Pressure Canning Green Beans

[lilmissy]

Has anyone ever put greens beans in, not cooked, pour Hot water over And pressure can? My book has to cook the beans for 5 mins first. But I have seen on websites that you can cold pack them, then pressure can. But you know, you cant believe everything you read, lol.

 

[snappy1]

There are directions for raw pack or hot pack (cooked 5 minutes) in my older Ball Blue book. I haven't done them in a few years and don't remember how I did them last.

 

[LadyLocust]

Has anyone ever put greens beans in, not cooked, pour Hot water over And pressure can? My book has to cook the beans for 5 mins first. But I have seen on websites that you can cold pack them, then pressure can. But you know, you cant believe everything you read, lol.

Yep. I do raw packed. Put green beans in jar, add salt (1 tsp/qt.) add hot water, lid and can at pressure for your elevation for 20 min pints or 25 min for qts. Takes longer to bring the canner up to pressure than it does for any of the other steps

 

[lilmissy]

Snappy, didnt eventhink to look in my old ball canning book.

ladyl, thanks. I am going to do them now

 

[Grimm]

I raw packed green beans back in the day (when Roo was a baby- 9+ years ago). I haven't had a decent crop of green beans or any good deals at the store to make canning them worth it for us.

Here are the directions I used...

https://www.pickyourown.org/canninggreenbeans.htm