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title: 'Home Canning: Vegetables, Into the Pressure Canner'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-canning-vegetables-pressure-canner-usda-1943/
description: 'Instruction chart numbered 16 in a home-canning series, headed ''Home Canning Vegetables Into the Pressure Canner'': photographs of jars on a rack.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Home Canning: Vegetables, Into the Pressure Canner, 1943 US poster: Instruction chart numbered 16 in a home-canning series](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/home-canning-vegetables-pressure-canner-usda-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/home-canning-vegetables-pressure-canner-usda-1943.jpg)

# Home Canning: Vegetables, Into the Pressure Canner

Instruction chart numbered 16 in a home-canning series, headed 'Home Canning Vegetables Into the Pressure Canner': photographs of jars on a rack, a closed canner with gauge and clock, a hand shutting the pet cock and a hand turning off a stove knob, with the line 'Keep pressure steady'. The technique is faint: household equipment and plain steps frame the task as 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

```
HOME
CANNING
Vegetables
INTO THE
PRESSURE
CANNER
Have an inch of boiling water
in the canner. Don't crowd
jars on rack.
Fasten cover carefully. Let steam
pour steadily from open pet cock
for 7 minutes.
Now shut
the pet cock.
When pressure reaches
10 pounds (for beans)
start counting time.
Time's up! Turn off
heat or slide canner
away from heat.
Keep
pressure
steady
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
16
BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
```

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