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title: 'Home Canning: Vegetables Out of the Pressure Canner'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-out-of-the-pressure-canner-1943/
description: How-to sheet with three photographs of hands lifting the pressure canner lid, removing jars of green beans and wiping them, plus three bullet instructions.
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# Home Canning: Vegetables Out of the Pressure Canner

How-to sheet with three photographs of hands lifting the pressure canner lid, removing jars of green beans and wiping them, plus three bullet instructions. A large orange V sits behind the title. The technique is faint: the V borrows the wartime victory symbol for a kitchen instruction (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
[imprint:] 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
HOME
CANNING
Vegetables
OUT OF THE
PRESSURE
CANNER
Let pressure fall to zero. Open pet cock slowly. Unfasten cover, lifting it away from the face.
Grasp the glass shoulder, not the metal cap, when removing jars.
Wipe clean. Set out to cool ... away from drafts to avoid breakage.
BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
17
```

[← Home Canning: Jars, Caps, Rubbers](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-jars-caps-rubbers-1943/) [Home Canning: Testing, Labeling, Storing →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-testing-labeling-storing-1943/)

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