My wife still cans tomatoes. We wash them, then I scald them and my wife packs them quart jars. She just made strawberry preserves too. Will do tomatoes this summer.
When we were kids both our parents canned everything. Her mom and dad even made saurkraut and they made applebutter by the copper kettle every Fall. They canned sausage, green beans, lima beans, beets, cucumber pickles, peaches. A lot of this was put in 2 quart glass jars. My wife's mom said she canned 200 quarts of peaches when they were on the farm. They didn't go to the store all the time like we do now. They raised everything. They canned sweet corn too. My wife would freeze the corn. She always cut the kernel's off and scrapes the cob to get all that milky juice. It always tasted like it just came out of the garden. I always grew Silver Queen corn it looks like field corn from the tall stalks and big ears. We all grew white potatoes and sweet potatoes. My nephew still does canning and has written a book on it.
My mom's sisters canned a little different they used tin cans for canning. They even put their sausage in tin cans. Just about every farmer had hogs back then a few to sell and a few to butcher. That changed around here when you couldn't ship milk if you had hogs. You could take your grain and corn to a grist mill and have flour and corn meal made. My wife's mother said they had a barrel of each made. Looks like we may be heading back to some of our old ways. A lot of kids growing up now don't even know where milk comes from. Our daughter wasn't old enough to remember milking then we took her to the PA Farm Show in Harrisburg and the farmers were milking their cows. The milk was being piped into a cooling tank and you could see the milk flowing. I'd better shutup. Hal
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