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You don’t need to get all the little bits of squash off the seed - in fact, they are tastier with the little pieces of squash on them.

Roasted butternut squash seeds are very good eating. You can “double dip” and get an extra bonus product out of your work besides canned butternut squash - namely, roasted squash seeds. Not endorsed by Weight Watchers® International, Inc, which is the owner of the PointsPlus® registered trademark.

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Weight Watchers PointsPlus®: 175 g = 0 points (squash is free on Weight Watchers).

Serving size: 175 g, drained (about one half of a ½ litre / US pint jar, presuming the average jar contains a yield of 350 g solids.) More information about Salt-Free Canning in general.

When pressure canning, you must adjust the pressure for your altitude. Waltham butternut squashes Reference information Processing time: Half-litres (pints) 55 minutes litres (quarts) 90 minutes Processing pressure: 10 lbs (69 kPa) weighted gauge, 11 lbs (76 kpa) dial gauge (adjust pressure for your altitude when over 300 metres / 1000 feet) Jar size choices: Either half-litre (1 US pint) OR 1 litre (1 US quart)

1 litre (US quart) jar home-canned squash or pumpkin, drained, mashed and drained again = 1 ¾ cups (400 g) mashed, “relatively dry” squash purée (drained to a dryness level similar to that of canned pumpkin purée).

A drained half-litre (US pint) jar holds 350 g (12 oz) of blanched butternut squash cubes (approx).

A drained litre (US quart) jar holds 750 g (1.6 lbs) 0f blanched butternut squash cubes (approx).

4.5 kg (10 lbs ) of butternut squash = 9 x ½ litres (US pints) canned butternut squash.

7 kg (16 lb) of butternut squash = 7 litres (US quarts) canned butternut squash.

On average, as a very rough guideline, expect to need about 1 kg (2 ¼ lbs) of fresh, unpeeled butternut squash per 1 litre (US quart) jar of canned butternut squash.

8 Two varieties of butternut squash for canning.

1 Quantities of butternut squash needed.

See here for canning other winter squash, and pumpkin. There’s only one downside to butternut squash: it’s one of the wateriest winter squashes to start with (which is why people who aren’t canning it often bake it - to dry it out), so after opening a jar of it, be sure to drain well, even pressing a bit (you can save and freeze for soup all the liquid from the squash and jar.)Īs for all low-acid foods, a pressure canner is absolutely required to home can butternut squash (and all squashes.) If you don’t have a pressure canner and still wish to preserve it, freeze it instead. You can use home canned butternut squash as a vegetable, or, in desserts such as pies. The seeds are an incredibly good snack food when roasted many people prefer them to pumpkin seeds.

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You can just peel the butternut squashes with a vegetable peeler, then cut in half, clean out the small cavity, then use a French knife to chop into relatively uniform cubes.ĭon’t worry about any pale green lines under the skin they will disappear during processing. The reason is that all winter squash must be peeled and cubed before canning, and butternut squash just happens to be the easiest winter squash to work with from both aspects. Flesh is meltingly sweet and delicious.Butternut squash is the most popular squash for home canning. In the kitchen, cut Honey Nuts in half then bake until tender. Let squashes cure in the sun for about 10 days, then store in a cool dry place and they’ll keep for months. Then cut squashes from vines, leaving a good stem handle. These delicious little squashes need to mature properly, so don’t harvest until vines have died back and squashes’ exterior rinds are fully colored up from dark green to orangey-tan and tough enough to resist piercing with a fingernail. To save space, and make picking easy, Honey Nut vines can easily be trained up fences, trellises or 4-6 foot tall teepees. Protect young seedlings from marauding birds by covering with plastic berry baskets at sowing time, removing before plants get crowded.

When seedlings have several sets of leaves, thin to the strongest 3 seedlings per hill. apart and plant 4 to 5 seeds in each hill. Or make slightly mounded hills 2 to 3 ft. Thin to 1 strong seedling per group to give vines room to ramble or climb. Wait to plant until nights are comfortably above 50☏ (10☌) both day and night.

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Honey Nuts need full sun, rich fertile soil and warm temperatures.