Clydie bought the canner from Wal-Mart.com, and we picked it up last Sunday. We had already picked some peas and beans and shelled or snapped them, and she and I both have picked some more over the last week and yesterday. We figure we didn't have enough to make 8 pints of any one particular item, but we could do a couple pints of this, a couple pints of that, to make the 8 to be able to run the canner once.
Today, I finally get the canner out of the box and start reading the instructions. I have never used a pressure canner before, and honestly, the thought of using one scares the hell outta me. I imagine horrific things happening, such as getting burned by steam, or having it blow up because it was too pressurized, or whatever. Anywho, I read through the warnings and directions, and then I read over processing times and realized that we can't process the peas with the pole beans, as they have 2 different processing times. :-(
But that was okay, being that we had 4 pints of pink eyes, and 4 pints of butterpeas. I decided we'd have a vegetable plate tonight for dinner with some fried cornbread, so the pole beans are getting cooked, as well as the lima beans and field peas.
Once I started processing everything, I just kept my instruction manual with me, and it was actually quite easy to use the canner. 40 minutes of processing time, and we're good to go:
Here's my peas from the pressure canner
Here's everything we've processed today, minus 2 jars of pickled squash that are headed to my mom's right now
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