If you guys remember back in March, Deb and I tried our hands at canning butter. We canned 12 pints to see how it turned out, to see if it had good taste after being canned, and how the butter keeps on a shelf in the pantry.
Well, it’s been almost six months now, and we decided today to take a pint out, and see how it’s doing. On a scale of one to ten, I’d have to give it a fourteen. Basically it scores so high because I made it…and I scored it! You see, it ain’t what you know…it’s WHO you know!
Actually though, I am very impressed. It seems to store very well, the color and texture are holding up fine (it is really pretty canned in the jars), and I and Deb both thought the taste was very good. I promise you all, we’ll be canning more of this.
One reason we decided to try canning butter was the ability to keep butter on hand that didn’t have the need for refrigeration. This plus the fact butter takes up freezer space that could be used for other things…mainly meat and vegetables.
We see now that without a doubt, you can put butter up in this way, and the taste is just fine. Hey Mississippi…got you a picture of spreading it on toast like you requested…except you requested on a biscuit, but we forgot and used toast! Sorry…
Power goes out…no problem, because your butter is sitting on a shelf…at room temperature. Deb and I both feel that the more ways you can utilize storage that can get by with no electricity, the better off we are.
Some people prefer freezing versus canning, and honestly I’m not sure there is such a thing as one really being better than the other. Although we feel canning is more our way of putting up our food supplies, at least as much as we can anyway.
Once again, we feel this way mainly from a “no power” standpoint, plus we enjoy the taste of canned food. In all actuality, if we were without power for any extended period of time, then we’d probably can most of the meat we’d have in our freezer anyway. It ends up being your own personal preference.
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‘Ridin Out The Recession With Dub and Deb in “Miz Judi’s Kitchen’!
Note to Readers: There are a few things that Dub doesn’t know but one thing he does know is that the word ‘Riding’ (as in Riding Out the Recession) is spelled with a ‘g’ at the end. But Dub not only walks the walk, but speaks like he is: down home, true blue, and plain speakin’ country folk.
Dub and Deb are both native Floridians, live in Central Florida, and run a small business as well. They have five children, and seven grandchildren.
Both love to cook, love to laugh, grow a garden, and generally try to “aggravate” most anyone around them basically…all in good fun, of course!
