Early Canning Required Resourcefulness

By Delbert Trew
Published on December 6, 2012
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Photo By iStockphoto/Ralph Baleno
A scarcity of canning jars in a frontier settlement leads to creative canning techniques.

The date when glass was
invented is unknown. One story theorizes that ancient Phoenician merchants
built a campfire on a beach and afterward found glass in the ashes. Further
research shows glass found at early Egyptian and Roman sites dating back 2,150
years.

Today, it is hard to imagine

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