canned cakes

[silvergramma]

how many of you out there know about canning certain cake recipes like the quick breads... lets hear from you

[sbemt456]

Hi Silvergramma hoping all is well in your world. Yes I do can, if you can call it that, stuff like banana nut bread, zucchini bread and carrot cake. Very easy to do. Oil the wide mouth straight neck pint jars well and you can put a circle of wax paper in the bottom, mix your choice of quick bread and fill jar about 1/2 full, bake till it test done per recipe, have scalded lids ready and cap jars when they come from the oven and they seal very quick. I have had zucchini bread 2 years old that was a tasty as the day it was preserved. This is just my method.

Have a great day!

stella

[rivahmom]

I would love to learn how to do this. Can you can any quick bread recipe?

[Shamrock1121]

"Home canned" quick breads and cakes are unsafe.

Source: National Center for Home Food Preservation

Q. Can I can bread or cake in a jar?

A. These products are not recommended for canning; choose recipes that you can freeze. In fact, most of these products are not really "canned." The directions call for baking in the jar and then closing with a canning lid. Many recipes for quick breads and cakes are low-acid and have the potential for supporting the growth of a bacteria like Clostridium botulinum if it is present inside the closed jar. One university's research showed a high potential for problems. You will see these products made commercially; however, additives, preservatives and processing controls not available for home recipes are used. Canning jar manufacturers also don't endorse baking in their canning jars.
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As a Kansas State University Master Food Volunteer, *I've received hours of training on home canning and food safety from Karen Blakeslee - Food Scientist at K.S.U. - and Karen P. Penner - Extension Specialist, Food Science, and Professor, Foods and Nutrition - K.S.U.

We have more and stronger microorganisms now than ever before. *Using untested recipes for home canning is risky business because of these new and more powerful bacteria. *For those of you who choose to use old recipes, untested recipes, and unsafe canning methods, please don't feed the resulting foods to elderly people, children/babies, people on medication, people with compromised immune systems, and anyone with health conditions. *These people tend to die from ingestion of toxins.

If you can't find a recipe for something in The Ball Blue Book or at the National Center for Home Food Preservation, chances are it's unsafe.

-Karen

[Grizzy]

Also, please try to think outta the box. If having canned bread in your preps is important to you, you still can include it :P

http://safecastleroyal.com/item_159/B-M-Canned-Brown-Bread.html

Grizzy

[bookwormom]

Thanks stella,I had not thought of putting a circle of waxed paper on the bottom. I also can lemon pound cake. Same procedure as above. it does not last two years at my house. I think it is a splendid way to have fresh cake on hand. If I bake a regular cake who is supposed to eat it? there are just the two of us most of the time and hubby's sweet tooth acts up once in awhile. I do wipe the rims with alcohol before putting the boiled lids on, in case there is a trace of fat on the rim.

[sissy]

bookwormom,
Sounds yummy. Can you share this recipe with us? And maybe some others also. And what kind of alcohol do you use? It"s just DH & me also. Regular cakes take to long to consume. Thanks,
Sissy

[CanNerd]

Geez! Read Shamrock1121's post, it's not "canning" and its not safe to do a sweet bread product and leave it at room temperature. If there is any C. Botulinum present it will grow and you won't know it.

[jebrown]

CanNerd
You are interfering with the possibility of future patients for paramedics, ambulances, nurses, doctors hospitals and OH yes, funeral directors.
They're like unprepared disater victims. They are given sound advice from someone with a professional background and they choose to ignore it. Then they get sick and lie in a hospital bed telling the doctor that they don't have food poisoning.
Also don't forget the best reason to ignore advice...Well I have done it before for many years and nothing happened.
About 10 or 11 years ago my mother asked me if I had ever heard of canned cake. I said no I haven't. There was a news article on the TV about a group of home canners in Oklahoma City, OK. that had several members come down with food poisoning from canned cake. It was served at their weekly coffee gathering. Samples were taken from different members canned cake and bread. All of them tested positive for food poisoning yet a few of them refused to believe that that is what was wrong. They insisted that they had followed proper canning procedure so it had to be something else.
On the news later that night they had the article run again with an interview with a registered Diatician from a local hospital stating that this happens all the time with home canners. She stated that cakes, cookies, breads, doughnuts, bread rolls, cupcakes and pasteries should not be canned as it is so easiy to be infected with food poisoning.
I applaud your efforts in trying to be helpful although I would say that it is falling on deaf ears.

[CanNerd]

Yah, it may be falling on deaf ears but it is OUR tax dollars that are footing the bills in most cases and in these times I would think everyone would be beating them on the head to stop.