[Homesteadingfamily] Re: How to "can' cakes

Hey Teresa!The "tips" are the flat canning lids..sometimes called "dome
lids"...and of course the "rings" make the two part sealing system.
Freezer jars are special glass...they can withstand freezing for
prolonged period of time. You can still freeze in regular jars, but they
are not designed to do that. the freezer jars will be labeled as such,
on the box. They do have a straight neck..in other wordsthey go straight
up with no indentions, which we call "necks". The cakes cannot slide out
of a jar with a neck and the freezer glass stands up to the higher temps
of the oven.
I tried a lemon cake yesterday which had gotten moved back behind some
other stuff, as I think I said earlier. It was not as good as the ones
we had tried BEFORE 3 years...so I will change my thinking to "good up
to a year". Most of ours don't last that long anyhow! LOL They make
great gifts if you tie a pretty ribbon and maybe a card on the top...or
take the ring off and place a piece of pretty fabric that has been cut
with pinking shears over the dome lid, then put the ring back on....
Good luck!
--- In Homesteadingfamily@yahoogroups.com, "Teresa Ward" <jrward3@...>
wrote:
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> >>>Step 1: Sterilize 7 pint FREEZER Mason jars.the kind with no necks.
Place the rings and tips into a pan of boiling water and keep simmering
throughout the process.
>
> I have two questions ...
> (1) What are tips? The lids?
> (2) I haven't paid attention to FREEZER jars. Are they the wide
mouth pints? I was always under the impression that mason jars could go
in the freezer or on the shelf, and since I always can with them I've
never noticed anything otherwise.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Blessings,
> Teresa in WV
> www.HomeschoolOasis.com
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