Save energy, resources and time with a pressure cooker.

I've missed making beans in my pressure cooker (the sealing ring needed replacement). A pressure cooker is a marvelous device that saves time, energy and packaging. Using dried beans rather than canned is less expensive, reduces the need for a metal can (that must later be rinsed and recycled) and gives the cook the option to use less salt.  I found a new sealing ring and overpressure plug on the Internet at Red Hill General Store and ordered them to make my 35 year old cooker act like new again!  For online articles on pressure cookers, go to http://www.hwlibrary.org/Online_Electronic_Resources.html  Scroll down to the InfoTrac Home Improvement Collection and type pressure cookers.  Or go directly to http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=PPHI&u=mlin_n_hamwen and enter  pressure cookers.