Canning Basics for The New Homesteader

Canning is a must on our off grid homestead. But be it on or off grid canning should be apart of your homesteading! It saves money, gives you more control over your food, and is a great way to preserve all your garden and hunting spoils! not sure how to get started? Watch my tutorial filled with some of my tips to get you on your way!

Food Storage Canning Butter

Preppers this is more like ghee and last much longer than other home canned butters. Never can salted butter you will end up with grainy butter. Choose the sweet or unsalted butter to can. Blessings!

Pressure Canning Tomato Sauce Soup and Taco Sauce

Pressure canning some tomato soup and tomato sauce. Tomato Soup 4qts Tomato Juice 3 ½ cups chopped onions 2 cups green, red or yellow peppers, 1 cup carrots 1 cup celery 7 bay leaves 1 tblsp whole cloves 1 clove garlic 1 cup brown sugar, or 1 tblsp molasses and 1 cup white sugar, 2 tsp salt. Add all ingredients and simmer for about 20 minutes then strain vegetables from soup and puree them in the blender (pick out spices). Process in pressure canner 1 " head space 40 minutes for pints.

Canning Tomatoes and Okra

Starting from the raw ingredients needed to can Tomatoes and Okra or Tomatoes and Zucchini to the final canned product. This video offers a very close and clear view of basic canning technques as well as some special pointers to help your canning process go as sooth as the skin of a ripe tomato.

Spaghetti Sauce Canning Recipe - Delicious!

How to make and can spaghetti sauce using garden fresh tomatoes - a really good recipe. The fact that it can be canned using the water bath canner makes it even better. Enjoy making your own!