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Sometimes I wish I could put mine up even for a little while, but sure as I do hubby will bring me something or somebody else will. Right now we are canning deer meat from last year to make room for this years. Also going to grind some for burger and sausage.
 
Home canned goods last for a long time. I do notice that my pickles and jellies deteriorate after about a year to a year in a half in storeage. The pickles I still use and make relish out of when I need it. The jellies also get used but more for cooking purposes. The main thing I find down south because we like to open windows when it's nice outside is that the humidity will get to some of the lids in the stockroom and they will start to rust. I have found it most common with the older gold types verses the silver lids though. Even still, I use them because they are still sealed and it has never gone all the way thru.
 
jimLE said:
i started going through what i canned.in which i came across some beans n ham,that i canned in 2016.anyone think that they'll still be good to eat?
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Had some potatoes from 2014 with lunch yesterday. They were delicious.
 
Amish Heart said:
Ha, I like that. A 45lb turkey. Very Cool. You had to piece him to roast him, right? Almost took the legs off ours, but had son help me tie his legs down and got him in the pan after all.
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No roasting for our big boys. Hubby likes ground turkey so I de-bone them and grind them for him or can up some chunks. I still have 2 to do. I did keep a breast out of this one and roasted it so the kid could have some turkey.

We took a 25lb hen to the in-laws only to find that she threw it out and cooked a store bought bird. The kid was really upset because she couldn't eat it. I was upset over the waste and deception.
 
That's terrible. I'd be upset, too. Doesn't she know how much a homegrown turkey would cost (organic, free range, etc, etc...)? Free range at Sprouts were $3.00 a lb. Organic free range at Keller's meats here were $5 a lb. I met someone once that had chickens, but her children wouldn't eat the eggs. Only store bought eggs. We were given a pair of ducks and the lady said the eggs weren't good. I pick up 1/2 dz duck eggs a day lately, and we eat them, cook with them, and sell out in an hour when we put out a duck eggs for sale sign. People either love home raised, home grown, home canned....or they think it's disgusting. Heaven help them when the time comes.
 
Amish Heart said:
That's terrible. I'd be upset, too. Doesn't she know how much a homegrown turkey would cost (organic, free range, etc, etc...)? Free range at Sprouts were $3.00 a lb. Organic free range at Keller's meats here were $5 a lb. I met someone once that had chickens, but her children wouldn't eat the eggs. Only store bought eggs. We were given a pair of ducks and the lady said the eggs weren't good. I pick up 1/2 dz duck eggs a day lately, and we eat them, cook with them, and sell out in an hour when we put out a duck eggs for sale sign. People either love home raised, home grown, home canned....or they think it's disgusting. Heaven help them when the time comes.
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We sell them for $3lb but that's not what upset me. Its the wasted life and the fact that my daughter has issues with preservatives and she knows this but always pretends to forget. We offered to cook everything but she wanted to cook so we brought our own home grown/made corn, potatoes, rolls and desert just for the kid because we knew hers would be from the store and would cause digestive issues.

At the very least she could have told us and/or given the bird back instead of tossing it in the trash. Thank goodness I decided to toss the trash bag in my jeep before we ate and not after the kids stomach started acting up.
 
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Amish Heart said:
Wow. So you saw it in the trash? It sounds like your mother in law doesn't take her granddaughter's digestion issues seriously.
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Yep, right into the outside trash bin, and she thinks all her medical issues are exaggerated.
 
NannyPatty said:
Do you mash them and can them? How long do you process them? I wanted to do pumpkin purée but could only find information on how dangerous it was.
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Yes we mashed them and added everything but the eggs, butter and milk. I have lots of sweet potatoes canned for other things . We like sweet tater pies and I thought why not try. You never know till you try. I looked for the pumpkin puree also . I found one on youtube that showed what she canned and the one in the store. The one from the store was very thick , hers wasn't . So I thought I would try it with sweet taters.
 
timmie said:
We are trying something different with sweet potatoes. Canning pie filling without dairy. The mix turned out good.We have 10 pints in the canner now . Will do the rest tomorrow if these look good in the jars. Otherwise we will freeze them.
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We canned 40 lb.s of sweets one year and had to find a way to use them ,they were too soft for our liking. But sweet potato casserole, pies and even mashed were good.
My fiend sent us a recipe for some of kind of souffle that was really good but I can't find it.
But it is something like this souffle below.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/9225/sweet-potato-souffle/

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