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King and Dungeness Crab Meat

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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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