Canning cabbage rolls
Is it possible to can cabbage rolls and if so do you have a recipe? Also, I need to have someone to tell me in a really dumbed down way how to get the index of your gardening and canning book.
Nancy Foster
Dallas City, Illinois
Here’s the link to the index. http://www.backwoodshome.com/store/files/jc01-first_printing_2009-index.pdf Just click and print and you’ll have your index. If you have any problem, let me know and I’ll do it for you and send it to you.
Yes, you can home can cabbage rolls. Just make up your recipe but don’t cook it. Slip the rolls into wide mouth canning jars and ladle your tomato sauce over them, leaving 1 inch of headspace. Be sure the rolls are completely covered by the sauce. Process quarts for 90 minutes and pints for 75 minutes at 10 pounds pressure. If you live at an altitude above 1,000 feet consult your canning book for directions on increasing your pressure to suit your altitude. These turn out very nicely; I’ve done them for years. — Jackie
Canning summer squash
You are the Canning Queen, my go-to canning guru. I have always canned diced summer squash, in water with a little salt in my pressure canner as a low acid food. The Utah Home Extension office has just issued a warning that ANY summer squash is no longer safe to can, using ANY method. What is up with that? Have you heard anything about this and what is YOUR opinion? I plan to keep on canning it, myself!
Cheryl Pickford
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Personally, I think this is just another of government’s experts trying to keep us safe from ourselves! Their reasoning is that when you can summer squash it gets soft and “could” pack down, making it a “dense” product that could possibly not be heated completely through for safe processing. Me, I’m going right ahead and canning squash dices. I probably wouldn’t do the thin slices as those could pack down. But dices? — Jackie
just adding a bit of vinegar to the jar will add a zip and the main vein of the cabbage leaf will be soft — my mom always did when she canned her cabbage rolls
Sauerkraut is amazing in cabbage rolls. Keeps them really moist and gives them a great taste!
PFFT. I have never had summer squash or zuchini ‘pack down’ in my jars. Good grief.
deb motylinski,
Hey Deb, that recipe is on page 206 of my book Growing and Canning Your Own Food and I’m pretty sure you have it. (If not, let me know and I’ll add it here.) Sauerkraut? Never heard of a cabbage roll recipe with it in it.
gen,
Yes, it will. I use it in several mixed recipes. Just don’t use TOO much rice.
Hi Gen and Jackie,
Do you think you could share your stuffed cabbage recipes? I have one that I use but it doesn’t always come out great. Mine calls for sauerkraut and tomato
soup and i cook the rice first.
So using the ‘raw’ regular rice in the recipe will cook up in the cabbage rolls just fine? I love cabbage rolls. My mother in law made some of the best I’ve ever had, anywhere, and I have her recipe! What a meal to have ready and waiting on a bad day.
You are my HERO!! I love cabbage rolls. Also I am on a page called Canning, freezing, dehydrating and home steading. Lots of questions from newbies there and I direct them to you all the time. I hope they go there.
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