If you’re preserving low acid foods – like meats and most vegetables, pressure canning is the only safe way to create a safe and shelf stable product. It used to be that your only options for containers and lids used in pressure canning were Ball jars and their 2-piece lids. There is now a wider range of options! The Orchard Road Canning Jars & Lids are designed and tested to be safe for Pressure Canning. We also offer single piece lids Hi-Heat Lids, which are designed for pressure canning. We’re excited to offer them in camo…yes, camo!
Psst…we are giving away 24 Hi-Heat Lids to 2 lucky winners. Enter your chance to win below.
Pressure Canning Basics is a good place to start if you’re just getting into pressure canning or if you need a refresher. This post over on Living Homegrown will clear up any confusion about pressure cookers versus pressure canners.
During these colder months, having some soup that isn’t from a can or that needs to be thawed out is a real treat! It’s important to understand that not all soup recipes are safe for canning – even pressure canning.
Soup Recipes (that are safe for pressure canning)
- Homemade Chicken Soup or Chicken Broth – While it’s pretty easy to freeze broth-based chicken soup, having all of your ingredients at room temperature is a real time saver.
- This Rosemary White Bean Soup Starter is a real winner for your pantry and is incredibly simple!
- If your garden blesses you with more tomatoes than you think you can handle, and your family loves Tomato Soup, the UW Extension sheds light on why you can’t just can your favorite tomato soup, but also offers a wonderful alternative!
- This Beef Stew Recipe from Ball Fresh Preserving is also a winner – with this variety of veggies, it would be a great way to use up some of the fall garden items for a delicious chunky stew.
- Stock is one of those secret ingredients that once you use it, you’ll always want to have it on hand! Not only is it (in our humble opinion) the best base for just about any soup, but it can be used as the fluid when making rice & couscous. It’s an incredibly economical way of getting MORE out of your meats and/or vegetables. With all of the gatherings and seemingly endless amount of food over the Holidays, it’s likely that you’d easily find yourself with some kind of meat along with plenty of vegetable scraps that would produce some lovely stock!
- This Clarification on Chicken Broth and Chicken Stock (along with the recipe and canning instructions) is wonderful. I love the tip on using the pressure canner to speed the process of getting the most out of your chicken! Yes, I have a collection bin in my freezer for those vegetable remnants that weren’t pretty enough for the veggie platter or that I know I wouldn’t get to use on time. TIP: Don’t wait until things get droopy before you put them in the freezer. You will get more from your veggies if you’ve put them away before they’re out of their prime.
- Marisa’s How to Can Turkey Stock is perfect for this time of the year! You may be shocked to know how many folks are just tired of the whole dealing with the turkey thing…if you know the cook well enough, do you think it would be weird to ask for the carcass? Perhaps with the promise of a quart of stock? She also shares how to Pressure Can Ham Stock.
- Interested in canning Beef Stock? The NCHFP has a useful post on the basics of selecting, preparing & canning Beef Stock as well as Chicken or Turkey Stock.
- If you don’t have meat, but find yourself with vegetables to spare, it would be worth your time to make some Vegetable Stock. It offers up a lot of taste without the residual fats that are difficult to fully remove in the making of meat stock. It also is an excellent option to have on hand for those vegetarian guests!
Pressure Canning Meat
- For the hunters out there, Sharon at Simply Canning has instructions for several methods of Canning Venison. Yes, you can do Raw Pack Cubed Venison! She also includes some of her favorite recipes for Elk and Venison in her e-book!
- I’ve heard many times that the problem people have with canned chicken is keeping it on the shelves – because it’s that good and it becomes such a convenient staple for mealtime!
- If you’re looking to pressure can beef or meats that are a little less ordinary, like rabbit, fish or other seafood, see NCHFP’s extensive list : Preparing & Canning Poultry, Red Meats and Seafood.
Giveaway
Do you want a chance to test out some of our Hi-Heat Lids? Enter below for your chance to win 24 Hi-Heat Lids! We will select two random winners. The winners will get to select which color lids they want.