{"id":3463,"date":"2013-08-23T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2013-08-23T03:00:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T07:00:55","slug":"q-and-a-oven-canning-and-hopi-pale-grey-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/08\/23\/q-and-a-oven-canning-and-hopi-pale-grey-recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: Oven canning and Hopi Pale Grey recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oven canning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I oven can my dry goods like rice and such, but can I oven can things like homemade jerky or sun dried tomatoes?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Crystal Misiak<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Millboro, Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say yes to the sun dried tomatoes, provided that they are fully dry. But no to the jerky as most folks don&#8217;t dry their jerky enough for safe storage. If there&#8217;s any moisture in a product dry-sealed, such as oven &#8220;canning,&#8221; it won&#8217;t go away and will eventually cause the food to mold. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hopi Pale Grey recipes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I am wondering if you wouldn&#8217;t mind sharing some recipes for Hopi pale grey squash, also when do you know they&#8217;re ripe?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Vern, Kari and Peyton Wittenberg <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Gonvick, Minnesota<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can harvest the Hopi Pale Greys after a light frost, as they&#8217;re usually ripe then, turning a light grey-blue. If they are green in color, they aren&#8217;t ripe yet. You can use these squash just like other winter squash &#8211;stuffing them with fried, crumbled sausage, a mix of vegetables, or just butter and brown sugar, baking on a cookie sheet until done. Or you can grate them fresh on a salad. They&#8217;re sweet and good, even raw. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oven canning I oven can my dry goods like rice and such, but can I oven can things like homemade jerky or sun dried tomatoes? Crystal Misiak Millboro, Virginia I&#8217;d say yes to the sun dried tomatoes, provided that they are fully dry. But no to the jerky as most folks don&#8217;t dry their jerky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463"}],"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=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}