If ya make ketchup or catsup and put it in the old bottles with the bottle capper #1 Do you put it in hot and then cap it or cold and then cap it #2 Should the jars be hot or cold? #3 Is there a trick to putting it in these type of jars? Any advice at all Cindy

-- Cindy (hollo@bitwisesystems.com), October 12, 2001

Answers

I would suggest putting it in mason canning jars and processing in a boiling water bath for 20 minutes. A little safer than just jarring it up.

-- Bev (sinkcar@yahoo.com), October 12, 2001.

I would hot water bath it also. As to getting it into the jars... when I first saw this question title, it brought back memories of a naughty little Mennonite boy. He was determined to do anything he thought he shouldnt do. And multiply that by 2, as he had a brother of a likeminded philosophy. These 2 little guys took a short length of rubber hose and used it as a straw to suck catsup out of the bottle. The mom came in and caught them at it. She turned and used that hose on their bottoms, forgetting it was full of catsup. Her Saturday-night-clean kitchen walls and ceiling told the story with streaks of catsup deposited thereon during the flailing. The boy is now grown, and loves to tell the story.

You arent trying to get catsup into narrow-mouthed bottles are you? you could try sucking it up a rubber tube and blowing it into the bottles... (groan)

-- daffodyllady (daffodyllady@yahoo.com), October 13, 2001.