{"id":4615,"date":"2015-02-27T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2015-02-27T03:00:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T08:00:04","slug":"q-and-a-wide-mouth-jars-and-buckboard-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2015\/02\/27\/q-and-a-wide-mouth-jars-and-buckboard-bacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: wide mouth jars and buckboard bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wide-mouth jars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I have been using wide mouth jars almost exclusively because they are easy to fill\/wash. It occurred to me today as I started a batch of strawberry star fruit jam that there may be a reason for the 2 sizes. Am I to use them as I wish for anything I am canning? I know wide mouth jars are a little more expensive for some mysterious reason &#8230; is that the only difference?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Judith Almand<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Brandon, Florida<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, you can use either wide mouth jars or regular jars, as you choose for any canning. The wide mouth jars are easier to fill with certain foods like larger pieces of meat and they are also easier to get some foods out of after processing and storing them. Of course the lids of the regular jars are a lot cheaper so this is why I use more of them than the wide mouth lids. But as the Tattler lids are becoming easy to find, that&#8217;s not such an issue anymore. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buckboard bacon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I want to can buckboard bacon, made from the BHM article in an older issue. I assume I pressure can it at 10 PDS for 75 minutes for a pint and 90 minutes for a quart. Also no liquid. My question,do I need to cook it first? If I don&#8217;t cook it, is it edible from the jar when done canning or does it need to be cooked after?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Karen Armstrong <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Watkins Glen, New York<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nNo, you don&#8217;t need to cook it first as canning at 10 pounds pressure for 75 minutes (pints) will cook it in the canner. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wide-mouth jars I have been using wide mouth jars almost exclusively because they are easy to fill\/wash. It occurred to me today as I started a batch of strawberry star fruit jam that there may be a reason for the 2 sizes. Am I to use them as I wish for anything I am canning? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615"}],"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=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}