again.
Tips for Canning Zucchini
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning squash. Their solution to the mushiness problem is to turn the zucchini into a relish.
Pumpkin or Winter Squash
Pumpkins and their winter squash cousins are good candidates for canning since their flesh is so firm.
Canning Pumpkin recipe and photoby Newbie Steader of Ten Acre Homestead.
Tips for Canning Pumpkin
- A good way to use canned pumpkin chunks is to puree them later for making pie.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning pumpkin.
Venison
冷冻是保存鹿肉最常用的方法。一些自耕农说,罐装肉更嫩。
Tips for Canning Venison
- If a neighbor’s freezer breaks,pressure canning the meat is a good way to come to the rescue.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning venison.
Sauerkraut
The sour of sauerkraut comes from fermenting it first, then canning it. This recipe uses you a very traditional—probably centuries old—method.
Canning Sauerkraut recipe and photoby Swamp Creek Farm. The recipe comes from the writer Joyce’s great-grandmother.
Tips for Canning Sauerkraut
- Your kraut must be covered completely by liquid, if not, top it up withthe brine solution suggested in this recipe.
- Once the kraut ferments you can go ahead and can it. Here areinstructions for canning your kraut.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning sauerkraut.
Soup
Home-can your soup and you’ll know for sure what goes into it. You’ll have to make a few sacrifices, though. It’s not safe to can any soup that uses grains or dairy. It’s best to just add that later before you eat.
Canning Soup recipeby Sue of The Iowa Housewife.
Tips for Canning Soup
- If you end up with slightly less soup than you need to fill your final jar,top it up with chicken broth.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning soup.
Diced Tomatoes
This seems like a tremendous amount of work, unless you could dice the tomatoes on an industrial scale. Still, if you want to try it…
Strawberry Jam
草莓的含水量太多,不能整罐食用,但它们可以做成美味的果酱。
Canning Strawberry Jam recipe and photo by Emily of Eight Acre Homestead. Originally found at eighthacrehomestead.wordpress.com/2015/06/24/strawberry-freezer-jam/
Tips for Canning Strawberry Jam
- You’ll need to use pectin for the gelling process. Homesteaders recommend using a pectin that doesn’t require added sugar.
- Toss the strawberry tops and any scraps into your compost pile.Sometimes, they’ll grow!
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning strawberry jam.
Chili
随时都可以自制辣椒——不含超市罐装辣椒的防腐剂和风味添加剂。真的,你可以做任何你喜欢的辣椒食谱,然后用压力装罐。
Some homesteaders put dry beans in their chili and let the pressure canning cook them. Food preservation expertswarn against this. Here’sa good discussion of the topic.
Canning Chili recipe and photoby Jenny of Black Fox Homestead.
Tips for Canning Chili
- A recipe for a lighter chili alternative—White Bean Chicken Chili
- Here’s another recipefor traditional red chili.
Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes can be pressure canned in water or in syrup.
Canning Sweet Potatoes recipe and photoby Pamela of Granny.
Tips for Canning Sweet Potatoes
- After you do the canning, wash your jars. They’llprobably be sticky from the sweetness of the potatoes.
- Boil the potatoes in their skin, then take the skin off with your hands or a sharp knife.
Salmon
Preserve your big catch in canned chunks you can serve right away, rather than big frozen fillets you’ll have to defrost and cook.
Canning Salmon recipeby dr. momi of Homesteading At Redtail Ridge.
Tips for Canning Salmon
- One homesteaderrealizedafter packing that she should’ve either cut the chunks smaller, or canned with widemouth jars.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning salmon.
Plums
With fairly firm flesh, plums are a good choice for canning. Even better, since they are so small you can can them whole—no hours of plum pitting.
Canning Plums recipe来自《咂嘴的善良》的洛莉。
Tips for Canning Plums
Tuna
If you’re lucky enough to hook a tuna, you soon have a problem—lots and lots and lots of fish. Home-canned tuna is a revelation compared to the mass-produced stuff.
Tips for Canning Tuna
- This recipe calls forcooking the tuna slightly before canning it.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning tuna.
Cherries
You’ll want to preserve cherries in some sort of liquid, so use water or a sugary syrup or white grape juice. Depends on how sweet you like your food. Not optional—a cherry pitter.
Tips for Canning Cherries
- Sugar or not? This articleexplains the pros and cons of each method.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning cherries.
Onions
You could can onions whole, but homesteaders who’ve tried it didn’t like the results. This recipe shows a good way to chop, then pressure can them.
Canning Onions recipeby Clemson Cooperative Extension.
Tips for Canning Onions
- If you like pickled onions,here’s a recipe for that.
- Another idea that will appeal to home cooks—caramelize the onions, then can them.
Blueberries
If you’ve ever gone u-picking, you know how fast those little berries pile up. A family of four u-picking for an hour or two will have enough blueberries to last all year. You probably don’t want those all in your freezer—they make for a good beginning canning project.
Canning Blueberries recipe and photoby Patrice Lewis of Rural Revolution.
Tips for Canning Blueberries
- Whole-Fed Homestead has a terrific rundown ofall the different ways to preserve blueberries.
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning blueberries.
Butter
Don’t.The recipes for canning butter you’ll find on the web are not really “canning” in the sense of preserving for future use, it’s just melting the butter and pouring it into jars.
It’s like saying you’re “canning” Coke if you bought a bunch of two-liter bottles on sale, opened them, and poured all the Coke into jars. There’s nothing really wrong with it (the health risks are unknown) but there’s not really a good reason to do it either, unless you just really like having things in jars.
Asparagus
芦笋是一种低酸食品,必须加压罐装或腌制。
Canning Asparagus recipeby the canned quilter of Hickery Holler Farm.
Tips for Canning Asparagus
- Robson’s Farm hasa good recipe for pickled asparagus
- Here isBall’s recommended recipe for canning asparagus.
Pesto
Don’t.Canning is a very safe method for preserving food; if you follow a trusted recipe you are less likely to get sick from something you canned than from, say, the bagged spinach at the supermarket. But pesto is one of those foods that give canning a bad name.
Putting two low-acid foods like herbs and oil together is a recipe for botulism, and in fact,two women got very sick from botulism-laced pesto一个朋友在农场买给他们的。甚至卖罐头用品的Ball公司也不建议把香蒜酱装在罐头里。他们建议冷冻。
Vegetable Soup
如果你喜欢喝罐头汤,你会更喜欢它,花更少的钱,而且如果你自己做的话,你不会摄入奇怪的防腐剂。如果你给它加压,它是绝对安全的。在秋天的一个周六,做大量的巧克力,你一整年都很好。
Canning Vegetable Soup recipe and photoby Pamela of Granny.
Tips for Canning Vegetable Soup
Grape Juice
Grape juice is a terrific starter recipe for canners. You can’t really mess it up and it’s a flavor completely unlike anything you can buy.
Canning Grape Juice recipeby Rachel Arsenault of Grow A Good Life.
Tips for Canning Grape Juice
- Canning Grannyrecommends letting the juice sit for two monthsto let the flavors blend…the longer the better!
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