On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 10:02:36 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:

> My gramma used to spend a month or two full time home-canning all kinds
> of food to last the large family for an entire year. She never added or
> needed to add preservatives or anything else. It was only sterilized
> jars with cooked whatever food....nothing else ever added and all was
> fine.

My gramma was a jazz baby. We bought our canned vegetables at the
grocery store and breaded our pan-fried fish with cornflake crumbs
(bought already crushed into crumbs). Then again, Grampa had a
good job as a tool and die maker at Fisher Body, and they had only
two children. IIRC his father and uncles were steamfitters, so
I'm a few generations away from the farm.

Cindy Hamilton