Alongside the gas masks and chemical suits, the shelves were stacked with canned meat, jars of vegetables and bottled water -- enough to feed his family for months, the police said.
In "A House Unlocked," we learn about the gong stands, samplers, potted-meat jars, grand pianos and napkin rings of a country house in Somerset, England.
Relying on both personal memory and archival research brings to life Lively's family's past -- and centuries of social change and upheaval -- by homing in on the grand pianos, potted-meat jars, samplers, gong stands and other relics from a country house in Somerset, England, where she spent much of her youth.
In this slim, beguiling book, Lively describes the contents and customs of the house: its silver cupboard stocked with napkin rings; the sampler stitched by her grandmother (it featured portraits of refugee children billeted in the house during the blitz); the gong stand and the potted-meat jars.
It makes sense to can a meal's worth of meat in one jar.[2].
Stanislav, 40, and his wife have driven 500 miles from Vologda and are breaking their journey at a B&B on the Russian side, giving them more time to load the car with meat, cheese, coffee and jar after jar of trout roe caviar.
Scoop meat into the jars, stopping two inches below the top of the jar.
The tube was marked with numbered notches, one for each day of the month; the idea was that the user would remove a jar of meat every day and eat it, and the rest of the jars would slide down a notch, marking time by meat.
Don't store jars of meat in the sunlight or in a warm area.
Hot, high-pressure steam cooks, seals and sterilizes the meat in the canning jars.
