Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Stevia and Canned Bacon

My grandson Brandon came to spend a couple of days with me so we started our day by cutting some of the stevia and putting it in the dehydrator.  I was cutting each leaf one by one from the stalks and Brandon came in and ran his fingers down the stalk and completely stripped it in just a second.  Young minds come in handy sometimes.  I now have my 5 trays filled and in the dehydrator.  When it is dried I will crush it and use to sweeten my tea.
Then we proceeded to can some bacon.  We canned 2 lbs and will try a jar of it on Thursday for supper to see how it tastes.  If it turns out I will pick up a few 10lb boxes of bacon when we go down to Beachies Bulk Food store in Arthur and can it.  I will keep you posted when we have it for supper Thursday and how it tastes.  This is the link where I found out how to can bacon:

http://www.rural-revolution.com/search/label/canning%20bacon

Brandon stripping the leaves from the stevia stalks.

Stevia going in the dehydrator.




Roll of masking paper, 12" X 180', found at Menards, isle where the green paint tape is for $2.97 a roll.

Bacon going on the masking paper.

1 lb of bacon.

Adding masking paper to the top of the bacon.

1 lb of bacon ready to be folded and rolled.

Took the handle of a long wooden spoon, put it in the middle of the bacon, fold it in half.

Ready to rolled.

Roll tightly.

All rolled up.

Putting in a wide mouth quart jar.

Putting in the caner.

Bacon out of the caner, 10lbs for 90 minutes.
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3 comments:

  1. Great post! I saw your corn post too.......your blog topics just really attracted my eye this week! Thanks for sharing your knowledge I am fairly inexperienced at canning meat.

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  2. Been dying to learn how to can meat! I'll be checking back to see how it tasted! Can't wait to reaf that post!

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  3. How neat! I have never tried canning bacon. Love the stevia. We grow and dry it too. Thank you for linking up at the Carnival of Home Preserving!

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