| Show CANNING FRUIT the season fo for putting up fruit has arh ark arrived ived and the women folks will now be busy laying liying up their winter supply this canning fruit has become as much a necessity of american housewifery as curing hay is of husbandry but quite frequently the th e work is ill ili 11 done owing ow I 1 to inexperience perlener ter per peri perl lence lenee ence enco mostly and the fruit fault is found to 0 b be spoiled when the season for which it was intended has arrived A lady new york who thohas has had much experience and uniform success in preserving pre serIng fruit gives her me method methods as follows 1 I will suppose your fruit and glass cans are all ready I 1 prefer cans with glass covers I 1 scald the fruit in a large tin pan with juice or water to cover erit it put half a teacup p of cold water into every can and nii nil fill up with hot water put the covers and rubbers also into hot water now empty the can and fill up with the hot fruit and then another let them stand open till the hand can be held upon them without burning As soon as filled cut put writing paper the size of the can one for each and when cool slip one over the fruit entirely landfill and fill up the can on top of the paper with boiling juice and seal at once ladies try this way the fruit will never mould and will keep any time if you dont eat it the paper keeps the fruit from rising to the top of the liquid Ir quid there is no use of setting offsetting the cans into water to heat them or of putting them into quilted bags itis it is too troublesome I 1 let the fruit shrink and then fill up to the cover as close as possible ladies must be governed by their own common sense men attempt to give directions but their wives have to tell them and then they are likely forget |
