Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Preserve your harvest with this delicious Summer Soup recipe. Full description is below.
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Summer Soup is a very traditional eastern NC soup. It may be popular elsewhere, but I'm from here so this is what I know. This is an ideal way to enjoy the fruits of your garden harvest and even have them in your pantry through the winter. This soup uses a small amount of ham for seasoning and it is SAFE as it is using the same ratio of ham to vegetables as you will find in the tested safe recipe for Split Pea with Ham soup.
Some say that you can never can ham, but if you follow the principles in the tested recipes, you certainly can can ham — but just know what you're doing. This is not something that brand new or inexperienced canners should do, but modifying recipes with the same content principles is how we wind up with so many canning cookbooks with lots of safe recipes.
In this video I'm canning 9 pints. The ingredients are:
• just under 2 cups of ham
• corn
• okra
• green beans
• fresh (or frozen) lima beans (not dried lima beans)
• tomato
• salt
I also use a weighted gauge (regulator) on my canner. Here is an affiliate link if you're interested in checking it out. This will help you listen to ensure your canner is at the right pressure without having to keep your eye on the dial gauge the whole time. amzn.to/3LGHqcw
Here are other tested canning recipes that use a small amount of ham or other cured meats:
Canning Split Pea Soup
https://ucanr.edu/sites/mfp_of_cs/files/312455.pdf
Baked Beans (Bernardin - Canadian division of same company as Ball)
bernardin.ca/recipes/en/baked-beans.htm?Lang=EN-US
Salt Pork
National Center for Home Food Preservation
https://nchfp.uga.edu/how/can_04/beans_baked.html
Pork, ham, or bacon
Bean Soup (Bernardin - Canadian division of same company as Ball)
bernardin.ca/recipes/en/bean-soup.htm?Lang=EN-US
Preserve your harvest with this delicious Summer Soup recipe. Full description is below.
Find my full playlist of canning recipes here:
youtube.com/watch?v=VJoRtr4JpTE&list=PLcyZYj2Dr9a5f2mdQmSL6D0848NhgLy5O
Get a 10% discount on ForJars lids with my coupon code OTK10:
bit.ly/OTK10ForJars
Summer Soup is a very traditional eastern NC soup. It may be popular elsewhere, but I'm from here so this is what I know. This is an ideal way to enjoy the fruits of your garden harvest and even have them in your pantry through the winter. This soup uses a small amount of ham for seasoning and it is SAFE as it is using the same ratio of ham to vegetables as you will find in the tested safe recipe for Split Pea with Ham soup.
Some say that you can never can ham, but if you follow the principles in the tested recipes, you certainly can can ham — but just know what you're doing. This is not something that brand new or inexperienced canners should do, but modifying recipes with the same content principles is how we wind up with so many canning cookbooks with lots of safe recipes.
In this video I'm canning 9 pints. The ingredients are:
• just under 2 cups of ham
• corn
• okra
• green beans
• fresh (or frozen) lima beans (not dried lima beans)
• tomato
• salt
I also use a weighted gauge (regulator) on my canner. Here is an affiliate link if you're interested in checking it out. This will help you listen to ensure your canner is at the right pressure without having to keep your eye on the dial gauge the whole time. amzn.to/3LGHqcw
Here are other tested canning recipes that use a small amount of ham or other cured meats:
Canning Split Pea Soup
https://ucanr.edu/sites/mfp_of_cs/files/312455.pdf
Baked Beans (Bernardin - Canadian division of same company as Ball)
bernardin.ca/recipes/en/baked-beans.htm?Lang=EN-US
Salt Pork
National Center for Home Food Preservation
https://nchfp.uga.edu/how/can_04/beans_baked.html
Pork, ham, or bacon
Bean Soup (Bernardin - Canadian division of same company as Ball)
bernardin.ca/recipes/en/bean-soup.htm?Lang=EN-US
