So I have never been lead astray before by the glorious website Pick your own. I used plenty of the recipes for last years canning. So now that I have my lovely kitchen scale I decided it is time to can some beans. The measurement for beans is in weight not cups so I couldn't can until I got the scale.
Well the canning dried beans link from pick your own says that roughly 9 pounds of "dried" beans will yield 9 pints of finished canned beans. WRONG! Maybe if it was 9 pounds of rehydrated beans. So this is what happened I measured out beans and got them soaking per the directions on the website. It became very clear and if I would have really thought it out, it would have been obvious I am going to end up with WAY more than 9 pints.
Heres the starting measurements (dried):
3 Lbs. Kidney beans
8 Lbs. 14 Oz. Great Northern White beans
7 Lbs. Black beans
At this point I was expecting equal parts of each of those numbers in pint sized jars. Meaning 3 jars of kidney, 9 jars of white, and 7 jars of black. That didn't happen.
Upon further research it turns out roughly (depending on the bean) 1 pound of dried beans after all is said and done will yield you 3 pint sized jars.
So I soaked, boiled, then pressure canned my stupid amounts of beans. I will be sharing this with my parents and really getting good at putting beans in everything! It is a good thing they last about a year because I am going to need that long to use them all.
Final count: in pint sized jars
11 Kidney
30 G.N. White
24 Black
65 pint sized jars, well guess what's for dinner?
OH MY! LOL I feel for you, but hey, look on the bright side - you saved yourself tons of time by having them all ready to go! No more soaking overnight. Did that help? No? I didn't think it would. Well, all those jars look really nice full of food. I'm looking at my depleted pantry and wishing I'd canned about twice what I did last year. Maybe I'll do some beans, just not that many. :)
ReplyDeleteThe soaking over night did expand the beans to about double there dried size so I am sure it helped. But now I won't have to do that and more when I want a can for any recipe. WOO HOO!
ReplyDeleteI waited to can any beans until I got the scale but also because canning season is CRAZY with everything else!
Hello J and J. Such a beautiful table full of bounty. Your hard work is/will pay off nicely for you. You are inspiring me to try my hand at canning again. It's been 30 years since I did any. Yikes!
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