All You Need to know about Canning Pears:

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Ingredients Needed:

2 Boxes of pears resulted in 20 Quarts of canned pears.

Pears are picked green.

Store until they turn yellow but not soft.

We like a syrup of 2 parts of water to 1 part of sugar.

Look at the 12 steps above for instructions to can pears

Look at the tools above for what we use in canning pears.

Below are the Canning fruits and preserves kit needed for Canning Pears:

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Pumpkin Crisp Recipe:

1 lg. or 2 sm. cans pumpkin
1 can of sugar
3 eggs
1 can chopped nuts
1 lg. can evaporated milk
1/2 tablespoon cinnamon
1 box yellow cake mix
2 sticks melted margarine or butter

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Apple Crisp Dessert Recipe:

Ingredients:

1 Yellow Cake Mix.
10 Apples (cored + peeled)
4 tablespoons sugar
1 cup pecans
2 tablespoons of cinnamon
1/2 stick butter

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Italian Casserole recipe:

Ingredients needed:

1 lb. of ground beef
1/4 cup of chopped onion
1 envelope of spaghetti sauce mix
1 1/2 cups or 6 oz. of shredded mozzarella cheese
1 8oz. can of tomato sauce
1/2 cup of sour cream
1 8oz. can of Pilsbury cresent rolls
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons melted margarine

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Stainless Steel Canning Rack that Won’t Rust!

Stainless Steel Canning Rack Features: *Stainless steel, this rack wont rust *Accommodates non-standard jar sizes *Holds 14 jelly jars, 14 half-pint, 9 pint or 7 quart jars at one time *Small jelly jars won’t fall through *12-1/4 in diameter and 3-3/4 deep (not including handles). Made in USA.

Stainless Steel Canning Rack Description
Made of stainless steel, this rack wont rust like regular steel wire racks. The superior construction and design of this rack features extra steel rings on a flat bottom with no dividers to accommodate non-standard jars. This basket easily holds 14 jelly jars, 14 half-pint, 9 pint or 7 quart jars at one time. And with the extra rings on the bottom of the rack, small jelly jars wont fall through! Rack is 12-1/4 in diameter and 3-3/4 deep (not including handles). Proudly made in the Midwest USA. Exclusively ours! Read the rest of this entry »

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20 pounds of Cucumbers resulted in 19 pints of canned Bread ‘n Butter Pickles.
We use cucumbers of about 3-4 inches in length.

Ingredients Needed:

20 Pounds Cucumbers
5 Pounds Sugar
10 Cups Cider Vinegar
3 Large White onions
2.8 Oz Mustard Seeds
6 Cups Salt

Look at the tools below to use in canning Bread ‘n Butter Pickles.

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Canning facts courtesy of: Noll’s Home Canning and Freezing

1795 — Napoleon offers 12,000 francs to anyone who can devise a way to preserve food for his army and navy.

1809 — Nicolas Appert of France devises a way to preserving food in bottles. He wins prize preserving food through sterilization.

1810 — Peter Durand of England gets a patent using pottery, glass and tinplated iron to use in canning.

1812 — A small plant started by in New York cans oysters, meats, fruits and vegetables in hermetically sealed containers. Read the rest of this entry »