Thanksgiving Canning Recipes
Recipes to help before and after the big day
Thanksgiving can be really hectic, with so many things to prep and serve all in one day, but you can take the pressure off by canning seasonal ingredients ahead of time.
Put up sweet potatoes earlier in the month, and they’re ready to heat and eat (or turn into grandma’s famous casserole) on the big day. The same goes for canning pumpkin for pie and home canned sweet corn for a side.
You can put up onions in a jar of French Onion Soup and then use them in ready-to-go in added in with the home canned green beans in a classic casserole.
And, of course, who can forget homemade cranberry sauce? (Or even better, cranberry orange sauce!)
After the big day, you can prosess leftover turkey in your pressure canner, either as is, or in any of these Turkey Canning Recipes. Of course, it also works in place of chicken in dozens of chicken canning recipes (soups, stews, chili, and more).
The weekend after Thanksgiving, instead of braving the crowds shopping for the holidays, you can get ahead of the game without leaving the house by putting up a few jars of Christmas Jam, Cranberry Jelly (different than sauce), Cranberry Apple Jam, or Lemon Curd for spectacular hand-crafted gifts.
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.)