Newsletter September 23, 2005 Preserving
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Preserving
"Home preserving as we know it began to increase significantly in the first half of the nineteenth century, thanks to two Frenchmen and an Americam tinsmith. The Frenchmen were Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, who offered a prize of 12,000 francs to anyone who could find a way to provide nourishing food for his armies, and Nicolas Appert, an obscure Paris confectioner who won the prize for developing a method of food preservation by sterilization. About forty years later, John Landis Mason of Brooklyn, New York, designed and patented a glass jar with a shoulder and screw-top lid - a combination that made it easy to achieve and keep an airtight seal. Mason's jars at first supplemented, and eventually replaced, stone and pottery vessels, and his name became generic for canning jars. The tapered jars we now use were introduced after World war II, when freezer lockers and home freezers became commonplace. Unlike jars with shoulders, the tapered containers can be emptied without defrosting the contents."Preserving in today's kitchen
by Jeanne Lesem
1992 - Owl Books
