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Show Are You a 'Canny' Canner? By JOSEPHINE C. BOND. Do you get 100 per cent returns from your canning efforts? It isn't always enough to do "lots of canning." can-ning." You may have 500 full jars in your cellar at the end of the season, sea-son, but if 100 of these leak because be-cause of cheap or old rubber rings, you are only getting an 80 per cent return on your labor. One of the greatest mistakes the housewife canner can make, I have found, is to yield to the mistaken mis-taken clerk who substitutes "unknown "un-known brands" for advertised brands produced by reputable manufacturers. Substitution may be all right at times, when an item can be used up in a short time. But when it comes to jar rings play safe buy a recognized brand. There is a lot of difference in jar rings. The rubber used in them is compounded, or mixed, in much the same way that the batter for a cake is mixed, and, like cake batter, unless the recipe is tested and the ingredients of the best, the results will be disappointing. dis-appointing. Inferior jar rings will "check" or crack and allow air to seep into the jars. |
