21.   Wash canning jars in hot, soapy water and rinse well.

22.   We ate tasty smoked trout and gravy-smothered pot roast by a roaring fire and sipped drinks out of canning jars.

23.   When you use canning jar lids, this cake has a shelf life of at least three months.

24.   Which meant a portion that all but filled a plate, garden salad and water in a canning jar.

25.   While okra soaks, sterilize canning jars.

26.   Yet time and again, my grandmother played her part in this ritual, sacrificing a perfectly good canning jar.

27.   You remember grandmothers and aunts lugging bushels of produce and boxes of canning jars into the steaming kitchen.