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Canning in Shafter a Lingering Local Tradition
In Shafter residents recall canning as a family activity tied to apricots cucumbers and fruit harvests. Some keep the habit and freeze or dry produce while others switch to modern freezing. Lorene Hill Robert Freyberger Irene Tilley Vi Crabb Bertha Schroeder Ruth Stover Hazel Craft and others share methods jam jelly and fruit leather with MCP pectin and sun drying. A Kern County veteran and community figures appear amid nostalgia for past preserves.
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Lorene Hill
Lorene
Robert Freyberger
Irene Tilley
Methodist Church
Vi Crabb
Bertha Schroeder
Ruth Stover
Hazel Craft
Nina Leigh
Sacramento