AEG 312B - Manual (Page 19)

For bottling, use only jars with rubber seals and gibss lids.
Never use jars with screw tittings or bayonet catches or metal
tins: And make sure you use fresh foodstuffs!
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, .
To-Switch on, turn the cooking method selector to hot air ¡X]
and the oven temperature control to 160 °C.
Keap 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) switchoff 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 the 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 fora further
60-90 minutes. Then switch off the oven and allow the jars to
stand a further 30 minutes in the closed oven.
Bottling
in the
oven
19