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How to Can Potatoes (Plus 10 Other Ways to Preserve Them)

How to Can Potatoes (Plus 10 Other Ways to Preserve Them)
How to Can Potatoes (Plus 10 Other Ways to Preserve Them) How to Can Potatoes (Plus 10 Other Ways to Preserve Them)Last spring I bought seed potatoes with one goal in mind: Grow enough to feed my family for a year.

Lofty, I know, but I had done the math, overbought on seed just to be sure, planted in perfect weather (it was a warm, dry spring last year as opposed to the cold wet one the year prior where our seed rotted in the ground not once, but twice), and despite struggling with Colorado Potato Beetles, I harvested and weighed the bounty. I declared success!

I had grown over 300 pounds of potatoes, while my target had been 280 pounds- enough for 5 pounds of potatoes per week which was pretty much what we had been buying from the store.

I made sure to properly cure my potatoes, bought several wooden apple crates to stack the potatoes in, and stored them in the (unfinished) root cellar.

• 5 Steps for Storing Potatoes

I don’t know if the ground wasn’t cold enough to chill the cinder blocks because it hadn’t frozen yet, or if it was that repairs made to the woodburner in the basement were a little too successful and the basement isn’t quite so cold as it has been in years past, or because someone put a couple bushels of apples in the same area for a week or two before I discovered them and freaked out, but whatever the reason the potatoes all sprouted a couple months after they were put up.

How to Can Potatoes (Plus 10 Other Ways to Preserve Them)


Which left me with probably close to 200 pounds of potatoes to either toss into the compost or get busy preserving. I’m sure you all know me well enough to know I chose the latter.

Many of the little new-sized potatoes (You know, the ones the kids had been instructed many weeks ago to bring to me first because I knew they’d go bad the soonest?) were far gone and had to be thrown into the compost pile. The rest I’ve been flicking eyes and figuring what to do with them. Mostly I just dehydrated them or pressure canned cubes, but there are many other creative ways to preserve potatoes.

How to Can Potatoes (Plus 10 Other Ways to Preserve Them)

{How to Preserve Potatoes Without a Root Cellar}

• How to Freeze Potatoes

• DIY Freezer French Fries

• DIY Dehydrated Potato Flakes (for instant mashed potatoes)

• Make Your Own Frozen Hashbrowns

• How to Freeze Mashed Potatoes

• How to Freeze Raw Potatoes

• Homemade Tater Tots (with instructions for freezeing)

• Fermented Potatoes

• Make & Freeze Pierogies (This recipe looks really good!)

• Prepare and Freeze Slow Cooker Meals

•  And, of course, there is always pressure canning them. These would be great in Fresh Corn Chowder!

{How to Pressure Can Potatoes}

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How to Can Potatoes (Plus 10 Other Ways to Preserve Them)

Author Reformation Acres

Ingredients

  • potatoes, about 20 pounds
  • salt, if desired

Instructions

  1. Remove the eyes and peel the potatoes.
  2. Chop them into pieces and place them in a large bowl or sink full of cool water to prevent oxidation. Some places say to add lemon juice, but I found it wasn't necessary.
  3. Bring a large pot of water to a boil, add the potatoes, and parboil them for a couple minutes.
  4. Drain the water and rinse the potatoes with hot water to remove starch. (Unless that sort of thing doesn't bother you.)
  5. Spoon the cubes into clean quart-sized mason jars and fill the jars with hot water, leaving 1" headspace.
  6. If you'd like, add 1 teaspoon of salt to each jar.
  7. Wipe the rims and then top the jars with clean rings and lids.
  8. Pressure can according to manufacturer's directions at 10 pounds of pressure for 40 minutes.

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What is your favorite way to put up potatoes?

 

 


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  1. Deanne Jones-Blakemore says

    11 February, 2016 at

    You could rinse the potatoes and save the water; dehydrate the potato water and have homemade potato starch for thickening up sauces and gravies.

    Reply
    • Amansa says

      11 January, 2019 at

      Great idea

      Reply
  2. Reformation Acres says

    14 February, 2016 at

    Great idea 🙂

    Reply
  3. Laureli Illoura says

    17 February, 2016 at

    I'm always impressed with your harvets numbers! I've been researching a lot and looking for reliable yeild per row in lbs. numbers for all kinds of veggies. There are official lists (Excel PDFs) for "per 100 ft row", which are helpful, but of course this is related to commercial growing. Would you share how many plants or ft of row you put in to get 300 lbs.? (I used to eat less than 5 lbs of potatoes a YEAR, until we moved to Minnesota, lol).

    Reply
  4. Melissa Keyser says

    16 March, 2016 at

    Thanks for sharing those ideas for ways to 'put them up'. I have great luck with growing, but since I'm in CA, can't rootceller. They ALWAYS sprout before I can eat them all up. I'm almost tempted to cut a whole in my floor and see if putting them under the house will make them last longer.

    Reply
  5. Ginger Indiya says

    19 March, 2016 at

    I was reading on another blog ( if you're interested I can find the source ) that ALL potatoes are sprayed with a harmless gas that inhibits sprouting, then they are SEALED into their potato cellars ( which are different to root cellars ). This is the ONLY way to keep potatoes unsprouted and "fresh " for any length of time apparently. Of course you get around that by preserving. But yeah. I was interested in the gas thing!

    Reply
  6. Reformation Acres says

    20 March, 2016 at

    That doesn't surprise me at all and makes perfect sense. The potatoes we had were homegrown this year and some varieties hold better in storage than others. (These were Dark Red Norlands. Good eating but not so hot for storage. I was quite surprised to see that the All Blue potoates, despite being smaller in size, held their quality longer. It was interesting seeing their violet colored sprouts though when all other potates are whitish 🙂 )

    Reply
  7. Carol L says

    9 September, 2017 at

    How, exactly do you “dehydrate” a liquid? (potato water)!!!

    Reply
    • Lisa says

      31 December, 2018 at

      They most likely meant “reduce” the potato water.

      Reply
  8. Marie Smith says

    7 April, 2018 at

    I don’t have a pressure canner. Can I do this in water bath ? Any idea how long I would cook it? Thank you

    Reply
    • Quinn says

      14 April, 2018 at

      Sorry, potatoes are a low-acid food and they have to be canned in a pressure canner for safety.

      Reply
  9. D fern says

    1 February, 2019 at

    Add citric acid, vinegar or lemon juice and then you can water bath

    Reply
    • Cricket says

      13 February, 2019 at

      How much lemon juice? Also how long are they good for after canning?

      Reply
  10. Ione Chilton says

    25 May, 2019 at

    Thank you soooo much for the recipe

    Reply

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