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[Decaff]

Made 10 jars of split pea and ham soup yesterday. Lovely comforting food. One jar in the kitchen for tonight.

[Decaff]

Jars of sweet corn, 1kg bag from the freezer filled up these 7 jars nicely.

[pseudonym]

Great pics Decaff, must give you a warm glow to see your preps growing.

[Decaff]

Great pics Decaff, must give you a warm glow to see your preps growing.

It really does Pseudonym, each jar is honest, good homemade food with nothing nasty added. We had the soup last night with homemade crusty bread, homemade garlic butter and it was so filling and full of flavour, even my Son who hates soups said he would like to have it again which was a miracle

[HBP]

Made 10 jars of split pea and ham soup yesterday. Lovely comforting food. One jar in the kitchen for tonight.

Would you be willing to share the recipe and the processing timesa you have used?

Due to moving house, country and jobs my canner is collecting dust. Good time to fire it up again and some soup sounds like a good idea.

Cheers.

HB

[Decaff]

Made 10 jars of split pea and ham soup yesterday. Lovely comforting food. One jar in the kitchen for tonight.

Would you be willing to share the recipe and the processing timesa you have used?

Due to moving house, country and jobs my canner is collecting dust. Good time to fire it up again and some soup sounds like a good idea.

Cheers.

HB

Happy to share, although it was the recipe from the Ball Blue Book.

450g green split peas
2 litres water
225g sliced carrots (I diced mine up small)
150g chopped onion
150g diced cooked ham (I had a tiny bacon joint cost £3 and roasted the day before, poured juices into container in fridge overnight and too far layer off and added the jelly back into the soup)
1 bay leaf
1/4 teaspoon all spice
Salt and pepper to taste

Wash peas and carrots under cold running water, drain.
Add peas to the water and bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour covered or until peas are soft.
If you want it smooth then blend in a food processor or use stick blender to purée peas up, return to the pan and add all other ingredients, simmer for 30 mins. If its thick add in extra boiling water (I found I needed to add in a lot of extra water as it really did thicken up a lot) REMOVE BAY LEAF before the next step.
Ladle hot soup into hot jars leaving 1" headspace, if thick remove air bubbles, wipe jar rim and add lid and ring band.
Bring canner up to heat and allow steady stream of steam to vent for 10 minutes, add gauge and bring up to pressure (my altitude is 10lbs) process 490 ml jars for 1 hour 15 mins or 945 ml jars for 1 hour 30 mins. Turn off heat and allow canner to cool to zero pressure and remove jars to sit for 12 hours.

I found that it did thicken up in the jars so when reheating to eat I added in more boiling water. I doubled the recipe but above makes 5 x 490 ml or 2 x 945 ml jars.

Hope you enjoy, it was absolutely delicious.

[HBP]

Happy to share, although it was the recipe from the Ball Blue Book.

Thanks, I really must get around to buying an up to date copy of that book. I have a large presto canner that doesnt get as much use as it should.

My local supermarket was doing jars cheap last year so stocked up on pint and 2 pint jars. I also found a local discount store that was selling 12 packs of lids for the eqivalent of 10p a pack so bought all their stock

There doesnt seem to be a cheap source of jars and lids in the UK that I have ever found. Other countries I have lived in had them in the supermarket so must be more popular that the UK

[Decaff]

Happy to share, although it was the recipe from the Ball Blue Book.

Thanks, I really must get around to buying an up to date copy of that book. I have a large presto canner that doesnt get as much use as it should.

My local supermarket was doing jars cheap last year so stocked up on pint and 2 pint jars. I also found a local discount store that was selling 12 packs of lids for the eqivalent of 10p a pack so bought all their stock

There doesnt seem to be a cheap source of jars and lids in the UK that I have ever found. Other countries I have lived in had them in the supermarket so must be more popular that the UK

You can now get the Ball jars from Lakeland at a reasonable price, along with the replacement lids and a few other bits including the Blue Book with metric measurements. Free delivery on orders over £30!

I can't think why it never took off in UK, I love canning!! Get that canner out and save yourself some money man!

I hope you try the soup, its really filling and very tasty not to mention cheap to make.

[Decaff]

Canned 7 more jars of mushroons and 15 jars of celery, granted the celery was a mixture of jar sizes, mainly small but I am trying to preserve in quantities that will be the most useful, I don't want a huge jar of celery that will end up being wasted when I just want to add to a soup or stew.

[Decaff]

Added 4 more jars of chicken stock to the canning pantry today, we had roast chicken on Sunday, chicken in a creamy mushroom sauce yesterday so I made the stock last night, chilled overnight in the fridge so I could remove the fat and canned it up this afternoon.