Mamma's canning fest

[Admin]

Hannafords had young all natural chickens on sale for .69lb so we went and snagged around 25 of them. We froze a bunch whole for the rotisserie and cut some up, froze the legs and wings and MammaD canned up the rest.





Frankie was on drip detail




Now we got a whole bunch of canned chicken and chicken stock for easy fixens ;D

[trapperandhunter]

now thats a bunch of chicken lol looks like good eatin' !

[patricimo54]

Mamma D we use alot of broth at our house, store bought Swanson's. Please share your recipe in hopes we may be able to break our Swanson's addiction.
Thanks,
Pat

[snydboshawn]

Me too. ;D
JC I love the way the shadows fall in your house pictures. You must use alot of natural lighting in your home. Do you have any skylights?

[Mamma D]

Mar 24, 2009 17:24:13 GMT -5 @patricia 54 said:

Mamma D we use a lot of broth at our house, store bought Swanson's. Please share your recipe in hopes we may be able to break our Swanson's addiction.
Thanks,
Pat

no recipe really ...just enough water for the amount of chicken ...don't use too much ...just barely cover the birds so you don't dilute it too much - sometimes I add a pinch of 'Better Than Bullion' - it's a soup base made from stock & it's very good, no MSG ...if you need a bit of additional flavor it really helps! There is also 'Minor's' brand soup base you can get at BJs Wholesale Club, also no MSG and also pretty good & a little cheaper ...HTH!

[Mamma D]

Mar 24, 2009 17:39:02 GMT -5 snydboshawn said:

Me too. ;D
JC I love the way the shadows fall in your house pictures. You must use alot of natural lighting in your home. Do you have any skylights?

we do have skylights but not in the kitchen ...there are 5 windows however, in the kitchen ...we love the natural light too! Thanks!

[flyguy]

Looks like some good eats there Momma D ;D

[Admin]

Mar 24, 2009 17:39:02 GMT -5 snydboshawn said:

Me too. ;D
JC I love the way the shadows fall in your house pictures. You must use alot of natural lighting in your home. Do you have any skylights?

Hey thanks When I build I ALWAYS pay attention the utilizing the sunlight as much as possible. I always build my places so that I can sit on a porch in the morning sun and another for the evening sun, and a covered porch for shade in the heat of the day. The morning sun and the evening sun always throw the best glow in a home. The natural wood makes all the difference in the world too. Back when I was a contractor I was working on a 1.6 million dollar home that had a huge all glass gable that faced the north and the sun room barely got any sun. I couldn't get the architect to turn the house around. The whole mess drove me crazy

[badger]

Looks like you will have enough to make soup if we make a moose hunt!

[farmergirl]

that really looks good, I never canned chicken before. We love chicken & dumplings I bet that would make some good ones. You all keep talking about soup. what kind of soup do you make with chicken? good job I'm impressed ;D ;D

[blueduck]

That canned chicken looks great. I love that stuff.

[hounddog25]

the 2 of you done an outstanding job.keep up the good work!!

[Mamma D]

Mar 25, 2009 5:45:33 GMT -5 farmergirl said:

that really looks good, I never canned chicken before. We love chicken & dumplings I bet that would make some good ones. You all keep talking about soup. what kind of soup do you make with chicken? good job I'm impressed ;D ;D

mostly I just make traditional Chicken Noodle ...with carrots ( my fav) but wild rice & mushroom is good ...or a stew!

[chuck]

And I thought we were the only one who canned a ton of chicken & hamburger every spring. Since we are not on a power grid every spring we can all of our meat and broth for the summer. We also can cheese & butter so we can have some during the summer.

[patricimo54]

Hey chuck what is the process for canning cheese and butter? Do you have pics.?

[Admin]

Apr 30, 2009 11:00:19 GMT -5 patricimo54 said:

Hey chuck what is the process for canning cheese and butter? Do you have pics.?

Yeah I'd like to hear more about this too. I never thought of canning burger but that sounds interesting

[penokeemtn5]

Thats some good lookin chicken,We do it with the wild tukeys i harvest in the spring,same concept and great eatin ;D

[Mamma D]

we plan on doing that with the wild turkeys too ...if BossMan gets me some!

[ralph]

thanks for the recipe my i killed 10 chickens cut out the breast and wings and canned the rest and i got12 quarts of stock i can deer salmon never thought about birds thanks again ;D

[wllmtrapper]

did you precook your chickin or cold pack to make it turn white mine is redish color

[Mamma D]

I precooked ...we did mostly the white meat - it's the dark meat, I think, that takes on the reddish cast - maybe some of of the white does too, I'd have to go back & look at what's left to say for sure but I did precook & hot pack it.

[Nutso]

A few months back, I tried canning some of our chickens that we raised this past summer, I cooked 5 of them plus an old hen from the year before. It was so funny, I got 2 jars of meat...now I knew they were small....but my goodness...the old hen was so tough it was like a rubber chicken...couldn't even get the meat off the bones. It was hysterical. The good news was that I got a ton of great stock!!! I ended up just freezing the meat with some stock and used it for a soup starter. It was very tasty!!

Now...I would love to try canned wild turkey. I bet it would be very tender.

[wllmtrapper]

thanks mamma d that helps alot ive got 65 cornish rock 2 do in 2 or 3 months