Canning sausage and meats

The old way of canning meat in the Appalachian mountains. In a shtf situation and no pressure canner it might come in handy.

[noleekasmith]

Just had some this morning, really really good!! No problem at all😄

[kathyfrankford]

It was amazing. The sausage was so good. I watched her doing for so many years. The lid does seal. You will hear them pop. That means they are sealed.

[earlwright]

My granny did this forever . She died in 2018 at 98 years. I loved it and she used to get onto me for "eating up the sausage" 😂 I miss you granny hays

[skipblanton]

That's the way my Mom and her Mom and her Mom's Mom canned sausage patties, pork loin, etc and is the same as I continue to do today! I'm 61 and " I AIN'T DEAD YET". lol

[HairInstructor]

Thank you for this!! My Mamaw did it this way!!

[rogerdavenport]

I have done this before, it tastes fresh and you only have to warm it up you use the grease to make your gravy in, it will not hurt you, it keeps in it's own grease.

[candpsuthers]

My family did this for YEARS AND YEARS. And YES, we ALL ate it. It made some of the BEST sausage gravy to put on your biscuits that ever was.

[mooserogers]

I still can my sausage to this day best you have ever eat

[theressathacker]

Its 11.00 am on feb 22.. I was raised up with mom doing this all my younger life.. I was born in 1963, Doesn’t matter how long ago people used to do this .. 6 kids in our house LIVED.. we lived canning and gardening and raising our own food… so before someone thinks the worst of how we lived .. my dad was an Engineer at a Refinery.. we were raised that just because you have a good income doesn’t mean you have to show it.

[ratkoon]

Got a buddy from West Virginia. Just did it that way last week. Swears by it. He been doing it for years. He ain’t dead neither!

[aliceowens]

My mom used to do it that way. Best sausage I’ve ever had.

[shariallison]

im from western NC, each fall dad bought a hog and we spent days processing, he mixed his own salts for the hams and his own spices for the sausage. We did this method every fall, but it was always eaten by late spring. I dont think this would work further south, as the temp could melt the pork fat, but we added lard for a thicker seal.

[mrhalfstep]

My mom married an ol' country boy about 15 years her senior when I was about 20 years old and still the smartest man in the room most days. They moved out to the country in southern Indiana and one day Willie invited me to come hunt with him on the weekend. So I showed up early Saturday morning and he offered to fix us breakfast. He had slaughtered a pig in his garage the weekend before and he said he had all the sausage "put up" as he called it and would I like some on a cold biscuit to take with us. I said I'd love to but I really wanted to get out to the tree stands and didn't think we had the time for all that. He replied that it would only take a second, though I couldn't see how, but we were still gettin' to know one another and I didn't want to seem ungracious, so I agreed. It was at that point that he opened up a pantry and the top 3 shelves was full of cans of fried sausage patties turned upside down sittin' in about 2 inches of set up grease. I took one look at that and said " There ain't no damn way I'm eatin' pork that's been sitting in a cabinet at room temperature for a week. That's crazy! That's about as sure fire way to die of food poisoning as I can think of, Willie. Don't you know how dangerous that is? Has Mom been eatin' that? " I mean I had a fit. He very calmly told me in the kindest terms that I obviously didn't know a damned thing about much of anything if I didn't know that that sausage would still be safe to eat next year at deer season. He said that he and every one of his kin as far back as he could remember put up sausage that way. Short story is, he got me to try it, I loved it, I didn't die and looked forward to having it anytime I ate breakfast with them. Then on another occasion he tried to get me to eat it and scrambled eggs along the weirdest mushroom I ever saw in my life, just 'cause he found it in the woods the other day he claimed it was edible. "Trust me, he said" Had basically the same conversation over those Morels that we had over the sausage and... ya'll probably guess how it turned out. Man, them ol' country boys know how to eat!

[conniecarpenter]

Daddy would kill 2 hogs a year, we'd grind over 100lbs of sausage, it was Daddy, Granny, Mamma and I in the kitchen, we'd have all 4 burner's on the stove going and a couple of electric skillets..you fry your sausage till it's DONE VERY IMPORTANT, add them to the hot jar out of the oven, then add about 1" of grease, wipe lid with vinegar, add hot lid and ring and tighten it down good more than finger tight and turn upside down on a towel to cool and seal, and that's it best eatin u ever done in ur life...Connie C from appalachian Mtns of NC

[sophiarieber]

my mama always turned hers upside down too!! They were great!

[gingerbug]

That’s the way the elders did it in my family and in my husbands family for years, they lived up in their 90’s. I do not use liquid in my sausage nor do I like using a pressure canner after they are put in the jars why cook them another 75 minutes? They turned out so mushie and fell apart, or water logged, yea I know because of bacteria, because that USDA, FDA, says but I am going back to the basics, I will see

[mrsmarietracy]

For many generations the Amish can everything, including meat, using only a water bath…The Amish are thriving!

[jughead]

First off did you eat the sausage? My parents where originally from South East Kentucky and my granny made sausage this way by the wash tub! It was one of my favorite things in the world when Dad got leave and we would "come in" and have sausage balls with biscuits and chocolate gravy!

[gidget]

So many of us are now scrambling to remember the ways of our grandparents. From the 1980s forward we all thought we would never need that knowledge. Humans can be dumb. 🤦‍♀️😆

[jbcurdog]

My grandparents did it this way for years.