"jane" wrote in message
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:07:09 +0200, Martin wrote:

My canning experience started with finding a US website with a lot of
very useful info on fruit preservation (hence pressing reply after
Martin's post!)

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5343.html

Though beware of the oops in the berries/apples bit!

In N.America, they even process jams as if they were bottling fruit.
Completely unnecessary but it must be the recipe-writers fear of legal
action if anything were to go wrong.
Graham