The Pioneers' Way
Dear Aunt Daisy, Can you tell me how to get the top off an earthenware vinegar jar? I have tried to chip it, but thought there must be an easier way and less chance of cracking it. The jar would make a good bread-container. "Toko." The pioneers had a method for cutting the tops off demijohns, and even bottles, to use as jam-jars. It was to wind knitting wool around the jar, about
half an inch in thickness, where you want it taken off, and then pour kerosene on the wool till it is well soaked. Put a match to it and let it burn till it is nearly all burnt out. Then turn it upside down in a bucket pf cold water. The top should come off quite cleanly.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 493, 3 December 1948, Page 23
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133The Pioneers' Way New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 493, 3 December 1948, Page 23
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