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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

My grandmother canned on a wood stove.
She used a pressure canner (with temp gauge).
And she reused the lids over and over and over.... something the Ball Book 
says don't do.  She'd use them until they didn't "stick".
 
 
 


--- 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, 5:42 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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James writes:

> Did you know that it is not something the possum does voluntarily?  It as
a
sort of fainting coma brought on by stress and fright.

We have possums in western Oregon (introduced by immigrants from the South)
that compete with the native raccoons for the "trash-eater" niche. When I
was attending Oregon State, I had a job with campus security doing "dorm
patrol" -- checking that the doors were locked and shut, watching for
suspicious activity, etc. I came across several wild animals on campus,
including possums. They must not have found me frightful enough, since they
always bared their dozens of pointy teeth and hissed at me.

Happily, they don't seem to do well in the Coast Range, so I haven't had to
deal with them as predators. Raccoons, bobcats, coyotes, owls, hawks and
crows are bad enough.

Karen Black
Norton Creek Farm
Blodgett, OR