Show tan OF PEAS PV aaa aaa BRINGS FARM WOMAN FE FAME AND A ND FORTUNE mrs mary hvass of kennan wis wins 1250 in national canning contest gives pressure cooking credit americas champion canner Is a jack lunchroom she Is mrs mary hvass of kennan wis who won this title and a grand prize ot of 1250 in the national canning contesti contest conducted acted by the sears roebuck agricultural foundation just ended in achl cago for tho the best jar of home cooked food submitted in the nationwide nation wide contest in which women participated her contribution which eminent domestic science judges selected as the premier jar was a can of peas mrs hooss Is a pioneer who has been winning prizes ever since she aho and her husband john hvass set out to win a livelihood from their wisconsin land prizes at the county and state fairs for chickens bread and cakes and canned goods N A 71 americas champion canner mrs mary avasa of kennan ala putting up can of peas in her press pressure bre cooker with which she won grand arand prize of 1250 in the national canning con test in chicago for the best beat jar of preserved food she first saw the wisconsin prairies as aa three year old mary jensen it was her job as she grew up to help her father and mother win bread and butter for nine small jeukens and themselves she was her mothers helper on the farm until all the children were well wei on their way to growing up then she yielded to tho the glamour of the trading town called minneapolis at MInne minneapolis apol Is she became a cook J at a lumberjack lunchroom room where she met and married lumberjack john hanss they moved to wisconsin first to a small farm later inter to a larger one where they are anro living today there mary ilvess helped her husband husband fell ell trees build barns fences and their house for nearly thirty three years they struggled together when mrs mary hvass heard that one jar of pens peas that she had canned was worth 1250 it seemed incredible to hor her it was just one jar out of hundreds that were canned all as part of a summers work and it was simple business to put them up she followed directions in a government bulletin 1 I used a pressure tre cooker as the government advised because ive tried every other way and I 1 know its bests best she explained first I 1 blanched the peas for SO 30 minutes in scalding water then I 1 dipped them in cold water poured them in a mason jar with seasoning and put the jar in my pressure cooker for 00 50 minutes at degrees all the work it took tooma tomake ke them ready for the contest I 1 want anything more certain and film elm pie than m my y kook kolcic kalek pressure cooker for canning peas and all kinds of food judges of the contest who declared the peas canned by mrs hvass to be pe perfect in flavor color and general appearance pe arance were dr margaret Mn rgaret justin president of the american home economics association dr louise stanley director of the united states bureau of home come economics mrs jose phine bakke home economics director nt at iowa state agricultural collego college miss elaine massey director of girls club work in mississippi anil and george farell director of extension in the middle west tor for the department of agriculture there are canned pens peas and canned peas that win prizes but those that were canned by mrs mary avasa go even further they are going to pay for their own creaming and buttering the grand prize check of 1250 Is going to set up mrs hvass in the dairy business her ambition for many years was to own a herd of purebred pure bred holstein Dolst eln cattle and to extend her prize winning into wider fields now her ambition will be realized with the purchase of the nucleus of such a dairy herd |