I tried my first go at canning the other day. I think my timer got screwed up because I believe I only boiled my venison for about two hours and 20 minutes and thought I did for 3 1/2 hours. I also don’t own a pressure cooker and after all the reading about botulism I figured I better burn my experiment up. I openEd the jars today that I kept in the fridge and the meat was firm but falling apart and flaky so I’m sure it was cooked good enough. I got out the crockpot and added one container of beef broth which was about 4 cups, Peeled six potatoes and cut them up into large chunks, I bought a bag of carrots and cut them in 1 inch chunks, Cut up three pieces of celery and tossed them in, also cut up one whole onion and tossed it in, added a 1/2 teasooon of pepper, 1 teaspoon of salt, maybe about a quarter teaspoon at the most of garlic salt because garlic tears me up but I wanted just a little bit in there, and a tablespoon of sugar. I left the meat out and heated up in the crockpot till my potato chunks were soft but firm and then I just added in my two cans of “canned” venison. I figured I will let it cook for a half an hour and turn it off and warm it up tomorrow and give it a fresh try since it’s getting late in the day and I just had supper an hour ago because I couldn’t wait. I did test the broth and it has a pretty good bite from that pepper! I wasn’t expecting it to be hot I can still feel it on my tongue from when I tried it 20 minutes ago. Should be good on cold days just like in the hateful eight! I remember going to that movie at the theater with my pops and we both were drooling watching the beef stew scene and I’ve been wanting to make some like that ever since.
Here’s the scene. Now I have to do is get some wooden spoons and bowls.
https://youtu.be/SnMLCd4cYGQ