Posted on 10/07/2010 9:54:17 AM PDT by djf
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I’m setting aside a few tuna “pouchs” for a century or so to compare to the almighty tin can.
Very informative. I’m saving this one.
Very informative. I’m saving this one.
Ping to the Weekly Garden Thread list!
Canning ping
Seaman Buckman: [tasting contents of can] What's the matter sir? It still tastes like creamed corn.
Executive Officer Martin T. 'Marty' Pascal: Except it's - DEVILED HAM!
Seaman Buckman: Now that would be a problem.
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Next I'll take my dried zucchinis and put them in the FoodSaver that I got at Goodwill.
I knew it, I knew it! This confirms my childhood memory of seeing a big, square, steel can of meat that had been packaged for the gold rush miners in the High Sierra of CA. It was in the front widow of the building that doubled as libray and museum in San Andreas, CA. My mother read the card to me (I was 3-4) and explained that the can had been ripped open by a hungry bear and how I had to always beware of bears.
I tried to confirm this story and could find noting about this impressive display and could only find that the earliest use of steel cans was some time in the 20th century. But, here we have a story confirming that the use of steel cans dates to the Napoleonic campaigns. And that certainly they used steel cans during the gold rush of CA.
That can was certainly impressive in the eyes of a child.
I keep trying to tell my kids that canned goods are perfectly safe well beyond their sell-by date, but the princesses won’t touch them.
During the Medieval period, the average middle-class kitchen often had a long, leather “trough” where they stored LIVE fish.
The fishmongers would come down from the mountains streams with their recent catches, still alive, and housewives would buy them to replenish their kitchen “aquarium.”
Wow. Never heard that one!
Very believable, though. People can at times get pretty ingenious!
Ahhh, the good old days when my mom used to can every fall, everything she could get her hands on. Since we lived about 40 miles from the San Joaquin Valley we could get out hands on lots of stuff, cheap. Farmers markets(in the form of roadside stands)were plentiful and cheaper than the super markets of the day. Some stuff carried over for a couple of years at a time.
BUMP for later...
I’m interested in the plastic jars they’re now using for things that had previously been packed in glass. I’ve noticed their use by date tends to be less and for some reason food packed in plastic for long shelf life creeps me out. I’ve also noticed they’ve changed the ingredients of some of the foods that are now packed in plastic that used to be packed in glass. And I’ve noticed stuff doesn’t taste as good.
Is this just me? Has anyone seen info about this switch to plastic for canning?
Could I please be on that ping list? Thanks!
In the late sixties over across the pond, they ran out of “C” rations for a spell and sent us Korean War era rations in their place... Just as bad as the “C” rations taste wise, but were quite safe even though they were a couple of decades past their “best by” date!
I avoid food in plastic because of the bph that can leach out. That’s just me though. Some aluminum cans are lined with plastic. That’s also why I can my own tomatoes.
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