Posted on 10/07/2010 9:54:17 AM PDT by djf
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia_(steamboat) Wikipedia article, which also mentions the still edible canned foods found aboard. She sank in 1856, 9 years previous to the sinking of the Bertrand. She was discovered 20 years later than the Bertrand, making her canned goods both earlier as far as processing; and older in terms of span between canning and discovery & testing...and tasting.
http://www.1856.com/ “Treasures of the Steamboat Arabia” Fascinating place to wander through.
She also had bolts of silk, which were preserved in good condition, once cleaned by the archaeologists.
Come to think of it, maybe GGG should hear about this, too.
This thread may be right interesting to you, bert.
I have a few jars of canned green beans in my gragae which are still ‘clear’ after ten years! I may open one and eat them this weekend. I’m told that one should wash the outside of an aged canning jar with boiling water before opening.
Okay, I didn’t even know about this list. Please add me. May not respond much, but I’ll gladly read the posts pinged.
After Grandma passed in 1993, we found some jars of black berries that were supposed to be canned about 50 years before. Ma made great pies out of them.
I saw that later. I got here via a Gardening List ping, but didn’t see a GGG in My Comments. Read down the the thread after posting.
Somehow the GGG non-ping didn’t ping me...duh, wonder why? ;-)
Partly pinged you though for the Arabia wreck & Museum links I posted.
I’d like to be added to the ping list if I could be. Thanks in advance!
Beans huh.
Last week I went to Sevierville TN and the GPS took me off I 40 onto US 411. I was driving the old road through the countryside and suddenly around the curve and miles from nowhere was a large industrial site. It is the Ball Corp that makes the cans and the Bush Co that cans the beans.
There was a shiny new series of “old” buildings. They had spruced up the old Bush family store and made a museum. I stopped on the way back and found a tribute to Duke the family dog that knows all about canning beans and is constantly trying to sell the family secret recipe. The leather bound gilt labeled family recipe is by the way safely stored there in an antique corner cabinet that is criss crossed with many red lasers that presumably are the burglar alarm.
Back to the thread, there is a nice display of early canning procedure. The cans were provided with a top soldered in and a large hole for filling. The hole was manually soldered over with a circular flat plate after filling and then the solder sealed was processed further. This was the very early 1900’s
For the record, if you are interested in the history of beans, food preservation and entrepreneurial success, a visit to the Bush Family Store museum might be worthwhile.
Sounds great. Perhaps a road trip is in order!
Thanks for the interesting information about sell-by dates.
thanks
Thomas Jefferson had a small artificial pond he used for the same purpose.
:’) I enjoyed ‘em. Actually, hasslin’ ya was kinda fun too. ;’)
Now I'm going to go to my room and cry. Nobody loves me. Everybody picks on me. Poor me; if I don't feel sorry for myself, nobody will. Maybe I'll send this to Mr. Holder, to show him how mean spirited Tea Party Conservatives are cyber-bullying me. ....
;’)
Holder... he’s got a perfect last name, since he’s eventually going under Obama’s bus wheels, just as Dingell is going right now.
I do. The best canned fish in the world usually isn't American. Australian tuna, Moroccan anchovies, English herring, and Canadian sardines are all in my cupboard.
My boys have no problem but my nieces do, I tell them that when we were growing up there were no expiration dates on anything.
Our troops in the Pacific ate the rations from WWI, unfortunately, they also had the weapons from WWI too.
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