A Canner Exceedingly Canny
A canner exceedingly canny, One morning remarked to his granny, "A canner can can anything that he can, but a canner can't can a can, can he?" So I half canned these green beans for my mother in law. Grown and picked by my father in law, washed and cut by me, cooked by me, jars filled by my mother in law, lidded and put in the pressure cooker by me and timed and taken out by my mother in law. It's a group effort. I'm grateful to begin to learn how to can (which shouldn't it be called BOTTLE?). Preserve anyhow. My first attempt I forgot to wipe the mouth of the bottle (they shouldn't go out in public like that- how embarrassing!) and ended up with 3 of my 5 jars not sealing. This go around all 6 sealed. Next step is figuring out how to grow the darn food. THAT I'm not so good at. For my memory's sake I'm writing the steps here (because I keep losing the paper I wrote ...