It was six years ago that I first heard of the One Period, Cold?Pack Method
of canning. A little circular was put in my hand one day at a federated club
meeting announcing the fact that in a few weeks there would be a cold?pack
demonstration about fifty miles away. Immediately I announced that I was
going to the demonstrations. So leaving my small daughter with my mother,
I went to the Normal School at DeKalb, Illinois, and heard and saw for the
first time cold?pack canning.

It is sufficient to say that those three days were so crowded full of
interest and new messages on the gospel of canning that I felt amply repaid
for going fifty miles. As a result of that trip, the first story ever
published on cold?pack canning appeared in The Country Gentleman and I had
the pleasure of writing it. So enthused was I over this new, efficient and
easy way to can not only fruits but hard vegetables, such as peas, corn and
beans, that I wanted to carry the good news into the kitchen of other busy
housewives and mothers.

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