I don't know about you, but I used to buy bouillon in jars. Chicken bouillon, beef bouillon, I have always preferred powdered bouillon to the cubed kind. And of course when I emptied a jar I washed it out and saved it for reuse. Because, glass jar! Definitely designed to be used more than once.
At some point in realm of 15-20 years ago I discovered that I could purchase bouillon in bulk and stopped buying it in jars. Ever since then I just refill my chicken bouillon jar with bulk-purchased chicken bouillon, and the beef jar with bulk-purchased beef bouillon.
Over time, I adopted my stash of jars for other things. First, garlic powder and onion powder that I bought in bulk at what my husband used to call the Hippie Food Store (a natural/organic food store that went out of business two years ago-- due to a Whole Foods in the early 2010s and then a Trader Joe's in 2022ish being built within blocks of it). Luckily I found an Amish food store near me in 2024 that I now get many of my bulk spices from. So onion powder and garlic powder still go in old bouillon jars.
Then I found a recipe for fajita seasoning, made it in about octuplicate (HA! I wasn't sure it was a real word, but apparently it is!)--in other words, 8 times the recipe--and put it in one of my empty bouillon jars. That way I don't have to make a batch of seasoning every time I want to make fajitas.
A year or two later, DH asked me why I didn't do that with the taco seasoning recipe I've been using for decades. Oh. DUH. Yeah, multiply that times 8 and stick it in another jar. Take a Sharpie marker and label the lid.
Then came homemade Montreal steak seasoning. And adobo seasoning. I know I've also used old bouillon jars for other things (I remember being given a lot of fresh sage one year that I dried, crumbled, and put in a bouillon jar) but at the moment my lazy Susan only contains the jars shown in the photo below.
We often get honey from orange growers and then use the jars for salsa, the kind that comes in a huge plastic jug. The jug gets stored in the freezer so it doesn’t go bad while we are using up a honey-jar-full.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great idea I'm going to have to steal if I don't end up making (and canning) salsa this year. I never thought of buying in bulk and storing in the freezer.
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