Canning on the Glenwood

Well my youngest son Sethy scored a buck on Monday eve ...so we did the usual get the hide off and all that at camp, I broke it down to useable parts Tuesday and cut Wed. ...so today I was at the shop and figured I would try and see how my Mirro Canner would do on the Glenwood ...so I opened up the air on her a good bit an got her smokin .....well believe it or NO she heated the canner in short order and I got the first "JIGGLE" of the 10 lb. weight in bought 30 or 40 minutes.
I cut the air when the canner weight started to jiggle and she did a pretty decent job slowin down and stayin steady ....so we did 2 cookins and now have 14 qrt. of canned veni coolin down under the beach towels up at the house and so it looks like they have all sealed~!
Guess this is how our Great Granparents did it back in the day .....
This was an experiment I TOLD MY WIFE WAS MOST LIKELY GONNA FAIL ...but wanted to try it ...she told me she would have the GAS stove at the house waitin for us ...if needed ...lol ...NOT~!!

That is really neat Tim. The next thing you can try is to stew some apples on the Glenwood. I remember all the stewed and canned fruit that was prepared that way. Mom made all of our jelly and jams and such on the iron stove. I have never tasted any jelly or jam nearly as good as Mom and Grandmother made. These stoves cook anything that needs to be stewed to perfection. We have lost so much in our rush toward push button modernity.

Will,
I did take the swing top off for todays canning event ...so I had the entire top of the #30 for my canner to set on.
and basically it worked to perfection ...guess this is why we are ALL here ...our forefathers knew how to MAKE STUFF WORK ?
and feed there little ones all winter.