{"id":3514,"date":"2013-09-16T03:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2013-09-16T03:00:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T07:00:53","slug":"q-and-a-jar-quantity-and-size-good-wood-cookstove-and-off-grid-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/09\/16\/q-and-a-jar-quantity-and-size-good-wood-cookstove-and-off-grid-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: jar quantity and size, good wood cookstove, and off-grid water"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jar quantity and size<\/strong><\/p>\n

I purchased your book Growing and Canning Your Own Food<\/a>. Good book but I can’t find where in the recipes for high acid food is the jar size and quantity of jars needed? <\/em><\/p>\n

Also for the Boston baked beans recipe on page 180 of the newest version of the book (page 186 in the older version) the bean measurement is 2 quarts. How many pounds would two quarts equate to?<\/em><\/p>\n

Jesse Big<\/em>
\nBrownsville, Vermont<\/em><\/p>\n

I don’t list the quantity of jars needed as this can vary a whole lot. I eyeball the prepared food and make a guess, fixing up more jars than I think I might need, just in case I’m surprised. Most of the recipes list jar size in the processing information such as “20 minutes for pints or 25 minutes for quarts.” Half-pints can also be used, using the time listed for processing pints.<\/p>\n

As for the dry beans, remember the old ditty “a pint’s a pound the world around” so if you need two quarts, that’s four pints or four pounds, approximately. — Jackie<\/p>\n

Good wood cookstove and off-grid water<\/strong><\/p>\n

My gardening and food preservation has come a long way since subscribing to Backwoods Home. I now face the following 2 problems:<\/em><\/p>\n

1. I need a good wood cookstove for both heating and cooking if my electricity goes out. I am 5 miles from the nearest town, but during a blizzard it might as well be 500. Any recommendations and where to find one?<\/em><\/p>\n

2. I will also lose my water as I am on an electric pump. The well people here say I cannot attach a hand pump to the current electrical one. Have you run across this problem and how did you deal with it?<\/em><\/p>\n

Betsey Cook<\/em>
\nLyons, Nebraska<\/em><\/p>\n

Although you can find both new and used wood cookstoves on the internet, the best and cheapest way to buy one is locally. Put an ad in your local free shopper and post notes on bulletin boards in your area. I’m sure you can find a good one at a reasonable price. Do be sure that it is all there with no missing lids, doors, or bridges (the little dog-bone shaped flat iron pieces between the lids). Also take a flashlight and examine inside the oven for rusted out holes and inside the firebox to make sure the grates have not been burned out (usually from extended burning of coal or hardwood). Local auctions are also a good spot to buy, but examine any stoves well before bidding.<\/p>\n

You can not attach a hand pump to the electrical one (usually a submersible one) but if your casing is wide enough you should be able to slide a hand pump such as the one Bison pumps makes down alongside of the wiring\/pipe of your current pump. If that won’t work for you, how about investing in a generator to power essential things such as your well pump. You wouldn’t have to keep it running all the time but only when you wish to draw water to store for a day or two. This is kind of what we do as we are off grid permanently. We have two 300-gallon storage tanks in our basement and our house water is drawn from them by a little 12-volt pump which gives us water pressure 24\/7 without having to run our generator more than a few times a week. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jar quantity and size I purchased your book Growing and Canning Your Own Food. Good book but I can’t find where in the recipes for high acid food is the jar size and quantity of jars needed? Also for the Boston baked beans recipe on page 180 of the newest version of the book (page […]<\/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\/3514"}],"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=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}