canning fish

[lynner]

Do any of you have a good recipe for canned fish? I had a friend who used to smoke the fish and then can them but never did get his recipe. I don't have a pressure cooker and was wondering how to prepare them and can them using hot water bath. Can you help me with this?

[badger]

My buddies mom used to can steelhead for us. I'm pretty sure she used a pressure canner. I'll get ahold of her and find out her process. The steelhead allways turned out excellent. We would open a jar, dump it on a plate, and eat it with crackers and cold beer!

She also did a batch of carp for us one year, but to be honest, it was pretty bland.

[woodsman416]

I'm just getting into canning myself. From what I've read fish fall into the low acid group and should only be pressure canned. Low acid foods need to reach and maintain a temperature of 240 degrees. Hot water canning only reaches 212 degrees.

[hbar2989]

We canned salmon when we used to fish for them. We did them in pint jars. We cut it into chunks, and packed the jars to about 3/4" from the top. We added a good squirt of ketchup and put on the lid and ring. Processing time was 1 hour @ 15psi. We just had some tonight. Have'nt done any since 2001, and it was still fine.

[ralph]

i can alot of salmon you must have a presure canner look on ebay i got mine for 50 bucks i would not be with out one now