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title: 'Home Canning: Vegetables, Preparation'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-vegetables-preparation-usda-1943/
description: 'Instruction chart numbered 14 in a home-canning series, headed ''Home Canning Vegetables Preparation'': hands cutting green beans.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Home Canning: Vegetables, Preparation, 1943 US poster: Instruction chart numbered 14 in a home-canning series, headed 'Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/home-canning-vegetables-preparation-usda-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/home-canning-vegetables-preparation-usda-1943.jpg)

# Home Canning: Vegetables, Preparation

Instruction chart numbered 14 in a home-canning series, headed 'Home Canning Vegetables Preparation': hands cutting green beans, pouring hot water from a kettle over beans in a pot, and lifting a scalded jar with a fork. The technique is faint: bare hands and household pots present the work as ordinary kitchen routine (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

```
Trim and cut. Prepare one canner load at a time.
HOME
CANNING
Vegetables
PREPARATION
Boil for 5 minutes to
shorten time in
pressure canner
and to shrink beans.
Remove jars
from scalding
hot water,
just before
filling.
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
14
```

[← Home Canning: Vegetables, Packing and Sealing](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-vegetables-packing-sealing-usda-1943/) [Home Canning: Vegetables, Into the Pressure Canner →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-vegetables-pressure-canner-usda-1943/)

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