50p a day til christmas, healthily?!-Weezl's next challenge (part 2)

munchki

big mumma, I know you can use parsnip peelings as I have done that as for carrot I have just used thin slices and done the same thing. Lovely aren't they?

Sunnyday

M&S sell parsnip and cracked black pepper crisps which are gorgeous but pricey so i think that they will be yummy MummaF
SD

Seakay

I've just bottle some stewed apple using jam jars which have a 'button' on the lid which pops down to show a vacuum has been formed, and up when the jar is opened. Not really a button but a very shallow dome in the centre of the lid.
Anyway, they are all reused jars which I washed and then heated in a very low oven, and I put the apple in very pureed and practically boiling (put the jars on a wooden board to avoid possibility of cracking) and all the jars have sealed themselves now that they are cold. (I could hear them pinging as they cooled!)
I reckon that this seal is just as good as anything that you'd get on a Kilner jar or whatever, so I'm not going to process them further but just see how I go. I think that this method could be used for soup, oranything fairly liquid, as well.

Sunnyday

Hi Seakay,
you`ve just jogged my memory.
When i last made jam my jars did this and sealed themselves too.
I`ll need to do some serious experimentation.:D
SD

Plum_Pie

BigMummaF, I've done carrot peelings in the oven flavoured with a little salt and lots of paprika, they were lovely.

Lesley_Gaye

I've just put some celeriac soup in 2 jam jars. Heated the soup to simmer, ladled into 2 jam jars of half a pint each that had warmed in the oven and screwed the lids on

Will now wait with baited breath to see if they go bad!

edit - ooh, while typing this, I've just 2 little metallic pops from the kitchen which would be the jar buttons popping down - great!

loocyloo

oooooo i hope someone replies to say that ''YES! you CAN put soup/apple puree etc in jars to keep and its fine, lasts ages!!!''

i have run out of room in my freezer (unless i actually eat some of it!!!) and still have loads of apples to use up, plus i am always making soup and would love to be able to keep it!

just wondering if if would need some kind of preservative in it? any one know? although, i guess, if it goes in HOT, and the jars are HOT (like for jam) and the lids 'ping' then it would be ok???

loocyloo xxx

maman

I do quiche recipe where you put mash in the base of the dish instead of pastry. very filling and 'real men' love it!

hmkn

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

ooohhh noooo

I have started a gadget fever off :eek: :rotfl:

Now then folks... The best I can do is take mine to the post office tomorrow and check the postage .. I have done it on line but it usually works out a little different when you get there because of the exchange rate.. But I priced it up around £16 to post .

I read in my instructions that you can bottle meat etc.. It would never have occured to me ..will have to look into it..god there are gonna be some concotions going off when I get started :rotfl:

So it pressure cans?:j :j

I've been reading 'Preserved' (from the library) and they have recipes for bottling what is essentially home made Spam (How cool is that?! :cool: ) and another meat (tongue I think)that I was going to try and freeze. I can post them later if you like.

I looked at these preserving boilers when we were in the Black Forest on holiday a couple of years ago (where they take their preserving very seriously, probably like the rest of Germany. I got a much loved plum stoner for about £1.50 when I was there) but I couldn't work out the destructions (poor German and nothing about pressure canning in the phrase book).

If you are serious about shipping them I am going to have a serious chat with DH when he gets in! I would love one. Would you really post one? £40 sounds a bit of a bargain. I've been keen to preserve food (not just condiments like jam/chutney etc) without taking up more freezer space or it costing money/energy to preserve it. I was going to have a bash at tomatoes this year, but then we got blight and I have a lot of greeb tomato chutney :rolleyes:

HMK

maman

Don't know anything about them but saw an Ainsley Harriott slow cooker in Netto yesterday for £19.99.