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Folder 22: Turkey

Turkey Canning Program Canning Food Women
<p style="margin-left:2.0in;"> Field- Home Economics Extension Trainers working in the garden at Bornooa Izmer Eye University grounds We are not sure how effective our gardening training. It did not have the popularity and support that other like clothing, childcare and foods and nutrition had. Perhaps if men and girls had been trained together more than just an occasional day or two of in-service training it would have resulted in more practical action.
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<p style="margin-left:2.0in;"> Border, three women, child- Although drying was a common method of food preservation we introduced some improved methods…sulfering, capering, with gauze, etc.
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<p style="margin-left:2.0in;"> Box of Jars- CARE brought Kerr Jar into Turkey and asked us to teach canning. Most all village families cooked over a tiny charcoal burner, which is surely somewhat inadequate for much canning. So, we taught canning only at the technical schools where there are kerosene stoves. Then we ask the girls to limit the canning to tomatoes and apples. We could not see a future to the project when the one supply of Kerr lids were gone. The technician was never to sell the products because there is fresh fruit and vegetables almost the year around. We felt drying might be safer. Many years later we understood the project survived…there are now many canning center in the large towns over the country