Creative Canning | January 2025

Mid Winter Canning Recipes

January means cold weather, regular snowfall, and almost nothing coming in from the garden…but there are still plenty of early winter canning recipes you can make to preserve what you do have.

Some things, like potatoes and carrots, can be canned any time of year so that they’re cooked and ready to eat at a moment’s notice. The same goes for meat canning recipes, soups, stews, and meal-in-a-jar recipes.

Beyond that, there are a few things that are harvested or fresh in January, namely tropical fruits like guava and kiwi.

January Canning Recipe Lists

These recipe lists will keep you busy canning what’s in season in January!

• 12+ Cranberry Canning Recipes

• 12+ Apple Canning Recipes

• 12+ Pumpkin and Winter Squash Canning Recipes

• 30+ Meat Canning Recipes

• 30+ Soup Canning Recipes

• 30 + Meal in a Jar Canning Recipes

January Meal in a Jar & Soup Recipes

Most of my favorite canning recipes are those that take work out of busy weeknights, and what I put up now will feed us year-round.

• Canning Beef Burgundy (Julia Child’s Recipe)

• Butternut Squash Soup Base

• Thai Coconut Squash Soup

• Butternut Squash and White Bean Soup

• Canning Chicken Pot Pie Filling

• Canning Beef Pot Pie Filling

• Canning Carrot Soup

• Canning Leftover Turkey

Beef Burgundy

January Fruit Canning Recipes

Late in the season, you’ll still have apples and pears from the autumn, plus a few new late-season fruits like cranberries, persimmons, quince, and more!

• Canning Cranberries

• Canning Apple Slices

• Canning Pears

• Canning Quince

December Jam and Jelly Recipes

Though the fresh berries of summer are gone, there’s still plenty of ways to make Jams, Jellies, and fruit butters with late-season fruit!

• Quince Jelly

• Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce

• Apple Jam

• Sweet Cider Apple Butter

• Pear Butter

• Caramelized Onion Jam

• Pear Jam

• Cranberry Apple Jam

Apple Butter

January Juice Canning Recipes

Most of the juice canning recipes end with summer, but there are a few that linger into December.

• Canning Cranberry Juice

• Canning Apple Juice

• Canning Apple Cider

January Pie Filling Canning Recipes

There are more than 20 pie-filling recipes you can make at home for canning, but most are out of season by December. There are still a few left, though!

• Apple Pie Filling

January Vegetable Canning Recipes

Putting up plain veggies means quick, versatile meals later on, and while pickings are slim in December, you can still put up root crops and spuds that just won’t store all winter without a root cellar.

• Canning Sweet Potatoes

• Canning Potatoes

• Canning Carrots

• Canning Beets

• Canning Onions

• Canning Parsnips

• Canning Pumpkin & Winter Squash

Canning Parsnips

January Pickling Recipes

You can pickle almost anything, and that includes late-season January produce!

• Pickled Brussels Sprouts

  Pickled Beets

• Pickled Carrots

• Pickled Cranberries

• Bread and Butter Pickled Onions

• Green Tomato Piccalilli

• Pickled Green Tomatoes

• Pickled Onions (3 ways)

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, fermenting) 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.)