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Cherry pie is one of my favorites!

Well, there goes my diet! Thanks for making me hungry Steve.

My Mom and Grandmom used to can stuff my Grandpa would grow in his garden, they had a big old metal tub with a lid on it and a rack in the bottom to keep the Mason jars up a little out of the water. My Grandfather would build a wood fire in a fireplace we had in the backyard, and they would steam the jars on that. I remember lots of jars getting put on some shelves in the basement and we would have them clear through the winter until the next year. It was a lot of work, but sure saved some money and tasted great.

My Grandpa also had a cold cellar that he dug in the yard, with a hip roof over it. He would wrap tomatoes and other stuff in newspaper and store it down there and even in December you would go down and unwrap a now ripened tomato that would taste like it was just picked.

I'm glad to see some of you are still canning. Certainly has to taste better than the stuff we get in cans at the local grocery store.


Don

Steve, Damn good thing you live in California, and not someplace east of the Missipp. If you did I'd be stopping by quite regularly.

My mom used to do canning every fall. My two favorites were Crab Apple Jelly and Sweet Pepper Relish. One of these days I think I will have to hit my sister up for my mom's recipes. Unfortunately, there aren't many real old time crab apple trees left. Most today are of the ornamental variety which ain't good for anything but little white flowers in the Spring.