Wow, does this bring back pleasant memories of my years growing up in then rural Hamilton! "Certo" was a part of nearly every housewife who engaged in the relatively lost art of "canning." Mom Glover put our very small Jersey "garden farm" to good use as she canned tomatoes, peaches, and various and sundry other produce. They were stored in our "cellar" in "Mason Jars;" another rapidly vanishing vestige of the past. Hey, all you fellow citizens of "Wrinkle City," do you remember how your mom melted "parawax" and poured it on top of that canned glass of jelly or jam? Remember how "ESSO" mad the aforementioned parawax as a regular staple for moms all over America? Sure you do! 
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
1930'S 1940'S REMEMBERING "CERTO!"
Wow, does this bring back pleasant memories of my years growing up in then rural Hamilton! "Certo" was a part of nearly every housewife who engaged in the relatively lost art of "canning." Mom Glover put our very small Jersey "garden farm" to good use as she canned tomatoes, peaches, and various and sundry other produce. They were stored in our "cellar" in "Mason Jars;" another rapidly vanishing vestige of the past. Hey, all you fellow citizens of "Wrinkle City," do you remember how your mom melted "parawax" and poured it on top of that canned glass of jelly or jam? Remember how "ESSO" mad the aforementioned parawax as a regular staple for moms all over America? Sure you do!
Do we remember Certo? Sure! We still use it. Out in CA, we have lots of fresh fruit year round. It's marmalade season! We have an overabundance of small lemons since the last storm knocked over a twenty year old Lisbon lemon tree.
ReplyDeleteThe best preserve of the year is the Asian pear and apricot butter of Summer, second only to fig butter.
Yes, Mason jars are still around, too, though the lids are different. No need to melt wax.
THANKS FOR THAT INFO, BILL. YOUR INPUT IS MUCH APPRECIATED.
ReplyDeleteTOM GLOVER
Tom:
ReplyDeleteWhen my wife is not singing she still has time to get some grapes from the garden and make home made grape jelly. It's quite different from what you bye in the store's today.