Canning Butter (Ghee) Recipe
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Ingredients: Butter, salted kind
Large pot
Wooden Spoon or Spatula
Pint canning jars
Seals and Rings for jars
Roasting Pan
Smaller pot for boiling seals
Funnel
Ladle
Cooling Rack
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Directions:1. Wash all jars very well. Put them in a roasting pan and heat in a 250 degree oven for 20 minutes, without rings or seals. I just put mine wet in the roasting pan and they dried in the oven.
2. In the smaller pan bring some water to a boil and simmer the seals a couple of minutes. Keep in the hot water until needed.
3. As the jars heat in the oven, slowly melt the butter in the large pot, stirring with a wooden spoon or spatula the whole time to keep the butter from scorching. Scorched butter is NOT pretty! Slowly bring to a boil and boil for 5 minutes stirring well the whole time. Make sure you have a very big pot as the butter will rise and become foamy as it boils. We don’t want any disasters of butter boiling over and creating fires! One pound of butter fills one pint jar and a little more. Be prepared by having more pint jars ready than pounds of butter. For instance, have 10 pint jars ready if melting 9 pounds of butter.
4. With the ladle stir and scoop the butter from the bottom of the pan into the jars using a canning jar funnel to guide the butter. To allow room for the shaking process leave 3/4″ of head space in the jar.
5. Wipe off the rims of the jars, place a hot seal on top and screw on a canning ring. Do this carefully as the jars are HOT! Place on a cooling rack. The lids will seal as they cool. When the lids are all sealed and the jars are still warm but cool enough to handle give each jar a good shake. This will keep the butter from separating as it cools and hardens.
6. Continue to give the jars a shake every 10-15 minutes. When no longer hot put all the jars in the refrigerator for the final hardening process. Keep jars in refrigerator for an hour remembering to shake every 10 -15 minutes.
7. After the butter is hardened take out of the refrigerator and store in a cool place. Canned butter will store for about three years. It will not melt when opened so does not need to be stored in the refrigerator when you use it which is a nice thing if you had to live off your food storage for a while without any power. |
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Notes: April 17, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups}
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