Canning Fresh Pineapple
Canning fresh pineapple is a great way to preserve the tropical fruit for later use.
Ingredients
- 1 Fresh pineapple
- pure cane sugar or Stevia in the raw.
- 3-4 cups water
Instructions
- Peacause every pineapple is a different size you will not always have the same yeild. I normally do 1 1/2 cups of water per pint jar.
- Cut the skin from your pineapple and save it for pineapple skin water if you like.
- Remove the cores and roughly chop them. Add them to the water and bring to a boil. Boil for 3 to 5 minutes.
- Cut the pineapple slices into chunks or tidbit size pieces of pineapple.
- Fill the pint size jars with the pineapple chunks or tidbits packing them in tightly leaving a ½ inch of headspace.
- I add 1 Tbsp of sugar to each jar but you can add 2 to 3 tbsp depending on how sweet you like your syrup to be.
- Strain you pineapple core water, and Ladle the hot juice into the jars filling to ½ inch headspace. Use a canning bubbler, wooden chop stick or plastic knife to remove any bubbles or air pockets from around the fruit.
- If you are just doing refrigerator pineapple, let them cool to room temperature and cover wuth an air tight lid.
- For water bath canning
- Wipe the jar rims with a damp paper towel and place a clean flat lid on. Twist the band on finger tip tight.
- Processing time: Process the pint jars of pineapple in the hot water bath for 15 minutes. Make adjustments for your altitude if needed
- After 15 minutes of a hard boil turn the heat off and remove the lid from the canner. Wait 5 minutes before removing the jars from the canning pot. Place the hot jars on a thick towel in a safe area on your counter.
- Allow the jars to sit undisturbed for 12 to 24 hours to allow the the contents to cool and the jars to seal properly.
- Remove the bands from the cooled jars. Wash the jar in hot soapy water to remove any fruit or juice which may have run down and clung to the jar during processing and cooling.
- Store the jars of canned pineapple for up to 18 months in a cool and dark cabinet.
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