We decided to take a day off and work inside today in honor of the holiday and the high heat we've been dealing with. I've made 3 batches of soup so far. I am bagging up 2 quarts of each for the freezer that can be popped into a crockpot and reheated and the rest is getting canned up. So far I have 9 pint jars of Taco Soup. I've canned that before and it canned up very well. We really enjoyed having it to heat up quickly. Then I have 6 pints of Pasta Bean Soup. I'm certain the bean soup will can up well but had to ponder adding the pasta in. I cooked the soup and then added uncooked pasta to it and canned it and it looks like it worked ok. I guess we'll find out some where down the road when we try it out! Then I am canning up Broccoli Cheese Soup. I canned up 4 of those as a trial. My husband said this was the best Broccoli cheese Soup ever. It's the first time I've made it with fresh broccoli from our garden and the cheese was home made also. I know this freezes very well but have never canned it so tried just a few of them until we know if it works well or not. With us being so very busy most of the time and just the two of us now, it's very nice to have home canned soups we can quickly reheat. It's also great in a crisis. Cooked canned soups reheat quickly so would use much less energy when you are without power.
Next I will make Chicken & Rice. I use that a lot in recipes and I can not use any of the store bought soups because they put wheat or milk in them. I will make a very large batch of the chicken rice soup to have on hand. Today's Broccoli Soup was made for my husband. I will try a small batch later that is thickened with arrow root powder and uses no butter and uses rice cheese instead of Cheese Whiz. This has been our most favorite soup in the past. It will be good if I can create a suitable substitute.
Then I will make Split Pea with Ham and a big pot of Chili. Both of those can up very well also. I will also make up some Turkey Soup. These will make a nice collection to our food storage.
I think I have listed some of these before but if you need recipes just let me know and I will list them for you. I can them in pint jars and pressure can for 75 minutes. The pressure is set by where you live and you can find that through your county extension service.
Hope you have a great day celebrating our Nation's Birthday! I pray daily that we might get some people in Washington DC that will defend our Constitution and do what is best for our Nation.
Cherlynn
brchbell@yahoo.com
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