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Posted: January 01 2007 at 9:26pm |
I've been wanting to buy canned butter, but could not find it for months.
I bought it a few moments ago at www.MREdepot.com. |
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dverkamp
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You can now also purchase canned butter and meats from MREfoods.com (www.mrefoods.com) and shipping is free to locations within the Continental US.
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One of our members posted this receipe for canned butter last year: Canning butter is easy.....No need for pressure cooker and It tastes great.
Someone on this Forum gave me this site and I'm giving it to you....
Have you seen the site on making home made bread.....So Good Yummy.
1. Use any butter that is on sale. Lesser quality butter requires more shaking (see #5 below), but the results are the same as with the expensive brands.
2. Heat pint jars in a 250 degree oven for 20 minutes, without rings or seals. One pound of butter slightly more than fills one pint jar, so if you melt 11 pounds of butter, heat 12 pint jars. A roasting pan works well for holding the pint jars while in the oven. 3. While the jars are heating, melt butter slowly until it comes to a slow boil. Using a large spatula, stir the bottom of the pot often to keep the butter from scorching. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes at least: a good simmer time will lessen the amount of shaking required (see #5 below). Place the lids in a small pot and bring to a boil, leaving the lids in simmering water until needed. 4. Stirring the melted butter from the bottom to the top with a soup ladle or small pot with a handle, pour the melted butter carefully into heated jars through a canning jar funnel. Leave 3/4" of head space in the jar, which allows room for the shaking process. 5. Carefully wipe off the top of the jars, then get a hot lid from the simmering water, add the lid and ring and tighten securely. Lids will seal as they cool. Once a few lids "ping," shake while the jars are still warm, but cool enough to handle easily, because the butter will separate and become foamy on top and white on the bottom. In a few minutes, shake again, and repeat until the butter retains the same consistency throughout the jar. 6. At this point, while still slightly warm, put the jars into a refrigerator. While cooling and hardening, shake again, and the melted butter will then look like butter and become firm. This final shaking is very important! Check every 5 minutes and give the jars a little shake until they are hardened in the jar! Leave in the refrigerator for an hour. 7. Canned butter should store for 3 years or longer on a cool, dark shelf. [It does last a long time. We have just used up the last of the butter we canned in 1999, and it was fine after 5 years.] Canned butter does not "melt" again when opened, so it does not need to be refrigerated upon opening, provided it is used within a reasonable length of time. A lovely glow seems to emanate from every jar. You will also be glowing with grateful satisfaction while placing this "sunshine in a jar" on your pantry shelves. We have canned over 75 pints of butter in the past year. Miles loves it and will open a jar when I'm not looking! I buy butter on sale, then keep it frozen until I have enough for canning 2 or 3 batches of a dozen jars each. Remember shake the jars every five minutes...I set my oven timer so I wouldn't forget....Onces there in the refrigerator I shook them every 3 minutes...One minute it's liquid the next minute you have hard butter...
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Safety Lady
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Our extension agent does not recommend canning your own butter. Make ghee, it is great and no canning required.
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"Canning" butter may not be safe but it seems like a lot of folks have tried it without incident. I canned up a couple dozen jars and then put them in the spare refrigerator. That way I feel that there will be no degradation or spoilage.
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I just saw that mredepot.com put their butter on sale plus they added a new canned whole chicken and a new canned cheese - a case of butter is like $68 right now if you use the discount code prepare.
Beats taking a chance with my family by canning my own - can't imagine survivng PF and then getting sick from homeade canning... There's a whole list of nasty bugs you can give your family if you make a mistake. |
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Just get a few cans of canned pumpkin. I read on this forum, about
a year ago, that it is a great replacement for butter. So I tried it and it works great. I bought six 15 oz cans with an expiration date of late 2008 for approx 50 cents a can. You can replace butter with pumpkin for most all recipes and it is better for you than butter. |
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I am in the U.K. and cannot source canned butter. I have tried.I even emailed a N.Z. company direct who say they cannot export it here.Grocery company in U.S. could send me some but would be very expensive. Is it worth it. Does it taste good? What exactly is ghee( I know it is used in indian cooking.) Do you open a can and use it as butter? For eating and spreading or does it taste gross?! Or do you use it in cooking. in which case why not just use oil?
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MelodyAtHome
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I put my butter in the freezer but if the elecricity went out do you think the butter would stay OK in the basement where it is cool? We are in northeast Ohio so the basement seems pretty cool most of the time. If so, how long do you think it would be good for. This would be salted butter. Thanks.
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Hotair
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I was told that it should be able to sit on the shelf for 5 years un refrigerated. I don't refrigerate mine and it has been a year. Every one I open is perfect. Aftyer opening, however, they seem to last between 3-4 months on the shelf before going bad.
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Have you made any cakes or cookies without butter using the pumpkin? Great information, thank you. |
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Ro2935
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Like Tammy I live in the Uk and I am unable to find canned butter, can Ghee be used in the same way as butter? I have seen Ghee in the supermarkets but it is quite expensive and I'm reluctant to buy something I have little knowlege of. Has any one used it? |
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" Have you made any cakes or cookies without butter using the pumpkin? "
I have not, but my fifth wife uses it for cooking and she is a good cook. I know we no longer buy butter so I know she is using it. Food tastes great though......... |
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Ro2935
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I think I will buy a tin of Ghee and try it, if we like it I can always buy more.
Some years ago my cousin had a cake recipe that used mayonaise instead of eggs and it came out great. Sadly cant ask her for the recipe as she died 2 years ago, has anyone got a similar recipe they are willing to share. |
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MelodyAtHome
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Hotair, do you mean the butter that you buy in the refrigerated section...where they come 4 sticks in a box? You mean those can last 5 years unrefrigerated? I think it says to refrigerate on the box. I wanted to make sure we are talking about the same kind of butter. LMK. Thanks.:O)
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Melody
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Hotair
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Hi Melody,
Yes and no to your question. The butter that I "make" is the store bought butter using the method mentioned above. For some reason,after heating,melting, and canning it, it is supposed to last 5 years on the shelf without refrigeration. Mine is going on a year and I open one every couple of months and it is fine.
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MelodyAtHome
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Hotair, thanks for clarifying that for me:O) I was hoping you'd write back and tell me. Just wasn't sure.
Happy 4th of July everyone! |
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Melody
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