Canning Alfredo sauce

Can you make your own fettuccine Alfredo sauce and can it? If so, do you have a recipe and how do you can it?

Sherry Bailey
Tallahassee, Florida

This is one thing I haven’t canned yet. As it has both milk and cheese, I’m thinking it may try to curdle like cream-of soups do when you try to can them. Any readers out there who have canned it? — Jackie

Hoop house

Do you have plans anywhere for your hoop houses? I love your ideas and have been wanting my husband to make one for years.

Bambi Tomaszewski
Ashley, Illinois

Sorry but I don’t have plans for the hoop houses; each one is a bit different. Basically, they’re framed on the ground with 2x4s with uprights to hold a doorway and to support the ridge beam (2×4) on the other end. The hoops are ¾-inch PVC, 10 feet in length, joined at the top with a 45 degree elbow…or not. You can also skip the 45 degrees and cut one 10-foot piece in half and bend the other 10-foot piece over the ridge beam and join it to the 5-foot sections with a coupler midway down. (If you join them on top, the coupler will eventually break due to the strain.). The PVC hoops are attached to the inside of the 2x4s with metal EMT clamps screwed over the PVC. Below the clamp, you drill a hole in the PVC to be able to screw the PVC to the 2×4, keeping it from moving up and down in the clamp. There is a hoop every 2 feet all down the hoop house.

The 4 mil plastic is draped over the hoops and secured to the bottom 2×4 with lath screwed down tightly over the plastic. You also use this to secure the plastic over the ends, folding it as needed to fit.

It isn’t rocket science. And it’s just amazing the difference this small project makes in your garden! — Jackie

4 COMMENTS

  1. I haven’t canned alfredo sauce, but I am still going to try. I did successfully can cream of mushroom soup.

    Made the soup and pressure canned it at 10 lbs pressure for 1 hour. So I am sure you can can alfredo sauce.

  2. Momma,

    I am curious what recipe you used too. I have been look for months on how to can alfredo sauce. I think I will try your recommendations but changes the lbs to 13 PSI as I live at about 4500 feet.

    Thanks for the info.

  3. Momma,

    Thanks for your tips. I’ve always canned plenty of milk and cheese but I’ve never canned alfredo sauce. Care to share your recipe???

    Jackie

  4. You can can milk, cheese. Of course the canning books say you can’t, but I have done it many times, as have many goat owners. Twenty minutes at ten pounds pressure for qts, or fifteen minutes for pnts is what I do. I have a friend who actually uses a WBC and only processes her milk or cheese sauce for ten min for pints fifteen for quarts. There are even old goat milk recipe books with the directions in them, and I have seen a tutorial on the web too.
    As I said this is not a “recommended” thing to do, so do it at your own risk. But it does work for me. I have a lot of alfredo sauce canned in jars waiting to be used on pasta with chicken. We call it chicken spaghetti with white sauce, and my husband loves it.

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