Canning/Preservatioon (was Re: SC - Re: Easy period soups?)

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In a message dated 10/2/00 10:35:42 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
NJSasso at msplaw.com writes:


> .  If done properly, then the food is nigh invincible as long as the lid 
> doesn't pop.

My grandmother, during the heyday of bomb shelters, equipped all her shelters 
and then canned them to the rafters with her "foods she felt wouldn't be 
available anymore during a war" including peaches, etc. In 1989, after the 
birth of my last son, she sent me a jar of peaches with the date 1966 on it 
and the notation that "Now you can have a taste of history, and so can your 
son, if you wait 6 months". When he started eating semi-hard food, I opened 
the can and ground up the peach and fed it to him. It was delicious. No 
problems. So, yeah, they can last **quite** a while if properly canned and 
stored.

Lars