The Victory Home: 
Food--Home Canning and Drying

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Updated 11/12/04.
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Photos

These photos are in the American Memory collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II:  Photographs from the FSA/OWI, 1935-1945 . Click on the small image to see a larger one.

Steel-saving glass-top jars recommended by the War Production Board, Containers Division, for home canning of the Victory garden fruits and vegetables in 1943.
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First step in sealing a jar is to fit the wet, sterilized rubber ring around the projection on the underside of the glass lid, also sterilized
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Second step is to place the lid directly on top of the ring on the jar mouth, which must be smooth, even, and clean. To make a snug seal, lid and ring are screwed down with the threaded steel band.
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Third step is to allow expanding air inside the jar to escape during the processing; the screw band should be turned as far as it will go and then turned back about a quarter turn. Immediately after processing. the screw band must be made as tight as possible to ensure a perfect seal. The jar is then set aside in an upright position to cool.
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Let the jar stand for twelve hours by which time it will have cooled thoroughly. After this the screw bands may be removed permanently since the glass lid and the rubber ring provide a complete seal, with no danger of food spoilage.
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To open the jar, insert knife between glass lid and rubber ring.
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Stacks of home-canned food
 

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Posters

These posters are in the Northwestern University Library collection.   Click on the small image to see a larger one.

Grow your own, can your own

Can all you can

Of course I can

You can learn to can
 

This poster is in the American Memory collection By the People, For the People:  Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 . Click on the small image to see a larger one.

Help us preserve your surplus . . . food.
 

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Pamphlets

The following are pages from a government-issued pamphlet, in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

"Home Canning"

"Home Canning Boiling Water Bath"

"Home Canning Jars, Caps, Rubbers"

"Home Canning Tomatoes Preparation"

"Home Canning Tomatoes Packing"

"Home Canning Tomatoes Sealing"

"Home Canning Tomatoes In And Out Of The Bath"

"Home Canning Fruits Selection and Preparation"

"Home Canning Fruits Preparation"

"Home Canning Fruits Packing and Sealing"

"Home Canning In And Out Of Boiling Water Bath"

"Home Canning Vegetables Selection and Preparation"

"Home Canning Vegetables Preparation"

"Home Canning Vegetables Packing Sealing"

"Home Canning Vegetables Into The Pressure Canner"

"Home Canning Vegetables Out Of The Pressure Canner"

"Home Canning Testing, Labeling, Storing"

"Home Canning Don't..."
 

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This pamphlet is in the Central Libraries of Southern Methodist University collection.

Wartime canning of fruits, vegetables
 

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Audio

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Home Canning (WAV)
 

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