{"id":5033,"date":"2015-10-07T17:43:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T21:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=5033"},"modified":"2015-10-07T17:43:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T21:43:41","slug":"q-and-a-canning-dried-beans-and-spicy-carrot-pickle-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2015\/10\/07\/q-and-a-canning-dried-beans-and-spicy-carrot-pickle-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: canning dried beans and spicy carrot pickle recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canning dried beans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I have a question about canning dried beans. I canned kidney beans for the first time. When I use a jar now they are packed tight and not much fluid. What did I do wrong? I soaked them overnight. I pressure canned them. Maybe I put too many in a jar? Did I fill the jar too much? If you can give me an idea of what to do to have looser beans in the jar and more fluid I would greatly appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p>I used pinto beans for baked beans and they did the same thing. Is there a way to stop the bean from expanding further?<\/p>\n<p>Cindy<br \/>\nWild Rose, Wisconsin<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nFill your dry beans no more than \u00be full after soaking them overnight. If you&#8217;re having too many packed beans, just add \u00bd a jar full and try that. Be sure to allow a full 1 inch of headroom as all beans will expand during processing. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spicy carrot pickle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Is there any way to make the Spicy carrot pickle recipe for diabetics?<\/p>\n<p>Jackie<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You could substitute Splenda or another low\/no calorie artificial sweetener for the sugar but add the sweetener just before packing the jars to keep it &#8220;sweet.&#8221; Let the syrup return to boiling before packing. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canning dried beans I have a question about canning dried beans. I canned kidney beans for the first time. When I use a jar now they are packed tight and not much fluid. What did I do wrong? I soaked them overnight. I pressure canned them. Maybe I put too many in a jar? Did [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033"}],"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=5033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}