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bobf wrote:
> Bev; knowing what you know today; if you felt comfortable "pressure"
> canning the meat in jars, like we used to do vegetables; would you
> feel safe storing the canned jrs of meat in an un-air conditioned
> storehouse/smokehouse/pantry?

Without AC, I would think the jars, assuming they were properly pressure 
canned, could not be stored for long, unless they were below ground or 
in a spring house where temperatures are cooler.  I think the heat of 
summer here would be detrimental to any canned meat.  Meat canning 
season would generally be in the Fall to Winter, I would think, so it 
would probably be fine for 6 months or so until summer, but I don't know 
that I would trust it beyond that.  That would be a personal decision 
someone would have to make.  If I were in a survival situation, yeah, 
I'd eat it and take the risk.  Shoot, I threw a couple of jars of 
pickles in a hole out behind the house a few years ago.  The pickles had 
gone mushy and the lids were rusted on.  We used the jars for target 
practice that year.  I rarely go over there, but did a few weeks ago, 
and lo and behold, there is still a jar of pickles in that hole that 
appears untouched.  I'll leave it for some future paleontologist to try 
to figure out why I would put a jar in a stump hole, but in a survival 
situation, I'd be eating those pickles. Knowwhatimean?

Bev

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