Title: Home Pickling of Olives - Part 7
Categories: Pickle Info
Yield: 4 Servings

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c. To add lye and bury, mix 2 level tablespoons of flake lye with the contents of the container of olives. Allow to stand for one day and then bury the can or jar and its contents deep enough to insure that children or pets will not dig it up until the caustic action of the lye has entirely disappeared.

5. Never feed to animals of poultry spoiled or suspected home-canned olives. Never ask someone else to taste olives you, yourself, do not care to taste.

6. If someone has tasted or eaten spoiled or suspected home-canned olives, have your personal physician contact the city, county, or state health department immediately. Save a sample of olives, preferably in the ori- ginal brine and container, for laboratory examination. If the sample cannot be collected immediately, store under protected refrigeration.

ANTIDOTES FOR LYE BURNS

1. If lye solution has caused burning, apply vinegar, lemon, orange, or other acid fruit juice until lye appears to be neutralized.

2. If lye solution has been swallowed:

~ Call the family physician. ~ Administer white of egg or milk by mouth. ~ Do not induce vomiting. ~ Combat shock by placing person affected in reclining position with head lower than body and wrapping him in blankets.

If lye solution has been splashed in to the eye, flush the eye in a stream of running water, bathe the eye with boric acid solution, and call the family physician.

Olives, from the California Extension Service From: Michael Sierchio

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