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Canned Fruits and Vegetables

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Canned Fruits and Vegetables

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Ensure cans and elastics are clean and perfect.

  2. Heat cans in a large vessel of cold water on the stove until boiling.

  3. Place a pan on the stove to hold each hot can.

  4. Fill each can immediately with hot fruit or vegetable.

  5. Put the top on and screw tightly.

  6. As contents cool, screw again to ensure tightness.

  7. Store glass cans in a cool, dark, dry place.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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