"graham" wrote in message
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"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.
Yes, I subscribed to a food preserving group for a time, the participants
were mostly N American.
They seemed to be obsessed about botulism. Very, very few people die from
botulism whether they eat canned foods or not. I - and a couple of other
Brits - couldn't bear it. We went back to our old ways and even - shock
horror! - eating raw food on occasion ...
Mary