Table Of ContentI CAN CAN CHICKEN!!
How to home can chicken to save money and
time with quick, easy, tasty family recipes
Jennifer Shambrook, Ph.D.
Author of Amazon Kindle Best Sellers The Cornbread Bible: A Recipe
Storybook
and
I Can Can Beef!!
I CAN CAN!! Frugal Living Series, Volume 2.
All rights reserved by Jennifer Shambrook ©2013
Disclaimer This is the part where I am supposed to tell you that everything in
this book belongs to the author and publisher and you’re not supposed to copy it
or send it to anyone acting like it is your own personal property. I am positively
certain your mama taught you not to cheat and steal.
If you want to share a recipe, go ahead and do it, I don’t mind, but please give
this book credit when you do so. Just so you know, sharing a recipe isn’t copying
whole sections, just in case you were wondering about that. The book is less than
five bucks, for heaven’s sake, just give someone a copy of the book if you want
them to have more than a recipe or two! They make free Kindle apps for
everything but microwaves these days.
I’m also supposed to tell you that if you do anything I’ve told you about in this
book and something bad happens, then you’re responsible for your own actions.
I’ve done everything I can to warn you where you need to be warned, caution
you where you need to be cautioned and remind you where you need to be
reminded. So please don’t sue me. I drive a seven year old minivan full of melted
crayon stains and petrified French fries that has over 170,000 miles on it. I’ve
backed it into a tree and was hit by a teenager in the grocery store parking lot
and didn’t get the bumper fixed either time, so you don’t really want it, I don’t
think.
Proceed at your own risk. If I tell you to do something contrary to your pressure
cooker manufacturer’s instructions, adapt my recipes to follow their
instructions.
Okay, now that that little administrative nuisance is out of the way… let’s check
out the table of contents so you can see what you are going to learn in the book!
The table is interactive, so you can click on it and it will take you where you
want to go. How cool is that?
Table of Contents
What is the purpose of this book?
What will you learn in this book?
“Why would anyone want to can their own chicken?”
WHOLE BIRDS, BONELESS BREASTS OR CHICKEN HIPS?
Modern loss of chicken logic
Saving Money
COOKING UNDER PRESSURE
Tools of the Trade
Jars
Lids and Rings
Canning Funnel
Jar lifter
Lid magnet
Canning Scoop
Damp paper towels
Pot holders or oven mitts
Disposable gloves
Sharp knife
Cutting board
Bowls
Bottle opener
Pressure cooker
Pressure cooker rack insert for stacking
Cooling racks or folded towels
Checklist of canning equipment
PREPARATION OF THE CHICKEN
Food safety during preparation
CANNING PROCESS
Cold pack method
Hot pack method
How to make home canned white beans
How to make and can homemade chicken stock
Pressure canning process recap
GREAT CANNED CHICKEN RECIPES
How to make Cream of Chicken Soup without the can
Alternative #1 to Canned Cream of Chicken Soup Recipe
Alternative #2 for Cream of Chicken Soup – A Gluten Free Dry Mix for the Pantry
Alternative #3 for Cream of Chicken Soup – Flour based pantry mix
How to make Mirepoix
Mirepoix Recipe
Fancy Shmancy Chicken Salad (Debbie Street Chalmers)
Fancy Shmancy Chicken Salad Recipe
Curry Rice and Chicken Salad (Birmingham Museum of Art)
Curry Rice and Chicken Salad Recipe
Chicken Stew (Eloise Holt)
Chicken Stew Recipe
Southwestern Chicken Soup (Nicole Holt Spencer)
Southwestern Chicken Soup Recipe
Chunky Chicken Macaroni Soup
Chunky Chicken Macaroni Soup
White Chicken Chili (Marilyn Biggers)
White Chicken Chili Recipe
Chicken and Dumplings (Polly Johnson)
Chicken and Dumplings Recipe
Chicken and Cornbread (Mariruth Powers)
Chicken and Cornbread Recipe
Curry Chicken Casserole (Louise Harris)
Curry Chicken Casserole
Asian Chicken and Sugar Snap Stir Fry
Asian Chicken and Sugar Snap Stir Fry Recipe
Chicken Paprikash
Chicken Paprikash Recipe
Chicken Tettrazini (Patsy DeShazo)
Chicken Tettrazini Recipe
Chicken Pot Pie
Chicken Pot Pie Recipe
EXCERPT FROM THE CORNBREAD BIBLE: A RECIPE
STORYBOOK
My Own Chicken’n’Dressing Recipe
Cornbread recipe for 10 cups of dressing crumbs
Jenny’s Old Fashioned Chicken’n’dressing Recipe
CLOSING THOUGHTS AND A CORDIAL INVITATION
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
OTHER BOOKS BY JENNIFER SHAMBROOK, PH.D.
The Cornbread Bible: A Recipe Storybook
I Can Can Beef!! How to can beef to save money and time with quick, easy, delicious family recipes
What is the purpose of this book?
There is tremendous satisfaction in looking in your pantry and seeing a row of
delicious home preserved foods. It is rewarding in so many ways. I can for the
sake of improved food flavor, improved food product, and reduced food bills. I
win blue ribbons for my home canning in canning competitions every year.
Every year, like clockwork, my non-canning friends say, “I wish you would
write a book so I could learn to do that!” Well, I’m finally doing that for them
and for you.
I CAN CAN Chicken!! is the second in a series of informative books that are
being written in order to give you the essential knowledge you need to know
how to safely home can various food products. In this book you will learn to can
flavorful and delicious, naturally tender chicken. This is followed by a series of
easy and tasty recipes for super-quick nutritious family meals. I am a very busy
person and I am writing this for other busy people who are trying to keep a
frugal, healthy, country panty in a modern world.
What will you learn in this book?
1. You will learn easy step-by-step methods to safely home can chicken
for yourself and your family.
2. You will learn to almost effortlessly create and safely home can your
own chicken stock using your crockpot or electric turkey roaster.
3. You will learn to significantly lower your food costs and increase the
nutritional value of your family’s diet.
4. You will learn how to shop to get the best prices on the highest
quality cuts of meat.
5. You will learn how to use the canned chicken in delicious, easy
recipes that will make going through the drive-through seem like more
trouble than cooking a healthy meal for your family.
These techniques are written so that anyone, whether you are a complete novice
or a seasoned home canner, can follow along. Everything is step by step. I
explain both the how and the why of the steps.
“Why would anyone want to can their own chicken?”
Canning chicken might seem like an odd pursuit to you, but I grew up with a
grandmother who routinely canned chicken. Her name was Hazel Orelia Carlisle
Johnson, but I called her Mammaw. She was half Cherokee with beautiful black
hair. She lived in the country and kept chickens for both eggs and meat.
Mammaw was quite entrepreneurial with an independent spirit. She always had
several revenue streams flowing into her pocket book. She was an expert
seamstress, sold Stanley Home Products, made quilts and crochet items that she
would sell, and she sold eggs.
Hazie Johnson Her hens were as industrious as she was and hence (pun
