Canning apple sauce
On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This article is about a method of food preservation. For the casino, see Cannery Casino and Hotel. For the thermochemical decomposition of organic material, canning apple sauce Pyrolysis.
Not to be confused with Caning. In 1974, samples of canned food from the wreck of the Bertrand, a steamboat that sank in the Missouri River in 1865, were tested by the National Food Processors Association. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. During the first years of the Napoleonic Wars, the French government offered a hefty cash award of 12,000 francs to any inventor who could devise a cheap and effective method of preserving large amounts of food.
The larger armies of the period required increased and regular supplies of quality food. Limited food availability was among the factors limiting military campaigns to the summer and autumn months. The French Army began experimenting with issuing canned foods to its soldiers, but the slow process of canning foods and the even slower development and transport stages prevented the army from shipping large amounts across the French Empire, and the war ended before the process was perfected. Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the canning process was gradually employed in other European countries and in the US.
A Dixie Can Sealer for home use. Now in Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum. Based on Appert’s methods of food preservation, the tin can process was allegedly developed by Frenchman Philippe de Girard, who came to London and used British merchant Peter Durand as an agent to patent his own idea in 1810. The main market for the food at this stage was the British Army and Royal Navy. 3000 worth of canned meat in six months. During the mid-19th century, canned food became a status symbol among middle-class households in Europe, being something of a frivolous novelty.
Early methods of manufacture employed poisonous lead solder for sealing the cans. Increasing mechanization of the canning process, coupled with a huge increase in urban populations across Europe, resulted in a rising demand for canned food. A number of inventions and improvements followed, and by the 1860s smaller machine-made steel cans were possible, and the time to cook food in sealed cans had been reduced from around six hours to thirty minutes. Robert Ayars established the first American canning factory in New York City in 1812, using improved tin-plated wrought-iron cans for preserving oysters, meats, fruits and vegetables.
