{"id":1350,"date":"2011-06-07T18:49:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T22:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2011-06-07T18:49:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T22:49:57","slug":"q-and-a-canning-frozen-blueberries-and-stacking-jars-in-the-canner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/06\/07\/q-and-a-canning-frozen-blueberries-and-stacking-jars-in-the-canner\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: Canning frozen blueberries and Stacking jars in the canner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canning frozen blueberries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Could you tell me if you can can frozen blueberries. I have a lot of frozen blueberries, that I would like to can because my freezer just went out and I need to do something with them before they go bad, if I can, please tell me how.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sharon Burnaman<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Deville, Louisiana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, you can. Do expect them to be a little soft. But they&#8217;ll still be okay for baking and cooking but they won&#8217;t be firm in pies. They will taste fine, though! Just can them up as if they were fresh, as they are thawed by now. If you need more juice, just mix up a batch of medium syrup (sugar\/water) and add to them while heating to can. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stacking jars in the canner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I want to can meat in a pressure canner using half-pint jars. Can I stack the jars for a second layer of half-pints? I&#8217;ve heard of canning outside in a 50 gallon barrel using lathes to layer between row after row of quart jars. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mike Sullivan<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Clayton, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, you can stack jars in a canner. I do it all the time. Just be sure to use a rack of some sort to separate the layers. I use a dollar store small grill wire and have also used assorted &#8220;found&#8221; racks. You want the steam and heat to effectively and easily circulate around the jars.<\/p>\n<p>Two questions about the 55-gallon canning kettle. How do you keep the pieces of lath from floating in all that boiling water and how do you lift the jars OUT of all that boiling water when they&#8217;re done? Grandma used to can fruit in her old copper boiler. That&#8217;s how I got to learn first about canning. But there was only about 20 inches of boiling water and she used a rack she&#8217;d found to hold them off the bottom of the wash boiler. In that much water, she could easily use a jar lifter to get &#8217;em out. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canning frozen blueberries Could you tell me if you can can frozen blueberries. I have a lot of frozen blueberries, that I would like to can because my freezer just went out and I need to do something with them before they go bad, if I can, please tell me how. Sharon Burnaman Deville, Louisiana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}