| Show j Housewives Do a Sized Man-Sized Job for the U. U S. S j By Canning Your Home-Grown Home Foods This Year j By LUCRECE HUDGINS WAS WASHINGTO WASHINGTON Every H I N G T 0 N N- N NEve Eve Every r y housewife who cans a homegrown homegrown homegrown home home- grown rhubarb this summer will willbe willbe willbe be doing a job for Uncle Sam Pressure must be lifted from the commercial canners declare declare declare de de- clare food experts in the department department department depart depart- ment of agriculture And the way to do it is to have a per cent increase in home canning canning canning can can- ning in 1942 Dont Don't let shortages in sugar tin rubber lubber and aluminum pressure pressure pressure pres pres- sure cookers worry you The governments government's home economics bureau has figured out a number number number num num- ber of ways for the home gardener gardener gardener gar gar- dener to cons conserve food in spite of priorities Store Staples In Basement In the first place you dont don't actually have to can can food to save it In a properly outfitted basement you can store such family staples as potatoes cabbage cabbage cabbage cab cab- bage celery pumpkins squash apples and winter pears You can dry corn fruit beans and peas You can freeze broccoli broccoli broccoli broc broc- coli spinach berries peaches asparagus meats and poultry And you can brine green tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes toma toma- toes and cucumbers These devices devices devices de de- de- de vices save both canning equipment equipment equip equip- ment and labor T When you finally get around to the things that must be canned you start thinking about sugar This year you'll have to togo togo togo go easy on rich preserves re requiring requiring requiring re- re quiring a lot of sugar and substitute substitute substitute sub sub- fruit canned in light syrup unsweetened pie fruits and juices Juicy fruits such as berries cherries currents and plums may be canned in their own juices sugar So may apples apples ap ap- ples pies peaches and pears when a little water is added In any case remember that beet sugar is just as good as cane sugar Honey and maple syrup make excellent substitutes for both Write the Superintendent 4 dent of Documents Washington D. D C. C enclosing g 10 cents in stamps and ask for Farmers' Farmers bulletin 1762 on canning Make Canning Community Project Because steel and aluminum pressure cookers will be hard to get the home economics bureau suggests that canning become a community project with all the neighbors sharing one cooker ina ina in ina a sort of preserving bee Dealers may run short of zinc and tin replacement covers for your preserving jars Remember glass all containers do not require re require require re- re quire new covers i. i Because rubber jar rings must I Ibe be bought nf new W each ach year the war production board has set set set- aside sufficient rubber for this purpose They may be smaller and less elaborate than last year but they will serve as well You see said a spokesman for the home economics bureau home grown home canned food is going to play playa a big part in national national national na na- na- na defense That's why the government is going to see to it that every housewife has the the ther r ways and means of conserving j for the future the food she grows 1 in her own victory garden |
