After Thanksgiving dinner yesterday my Grandma-in-law gifted me her 1950's Presto cast aluminum pressure canner (eeeek!!!) and a stack of her old canning books ranging from the early 1950's to 2008. We spent the evening looking through the books and were bewildered by some of the old practices and odd stuff they used to can. I've included some of the highlights from the 1950's. I've lined out the canning instructions but PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO FOLLOW THESE RECIPES! (I'm not sure how to add the unsafe recipe flair)
Things we found interesting:
-Open jars by puncturing the lid to release the vacuum
-Tighten rings as tight as possible without a jar wrench before processing
-Home canning in tin cans instead of jars
-Recipes for canning brains, heart, feet, and heads?!
-Lots of recipes where you mix in eggs or fat before processing
by Cranky_Platypus
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I just changed the flair for you! Thank you for calling out that these are no longer safe to use and for sharing this fun piece of canning history with us!
Darling Dahmer’s Home Canning Classics 🤢
What a cool gift!! I love LOVE old cookbooks and old canning books. I like to see what we used to do, used to eat, what ingredients were used and all that. Fascinating to me.