Canning sauces..

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Meat Mopper

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• Dec 12, 2012

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Hey y'all, I would like to make a few sauces like Alabama white sauce and some other BBQ sauces and such and then can them for friends. I am familiar with the canning process as i do lots of jams and salsa and so on. My question is this, do you need to make sure you have a specific ingredient in the recipe to properly preserve the sauce? Or will the standard water bath routine be enough to accomplish this? BLine

 

diggingdogfarm

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• Dec 12, 2012

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There are several reasons why it's a bad idea, including but not limited to, home canning of foods containing milk, butter or eggs is considered unsafe by 'authorities', all of the above mentioned separate and degrade when heated at high temperatures and canning foods high in fat without special precautions can be dangerous because fat insulates micro-organisms from heat.


~Martin

 

kathrynn

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• Dec 12, 2012

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I agree with DigginDog....Dairy is supposed to be frozen if anything.  But you have to be careful....because some of the dairy (like milk) will separate in the thawing process...milk could curdle with the high temps needed for processing during canning.

 

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Meat Mopper

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• Dec 12, 2012

• #4

Thanks guys. But what if you don't use dairy? See this link..http://canningusa.com/IfICanYouCan/BarbecueSauce.htm

 

kathrynn

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• Dec 12, 2012

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With the vinegar in that recipe...it will be a high acid product and can be Water Bath canned.

 

diggingdogfarm

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• Dec 12, 2012

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Lots of sauces can be canned, but follow safe tested recipes only.
Failing to follow tested recipes that are at the proper pH can be potentially very dangerous when boiling water bath canning.
Some would consider the above sauce potentially unsafe because of the added oil.

You'll notice that in a recipe from the National Center for Home Food Preservation there isn't any oil included in the recipe.

http://nchfp.uga.edu/how/can_03/bbqsauce.html


~Martin

 

kathrynn

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• Dec 13, 2012

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I re-read that recipe...and with the sesame oil....I would think why bother....you can cook down the onions with no oil....use a non-stick pan and render them down.  Oils can go rancid if not stored properly.  Would not wanna chance a good sauce going bad with ickky oil in the mix.  Just my 2 cents.