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| When I first started canning, I saw recipes for Chocolate Raspberry sauce and various conserves. I was told at the time that they were safe to can, but that they needed to be eaten within 6 months of canning because the oils in the chocolate and the oils in the nuts can go rancid. However, When looking at Ball's Complete Book of Home Preserving, 2006, I don't see any warnings like that for their "Chocolate Raspberry Sundae Topper" or any conserves (like "Pear Almond Conserve.") Can someone please clarify this for me? |
Here is a link that might be useful: Chocolate Raspberry sauce
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| The Chocolate Raspberry sauce calls for unsweetened cocoa powder which contains a lot less oil than chocolate. I make Christine Ferber's Raspberries with Chocolate (with real chocolate) and it keeps fine for at least a year and usually longer. The problem I have with conserves is not that the nut oils go rancid, but the nuts get soft and mushy. I'd rather sprinkle on some fresh toasted ones, but that's just me. I looked in some of my other canning books, and didn't find anything referring to shelf life of items containing nuts or chocolate. A few did specifically mention to keep conserves in a cool pantry, but the shelf life was still listed as a year. Just curious, where did you hear the "6 months" rule? |
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- Posted by booberry85 z5NY (My Page) on Sat, Jul 19, 14 at 11:20
| The 6 month rule I had read in a canning / preserving forum (possibly this one) when I first started canning maybe 10 years ago. I've never read it in a canning book. |
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- Posted by booberry85 z5NY (My Page) on Mon, Jul 21, 14 at 7:32
| I went for it and made the chocolate raspberry sauce (ice cream topping). I'm glad I did! Its crazy delicious! |
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