In the 1800s, people didn't have refrigerators, freezers, or coolers so their food spoiled a lot. The people had to find to find a way to save their food from rotting and bacteria.

Method

The people in the 1800s used three basic ways of preservation. The basic ways were canning, cold storage, and smoked.

Canning was the most common way of preserving the food. In this process of perseveration, food was crammed into glass jars. Than they cook it the jars so it was air tight. After that they boiled it the glass bottle to destroy bacteria that would cause spoilage. Then it is cool it.