{"id":3332,"date":"2013-07-06T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2013-07-06T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T07:00:17","slug":"q-and-a-pickling-radishes-strawberry-rhubarb-jam-and-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/07\/06\/q-and-a-pickling-radishes-strawberry-rhubarb-jam-and-bacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: pickling radishes, strawberry rhubarb jam, and bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pickling radishes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Believe it or not, I couldn&#8217;t find in your canning book a recipe for pickling radishes. Do you have any suggestions? <\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Jon Gallo<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All I do when I can radishes is to slice or dice in large dices then place in ice water. Meanwhile I just mix sugar and vinegar to taste then bring to a boil. When it has simmered a few minutes, pour over drained radishes in a jar, leaving 1\/2 inch of headspace then place a hot, previously simmered lid on, screw the ring down firmly tight. Process 5 minutes in a boiling water bath canner. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strawberry rhubarb jam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I finally got a hold of some rhubarb so I went to make Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam. I noticed in your canning book that you have a recipe for Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam on page 75, and you process it for 15 minutes. But on page 73 there&#8217;s a recipe for Rhubarb-Strawberry Jam, same ingredients, only the processing time is 10 minutes. Any difference in the recipes I&#8217;m not noticing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>D. McIlwain<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Lowman, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oops, I think this recipe got put in twice &#8212; just the title was switched around. Either 10 or 15 minutes will work with jam when you&#8217;re water bath canning &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bacon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I bought a large box of bacon, mostly because of the name and we do use a lot of bacon. Or did before my husbands heart surgery. There is a lot of fat on this bacon. Some very good pieces but lots of fat. Any suggestions?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nancy Foster<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Dallas City, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, you can slow fry the bacon, then drain off the fat as it accumulates. Or you could can it and leave off the fat when you heat it to use. And, of course, use less bacon. Boy is that hard! I missed you at the Des Moines show! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pickling radishes Believe it or not, I couldn&#8217;t find in your canning book a recipe for pickling radishes. Do you have any suggestions? \u00a0 Jon Gallo All I do when I can radishes is to slice or dice in large dices then place in ice water. Meanwhile I just mix sugar and vinegar to taste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,10,11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332"}],"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=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}