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In article , Baz wrote:
Capitals are regarded as shouting. Perhaps you can set your keyboard to whispering. Only joking. But can I bottle......... Joking again. God help me, I am seriously ****ed off with the trolls and just plain idiots who keep ignoring the simple fact that the vegetables you want to bottle are non-acid :-( I don't know exactly what the chances are of a non-gassy, non-tainting botulinus infection are, but the consequences of one are likely to be death for anyone eating the result. If I were bottling vegetables, I would do as we did in the UK in the 1950s and use pressure. Fruit isn't a problem, and you don't need pressure. There were good reasons that most people in the UK up to the 1950s used bottling only for fruit, and preserved vegetables by salting, drying etc. Pressure bottling is a pain to do, and constrains the amounts you do and size of bottles. But it's your life .... Nick, I think that we all respect your scientific knowledge, but many of us can't understand it! I think that you expect too much understanding from us of your obvious knowledge. It is simple to you, but not for us. I could describe to you how to make a mortice and tenon joint, or how to replace a crankshaft in any petrol driven engine. I doubt that you would understsnd any of it without a basic knowledge, and the skills involved. You have not made any posting that either deliberately misrepresented what I said, or ignored the clear, explicit wording in favour of something that I had obviously not said. So I am not counting you among the trolls and idiots. The distinction is NOT between fruit+vegetables and meat+fish, but between fruit+pickles and all-other-foods. My memory was that the main danger is from meat+fish, but one of the references posted informed me that is NOT true and the main danger is from vegetables. Seriously. Somewhere in this house, I have a Ministry of Food booklet from the 1940s which describes the preservation of garden produce ("Dig For Victory" and all that). It describes the bottling of fruit, and says that bottling vegetables at home should not be attempted, as it needs to be done under pressure. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On Sun, 8 Sep 2013 12:50:17 +0100 (BST), Nick Maclaren wrote:
Somewhere in this house, I have a Ministry of Food booklet from the 1940s which describes the preservation of garden produce ("Dig For Victory" and all that). It describes the bottling of fruit, and says that bottling vegetables at home should not be attempted, as it needs to be done under pressure. Were domestic pressure cookers easily available during the war? I have a feeling that they may have existed before but like a lot of things disappeared during and only reappeared in the early 50's. I agree there has been some mis-information in this thread, bottling/canning really combines several preservation processes depending on what is being bottled/canned. Broadly these processes are heat treatment, hermetic sealing and sugar/acidity level. The heat treatment and sugar acid levels are interrelated in that if you have high sugar (jams etc) or high acid level (ph4.6 according to wikipedia) you don't need to have heat treatment above 100C. If the sugar content is low / acidity ph4.6 then you ought to have high temperature treatment and the way to do that is in a pressure vessel of some sort. Trying to use the food type to define the bottling process required can lead to an incorrect process being used. -- Cheers Dave. |
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"Dave Liquorice" wrote in
ll.co.uk: Trying to use the food type to define the bottling process required can lead to an incorrect process being used. Yes Yes. I have tried to get to the bottom of this. Baz |
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Dave Liquorice wrote: Somewhere in this house, I have a Ministry of Food booklet from the 1940s which describes the preservation of garden produce ("Dig For Victory" and all that). It describes the bottling of fruit, and says that bottling vegetables at home should not be attempted, as it needs to be done under pressure. Were domestic pressure cookers easily available during the war? I have a feeling that they may have existed before but like a lot of things disappeared during and only reappeared in the early 50's. Dunno. That could well be - they certainly weren't something that every house had, even in the 1960s. I agree there has been some mis-information in this thread, bottling/canning really combines several preservation processes depending on what is being bottled/canned. Broadly these processes are heat treatment, hermetic sealing and sugar/acidity level. The heat treatment and sugar acid levels are interrelated in that if you have high sugar (jams etc) or high acid level (ph4.6 according to wikipedia) you don't need to have heat treatment above 100C. If the sugar content is low / acidity ph4.6 then you ought to have high temperature treatment and the way to do that is in a pressure vessel of some sort. Yes. Or salt, of course. Trying to use the food type to define the bottling process required can lead to an incorrect process being used. Except that virtually all fruit grown in the UK have a fair amount of acid. Even strawberries have SOME - we don't have any fruit like bananas or avocados that are grown and eaten, that I can think of. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On 08/09/13 12:50, Nick Maclaren wrote:
Somewhere in this house, I have a Ministry of Food booklet from the 1940s which describes the preservation of garden produce ("Dig For Victory" and all that). It describes the bottling of fruit, and says that bottling vegetables at home should not be attempted, as it needs to be done under pressure. As supporting evidence for that... "Home Preservation of Fruit and Vegetables" by Fish.& Food,Min.of Agriculture (Jul 1989) isbn 0112428649, first published in 1929 That's an intensely practical book, also giving enough theory to enable the reader to understand why the practice has evolved. It has chapters on jams, jellies, marmalade, fruit cheeses & butters, mincemeat & other fruit preserves, bottled fruit, fruit syrups and squashes, vinegars, pickles, chutneys, ketchup, drying & salting, freezing, storing fruit & vegetables. (1) botulism is mentioned prominently, with appropriate warnings (2) some jams, e.g. cherry have added citric/tartaric acid (3) all the methods for vegetables are freezing or drying or adding to chutney and marrow jam requires extra acid (4) THERE ARE NO RECIPES FOR CANNING/BOTTLING VEGETABLES unless acid or salt are present (5) pressure cooking: 5lb for bottled fruit, 10lb for jam, 15lb for nothing (6) despite the book's title, there is relatively little vegetables - just freeze them or dry them |
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Tom Gardner wrote: Somewhere in this house, I have a Ministry of Food booklet from the 1940s which describes the preservation of garden produce ("Dig For Victory" and all that). It describes the bottling of fruit, and says that bottling vegetables at home should not be attempted, as it needs to be done under pressure. As supporting evidence for that... "Home Preservation of Fruit and Vegetables" by Fish.& Food,Min.of Agriculture (Jul 1989) isbn 0112428649, first published in 1929 That's almost certainly an updated version of the same booklet. Perhaps not even updated very much :-) Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On 08/09/13 15:27, Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article , Tom Gardner wrote: Somewhere in this house, I have a Ministry of Food booklet from the 1940s which describes the preservation of garden produce ("Dig For Victory" and all that). It describes the bottling of fruit, and says that bottling vegetables at home should not be attempted, as it needs to be done under pressure. As supporting evidence for that... "Home Preservation of Fruit and Vegetables" by Fish.& Food,Min.of Agriculture (Jul 1989) isbn 0112428649, first published in 1929 That's almost certainly an updated version of the same booklet. From the forward... "In the sixty years since it was first published by the Long Ashton Research Station[RIP] and MAFF [it] has been revised and updated on many occasions. Encouraged and supported by the National Federation of Women's Institutes..." Perhaps not even updated very much :-) Freezing is a "modern method" of preservation, and microwave cookers shouldn't be used for jam, except for softening fruit. But then how much of this has changed since 1929? The basics were well understood by then. |
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Tom Gardner wrote: I forgot to say "Thank you" for posting that data. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On 08/09/13 15:44, Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article , Tom Gardner wrote: I forgot to say "Thank you" for posting that data. You're welcome - it was my pleasure to re-acquaint myself with the book. Things like using a trivet (in a saucepan of hot water) to keep the glass off the bottom, but if you don't have a trivet then you can use rolled up newspaper. Really appeals to the "this is what you are trying to achieve; you can do it via conventional and unconventional mechanisms" that I see in the best engineering. Must try and make some sauerkraut... (Keep the cabbage at 21C-27C for 2-3 weeks; rats - should have done it last month!) |
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