On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:11:28 +0900, phil-c >
wrote:

>HEY!!! Great post thanks this is a keeper .
>also the photos helped
>
>One thing I got out of this was the Jars in the oven bit.
>Learned behaviour dictated we always used BOILED jars
>There has been fowlers vacola kits in the family for ages
>in fact the kit we use is older than I and that is old
>
>here is the new modern stuff
>
>
> http://www.bakeandbrew.com.au/category39_1.htm
>
>
>Great recipe thanks
>Phil

Yeah... you can sterilise them with boiling water... either by boiling
them in a pot, or by pouring boiling water into them from a kettle,
but the oven eliminates all that rather dangerous boiling water from
the equation.