Creative Canning | April 2023
Spring Canning Recipes
April canning recipes highlight the best of what the spring season has to offer.
As temperatures start to warm for the season, now’s a good time to plan ahead for summer canning…when temperatures rise, and you don’t want to heat up the kitchen. Start thinking about setting up an outdoor canning kitchen if you have a yard.
For pressure canning, I just finished a review of the Presto Electric Pressure Canner, which I absolutely love. It automates pressure canning, and doesn’t heat up the house. It’s also completely silent, which is very different from listening to a noisy stovetop pressure canner. It’s a great option for beginners, and ideal for summertime canning or simply putting up leftovers after dinner.
April Canning Recipes
Most places have an abundance of spring flowers at this point, and the first of the early fruits are showing up in warmer locations.
Here in Vermont, we still haven’t seen our first dandelions, but in most places, spring is in full bloom, and everyone’s starting to fill their pantry with preserves.
Asparagus, fiddleheads, and ramps are showing up on store shelves (and in the woods for foragers to find). Early spring peas and rhubarb are also plentiful. It’s also a good time to put up new potatoes and early carrots, along with meal-in-a-jar recipes, before the temperatures rise for summer.
Spring Fruit Canning Recipes
Spring Jams and Jellies
Old Fashioned Strawberry Jam (No added pectin)
Spring Pickling Recipes
Spring Vegetable Canning Recipes
Spring Meal in a Jar Canning Recipes
Canning Chicken Pot Pie Filling (Fresh peas and carrots)
If there’s a canning or preserving recipe that you’d like to find, please do let me know in the comments, and I’ll see what I can do to track it down for you.
Happy Canning!
-Ashley at Creative Canning
(Ps. I also run the blog Practical Self Reliance, which has information on all manner of food preservation techniques (cheesemaking, salt curing, winemaking) as well as just about everything else you’d need to learn to be self-reliant in this modern world. It has its own substack as well, and you can subscribe to practical self-reliance separately as well. That newsletter comes out weekly and covers canning, as well as everything else.)
Thank you for another great read full of resources. Very new to canning with a Nesco, but pretty much can something every day to learn. I found I do not like canned potatoes. I would love to find a vegetable soup (including broth) that I can safely can without potatoes but with maybe a wild rice or barley. I heard you can’t can rice. Just looking for a filler for an all vegetarian soup. Also, do you know if I could put parsnips in my canned soup? Thank you. Happy Spring!