Canning/Jarring meat was more popular in the 40's/50's before electricity was wired into every home...Refrigerators came first to replace "ice boxes," then freezers took the place of "ice sheds," (A rough shed filled with sawdust, held buried blocks of ice) to use in summer months in the kitchen ice box, to keep things cold...I don't remember mom canning turkey until the late 60''s.
Our children were toddlers, when we visited her in Bountiful, Utah, just North of Salt lake City, Utah...Of course since mom had lived through the great depression, she was very thrifty and when we arrived at her house, the grocery ad lay open on the table..."Turkey hinds" (thigh & leg) were on a moonlight sale in SE Salt Lake City...She had the day/evening planned...Dinner would be eaten early, kids bathed and in jammies and we would drive clear across town, arriving before the sale started to get first choice of the "turkey hinds, on sale for $.19 a pound.
I didn't help mom can turkey until many years later, but whenever we visited her, we took home some of her canned turkey...Shortly after her 80th birthday, she move to Elgin, OR. only 50 miles from our house and true to her ways, she soon had me buying turkeys on sale at Thanksgiving time...Four or five 20 pound turkeys would be stored in our freezers until we got a few sunny winter days...Then I would go to Elgin and we would bone out the half thawed turkeys, chunk up the meat, fill jars and soon have that old pressure cooker, singing away on the electric stove, filled with jars of turkey...And the bones, on another day, would be simmered into broth.
When she turned 90, she resigned herself to giving up the canner and sent it home with me, to can the turkey...For many years I boned the turkeys but now have found a source for boned thighs and breasts with bone and turkey wings, so all I have to do is cut up the meat, fill jars and load the canner...Piece of cake!..Hugs To All...OWAV:)
PS: Bone broth is made from the breast bone and skin and turkey wings...Turkey is done for another year.
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