{"id":2131,"date":"2012-04-01T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2012-04-01T03:00:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T07:00:28","slug":"q-and-a-canning-hamburger-and-spicy-tomato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/04\/01\/q-and-a-canning-hamburger-and-spicy-tomato\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: Canning hamburger and spicy tomato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canning hamburger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This is the first time I&#8217;ve ever canned hamburger. The canning went well, and we canned in pint jars. Around the top of the hamburger there is a ring of grease, even though we rinsed the hamburger well. The question is, will this ring of grease cause all my cans to go rancid?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Andy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Vail, Arizona<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Absolutely NOT. This grease is normal and will help your meat fry down nicely when you open the jars. It&#8217;s nearly impossible to get all the grease out of meat that you home can. You just don&#8217;t want to can up really greasy meat for fear of a few jars not sealing. Your burger is fine. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spicy tomato<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I would like to plant a grape or cherry size tomato that has a bit of a &#8220;spicy&#8221; flavor to it. Is there such a thing? If so, what varieties do you recommend and where can I get them?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Foster<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Concord, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know of a &#8220;spicy&#8221; flavored tomato, but our very favorite cherry tomato, bar none, is Sun Sugar. It&#8217;s a golden cherry tomato with a very fruity, sweet taste. I dehydrate some and we eat them like apricots for a treat. Try them. I guarantee you&#8217;ll love them. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canning hamburger This is the first time I&#8217;ve ever canned hamburger. The canning went well, and we canned in pint jars. Around the top of the hamburger there is a ring of grease, even though we rinsed the hamburger well. The question is, will this ring of grease cause all my cans to go rancid? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131"}],"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=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}