{"id":2447,"date":"2012-08-02T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2012-08-02T03:00:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T07:00:51","slug":"q-and-a-drying-corn-and-canning-hamburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/08\/02\/q-and-a-drying-corn-and-canning-hamburger\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: drying corn and canning hamburger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drying corn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Hi Jackie, know you&#8217;re busy as a bee. We planted some Country Gentleman corn to save mostly for seed in case of emergency. Planted about 3 weeks later than our regular sweet corn, middle May. Now it&#8217;s in the milk and worms are at work. I wonder can we pull it and hang up to dry in the shucks if that would be alright to save that way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Betty downs<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Covington, Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yep, we ARE busy! But that&#8217;s normal around here. Sorry, but you can&#8217;t harvest your corn when it&#8217;s in the milk stage and dry it. It&#8217;ll not be mature enough and will go moldy. You can get rid of the worms by using a common syringe and injecting Bt and\/or mineral oil into the silk tip of the corn. The corn will then go on to mature without the worms. The ears won&#8217;t be perfect due to worm damage, but you&#8217;ll be able to save plenty of seed. Just let the ears dry on the stalk then pick, shuck, and completely dry before shelling. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canning hamburger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I have canned several batches of hamburger over the years. I brown the burger and pack hot in pint jars fill to head space with broth and process for the &#8220;book&#8221; time. I am getting complaints that the texture is too fine and a chunkier product is desired for spaghetti and chili. Any suggestions for keeping the product coarser?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Howard Brewi<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Valdez, Alaska<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The way I generally process my hamburger is to lightly brown it in a little grease then pack hot into pint jars, leaving 1 inch of headspace. I do not add broth. This way the granules of browned meat do not pack together and come out just like &#8220;normal&#8221; fried hamburger crumbles. Process at the same 75 minutes as any other meat. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drying corn Hi Jackie, know you&#8217;re busy as a bee. We planted some Country Gentleman corn to save mostly for seed in case of emergency. Planted about 3 weeks later than our regular sweet corn, middle May. Now it&#8217;s in the milk and worms are at work. I wonder can we pull it and hang [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447"}],"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=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}