Kilner jar

Pour the mixture into sterilised kilner jar and set aside to cool completely.

A Kilner jar is a jar that has a rubber ring to seal the top.

He doesn't know the college excitement didn't go away, it went into a Kilner jar in his head, tucked away on a high shelf.

Prick each one a couple of times with a needle and tip into a sterilised one-litre Kilner jar.

He also designed a range of tableware, the Kilner jar and a collectable range of decorated tumblers.

Jeremy Clarkson comes from a rather entrepreneurial family - they invented the Kilner jar which is a type still used for jams and preserves today.

Likewise, the cake mix in a jar: fill a Kilner jar with the dry ingredients for a simple all-in-one cake.

John Kilner & Co., glass manufacturers, established to produce the Kilner jar.

And then, of course, there was the potted pig, which arrived in a Kilner jar, at room temperature, the better to be spread on toast alongside pickles.

Buy a stainless steel preserving pan from John Lewis or Lakeland, and some Kilner jars from a pound shop.

He germinated the spores in dishes containing agar jelly, then transferred the spores to Kilner jars which contained rye grains.

As well as a tree, the set includes a bulging kilner jar of marinated olives, which can be enjoyed while you wait for your own olives to grow.

It included the story of his great-great-great grandfather John Kilner (1792-1857), who invented the Kilner jar: a container for preserved fruit.

To serve, spoon a layer of fruit jelly in the bottom of each of four sterilised mini jam jars or Kilner jars so that it is a quarter filled.

Barron Kilner was also Mayor of Wakefield in 1899 and the grandson of John Kilner, the founder of the 'Kilner Jar' companies.

With all the other openings, escapes, extravaganzas, possibilities, adventures, freedoms, flights, and potentialities of his life, all in a row on that high dark shelf, all sealed away in Kilner jars.

Gone, all gone, the battle over, the warm blanket of contentment descending once more, the Kilner jars on the high dark shelf reconstructing themselves, imploding back to wholeness, trick photography, the film run backward.

In the morning, we hurried downstairs to an excellent breakfast that included yogurt and summer fruits served in mini Kilner jars and home-made granola - after which, we wished fervently for a few squashy armchairs in which to devour the Sunday papers.

In the United Kingdom home bottling is done with Kilner jars in a similar way to the Mason jars in the USA, and although old-style Kilner jars have a glass lid without a "dimple" more recent varieties do.