Thursday, February 10, 2011

Learning about acids and bases by making pickles!



Our first time canning.






Sarah's concentrating on putting the pickles in the water CAREFULLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is our recipe!!!!!!!!!!!!!








Here's us cutting the cucumbers to make pickles!!!!!







Today we made _____Pickles___________.

Cucumbers are naturally a ______bases_________________.

By adding _____vinegar____________ cucumbers become __acidic pickles_____________________.

Because pickles are acidic (with the vinegar) we can use a _____boiling water caner___________________ to process the pickles.

If we were canning something that was a base or alkaline we would have to use a _____pressure caner______________ to process.













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