Side Pannel
King and Dungeness Crab Meat
King and Dungeness Crab Meat
- Recipe Submitted by ADMIN on 09/26/2007
Category: Seafood, Canning
Ingredients List
- It is recommended that blue crab meat be frozen for best quality.
- Procedure: Keep live crabs on ice until ready to can. Wash crabs
- thoroughly, using several changes of cold water. Simmer crabs 20 minutes in
- water containing 1/4 cup of lemon juice and 2 tablespoons of salt (or up to
- 1 cup of salt, if desired) per gallon. Cool in cold water, drain, remove
- back shell, then remove meat from body and claws. Soak meat 2 minutes in
- cold water containing 2 cups of lemon juice or 4 cups of white vinegar, and
- 2 tablespoons of salt (or up to 1 cup of salt, if desired) per gallon.
- Drain and squeeze meat to remove excess moisture. Fill half-pint jars with
- 6 ounces of meat and pint jars with 12 ounces, leaving 1-inch headspace.
- Add 1/2 teaspoon of citric acid or 2 tablespoons of lemon juice to each
- half-pint jar, or 1 teaspoon of citric acid or 4 tablespoons of lemon juice
- per pint jar. Add hot water, leaving 1-inch headspace.
- Adjust lids and process following the recommendations in Table 1 or Table 2
- according to the canning method used. Table 1. Recommended process time for
- King and Dungeness Crab Meat in a dial-gauge pressure canner.
- Jar Size: Half-pints, Pints. Process Time: 70 minutes for Half-pints, 80
- minutes for Pints. Canner Pressure (PSI) at Altitudes of 0 - 2,000 ft: 11
- lb.
- 2,001 - 4,000 ft: 12 lb.
- 4,001 - 6,000 ft: 13 lb.
- 6,001 - 8,000 ft: 14 lb.
- Table 2. Recommended process time for King and Dungeness Crab Meat in a
- weighted-gauge pressure canner.
- Jar Size: Half-pints, Pints. Process Time: 70 minutes for Half-pints, 80
- minutes for Pints. Canner Pressure (PSI) at Altitudes of 0 - 1,000 ft: 10
- lb.
- Above 1,000 ft: 15 lb.
- ======================================================= === * USDA
- Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 539 (rev. 1994) * Meal-Master format
- courtesy of Karen Mintzias
- From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini
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