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The Best Way To Label Your Home-Canned Food
By NATASHA BAILEY
Canning is an excellent hobby for home cooks with overactive produce gardens, or those who just love to hand out edible gifts to friends and family. However, there are rules one should follow in order to create satisfying home-canned foods, prevent foodborne illness, and make the whole job easier, including tips and tricks about labeling.
Labeling your jars and cans is an overlooked but essential step in home canning, especially if you store different goods that look similar, like strawberry jam versus strawberry-lemon marmalade. You can print canning labels, write on strips of tape, or just use a Sharpie to label your containers, but the best place to put those labels is the lid.
A lid is not only a flat, even surface to write on; it's also easier to glance at labels on the lid of a jar and quickly grab what you need, instead of turning jars around or picking them up to see what it says on the front. Permanent markers work for disposable lids, but for reusable ones, try a dry-erase marker, which is washable, but might smear easily.
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