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Step 1: gather your produce and equipment.

Decide the size jar you’ll need (here I’m using pints and 12-oz quilted jars), and gather the amount the recipe calls for, or what your canner will hold.

Step 2: prepare your food according to the recipe. Step 3: wash jars and keep them hot.

While the food or brine is cooking wash the jars using soap and hot water and scrub well. I use an old baby bottle brush which works well…

e jars into the canner to keep warm, but I find it too hard to get them in and out again quickly, so I just fill with the hottest tap water and leave in the sink. I refill if they get too cool. My friend always puts hers in a 200 degree oven upside down on a towel-lined tray. The point is to keep them warm until you need to fill them.

UNLESS you are not canning and just want to keep them in the fridge! Then just clean them.

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