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Title: Every Step in Canning
Author: Grace Viall Gray
Release Date: October 17, 2004 [eBook #13775]
Language: English
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EVERY STEP IN CANNING
The Cold-Pack Method
by
GRACE VIALL GRAY, PH.B., ED.B
Formerly Associate Professor of Home Economics,
Iowa State College
1920
PREFACE
It was six years ago that I first heard of the One Period, Cold-Pack Method of canning. A little circular was put in my hand one day at a federated club meeting announcing the fact that in a few weeks there would be a cold-pack demonstration about fifty miles away. Immediately I announced that I was going to the demonstrations. So leaving my small daughter with my mother, I went to the Normal School at DeKalb, Illinois, and heard and saw for the first time cold-pack canning.
It is sufficient to say that those three days were so crowded full of interest and new messages on the gospel of canning that I felt amply repaid for going fifty miles. As a result of that trip, the first story ever published on cold-pack canning appeare