@deprecated_ii I don't wanna be the bearer of bad news but this may not work out.. You have to cook the dry beans before making the baked beans. It takes about 4-6 hours to boil beans that have been soaked overnight. I'm sorry 😞
@thatguyoverthere@deprecated_ii Absolutely. That's what I do as well. I sometimes take ot a step further and pressure can the dry beans and then I just have to reheat 😉
@TinyHouse4Life@deprecated_ii I have never done any canning yet. I have done a bunch of fermenting, but never sealed anything (either hot water or pressure). I am hoping this year I might produce enough berries to make some jam and can some of that up for winter. My tomatoes are looking pretty pathetic so I'm not expecting a great harvest. I only have one cucumber plant this year because I had some pretty low germination rates (0% of the cucumber seeds I planted made it) on a lot of my now aged seed. I bought a couple plants but only one survived. It's starting to make cucumbers but I'll be lucky to get a jar of pickles from it.
I have some pumpkins starting to show up so maybe they'll surprise me and put out a good yield. I will probably also have pears to can up now that I think about it. One of the pear trees is loaded up. I will probably try and make cider with whatever surplus of apples we get. I am still working my way through cider vinegar I made a few years back. I still have about 1 gallon. It would be cool to replenish my reserves from apples that grew on the property. The last batch was made from one of the local farms where you can either buy the fruit at their little grocery store or go out to the orchard and pick them yourself.
@thatguyoverthere@deprecated_ii Start w/ water bath canning. super easy. I can give you a million recipes to try and you can do small batches. Once you get the hang of that move into pressure canning. When my tomato crop is too weak for extras I go to the farmers market and ask for a box of #2s. They'll have small imperfections but you can get em cheap. I've had apple trees for years and they never even bloom. I have to go further up the mountain and buy them in the fall.
@TinyHouse4Life@deprecated_ii yes I buy #2 stuff from that farm grocery store I mentioned for my ferments and stuff too.
I stuck this mornings raspberries in the freezer instead of my belly today. After a few days I should have enough to make some preserves or something.
Water bath is appropriate whenever the thing you are canning is acidic right? Any recipes will be greatly appreciated. I also need to get some new jars and other bits. Most of my collection are weck but I'm missing most of my clips somehow.
@TinyHouse4Life@deprecated_ii I can see the page, but it looks like I can only click in so far. There was a homemade ketchup recipe I thought might be fun to make, but it only let me click to see ingredients not instructions
@thatguyoverthere@deprecated_ii Correct, acidic foods are water bathed. Also anything with a vinegar base or if you're using lemon juice. I water bath fresh fruit by adding crushed up vitamin C tablets. Let me know if you can open this link. I have 100 recipes saved here. Not all of them are water bath but I think there's several you'll probably like to try. I have some others I use every year in my recipe box that I could pull out for ya. https://www.pinterest.com/kkrawks/things-from-the-garden/