Bawk! Welcome to J's canning workshop for baked beans and bacon. Bawk!
J had generously purchased top quality ingredients, including applewood smoked bacon cut into chunks she calls "queen beans." She soaked and cooked the beans, then baked them for a half an hour with all the ingredients. The beans finish cooking in the canning process.
I like the way she keeps track of the cost of ingredients and any notes that are relevant for the next time you go to make the recipe.
Beans makes me crazy!
We snacked on salmon that J had canned earlier and her amazing homemade dill pickles!
This is a special canning element J bought which can hold the weight of the pressure cooker.
We filled the jars, leaving two inches of head space and covering the beans with the cooking liquid.
Here's the first rack for one layer of 500ml jars, then you put another rack on top and another layer of jars.
We followed the steps in the canning manual very carefully.
Checking for steam.
While the cooker sputtered away we chatted and drank rooibus chai. IIRC we did 18 jars in total and there were beans left over in the pot so we had weiners and beans for dinner and they were sweet and delicious. Thanks J, you are the queen bean!
Bawk! Welcome to J's canning workshop for baked beans and bacon. Bawk!
J had generously purchased top quality ingredients, including applewood smoked bacon cut into chunks she calls "queen beans." She soaked and cooked the beans, then baked them for a half an hour with all the ingredients. The beans finish cooking in the canning process.
I like the way she keeps track of the cost of ingredients and any notes that are relevant for the next time you go to make the recipe.
Beans makes me crazy!
We snacked on salmon that J had canned earlier and her amazing homemade dill pickles!
This is a special canning element J bought which can hold the weight of the pressure cooker.
We filled the jars, leaving two inches of head space and covering the beans with the cooking liquid.
Here's the first rack for one layer of 500ml jars, then you put another rack on top and another layer of jars.
We followed the steps in the canning manual very carefully.
Checking for steam.
While the cooker sputtered away we chatted and drank rooibus chai. IIRC we did 18 jars in total and there were beans left over in the pot so we had weiners and beans for dinner and they were sweet and delicious. Thanks J, you are the queen bean!
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