WHAT ARE YOU CANNING TODAY?

[FarmerJamie]

14 pints of baked beans in the canner now. I don't think the wife can do the spice on the charo beans.

I love this new burner.

We had bought a 7 lb package of brown sugar. I broke that bag down into 2 cup (bean recipe), 1 cup, and 1/2 cup bags and vacuum sealed. We don't use it often, so I wanted to see if I could stretch our the freshness

 

[frustratedearthmother]

14 pints of baked beans in the canner now. I don't think the wife can do the spice on the charo beans.

Love some baked beans! I need to do some more of those.

DH would love me to put a bunch of spice in the charro beans but I tend to adjust them to MY comfort level. He can always add more spice to his, lol.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Think I'll do some lima beans with ham today. I thawed out a chunk for the charro beans and didn't use it all so...

 

[FarmerJamie]

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Those look delicious!

Took me all day to get to it - but finally have those limas in the canner.

 

[flowerbug]

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We had bought a 7 lb package of brown sugar. I broke that bag down into 2 cup (bean recipe), 1 cup, and 1/2 cup bags and vacuum sealed. We don't use it often, so I wanted to see if I could stretch our the freshness

i've heard about the piece of bread trick (perhaps a bit of sponge instead would be more sterile, but really for us brown sugar doesn't last very long around here between my sweet tooth and Mom's baking - we buy packages of brown sugar 7lbs at a time - we probably shop at the same big box club store...) and a friend gave Mom a bag of rock hard brown sugar that i'm just going to use in a garden as fertilizer. bury it and call it done.

 

[Hinotori]

Put it in a bowl with a damp paper towel over and microwave for 20 seconds at a time, checking for softness.

I keep mine in airtight containers so it rarely hardens any