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title: 'Home Canning: Boiling Water Bath'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-boiling-water-bath-usda-1943/
description: 'Instruction chart headed ''Home Canning, Boiling Water Bath'' on improvising a canner: diagrams of water level above a jar.'
section: Collection
---

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# Home Canning: Boiling Water Bath

Instruction chart headed 'Home Canning, Boiling Water Bath' on improvising a canner: diagrams of water level above a jar, a photograph of a woman fitting a wooden rack into a wash boiler, and a pail with jars and a ruler. The technique is faint: an ordinary home cook and household vessels present the task as within anyone's reach (plain-folks).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Space for brisk
boiling - 1" or 2"
Space for 1" to 2"
of water above
jar
height
of jar
rack
space
Space for brisk
boiling - 1" or 2"
Space for 1" to 2"
of water above
jar
height
of jar
rack
space
12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
HOME
CANNING
Boiling Water Bath
If you don't have
a canner and can't
buy one.......
• Look for a large
deep vessel with
a cover.....
• A wash boiler or
metal tub with a
home-made rack
of wood or wire.
• A metal pail.... a
deep pot...a large
lard can --- fit
it with a rack
and cover and you
have a canner.
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Price 50c per set of 20 charts
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O-539498
BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
2
```

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