Short Cuts to Good Eating

Short Cuts to Good Eating
by Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corporation
Adopted for Conservation by
Katherine Gowin
on December 18, 2017
Cover of Short cuts to good eating

Short cuts to good eating : unusual and new recipes for using home canned foods

By Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corporation. Sand Springs, OK: 1950.

Short cuts to good eating: unusual and new recipes for using home canned foods was published by Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corporation. Ruth Kerr, the then-President of the 46 year old company, designed this post-war domestic guide with an eye to food preservation and thrift. "How-to-do-it" canning and recipes are included as well as a complimentary perforated sheet of ephemeral glue-treated jar labels which are still intact. See page 23 on how to can bone in steaks! Kerr Glass, riffing on the earlier metal lid and gasket used in canning, invented the self-sealing lid with reuseable screw-on ring. They also introduced the 3" Wide Mouth Mason Jars that we know and love today as drinkware at "hipster" bars, and trendy DIY home decorative projects.

Condition and Treatment: 

This is a mid-20th century staple bound cookbook. The paper is brittle and as a result the pages are fragile. Conservators will create a custom enclosure to house this item.

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Adoption Type: Preserve for the Future