well today has been a day where I am starting to a bit of canning for the winter. I am going old school on my canning and am doing a bath boil canning method. this can be very risky if not done right but I have had success with it in previous years.
we are doing a pasta sauce today we love a hot pasta meal int eh cold winter months and the jars we buy are about 650g and does not seem to feed our family of 5 so I have opted to can a 1 ltr jar for each meal. so the process goes we prepared all the ingredients for the sauce which we are keeping basic so we can add things to it as we want variety at the meal time. we cooked everything up in a huge container and then set it off to cool a bit.
I have the jars all set up and then we had to sterilize them so into a large bath of boiling water for 15 mins lids jars everything. we remove them with sterile tongs and place them on a cool rack. after they are all set up we then fill the jars with whatever it is we are canning and then seal them close with the sterle lids. we then put the back into the boiling water all sealed for another 15- 18 minutes
