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To: goodwithagun

Get a Ball Blue Book. It is the Bible on canning food.

I’ve never heard of putting lemon juice in tomatoes as you are canning. Just a bit of salt.

No, you don’t need to pressure can tomatoes, it ruins the texture, IMHO. The only thing I ever pressure can is green beans. Here’s a tip not found in the Ball Blue Book, it is perfectly safe to can your beans whole. All the recipes call for cut beans, but I prefer whole. I called Ball once about this and even the phone operator couldn’t answer my questions. But after 15 years of pressure canning whole green beans, I have never had a jar go South.


63 posted on 08/22/2013 7:59:44 PM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: bigfootbob
The Ball book is good, if you get the most recent versions. USDA suggestions have significantly changed over the years, with changing food, and better understanding. The older books? I avoid those.

/johnny

68 posted on 08/22/2013 8:03:36 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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