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I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned this before. I can well remember my mother, during the late 1960s, making home-made grape juice, using grapes grown at home. The bottled juice tasted amazing. I thought the taste came entirely from the grapes … until I realized just how much sugar my mother put in each bottle.
I remember helping my mother can and bottle. I think it was the cherries and apricots I preferred the most…
The day will soon come, if not here already, that home canning will be another of the once-common-but-now-forgotten skills like riding a horse, milking a cow, using a washboard, or dressing a chicken. We look at each other and say, “My mother/grandmother used to do that” but have lost the knowledge.
I guess I am a “young” grandmother because I still bottle peaches from trees in our yard, with the outlook this year of a bumper crop. I agree home canning is a lost art along with many other homemaking “arts”.
At least it strikes a balance between U&I and Amalgamated (White Satin).
The Other Clark: maybe, maybe not. I’m guessing you don’t live as close to Brooklyn as I do.
Though I don’t love everything about hipsters, I feel thankful for their interest in canning, because I’m not in a place where I can invest in learning this skill right now. They are putting time and effort into learning and putting tutorials on the internet so that when I am able to get around to it, I will have excellent resources to get me going.
Provo is an interesting place at the moment, culturally, because it’s sort of got a cross-current with NYC going. I don’t know enough about either place (since I don’t live in either of them) to comment on it intelligently beyond that simple observation, but I do follow what I can with no small interest.
Yeah, there are a good number of young folks interested in canning. (Though why anyone wants to drink out of Mason jars, which are good at spilling, is beyond me.) My 17yo kid just learned how to make our family pickle relish!