Oberon46 said:My understanding is that you cannot can anything that has milk or flour. For instance, I made a really good turkey stew but I used flour to thicken the broth. So I cannot can this? I have done bean soup and chili okay.
I understand thickening the broth with flour, but we've been thickening our broth with corn starch, and I'm liking it just as well. So perhaps that is used as a tickener in some canned soups and things over flour.
I thought about canning some beef stew, but canned everything individually instead. It doesn't take long to open the jars and dump them into a pan to heat. Only thing I found was that the flavors are not as nicely mixed. But then i found that the left over portions that were placed in the refrigerator, were usually better as say the potatoes and carrots in the stew or soup picked up the beef flavor moreso after sitting together for a time.
