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Transcription: [00:04:55]
{Hostess speaker, name= 'unknown'}
Good afternoon, and welcome to our last session of the festival in the food preservation and community activities sess-- section. We are going to talk with two experts today on home canning.

[00:05:11]
{Hostess speaker, name= 'unknown'}
If you've all been by the tent across the way you've noticed the good smells coming from that tent. We think it's the best smelling tent in the whole festival grounds. And so these ladies today are going to tell you how

[00:05:23]
{Hostess Speaker, name= 'unknown'}
they prepare some of the foods that they've been working on for the past week. To my immediate right is Minnie Pearl Brown from Tifton, Georgia. She's been over preparing many canned foods and you perhaps have had a chance to talk to her.

[00:05:38]
{Hostess Speaker, name= 'unknown'}
To my far right is Peggy Miller from Sylvester. Is that right?

[00:05:42]
{SPEAKER name="Minnie Pearl Brown"}
Worth County

[00:05:43]
{Hostess Speaker, name= 'unknown'}
Sylvester, Georgia and she too has been organizing and preparing many of the foods that you've, I'm sure, enjoyed looking at today. Both of these women are very well-recognized in their community for their home canning.

[00:05:58]
{Hostess Speaker, name= 'unknown'}
They do many things very well. But one thing that the community knows they do well is can uh food. They can a lot of it and many different varieties, some of which those of us who live in this area or other parts of the country, perhaps have never experienced before.

[00:06:15]
{Hostess Speaker, name= 'unknown'}
And so later on we're going to talk about some of those foods that we might consider a little unusual like canned peanuts or mayhaw jelly or the hot pepper jellies. Canning, home canning, it seems to me is a craft that really has not received the attention that it deserves

[00:06:31]
{Hostess Speaker, name= 'unknown'}
and I think later on in our discussion we'll talk about some of the very fine points of canning. Some of the reasons that I think canning is popular and has been of interest to our festival crowd is because, obviously, it's very economical.

[00:06:44]
{Hostess Speaker, name= 'unknown'}
It saves money to raise your own produce and then can it yourself at home. In addition to that, home-canned foods reflect regional tastes. You can prepare foods that your family enjoys that you may not be able to buy in the supermarket. And for that reason we also--