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Last post 10-30-2009 7:24 PM by zohnerfarms. 3 replies.
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  • 10-30-2009 11:19 AM

    Canning Potatoes

    I'm glad we dug potatoes while it was nice out because it has rained every day since! I have potatoes that I am sorting by size. I love the smaller poatoes for canning them. Canned potatoes make delicious fried potatoes!!! I scrub them with a vegetable brush, and leave the skins on. I might get some Red Pontiacs that have a heavy skin, but that'll usually come off while frying....and besides the skin is where the nutrients are, so I've heard.

    Sort, wash, leave skins on. Boil for about 5 or 10 minutes. Pack hot into hot jars, cover with boiling water, leave headspace. Add 1 tsp salt to each quart.

    Process in a pressure canner 40 minutes at 10 lbs pressure. 

    Michelle in Northern Michigan
    Officially Recognized Stretchpert in Self-Sufficient Living

    Michigan...Number 1 in Unemployment! (might as well be number 1 in something...)

  • 10-30-2009 11:41 AM In reply to

    Re: Canning Potatoes

     If you can use 10 pounds pressure, you must be closer to sea level than I am.  I am supposed to use 13.5 pound pressure, but I have a rocker weight, so it's either 10 or 15, which makes it 15 pounds for me.

  • 10-30-2009 11:59 AM In reply to

    Re: Canning Potatoes

    yes, you must be up in the mountains somewhere? I never think about adjusting for altitude. You must have to do that for alot of things.

    Michelle in Northern Michigan
    Officially Recognized Stretchpert in Self-Sufficient Living

    Michigan...Number 1 in Unemployment! (might as well be number 1 in something...)

  • 10-30-2009 7:24 PM In reply to

    Re: Canning Potatoes

    Cinnamonhuskies:
    yes, you must be up in the mountains somewhere?
     

    Yep - first I was in the mountains in Idaho & now I am in the mountains in Utah.  For water bath canning, it really lengthens the boiling time, but for pressure canniing, it just changes the pressure, which is nice.

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