Pressure Canner put to use!

[bluegrasshammer]

Had the opportunity to use my AA pressure canner a bit this past week. Was able to put up 4 quarts of spaghetti sauce and 5 pints of meat (two wild turkey and 3 venison). We've already at a jar of sauce and a jar of venison, and oh man is it good! Trust me, you forget all about the look of the meat once you tear into it!

Here is my canner about ready for action. It is next to an 8 quart stock pot I made the sauce in.


Results of my first sauce canning experiment. Turned out really well!


The venison turned out awesome. Haven't had a chance to try the turkey yet, but I'm sure it will be just as good.

[penokeemtn5]

I love canning spag. sauce we eat it alot so we do tons of it every year.

[patricimo54]

Home food processing needs to be keep alive. We need to invited, excite, and involve our kids anyway we can to the art and craft of home food processing. I can remember my oldest daughter, soon to be 36, as a young teenager would not eat deer meat until I made jerky. After tasting it she could not get enough. For the sake of our grandchilden, and the freedom and independence of future generations pass on and keep alive all home crafts that promote independents.

[mike692]

Feb 6, 2009 22:42:15 GMT -5 patricimo54 said:

Home food processing needs to be keep alive. We need to invited, excite, and involve our kids anyway we can to the art and craft of home food processing. I can remember my oldest daughter, soon to be 36, as a young teenager would not eat deer meat until I made jerky. After tasting it she could not get enough. For the sake of our grandchilden, and the freedom and independence of future generations pass on and keep alive all home crafts that promote independents.

Excellent post. ;D

[Mamma D]

Feb 6, 2009 22:42:15 GMT -5 patricimo54 said:

Home food processing needs to be keep alive. ... For the sake of ... freedom and independence of future generations pass on and keep alive all home crafts that promote independents.

You said it! My parents are responsible for my love of gardening & preserving ...it didn't hit me til later in my life, but it did finally hit me. When I was younger, I loved flower gardening (and still do mind you) - but there is such accomplishment in growing & preserving your own food, nothing is more rewarding to me now. I remember my Dad going through the seed catalogs, just as we all do ...starting the plants ...we had to help with the weeding some (he always rewarded us with going out for ice cream) ...I remember as a child, going to the garden & pulling up a carrot, simply wiping it on my pants then eating just like that!

Then my mom with all the canning, pickling ...freezing - raising our own meat ...seeing them process it.

So yes you moms & dads out there, all of us in fact ...keep at it ...the growing, the hunting, the harvesting, the preserving ... it will work it's way into their lives (the next generations) & they too will pass it on

[Mamma D]

BTW bluegrass - that sauce looks yum!