“I have started a recipe word document to type out all my favorite recipes, since someone is always asking for a copy of one or another.”
That’s a great idea, one week we could have a recipe sharing. By your recipes do you mean the stuff that goes in the jar or how you use it after?
I haven’t been creative at all with what goes in the jar, I just have plain chicken, beef, beans, tomatoes. I have pickled beets though, I guess that’s the most effort I’ve gone through. But I don’t have anything that I could just take out of the jar and have it ready to eat right then.
No, the recipes are just all my recipes, not specifically for canning.
I’m not the creative type either as far as canning.
Mostly tomatoes, some jams with a low sugar pectin I found that allows for BIG batches, and then pressure canning the meat.
I get the meat on sale and so take advantage of that. Also, on occasion I have scrap pieces of beef, sometimes fat and bones I cut off the beef and I freeze that until I have enough to make broth with and then pressure can the broth for extra.