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Transcription: [00:17:37]
{SPEAKER name="Peggy Miller"}
...towel and just put your jelly into the jars and then you boil in hot water, boiling hot water, you put your jar lids. Now there's two kinds of jar lids, and the new kind that's on the market has the porcelain on the lid and the seal around it.
[00:17:58]
The rubber seal is a little larger. Before, it used to be about a third of an inch, I mean about a quarter of an inch, now it's a third of an inch, so it's about as thick as your finger around and they are the jar lids to get. If you're ever canning.
{SPEAKER name="J. L. Harris"} [Jimmie Lee Harris]
[[overlapping]] Is that right? The one with the porcelain inside?
[00:18:15]
{SPEAKER name="Peggy Miller"}
That's right it's a white -- inside.
{SPEAKER name="J. L. Harris"}
Oh, yeah. and they're just safer? or easier to use?
{SPEAKER name="Peggy Miller"}
[[overlapping]] They're safer. They're safer to use than the aluminu- uh, the, it's not aluminum, it's tin, isn't it Martha?
[00:18:28]
{SPEAKER name="Martha Barrs"}
The, the tin tops will, eventually, in a little while, will, some of 'em will rust, especially if you're putting var- uh, foods with very much acid in 'em. In the jar, the lid will rust and therefore you're not supposed use the rusted lids or the rest of the product. So they ask you to buy the ones with the white porcelain lid tops.
[00:18:50]
{SPEAKER name="J. L. Harris"}
Now, you were talking a little bit about the kinds of jellies that you make, or you would show, describing for us the process of making jelly. What are some kinds of jellies that you make and use down in South Georgia that other people might not be so familiar with?
[00:19:03]
{SPEAKER name="Peggy Miller"}
Now one of the main jellies they do not, and it's mostly in Georgia, the southern part of Georgia, in swamp areas, lime swamp, and in Louisiana, South Louisiana; I found that out today. They do have 'em over there, and Alabama, the southern part, and it's in, grows on tall trees about six feet tall. They come from bushes on up, and it's only in the month of May that we have these. And these bushes are very thorny, so you can't climb 'em.
[00:19:33]
{SPEAKER name="J. L. Harris"}
Now, what bush is this again?
{SPEAKER name="Peggy Miller"}
Mayhaw.
{SPEAKER name="J. L. Harris"}
The Mayhaw.
{SPEAKER name="Peggy Miller"}
[[overlapping]] It's M-a-y-h-a-w and that comes from an Indian...
[00:19:40]

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