{"id":1799,"date":"2011-11-04T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2011-11-04T03:00:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T07:00:59","slug":"q-and-a-how-much-canning-in-a-year-and-cornish-cross-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/11\/04\/q-and-a-how-much-canning-in-a-year-and-cornish-cross-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: How much canning in a year? and Cornish cross update"},"content":{"rendered":"

How much canning in a year?<\/strong><\/p>\n

How many jars of canned food do you put up in a years time; on average? I have been canning all summer and probably have put up about 500 jars; and still have hunting season to go. I am very proud of my pantry but i am running out of room. I also am very resourceful so I will take care of it. Happy canning.<\/em><\/p>\n

Joyce Pierce<\/em>
\nGreenville, Alabama<\/em><\/p>\n

I honestly can’t say how many jars I can in a year. (Maybe I wouldn’t want to know!) It’s hard to keep track, as I can all year around and jars are constantly being used and then washed and reused right away. Then there are jars down in the pantry that have been there for a year, two…or ten. When we moved here, we were kind of hard up for cash…then we inherited my elderly parents, who didn’t have a whole lot, either. So we ate mostly from our pantry for two years…with a tiny in-progress new garden. So my jars emptied out a whole lot faster than I filled them. Now I’m actually having to buy jars! Everything is full and the pantry is once again fat. What a good feeling! I hope you get to can venison soon! Happy canning to you, too. — Jackie<\/p>\n

Cornish cross update<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you have any new updates on your “homegrown” Cornish cross meat birds? I am interested in doing that myself and just wondered how they turned out? Another question, is it possible to pressure can on a wood cookstove? <\/em><\/p>\n

Gayle Rush<\/em>
\nEugene, Missouri<\/em><\/p>\n

Our homemade Cornish rocks are doing very nicely. They didn’t grow as fast as the hatchery Cornish crosses, but not one is inactive or stupid and none health\/leg-related problems. All are active and are also pretty darned big. They are not as big as Cornish broilers. They do need to be crossed again, several times, to stabilize the characteristics we want but we’re not poultry breeders and will go about it incorrectly, I’m sure, but we have fun and the extra roosters are sure fine to eat. We will be butchering soon!<\/p>\n

Yes, definitely, you can pressure can on a wood cookstove. I did it for years and years. You get smart and learn to gently drag your canner slightly off the hottest spot and pull it back on, when necessary, to adjust your pressure. With a wood range, canning with a weighted gauge is a lot easier because then you drag much less than when you use a dial gauge! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How much canning in a year? How many jars of canned food do you put up in a years time; on average? I have been canning all summer and probably have put up about 500 jars; and still have hunting season to go. I am very proud of my pantry but i am running out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799"}],"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=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}