SC - camping without a cooler

[david friedman]

At 12:59 PM -0800 4/3/98, Marisa Herzog wrote:
>                      camping without a cooler                     4/3/98
>
>But don't many of the things that get preserved have to be canned or contained
>in some manner which is also out of period?  I imagine pickled meat and other
>things must be sealed into a jar or some-such?

No. Pickled things are preserved by the salt and/or vinegar, not by being
sterilized and kept airtight like modern canned things. We normally keep
the pickled meat in a ceramic container with a ceramic lid--period
technology.


David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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