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Prepare Meat for Freezing?

Store Home-Canned Food?

What are Ration Tokens?

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World War II

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This woman says: "I'd like to know the best place to store my home-canned food".

In reply, the home economists say it takes three words to describe a good storage place for home-canned food: cool . . . dry . . .and dark. Or, to put it another way: guard against heat or freezing. ... dampness. .. .and light.

Heat helps bacteria in the jars to multiply, so keep home-canned food away from stoves, furnaces, radiators, or heating pipes. By the way, heating pipes often hide behind walls, so watch out for that vhen you're picking your storage place.

Unheated storage may freeze canned food, and if the jars crack the food ie lost. If you must use a cold storage place, protect the jars with old carpets or blankets, or several layers of newspaper.

Dampness will rust tin cans, and it may cause metal jar lids to rust. Rusted lids are often hard to open, and besides you can't use them again.

Canned food will fade and lose vitamins when exposed to light, so black out your jars, either by wrapping each jar, or by covering windows in the storage place. The boxes your jars come in are handy for dark storage.

Now, one final word about storage: glass jars are heavier than tin cans. But both need strong shelves -- at least an inch thicker and see that the supports for the shelves are strong, too.