Canned venison?

[Robb]

Anybody ever can venison?? How to? Had some last week and it was excellent.
Thanks,

Robb

[esox slayer]

Anybody ever can venison?? How to? Had some last week and it was excellent.
Thanks,

Robb

I've never put any up myself, and the first time I saw it in the jar I thought it looked like crap, but after they cooked it I found it was great...a nice way to use up those bits and pieces of the tougher cuts......Esox

[camo_fish]

My father's wife did some up last year and Holly cow it was excellent. I'll work on getting the recipe for ya. I'll see if I can get it, there down in VA.

[Robb]

Thanks. I am looking for a pressure cooker on ebay. Hopefully I'll have a recipe and cooker soon.
Robb

[Robb]

I'm going to can lots of them .

Robb

[C.C.]

I usually can some every year. All I do is pack it in a mason jar, add some water(about 1/2 full) maybe put a table spoon of salt in  with it  then follow the canning instructions for meat. If you've only eaten it and not seen it in the jar don't look at it  My favorite way to prepare it is to just drain off the water, roll in seasoned flour and quickly brown in a skillet with butter. Just remember to be gentle when turning the peices in the skillet as they will fall apart
       Jim

[kerosenecounty17]

Mmmmm, good.  Basically, just seal venison chunks in a pint jar with a teaspoon of salt or a beef boulion cube, no water necessary.  Pressure cook at 10 pounds for 1 hour and 15 minutes.  When you open the jar remove the tallow (all the tallow will form a waxy layer on top of the jar) and serve.  Flake the chunks with a couple forks and serve on bread with mayo or honey mustard.  Excellent stuff.  I also like to make up a small pot of Au Jus (powdered mix stuff) and simmer the flaked venison in the Au Jus for a couple minutes.  Spoon it up on a bun and enjoy.  It's also great to use for taco meat.  The same thing can be done with those tough old gobblers you shoot next spring.

kc17

[darkhousefisher]

Grew up eating the stuff, follow KC17's recipe.  We usually cut the meat into 1" to 1 1/2" cubes and then put some beef tallow cubes on top of the meat to make it a little more moist.  Also try mixing Au Jus and taco seasoning in the jar before you can it, or throw some diced bacon in there or liquid smoke.  You don't need as much seasoning as you usually use, the meat really sucks the flavor up during canning.  Just keep trying different things.  One thing that helps is to glue the recipe to each jar so that you will know what worked good  and what didn't .
Darkhouse

[Robb]

Thanks guys. I'm looking for a nice pressure cooker.

Robb

[darkhousefisher]

Check yard sales and second hand stores, you can usually get them fairly cheap.
Darkhouse