'Jarring' is jarring

[anna_wing]

I seem to recall that in my distant youth the process of preserving fruit or vegetables in sealed glass containers was called 'bottling'. There was also Richard III, the bottled spider (I remember wondering as a child why anyone would want to put a spider in a bottle, it seemed a rather cruel thing to do). When did it become 'jarring', a word with a useful existing meaning of its own that didn't need another one?

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[sovay]

When did it become 'jarring', a word with a useful existing meaning of its own that didn't need another one?

Huh. I believe it's still "canning" in the U.S., despite the use of glass rather than metal.

[anna_wing]

But there must have been a word for preserving fruit and vegetables in bottles or jars before canning was invented. Pickles have been around for a very long time.

[sovay]

But there must have been a word for preserving fruit and vegetables in bottles or jars before canning was invented. Pickles have been around for a very long time.

Prior to the existence of Mason jars, I assume people just said "pickling" when they meant making pickles and "preserving" when they meant making preserves, but I definitely think of "canning" as the older word for what you describe, not "jarring."