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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I'm curious too.  I remmeber my granny and my paternal aunts canning lots of 
stuff, but my memory is faulty and they are all dead.  I thought some on this 
list said thaty certaon things like meat had to be canned under 
pressure?.......................

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--- On Sun, 12/14/08, Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] deer hunting
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008, 3:42 PM
> I was just chatting with my grandma the other day and she
> was
> reminiscing on how she used to can deer with her mother.
> This would
> have been in the late 1920s or the 1930s. My mother canned
> beef when
> we butchered. She never owned a pressure canner. She also
> canned
> anything else that would fit in the jar.
> 
> I wonder if the government has scared us about what happens
> when
> people to it wrong or if we are smarter to pressure can? I
> usually
> pressure can also, but I do it on an electric stove. If I
> was using a
> wood stove, I'd rather use a water bath.
> 
> Rob - Va
> 
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 5:10 PM, keith bellinger
> <bartermn AT epix.net> wrote:
> > Thanks Lisa,
> > Gin insists that her mother used a simple water bath
> canner for her
> > meats. But Gin won't do it and I'm kinda leary
> about it; one of these
> > days will buy a pressure canner and then beg for
> recipes.
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