# Home-canning as Christmas gifts

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-canning-as-christmas-gifts/517213>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 11, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-canning-as-christmas-gifts/517213 "2009-11-11T19:14:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-canning-as-christmas-gifts/517213/41 "2009-11-15T16:03:45Z")

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Anyone else flash back to the scene in “Holiday Inn” where the home-canned peaches start exploding all over Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire???

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**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-canning-as-christmas-gifts/517213/42 "2009-11-15T17:10:37Z")

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You can do it for about what you’d buy bacon for at the grocery, easily. The pork belly is about $2-$2.50 a pound around here, and the curing salt is about $5 for enough to do about 50 batches. If you smoke the stuff you have to factor in the cost of good hardwood charcoal and such, but that’s really it.

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**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-canning-as-christmas-gifts/517213/43 "2009-11-16T00:06:28Z")

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> [@silenus](#):
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> [**kittenblue** ’s Cheese Spread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8649703&postcount=58)
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> This stuff is crack. Just never let the recipient know what’s in it!

Aww. **silenus** , I’m so glad you like it!

I make liqueurs as gifts…limoncello, coffee liqueur, mint cream…haven’t decided what flavor to do this year.

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