Home Canned Dry Beans

Home Canned Dry Beans

wtorek, 4 lutego 2014

Home Canned Dry Beans

Time: 19 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• 5 lbs dried beans or 5 lbs dried peas
• 1/2 teaspoon salt, per pint jars

Directions

• 1 Select Mature, dry seeds. Sort out and discard discolored seeds.
• 2 Place Beans or peas in a large pot and cover with water. Soak 12 to 18 hours in a cool place. Drain water. Again cover beans with fresh water and boil 30 minutes. Add 1/2 teaspoon salt per pint jars or 1 teaspoon for quart jars if desired. Fill pint or quart jars with the soaked beans and cooking water, leaving a 1 inch head space. Adjust lids and process.
• 3 Recommended process time for Beans or Peas in a dial-gauged pressure canner.
• 4 Pints: 75 Minutes at 10 lbs.
• 5 Quarts 90 Minutes at 10 lbs.
• 6 5 pounds of beans is needed per canner load of 7 quarts.
• 7 3 1/4 pounds of beans are needed for 9 pints.