Following on from an earlier discussion on jars for jam etc., I've
discovered this.

Jam jars from Lakeland: £6.49/dozen
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/F/product/3819_3818
Lids are extra! £2.29/dozen plain white.

Total for 12 jars and lids = £8.78


Alternatively Morrison's have in their Budget range, similar sized glass
jars of curry sauce for 12p
£1.44/dozen including lid ( and loads of curry sauce for soup, stock, or
bin)


mark

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:33:29 +0100, "mark"
wrote:

Following on from an earlier discussion on jars for jam etc., I've
discovered this.

Jam jars from Lakeland: £6.49/dozen
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/F/product/3819_3818
Lids are extra! £2.29/dozen plain white.

Total for 12 jars and lids = £8.78

Isn't that what I posted?


Prolly, but I was reiterating to make the comparison.
I did say 'following on from ...' :-)

mark

On 22 Sep, 22:09, Martin wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:33:38 +0100, Janet Baraclough





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from "mark" contains these words:

Following on from an earlier discussion on jars for jam etc., I've
discovered this.

Jam jars from Lakeland: *£6.49/dozen
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/F/product/3819_3818
Lids are extra! *£2.29/dozen plain white.

Total for 12 jars and lids = £8.78

Alternatively Morrison's have in their Budget range, similar sized glass
jars of curry sauce for 12p
£1.44/dozen including lid ( and loads of curry sauce for soup, stock, or
bin)

*The curry-sauce lids would be unsuitable to re-use for jam IME.. No
matter how carefully they were cleaned the
inner seal *carries a taint. *

Have you tried it?
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You can also top off the jam with candle wax when the jam and the wax
cool you have a perfect seal

Janet Baraclough wrote:
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You can also top off the jam with candle wax when the jam and the wax
cool you have a perfect seal

I top the jam (while hot) with a circle of waxed paper to seal. You
can buy them ready cut for pennies.

Janet
Not only are they expensive to buy, but I suspect that in a couple of
years they will sell a slightly different size so that the lids don't
fit. After a couple of years the lids start to rust, so new lids would
be ideal. Kilner jars are also annoying for the same reason, try getting
rubber seals for jars a few years old

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On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 Janet Baraclough wrote:

You can also top off the jam with candle wax when the jam and the wax
cool you have a perfect seal

I top the jam (while hot) with a circle of waxed paper to seal. You
can buy them ready cut for pennies.

Well, that's the traditional way of doing it. My mother always used
them.

David

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