I don’t know how they think we’re all going to survive with these prices.

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    9 months ago

    I’ve always been interested in the idea of canning, but it’s not really a thing in the UK

    I suspect it’s more common in the more rural areas.

    Or with the city people who manage to have an allotment.

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      9 months ago

      I’m in a rural area, it’s really not a thing! Especially not pressure canning with ball jars. People do make pickles and chutneys etc but those are preserved with vinegar and we use kilner jars with a rubber seal to store them. I’ve never once met anyone who has pressure canned vegetables.

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        When I was a kid (20 years ago) my parents would make pickles, and some assorted pickled veggies. Usually the veggies would come from a farm around us or an auction where you could buy trays of veggies about the size of a flat of canned drinks. They would also do some fruits in syrup, mainly ones that my uncle would bring us from another part of the country where him and his neighbours had fruit tree.

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        9 months ago

        When I think of canning vegetables, cucumber pickles are the first thing that comes to mind.

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          Yeah and we obviously have those here although you could just make them in any old jar and keep them in the fridge. The thing that seems to be quite different in America to the UK is the whole pressure canning scene. We do have similar food but it’s all in tins, nobody really makes it themselves and I’m not even sure where you’d get hold of a pressure canner, you’d probably have to import it.