Savor Golden Sweet Corn All Year Long

Please, for safety, do not try these at home.

• Open kettle canning is no longer recommended for any home canned product. With this method, food was supposedly boiled, poured into sterile jars and sealed without further processing.
  Foods canned this way have low vacuum and are poorly sealed. Often, they contain excess air which results in a poor quality product, and can promote bacteria growth. These foods spoil more readily than properly canned foods. Eating them may result in foodborne illness.
   

•  Sun dried tomatoes continue to be popular, but no safe method has been found to produce them at home. First, sun drying is not practical in Missouri where our humidity is likely to lead to mold growth. Second, commercially prepared tomato-in-oil combinations are acidified to make them safe from botulism. There is no safe way to duplicate this at home, despite the recipes printed in cookbooks, magazines and Internet.

Be safe. Choose to protect yourself, family and friends by following safe home canning procedures when you take on the role of food processor.
 

Other June  2005 Articles:
Celebrate the Red and Gold of Summer
Tomato Cautions
Succotash
QFK Readers have leg up on Fair Competition