OK, I have now christened one. 3 more litres of green tomato chutney.
BTW, I'm always bemused by the term 'canning'. In the UK, a 'can' is inferred to be a metal cannister, or in the common parlance, a 'tin can' (from the tin coating the metal). Of course the very qualifier of 'metal' in 'metal cannister' concedes that there must be non-metal ones. Including glass jars. But the image brought up by 'canning' is of someone putting food into metal cylinders.
It took me years to realise that making preserves and jams and pickles in glass jars was what many Americans actually meant by the term.
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Date: 2012-09-26 11:05 pm (UTC)BTW, I'm always bemused by the term 'canning'. In the UK, a 'can' is inferred to be a metal cannister, or in the common parlance, a 'tin can' (from the tin coating the metal). Of course the very qualifier of 'metal' in 'metal cannister' concedes that there must be non-metal ones. Including glass jars. But the image brought up by 'canning' is of someone putting food into metal cylinders.
It took me years to realise that making preserves and jams and pickles in glass jars was what many Americans actually meant by the term.