You won’t need the full amount of water as the beans take up a good capacity. A pint holds 2 cups and a quart holds 4 cups. The taste was so bland no one would eat them on their own.īoil enough water to fill the jars. One year I tried canning them without any addition of salt and those jars had to be used in casseroles or soups. Add 1/2 teaspoon sea salt for pint jars and 1 teaspoon sea salt for quart jars.Ībout the salt: I’ve tried not adding salt to the beans and the flavor isn’t the same. Push down on the beans to fit a few more in at the end. Rinse your beans, string (if they’re a string bean), and snap into bite size pieces.įill the jars with beans, leaving a 1-inch head space.
CANNING WAX BEANS HOW TO
How To Pressure Can Green Beans Using The Raw-Pack Method Simply wash them in hot soapy water and rinse well. And that will tell you how many jars to get ready for a batch.īecause you’re using a pressure canner and everything will get sterilized during canning, you don’t need to sterilize the jars before hand. We can our green beans in pints, but depending upon the size of your family, you may want to do quarts.įigure out how many jars of the size you’re using your pressure canner can hold at a time. I put up about 80 jars of green beans a year. We’ve never purchased green beans from the store. My family has been growing and saving the seed from our strain of heirloom green beans for about a hundred years, as far as I can track. This works wonderfully well with green beans. You pack raw food into jars and then can them (with a pressure canner).
Not the raw pack method, though - it’s both safe and time-saving. A win-win! What’s The Raw-Pack Method?
In the interest of saving time, we can’t sacrifice food safety. I consider some quick canning methods to be unsafe. I’m all for saving time in the kitchen! No woman ever said, “I have way too much time on my hands these days.” And if by chance I’m wrong, and you’re that woman, would you please come to my house? I need to learn your secrets. As long as you follow the instructions, you’re likely good to go. They have pressure release valves and safety features built in. It isn’t as scary as the stories of your grandmother’s canner exploding. If you’ve never used a pressure canner before, let me ease your fears. I adore that I can cook in it and preserve food for my family, even preserving my food faster with the raw pack method. Of all my home food preservation tools, my pressure canner is my favorite.
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