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Show Sugar Allotment for Canning Will Not Be Increased Families who have received their 25 pound per person allotment of sugar for canning may not expect ex-pect to receive more this season, but this need not deter anyone from putting up all available fruit since it may successfully be canned with little or no sugar at all, Tillie Winsor, community service member of the St. George war price and rationing board has reminded housewives in this area. The OPA has advised the board that shipping facilities and domestic do-mestic sugar supplies do not justify jus-tify canning sugar in addition to the ten pounds per person allocated al-located by the use of stamps 15 and 16 in war ration book one and the 15 pounds that may be allowed for each member of the family by the local board. On the subject of sugarless home canning, the board member quoted a United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture bulletin as follows: "The usual wartime canning can-ning rule is to allow one pound of sugar to four quarts of finished fin-ished fruit. A little sugar helps canned fruit hold color and flavor but the sugar is not essential es-sential to keep the fruit from spoiling. If you have more fruit than sugar, put up some fruit unsweetened, and sweeten to taste when you serve". Home canners' attention was called also to a provision in the rationing regulations which permits per-mits local war price and rationing ration-ing boards to issue up to 25 pounds of canning sugar to farm families where the finished product prod-uct will be offered for sale to others. In this event, however, the person receiving the sugar is required to report to the board each month telling the amount of the product transferred during the past month and to whom . it was sold or transferred. Ratio! stamps at the rate of eight processed proc-essed food points per quart must be collected at the time it is transferred and turned in to the board along with the monthly report. |