{"id":4136,"date":"2014-07-19T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2014-07-19T03:00:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T07:00:38","slug":"q-and-a-storing-honey-and-canning-lids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/07\/19\/q-and-a-storing-honey-and-canning-lids\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: storing honey and canning lids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Storing honey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I have quite a few plastic bottles of honey. They are starting to become hard. I heated them up in a pan of water and put the honey in pint jars. It worked but how do I store it ? Do I water bath it or can I just put a lid on it and store. Or should I pressure can it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sherry Obermann<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Waukesha, Wisconsin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hard or crystallized honey is perfectly natural and is nothing to worry about. As you said, warming it up turns it right back into its liquid form. You don&#8217;t have to process honey in canning jars, just put a lid on it and store in a cool, dark place. Honey will stay good for decades without further treatment. If it crystallizes, just warm it up and it&#8217;ll be a liquid you can more easily use. Personally, I love crystallized honey as it&#8217;s much easier to use, not dripping and running over your fingers when you have it on toast or a biscuit! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canning lids<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I was canning some beans today, and opened a new box of Kerr lids. I noticed that the instructions are different, and no longer require heating in a pan of water and keeping warm. Now, they simply require washing. So, after searching everywhere I could, I found that on the www.freshpreserving.com website, there is a little tiny area that says keeping the lids warm is no longer necessary. I guess I would like to know if you are doing this? It&#8217;s one of those things that sort of goes against the grain, so I thought I would ask you since you really keep better track than most of us do about this stuff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Judy Sloan<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Spokane, Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It goes against my grain, also. The new Ball lids still have the old instructions on heating in a pan of water but I know the new Kerr lid boxes have eliminated this step. Maybe they&#8217;ve changed their seal formula or maybe not and just figured heating them in a pan of water was old-fashioned. I don&#8217;t know but I still heat mine. (Have you seen the sentence on the boxes of new jars that says &#8220;Use your canned food within a year.&#8221;) WOW, I sure don&#8217;t buy that one! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storing honey I have quite a few plastic bottles of honey. They are starting to become hard. I heated them up in a pan of water and put the honey in pint jars. It worked but how do I store it ? Do I water bath it or can I just put a lid on [&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\/4136"}],"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=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}