{"id":2054,"date":"2012-02-25T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2012-02-25T03:00:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T08:00:14","slug":"q-and-a-canning-beans-and-canning-peanut-butter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/02\/25\/q-and-a-canning-beans-and-canning-peanut-butter\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: Canning beans and canning peanut butter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canning beans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Can I can beans not using any salt?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ann Hazelett<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Litchfield Park, Arizona<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Definitely. The salt is only a flavor enhancer; it does nothing to preserve the vegetables or canned meats. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Making peanut butter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Have you ever planted peanuts and made your own peanut butter?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Don Warner<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Sarasota, Florida<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No, I haven&#8217;t planted peanuts, our growing season simply won&#8217;t let us. But as a child, Mom and I grew some, back in zone 6 and we did make peanut butter. It was kind of crude, as we didn&#8217;t have blenders back then, but I remember it was very tasty and I sure cleaned up my part in short order! These days, with blenders, it&#8217;s so much easier. If you&#8217;re not growing them now, why not try a patch? You&#8217;ll love them. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canning beans Can I can beans not using any salt? Ann Hazelett Litchfield Park, Arizona Definitely. The salt is only a flavor enhancer; it does nothing to preserve the vegetables or canned meats. &#8212; Jackie Making peanut butter Have you ever planted peanuts and made your own peanut butter? Don Warner Sarasota, Florida No, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054"}],"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=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}