Per the offering member... Thank you. I got three replies. on Sun, Dec 13, 09 at 21:28 When responding to a post, it is best to scan through the replies to see if the original offer has changed or has possibly been closed. For those receiving the seeds, instead of posting to the thread here, why not post a nice review for the offering member at The Rate and Review Forum The forum instructions are at the top of the page there.

Or maybe glib was serious, but is now too embarrassed to come back to this thread after getting such dire responses. I don't think s/he was pulling our leg. I can certainly imagine a large family, maybe living a prairie-style/homesteading life, where the canning is done all at once. No, I don't think it's safe to can in such big jars, nor can I imagine having that many old two-quart jars, since they're not for sale anymore. But the method itself seems close enough that it's believable. So glib, if you're still out there, I don't imagine your mom wants to hear that current canning guidelines say no canning in two-quart jars (except juice). But I'd say one small step you can take is to be sure the tomatoes are sufficiently acidified, and maybe do those in quart jars. That's the one thing you described that seems most likely to cause sickness. As for horror stories that can't possibly be true, here's one for you. My friends used to make apple butter in a big 50-gallon pot over a fire, and open-kettle can it (they would boil the lids but nothing else). In quart jars by the way. But here's the part that raised my eyebrows...they told me that one year as they started giving away the jars over the next couple days, none of them were sealed. They realized that stacking the boxes of hot jars back up was insulating the ones on the inside, and as soon as they spread out the boxes, all the jars started pinging. So the apple butter was kept warm but not hot for days in unsealed jars. To me, follower of food safety guidelines, that sounds awful. To someone doing things the old way, it's a minor setback that was easily solved. That doesn't mean that people doing things the old way are bad people. Our job on this forum is to present the information and let people make their own decisions about risk. That's all we can do. Melissa Here is a link that might be useful: NCHFP approved methods for tomato products

Has anyone used/tried surfthechannel before ? they simply give links to third parties who offer you the downloads, I read surfthechannel's disclaimer , it's a little scary, but maybe I'm wrong. I love viewing episodes on my laptop; we buy many tv series. Why are those sites offering it for free, is it legal? Is there a site where you can buy episodes ? abc.com is great but they do pull episodes as they wish; I managed to see almost the whole season of Brothers and Sisters since xmas. Private Practice vanished. ITunes has a very poor selection of tv shows for downloading for a fee. the disclaimer says this: "Any videos shown on third party websites are the responsibility of those sites and not SurfTheChannel. We have no knowledge of whether content shown on third party websites is or is not authorized by the content owner as that is a matter between the host site and the content owner. If you are the copyright owner of the video on the third party site that this page links to and you have not authorized it for publication then please report this link to us immediately for removal. This can be done by following the guidelines on our Link Removal Policy."

All you have to do is copy the URL or http link - this is the one to this thread: http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg1117425512088.html and if they copy/paste it into their address bar and hit enter it will open. Sometimes when places in emails, they become clickable, so all they have to do is click on the link. Have you looked at the Finished Kitchens Blog? Many GW members have their kitchens there. If it's not in the FKB, you can search the person's name to find a thread (maybe) that shows finished kitchen pictures. The kitchens forum is quite active and old threads roll off quickly. You could also try a google search of that person's name + "finished kitchen" and see if anything shows up. Use the + and "...." in order to define your search. Here is a link that might be useful: FKB - name list on right side of page