{"id":4123,"date":"2014-07-11T03:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2014-07-11T03:00:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T07:00:35","slug":"q-and-a-using-commercial-jelly-jars-for-canning-and-mustard-bean-pickles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/07\/11\/q-and-a-using-commercial-jelly-jars-for-canning-and-mustard-bean-pickles\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: using commercial jelly jars for canning and mustard bean pickles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Using commercial jelly jars for canning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I have read that you can re-fill and water bath jelly or jam in jars from commercial companies like Welch&#8217;s. Is this safe? I haven&#8217;t tried this but it would be a good free source of jars if possible.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Judith Almand<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Brandon, Florida<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Commercial jelly jars aren&#8217;t recommended for re-canning your own jelly\/jam as the lids are one piece and the sealing compound isn&#8217;t meant for multiple uses. That said, I do know people who re-use empty commercial jelly\/jam jars to water bath their own jellies and jams. But I really can&#8217;t recommend it. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mustard bean pickles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I was looking at your recipe of Mustard Bean Pickles. It calls for salt, but has no amount and doesn&#8217;t say what to do with it. I would guess salt the water when you par-boil, but canning has no room for guessing. Would appreciate clarification. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Betty Anderson<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Berryville, Arkansas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, you&#8217;re right. The salt is added to the water in which the beans are boiled, not the pickling syrup. Sorry for the error by omission. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using commercial jelly jars for canning I have read that you can re-fill and water bath jelly or jam in jars from commercial companies like Welch&#8217;s. Is this safe? I haven&#8217;t tried this but it would be a good free source of jars if possible. \u00a0 Judith Almand Brandon, Florida Commercial jelly jars aren&#8217;t recommended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123"}],"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=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}