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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I can recall as a child hearing, and in one or two
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>cases reading about, canning disasters. I
believe</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>most had to due with opening the oven door.
Many</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>were blinded on explosions of the glass
canning</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>jars. My mother fell ill while canning and I
finished</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>up, but was very hesitant to open that oven
door,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>even in 1943. I used a broom handle from
some</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>distance away.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=vveelle@molalla.net href="mailto:vveelle@molalla.net">Verdena
Veelle</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 20, 2004 2:46
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [or-roots] Canning on a Wood
Stove</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>My mother canned green beans (and everything else) without the
benefit of a pressure<BR>cooker. As I recall this required 90 minutes of
boiling in the canner. I remember my<BR>mother doing this on her wood
stove which was outside and near the woodshed. Much cooler<BR>that
way. Not sure if it was an extra stove but must have been. The
green beans still<BR>needed to be boiled for twenty minutes after opening to
keep us from getting killed by<BR>botulism. Can't imagine that too much
nutrients were left after that. Of course she and<BR>some of the
neighbor women went to a farmer's to pick the beans if there weren't enough
in<BR>the garden. I still have many of the jars that she used.<BR><BR>I
can't imagine eating it today but one of my favorites was noodles cooked with
the<BR>chicken feet that she canned. I am sure the claws were gone but
not too sure about<BR>anything else. All I remember was at that time, it
really tasted good. Not to offend<BR>anyone but she also served horse
burgers to company who never knew the difference. Tough<BR>times make a
lot of things taste better I guess. She really knew how to make things
to<BR>eat with little or nothing. She also taught one-room school.
Made tablecloths and<BR>bedspreads, doilies by the dozen with
crocheting. I feel very lazy when I think about how<BR>hard she
worked. She died when she was only 47 but apparently not because of the
hard<BR>work. She had a problem with her pancreas. I was only ten
at that time.<BR>Verdena
Veelle<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>or-roots
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