Canning Beef Vegetable Soup

Fill Jars - 18

We use a 2-cup measuring cup to fill the jars with the soup. We use a measuring cup with a handle that can hang on the inside of the pot. Fill the jar to a 1 inch headspace. Correct headspace is important in most all of canning. We use a towel to hold the hot jar and a funnel to fill it . Bernice gets to partly fill the first jar so Paul can take a picture then he does the rest of the filling. He froze his hands in the Korean War so it is easier for him to hold hot items. For the soup fill with vegetables to the 1 inch headspace and then add liquid to the 1 inch headspace. If at the end you run short of liquid just add hot water.