LADIES,
HAVE YOU HEARD?
By Doris Thomas, Extension Home Economist
Acceptable References
Required In
Home Canning
A good reference is a home
canner’s most important
tool. It is the first key to
success. A good reference
provides a basic discussion
and description of the
correct procedures,
equipment and heat
processing schedules. When
used, a good reference
allows home canners to
achieve high goals of safety
and quality in home canned
foods.
Both of these important
objectives have been
fulfilled in The Pennsylvania
State University Cooperative
Extension Service Circular
561, “Canning Fruits and
Vegetables”, which was
revised in 1974. You can get
your free copy from the Penn
State Extension office in
your county.
Many past references, and
favorite family recipes
contain critical errors in
heat processing schedules
which, in some years have
resulted in dangerous
spoilage of canned foods.
Some spoiled canned food
may contain a dangerous
botulinal toxin. Such
references also often contain
minor discrepancies which
have resulted in harmless
spoilage or unnecessary
losses in the quality of
canned food. Any spoiled
food is unfit for human
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All types of spoilage in
home canned food can and
should be prevented.
Regardless of whether you
are a home canner who has
experienced some difficulty
with jar seals, spoilage, or
otherwise poor quality
canned food; or one who
plans to can food for the first
time, get and use, without
modification, the in
formation given in a good,
authoritative reference.
Proper canning
procedures and methods to
achieve higher goals of
safety in canned foods
provide accurate directions
for the following important
steps in canning:
1. Selection and cleaning
of fresh, wholesome food.
2. Selection and cleaning
of jars and lids.
3. Filling jars and control
of headspace.
4. Cleaning of the sealing
surface on jars and lid
preparation.
5. Tightening screw bands
before heat processing.
6. Correct canning
equipment.
7. Correct timing
procedures for exhausting
heat processing, and cooling
in pressure canners. -
8. Correct heat process
schedules with adjustments
needed for canning at high
altitudes.
9. Correct handling,
cleaning - and storage
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procedures of canned food.
10. Correct examination of
stored canned food before
tasting and serving.
If you have any doubts
about the accuracy of your
present references, check
them against procedures and
heat process schedules in a
modern, up-to-date
reference such as the Penn
State Extension Circular 561,
“Canning Fruits and
Vegetables.” In all cases,
where you find in
consistencies between
references, use the in
formation in Circular 561.
This publication includes
modern research recom
mendations which dispute
many canning methods
formerly recommended.
If you haven’t already
done so, begin this year’s
canning season by getting
and studying Penn State
Extension’s publication
“Canning Fruits and
Vegetables.” It’s available
from the Penn State
Cooperative Extension
Service in your county.
Make Energy
Management A
Family Affair
Daytime use of energy has
been increasing in the home
and in business and industry
yearly. We now use energy
faster than we produce it.
Our needs increase 5 percent
a year, however our energy
supplies are growing at a
rate of only 3 percent a year.
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“Man may work from sun
to sun but woman’s work is
never done.” These past few
weeks cause me to agree
whole-heartedly with this
Conservation is one of the
national goals if we are to
achieve energy in
dependence by 1985. By
making energy management
a family affair in your home,
you can help in the wise use
of the nation’s valuable
resources.
Generally the use of
electricity is at its highest
period from eight in the
morning until eight at night.
Seme utilities say that if
electricity use were more
evenly distributed
throughout the day and
evening hours, they could
delay building new power
plants and thus keep future
price increases to a
minimum.
In your home, make a date
for “after eight” in the
evening for dishwashing,
baking, washing and drying
clothes, bathing or other
functions that might be
rescheduled for after hours.
These are activities in which
everyone can help in using
energy more efficiently to
keep costs down.
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Ida Risser
statement. It seems there
are always several things to
be done at the same time.
The hours I spend picking
blueberries and raspberries
are pleasant until I
remember that I should be
telephoning some of my 4-H
members about demon
strations for the next club
meeting. And, the house
should be cleaned for a drop
in party we planned when
our daughter came east to be
married. I’ll probably tell
you more about the “small”
wedding later.
In the meantime, I must
pick my second sugar pea
crop as I let the plants bloom
a second time and so far
picked another IS quarts.
This past spring I felt that
I really had a good thing
going. A weed is something
that grows where you don’t
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Well, I had lots of catnip
plants, artichokes,
marigolds, mint tea and
larkspur growing where I
didn’t want them.
Through contact with the
owner of an herb-store, I was
able to sell these unwanted
plants plus other lilies and
flowers. The demand for this
type of thing among
suburbanites is amazing.
Allen tried no till corn this
year and isn’t saying much
about it at this point. He had
to plow up several acres and
replant it because even
though he sprayed it for cut
worms, they had already
done their damage.
The corn planted in the
regular manner looks very
fine. The problem with it is
the ground which has been
washed out on the lane is
lost.
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