08/24/2024
Pressure can your dry beans...
Some of you asked about my beans and why I would take dry beans and pressure, cook them and put them in a jar that was a waste of Jar and time
Well here's my beans that have been rinsed and sorted to get the rocks and uglies out 😂
I use ½ cup beans of your choice these are navy I also do lima, pinto, kidney, black eyed, 15 mix I use ½ tsp salt per jar (sometimes) and fill to 1 inch headspace with either broth of my choosing or water .
Process for 90 min at your elevation pressure.
Now the why
why is because Well it's my kitchen but second because we lost power nine times last year and all we have is our outdoor kitchen to cook with during outages, which is a griddle cooktop. A grill, a sink, a refrigerator and a fryer and a smoker and a wood stove. So to make things easier, I always keep meals, beans, meat, veggies in jars so that I don't have to pile the wood stove full and keep it that way in order to cook beans for over an hour these beans are now ready to eat. All I do is warm them up either on the cooktop or on the wood stove. If we're already using it, I use them for soup. Stews burritos and enchiladas dips and chilis.
If I did not have these beans ready and on hand in a jar I would have to rinse them, soak them overnight. Then I would have to come back and I would have to bring them to a boil for 30 mins or so and then simmer for another hour or so. These I don't. I just dump out heat up and add to whatever recipe I'm cooking.
Yes we have generators but these are used for our four freezers our 2 refrigerators in the house our refrigerator outside and heat in the house. We don't use it for unnecessary things like charging phones or tablets, cooking or hot water that I can boil outside on our fire.
Yes phones are necessary but we can charge those in our vehicles so no need to use the generator for those.
Picture of before and after processing
Happy Canning
