Mom never used a pressure canner, in truth I still prefer waterbath canning myself but when it comes to safely making soups that hubby takes a pint to work and heats up barely, the pressure canner is the only safe way to go
She had never seen me do a batch of 18 pints, first thing did was add a tsp of pearl barley to each jar, then I made blend of carrot, onion and celery, half a cup per jar, in a heavy steel pot, I cooked our home raised beef with a couple cloves of diced garlic till brown, 1/4th cup on top, jar filled to 1 inch below rim with hot beef broth, rim checked, lids on and into the pressure canner for 75 min at ten pounds (per my sea level)
So hot still they are floating and jar boiling, it lowers as it cooled, where they will be washed and have the rings removed but hubby will put a ring on while traveling to work.
The cost on these are worth talking about, some things are only reasonable because I had thing, grew things and got on sale. The jars are eight years old, so .10 cents per for this year, the lids were got on a huge sale and I bought a case of them, so .20 per jar, .66 cents for the meat, veggie, barley and broth per jar. So not including power, it was 99 cents per jar.
high end soup in our local store will run you 2.19 per can and its not anywhere as healthy as what I can make
I never have done it that way. Makes so much more sense. This way the barley and veggies are not all mushy. Next time i will try it that way. Thanks for that.
The key is to use very hot broth and to only put hot water into the canner and then heat it up, so its a cold pack(well warm pack) instead of a hot pack into a already preheated water and then can.. I like it because it means that each jar is the same.. which is great..
The meat is precooked, not because it needs to be, but so that it does not form a meat lump in the jar, because its precooked it will stay in small bits in the jar after
Ooooh so that’s how you do it! Thanks! I will be doing this too!
What a wonderful idea! Thanks for sharing the ingredient quantities and instructions.
Glad you liked it, I could do a few more of my recipes like this and share if you think it would be of interest to the readers
Yes, please share more. I’d like to think there’d be more than just me interested.
Thanks for sharing! I can’t wait to try this! I wish you had a Pinterest share button.
Thanks for letting me know you enjoyed it, I will see if I can add that button..
Hi Buffy, if you look at the bottom of the post, you will see links for sharing, I wanted to double check that I was still there and that it worked 🙂 There is a pineinterest share button on each post, it only shows if you click on the blog post and read it as a single post, if you read them just from home in a line.. hope that helps.. I can also see if I can take the min or two it would take each day to put the photos up on my pineinterest just another day board for you all.
Ok, if I changed it right, it will now show on the front page and the home setting as well 🙂
Nice job FarmGal! It makes so much more sense to (pretty much; ) cook them right in the jar! Vegetable, beef & barley was always one of my faves as a kid and it never, ever “came on sale” (plus that was the add-a-can-of-water, concentrated kind) but you’re talking about straight-out-of-the-can Hungry Guy type at a buck per serving? Wow, now that is an amazing savings, for sure!!
Thanks Deb, I was pleased with it as well, given that it would count as pretty much organic grass-fed beef and veggies, and I expect that if you had to add that in the cost, it would go up a far bit.. Plus its just so tasty 🙂 Nice to hear you from.. hope you are well and pick up the phone and give me a call soon..
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