{"id":2690,"date":"2012-10-30T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2012-10-30T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T07:00:17","slug":"q-and-a-drying-sweet-corn-and-storing-food-for-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/10\/30\/q-and-a-drying-sweet-corn-and-storing-food-for-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: drying sweet corn and storing food for a year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drying sweet corn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks for the idea about saving extra sweet corn and letting it mature in the garden. How dry does the corn get? Hard like field corn? We’re putting our garden to bed, and wondered when to harvest the ears. What steps do we take up to storage?<\/em><\/p>\n

Carol Bandy<\/em>
\nHightown, Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n

Mature sweet corn gets as hard as field corn. Remember what the sweet corn seeds were like when you planted them? That hard. We leave the corn on the stalk until the leaves and shucks are tan and dry and the corn is as dry as it will get in the field. Then we shuck the ears and lay them out in a rodent-proof place or hang them up to dry them fully. Once dry and hard, the kernels can be shelled and stored in an airtight, rodent-proof container. — Jackie<\/p>\n

Storing food for a year<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have a quick question. Have you ever totaled how much produce, meat, goat milk products in quantity and\/or pounds you have canned\/stored for one entire year when your son was a teenager (16-17)? I am wanting to know how much is enough for 2 adults and a teenager for one year.<\/em><\/p>\n

I just started to learn how to make my own cheese –“squeaky” cheese for now, but hope to graduate to pressed cheese soon. Also make my own bacon and sausages and am now starting to learn to dry cured meats. <\/em>
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\nMonica Blaney<\/em>
\nOttawa, Ontario<\/em>
\nCanada<\/em><\/p>\n

No, I really haven’t. I have always canned\/stored as much as I could, in any event. I’m just not a list kind of person, I guess. And it makes a huge difference of how much you actually will use. For instance, when you can “get out” to buy such things as bread, you’d be surprised at how much more flour you use when you cannot get out to buy it. And noodles, and pies and cookies\u2026 My advice would be to can up and store what you can without creating hardship then see how that year’s pantry does for feeding you. You can adjust it next year. No two gardens ever produce the same, from year to year, and when I have a bounty, I can up every bit I can and give friends the rest. I just finished canning my last tomatoes today as barbecue sauce\u2026 and we have four inches of snow on the ground!<\/p>\n

Good for you for starting to make cheese. There are several very easy cheeses to start with and they’re pretty much foolproof. It’s neat that you’re also making bacon, sausages, and dry cured meats! What great lifeskills to learn. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drying sweet corn Thanks for the idea about saving extra sweet corn and letting it mature in the garden. How dry does the corn get? Hard like field corn? We’re putting our garden to bed, and wondered when to harvest the ears. What steps do we take up to storage? Carol Bandy Hightown, Virginia Mature […]<\/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\/2690"}],"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=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}