STERILIZED JARS
Let’s say you are going to preserve some peaches. What is the first thing you have to do? Sterilize the jars. Why the process of sterilization? So that the contents of the jars — the peaches — will be preserved from spoiling. Imagine a husband coming home and finding his wife boiling jars in the kitchen. “What are you doing, honey?” “Sterilizing jars.” “Why are you doing that?” the husband asks. “I just like clean jars,” she answers. “The husband is clearly at a loss. What are you going to do next?” he asks. “Keep them clean!” This story doesn’t make much sense, does it? You have never seen anyone decorate his kitchen with a sterile jar collection. No, the reason to sterilize jars is because you intend to put something in them. We would never expect to find a person involved in only half the process of canning, just the cleansing of jars. But we have done this exact thing with…
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