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Think of canning as a precision form of cooking. When canning, you will use ordinary kitchen skills but must observe instructions exactly to ensure that the food is sterilized and safe. This is one time when you definitely shouldn’t improvise. Select Jars and Lids Use mason-type jars, which come in a variety of sizes. Pints and quarts are common and suitable for most canning. Choose from easy-to-fill wide-mouthed jars or traditional-looking narrow-mouthed jars. You can either start with new jars or recycle previously used but still perfect (no cracks or chips) canning jars. Avoid mayo jars and other kinds of glass containers because they may not hold up to processing. The lids used for canning consist of two pieces–a flat metal disk (rimmed with a rubber gasket) that covers the jar opening, and a screw-on band that holds the disk in place. Always use new flat metal disks because the gasket around each rim can begin to deteriorate after sitting in storage for 5 or more years; consequently, it may fail to seal. You can reuse screw-on bands, though, as long as they look good and have no rust.
Category: Gardening
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Think of canning as a precision form of cooking. When canning, you will use ordinary kitchen skills but must observe instructions exactly to ensure that the food is sterilized and safe. This is one time when you definitely shouldn’t improvise. Select Jars and Lids Use mason-type jars, which come in a variety of sizes. Pints and quarts are common and suitable for most canning. Choose from easy-to-fill wide-mouthed jars or traditional-looking narrow-mouthed jars. You can either start with new jars or recycle previously used but still perfect (no cracks or chips) canning jars. Avoid mayo jars and other kinds of glass containers because they may not hold up to processing. The lids used for canning consist of two pieces–a flat metal disk (rimmed with a rubber gasket) that covers the jar opening, and a screw-on band that holds the disk in place. Always use new flat metal disks because the gasket around each rim can begin to deteriorate after sitting in storage for 5 or more years; consequently, it may fail to seal. You can reuse screw-on bands, though, as long as they look good and have no rust.
Category: Gardening
August 14, 2017
The lawnmowers can reach speeds approaching 50 mph.
August 7, 2017
The documents raise questions about how and why regulators for years have failed to require robust testing on what is the world’s most widely-used weed killer.
August 3, 2017
All the best summer merch is officially on sale.
August 1, 2017
The other shoe just dropped. Four months after the publication of a batch of internal Monsanto Co. documents stirred international
July 13, 2017
Find the planter that perfectly suits your succulent’s personality.
July 13, 2017
By Jeanette Kingsley, RN In the enclosed courtyard behind the Admissions Building at McLean Hospital, where others see an
July 11, 2017
Can we stop feeling quite so helpless and hopeless in a world on the skids?
July 7, 2017
(First published in Environmental Health News.) California’s official listing today of the world’s most widely used weed
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