Canning Chicken and Wild Rice Soup

heavy cream

🥗Healthier: coconut milk

💰Cheaper: evaporated milk

Coconut milk is lower in calories and adds a different flavor, while evaporated milk is more budget-friendly.

wild rice

🥗Healthier: brown rice

💰Cheaper: white rice

Brown rice is more nutritious, while white rice is often cheaper.

Introduce the recipe and mention making chicken and wild rice soup with friends.

Show a jar of previously canned chicken and wild rice soup, noting the difference between versions with and without cream of chicken or cream of mushroom soup.

Explain that the creator prefers not to add rice until ready to eat to avoid mushiness.

Multiply the batch by six for canning, planning to add raw wild rice to one jar for testing.

Mention cooking the soup with bacon drippings and sautéing lots of vegetables in it.

Use kitchen shears to cut up bacon for convenience instead of using a knife.

Heat the kettle of chicken and wild rice soup to ensure it's hot before canning.

Count and report ending with 17 pints of soup, noting that only 16 fit in the canner.

Add almost a tablespoon of wild rice to one jar for testing, explaining how to identify it later.

Tighten the jars using a jar tightener tool to avoid over-tightening.

Conclude with the total number of pints and excitement about the results.

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