My Ma canned small Iris potatoes in the lean to kitchen of her big log house, and she never had a pressure cooker in her life! Just a wood burning stove...She canned meat, green beans, corn, sweet potatoes, small Irish potatoes ...etc...Mama canned thousands of quarts of food with a water pack canner most of her life but finally did get a canner...She'd can a hundred quarts of green beans, etc. I wish I could find that list she made one time ...it's mind boggling.....AND we had no electricity till it came through in 1947 or so...She canned on a wood cook stove with no cooling other than open windows and doors....No modern woman could do that....in my estimation...Some areas that have large migrant families might have a community kitchen with canners.......Some 'snow bird' MIGHT have a canner to sell.... Canning strawberries sure changes the flavor....DO you make preserves ? No pressure cooker needed...Son has decided he wants the big canner lost in my attic...I will hang onto the small canner that cans pints for now....Have given up on canning stuff and put bits and pieces in the new freezer....If the power goes off for good we'll can stuff on our gas stove or over a fire out back, I guess. I don't think it will get that dire....Have BooKoos's of canning jars of all sizes...Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:54:27 +0000 smoochieangelpie@comcast.net (Smoochie Newton) writes: > > Which to choose? And does anyone know what is a decent price for > the pressure canner? A regular canning pot is about $20.00 at > wallyworld; don't know about the other. There will be some fresh > fruits here and some veggies that I would like to put up..... > strawberries will be plentiful (I hope) in a few months....and > maybe taters. I've looked at the thrifty stores for both canners > but nothing to be had. > > paulette in sw fla usa........ preparing for the worst; praying for > not the worst > xoxoxoxoxo > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ____________________________________________________________ Win the battle of the bulge with great liposuction solutions. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3nELSr1IyVJdltSXkN82VyHHZSrA4cB8ilKlNsdezd0SdKVG/