When I told my farm-raised aunt I’d been canning summer vegetables she exclaimed, “I thought putting up the beans had gone the way of party-line telephones! A shame she wasn’t on hand when I was facing a bumper crop a few years ago. Her house maker’s DNA registered everything a country survivor needed, including pie crust recipes that still used solid Crisco. Alone amidst the plenty, there was no option but to teach myself how to can. I found it scary (kill the family if you don’t sterilize properly) painful (forging through scalding water to that last jar at the […]
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