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zxcvbob wrote:
You want something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Ball-10720-4-p.../dp/B000SN0W7K

and a copy of the _Ball Blue Book_, or _Ball Home Canning Guide_, or
whatever they are calling it these days. It's an inexpensive
paperback that gets republished every couple of years. Should cost
about $6 or $8. Study the first couple of chapters.

(I don't know what that little spatula-looking thing is in the kit,
but the other 3 items are essentials)

Without even looking at it, I'm betting it is to release air bubbles
from a mixture. Oy. A chopstick (or a plastic picnic knife) will do
the same thing.
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-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
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10-30-2009