whiteMemphis wrote:
> Would anyone have experience of using a makeshift water bath for sterilizing
> bottled fruit, is it just a matter of using a large pan with a rack in the
> bottom, placing the sealed jars inside, covering with water & boiling for
> the requisite time? thanks any advice.
>
>
You just need a pot deep enough to have a rack in the bottom ( so the
jars don't sit on the bottom but have water under them) and allow the
water to cover by an inch and a half and still boil. The jars should
not touch each other or the sides of the pot. the point is to have
boiling water all around the jars, so if yours does that it is fine.
We have one very deep pot that we use for processing litre jars (they're
quite difficult to do properly in the standard blue granite ware pots.
Ellen