Can you leave out the onions? Use different peppers? Add more garlic? Cut something in
Can you leave out the onions?
Use different peppers?
Add more garlic?
Cut something in half?
Sometimes, yes. But canning recipes aren’t regular cooking recipes. 🫙
When you’re making dinner, you can usually change ingredients based on what your family likes.
With canning, some ingredients and amounts are part of what makes that tested recipe safe to preserve.
That doesn’t mean you can NEVER change anything.
Some tested recipes give you specific changes you can safely make, like leaving out certain ingredients or adjusting certain seasonings.
The key is checking before you change it.
If the recipe or trusted source says the change is okay, great!
If you’re not sure, don’t guess.
This is another reason we always have our canning books and recipes sitting right beside us while we can. Even after years of doing this, we still double check.
You don’t have to memorize which changes are okay.
You just need to know where to look. 🫙
What ingredient have you wanted to change in a canning recipe but weren’t sure if you could? Tell me below! 👇
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