Bottling Shell Fish
Dear Aunt Daisy, Could you please tell me through The Listener how to bottle toheroas or | mussels?. I tried them with the stew-. pan method for fruit but they went bad. There is one method using vinegar but I do not know quantities, etc. I would prefer to do without vinegar if possible. "Arjayen," Bay of Islands. If you bottled the mussels by the water-bath method "as for fruit," as you say, you probably did not give them nearly long enough time. The book published by the home science department of Otago University gives the time for oysters as 4 hours in the water-bath, with the jars completely covered by boiling water. This book does not give mussels, but for oysters it recommends pre-cooking by steaming in a bowl over hot water, just for a short time; then pack into sterilised jats, heat the liquor, strain, and pour over the liquor. It will be only a tew tablespoons and not enough to cover. Seal properly and process for 4 hours at boiling point. If using the popular bottling outfit on the market, the time Siven is much shorter because the mussels are covered with vinegar, having been previously left in a strong brine for about 4 hours They are then boiled and sealed and processed for 1 hours at 160 degrees, starting from cold and taking an hour to reach that temperature. For bottling crayfish in this out fit, you may use a brine to pour over the prepared fish in the jars, and process at boiling point for an hour after reaching boiling from cold. Leave for 48 hours and then re-sterilise for an hour Instead of brine, you may use the vinegar. in which case only one sterilising iss necessary. For crayfish it is best to have the water in the water-bath above boiling point, so that the fish in the jars is actually at boiling-point; and this is achieved by adding about a pound of salt to the water. The instruction book with this outfit gives very clear and definite directions and provides a thermometer with its covered steriliser ot water-bath. I cannot give trade names here, but you may send me a stamped envelope for the name. \
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 818, 1 April 1955, Page 23
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374Bottling Shell Fish New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 818, 1 April 1955, Page 23
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