{"id":1901,"date":"2011-12-28T14:19:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T19:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2011-12-28T14:19:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T19:19:31","slug":"q-and-a-canning-pecans-and-duck-confit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/12\/28\/q-and-a-canning-pecans-and-duck-confit\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: Canning pecans and duck confit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canning pecans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>In canning pecans, how much water should you put in a pressure cooker before you set your jars? I&#8217;ve never canned pecans before. Love your blogs, and pictures, and your cook book on Growing and canning your own food. I&#8217;ve learned a lot, about canning from you, and making cheese, and soap.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Estes Mills<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Texarkana, Texas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You put the same amount of water in your canner as usual; most canners take about 2 inches of water in the bottom to generate the steam which processes the food. Pecans and other nuts can up perfectly. I used some that my friend Juanita Saunders and I canned back in New Mexico, more than 14 years ago for my Christmas pies. They were awesome! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duck confit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you know if it&#8217;s possible to pressure can duck confit? I&#8217;ve done it the old French way for years of cooking it in its own fat and then packing into jars warm although &#8216;theoretically it&#8217;s supposed to be safe I&#8217;ve always kept it refrigerated. I&#8217;m hoping that it can be done in my canner so as to be properly shelf stable but am a little concerned as most of the canning advice says to minimise fat in a product but confit is all about the duck fat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Wendy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Huddersfield, Yorkshire<\/em><br \/>\n<em>England<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is one food I&#8217;d probably not can. Like you said, fat often causes seals to fail, so I&#8217;d not advise canning your duck confit. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canning pecans In canning pecans, how much water should you put in a pressure cooker before you set your jars? I&#8217;ve never canned pecans before. Love your blogs, and pictures, and your cook book on Growing and canning your own food. I&#8217;ve learned a lot, about canning from you, and making cheese, and soap. Estes [&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\/1901"}],"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=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}