Terrific Tomato Soup and Other Tomato Recipes

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September/October 1975
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While you're collecting offbeat containers, you should also keep an eye open for secondhand lots of tried-and-true "real" jars—which are still available at farm sales and auctions. The green and blue types are now considered antiques and are priced out of sight (we've seen them go for $6.00 each!), and you probably won't be able to afford the variety with the glass-and-wire lids either, unless you buy just one for a keepsake. Ordinary quart and pint Mason jars, however, often turn up for sale by the boxful and may be priced pretty reasonably (depending on who happens to bid on them).

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Canning jars are a permanent investment and should be treated with the care you give any other survival equipment. This means that you may possibly find yourself with boxes of perfectly good Mason jars for which you can't buy replacement lids. Well, I hesitate to mention the fact, but if you're desperate you can reuse some standard self-sealing lids-the ones with the spongy sealer rings-provided you were careful not to bend the metal discs when you opened the containers of food the first time around. This practice is strongly discouraged by agricultural extension home economists, who are truly devoted to the public's best interests. Still, in an emergency, I'd rather try it than let food go to waste—and in some areas, 1974 was definitely an emergency as far as canning supplies were concerned. At least,if you try the idea this year, you'll know at once whether or not the lids have sealed, and you'll be able to reprocess any failures promptly.

Your own ingenuity may turn up still other ways to beat the canning jar shortage. True, some of your alternative containers will break, and others won't seal—but failures are to be expected even under ideal circumstances. Best of luck!

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