I would also recommend Carol Deppe’s “How to Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties”. I has good info on seed saving, but it also tells you how to create new varieties and adapt them to your needs.
What a disappointment!
Well first start start with things chronological. I called Pleasant Hill grain and tattler. The lady at Pleasant Hill grain didn’t know anything about reusable lids. But the lady at Taylor knew all about all americans, she said that was all she used. So I was happy and proceeded forward.
I can’t remember if it was in the All-American booklet or on a video on their website. But they said to go ahead and try to get the pressure up to 15 psi, no jars in it, just to test it. Good thing I did because I couldn’t get the lid on right until I tried it several times. I finally had success, the little 15 wait jiggled away, but the pressure gauge showed zero the entire time!
That’s just not going to work for me. Not at that price! lol. Plus I had no idea when the pressure was down low enough to remove the weight. So I emailed Pleasant Hill green, at about 5:05 so now I have to wait till Monday. I hope they are easy to deal with to get a replacement.
I feel like the canner and I was making friends. Well just a little small roadblock. Maybe I’ll get another one and we will be friends also.
But I bought a whole lot of chicken! And I don’t have that many jars left so I don’t want to use the presto. I really don’t need canned chicken it was just to experiment with the canner. I cooked up some for the kittens, they’ll be happy. We’ll have chicken parmesan tomorrow night. The next night hubby said he would smoke a couple of chicken breasts. And see how they turn out.