The Cook wrote:
> I found this in a 1926 "The Ball Blue Book of Canning and Preserving
> Recipes."
>
> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=52df66t
>
> Notice the canner.

My Mom still cold packed and BWB'ed everything up until about the
mid-fifties. Still used her old Mason jars with the blue glass and the
zinc tops too. Finally sold all her old jars to a collector in the
middle sixties for her. Thank goodness times have changed, we no longer
have to boil canned foods for an hour to ensure "good health."

George

I found this in a 1926 "The Ball Blue Book of Canning and Preserving
Recipes."

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=52df66t

Notice the canner.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

The Cook wrote:
> I found this in a 1926 "The Ball Blue Book of Canning and Preserving
> Recipes."
>
> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=52df66t
>
> Notice the canner.


Although the canner wasn't terribly clear in the photo, it looked to me
very much like an old "wash boiler" (which spanned two burners on the
stove) being used for canning. In the "olden days" most things had more
than one use or they weren't acquired int he first place.

My parents had an old one, copper, in the garage. I gave it away to a
friend after their death. She planned to use it as a magazine rack (if
she didn't sell it to an antique dealer.)

I have a ~38 yr. old blue enamel canning kettle which was used for jams
and pickles. An alternate use for us was a "clam boil" at the beach
house. Potatoes, sausage, Portuguese sausage, hot dogs, corn, clams,
and occasionally lobster. Steam with a bottle or two of beer and a bit
of salted water until the clams (added after about 1/2 hour of simmering
the rest) opened up. A feast!

gloria p

"The Cook" > wrote in message
...
> I found this in a 1926 "The Ball Blue Book of Canning and Preserving
> Recipes."
>
> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=52df66t
>
> Notice the canner.

A classic advert - I didn't know women canned back then wearing rouge and
lipstick. ;-)

"Cold pack method preserves....meats...."

Yummy! So what did they do when Mr. Botulism came visiting?

Ted

"Ted Mittelstaedt" > wrote in message
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>
> "The Cook" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I found this in a 1926 "The Ball Blue Book of Canning and Preserving
>> Recipes."
>>
>> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=52df66t
>>
>> Notice the canner.
>
> A classic advert - I didn't know women canned back then wearing rouge and
> lipstick. ;-)
>
> "Cold pack method preserves....meats...."
>
> Yummy! So what did they do when Mr. Botulism came visiting?
>
> Ted
>
>

died

Kathi