{"id":4407,"date":"2014-11-10T14:10:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T19:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2014-11-10T14:10:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T19:10:59","slug":"q-and-a-canning-butter-and-freezing-beef-fat-for-later-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/11\/10\/q-and-a-canning-butter-and-freezing-beef-fat-for-later-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: canning butter and freezing beef fat for later use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canning butter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I was wondering if there is a difference between canning regular butter and light butter? I&#8217;d like to can some light butter. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Angela Baker<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Fraser, Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wow, I MUST live in the toolies as I&#8217;ve never heard of light butter &#8212; light margarine but not butter. I believe I&#8217;d stick to canning regular butter as I&#8217;ve never had any experience canning light butter. Any readers have any other opinions? Remember that canning butter is classified as \u201cexperimental\u201d canning, (not USDA approved) as they haven\u2019t done any testing for home canners. However, canned butter IS available commercially.&#8211; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Freezing beef fat for later use<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I have a source to get some beef fat from a recently butchered beef. I would like to make some laundry soap. Can I freeze the fat and make the soap at a later date or would it affect the finished product?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Marcia Clupper<\/em><br \/>\n<em>South Whitley, Indiana<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nYes, you can certainly freeze your beef fat to use later on for soap. I&#8217;ve got about 30 pounds of pork fat in my son&#8217;s freezer to make lard with when I have more time. Freezing doesn&#8217;t affect fat. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canning butter I was wondering if there is a difference between canning regular butter and light butter? I&#8217;d like to can some light butter. Angela Baker Fraser, Michigan Wow, I MUST live in the toolies as I&#8217;ve never heard of light butter &#8212; light margarine but not butter. I believe I&#8217;d stick to canning regular [&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\/4407"}],"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=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}