AEG 520B - Manual (Page 21)

Bottling ■ For bottling, use only jars with rubber seals and glass lids,
in the Never use jars with screw fittings or bayonet catches or metal
main oven tins. And make sure you use fresh foodstuffsi
The oven holds 6 bottling jars of 1-1.5 litres capacity.
Place 1 cup of hot water in the drip-pan so that the necessary
humidity is retained in the oven.
■ Position the jars in the enamelled pan on the 4th level from the
top. The jars should not touch, must wherever possible be
filled to the same level with the same contents and must be se­
curely clamped.
■ Vapour vent (where featured): closed.
■ To
switch on, turn my cooking method selector to hot air (5
and the oven temperature control to 160 °C.
■ Keep an eye on the food being bottled.
As soon as the liquid in the first jars (when bottling fruit or
gherkins) begins to bubble (after around 45 minutes for 1
litre jars) switch off the oven, but allow the jars to stand a fur­
ther 30 minutes or so - around 15 minutes for soft fruit, e. g.
strawberries - in the closed oven.
When bottling vegetables or meat, set back my oven tem­
perature control to 100 °C as soon as the liquid in the first jars
begins to bubble and allow the contents to cook for a further
60-90 minutes. Then switch off the oven and allow the jars to
stand a further 30 minutes in the closed oven.
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