Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — Canned Fruit [ARTICLE]

Canned Fruit

This industry, which has attained such extensive proportions, owes its existance to an accident. The process was known to the inhabitants of Pompeii, but had long been forgotten. Some years ago a party of Americans happened to be present at some excavations in that city when some jars of preserved figs wero found. Investigation showed that the figs had been put into the jars in a heated state, an opening left for the steam to escape and then sealed with the wax. The hint was taken, and the following year fruit-canning was introduced in the United States after the manner practiced in Pompeii two thousand years before.