Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-04

blessing in disguise, for the jars are
still with us and there are not many
who take pains to remove tin COW
ers so as to use the cans again.
The old prOverb that an ounce of
preventive is worth pound of cure
holds good in this case. / know that
it is a lot of trouble to wash jars
and fit the tops on, but if it is done
is not the bugbear that it is if they
are halfway washed then and left for
another time. You know when you
take the fruit or vegetable out Wheth-
er it kept well and how the top fit
ted. L never use a knife to open
jar, it ruins the top. Pour some
warm water in a pan and put the
jar, up-side-doWn in the water, set
it on the stove and let it get hot,
the top expands and it is no trouble
to screw it off. Unless you can pull
your rubbers and they will spring
back to the right shape do not use
them.
Even when the pans are put away
them out with a little soda dissolved
in hot water, then put them in a
vessel on the back of the stove, fill
them with hot water and the vessel
also. Have the tops and the rubbers
in there and they will sterilize, and
that's the only way to be sure or
keeping the contents, pour out the
not WdlcI OllIy DIS you IelhC OuI q Jc'A
you are going to fill. Be sure to
fill to the brim with the liquid and
never fill more than one jar at
time, the mold spores are floating
about all the time.
To Can Snap Reconsideration them
when you are ready to work on them,
wash them and string them, if you
are sure of them, and you should
have none but tender beans, you
snap them, put them in the jar care
fully and it will hold nearly twice
as many as if you just caught them
up and put them in by the handful
A teaspOonful of salt to quart.
[ suppose all of you use the not
and cold water method called blanch-
ing before you begin to fill your jars,
but 1 will remind you that this is
most important. But I am thinking
that some of the failures come from
not blanchcing properly. Have a
clean sack and put your beans in it,
drop it in hot water and let 1T stay
there for beans, five minutes: the
water must be boiling, then dip the
bag in cold water and then put the
beans in the jars, have the rubbers
on the jars and the cap positive
fit, screw it enough to keep it on.
OF course you have filled the jar
with hot water up to the brim, after
the beans are in. Put it in the
water that you have for processing
and let II Doll an nOur ana lOIIy
minutes. 1 mean let it really boil
that long. Some put it in and begin
70 count time from the minute IT
gets in the vessel, but do not begin
to count time till they begin to boil
| may seem a little tedious in these
directions, but it is awful to go to
a lot of trouble picking and string
ing beans and then get in hurry
and omit one point and lose them. L
saw some beans a club girl had and
there was a white sediment on the
bottom of the jar. She asked me if
that made any difference, that they
had been canned several days. 1 adj
vised her to open the jar, pour off
that liquid put them in an absolutely
clean pan and wash them in boiling
water She did so and saved her
beans If you will do that when you
see the first bubbles you may save
them. Wash them, examine the jar
an&Aput them back if it is not at
fauN, then process them half as long.