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Show PATRIOTIC Oeil OF OICLE SAlWS It Saves Surplus Fruit, Takes No Sugar and It Is Good for Everyone. GRAPE JUICE IS WHOLESOME One of the Very Best Soft Drinks for Your Family and Friends It Will Keep Indefinitely if Not Exposed to the Air. In the face of the sugar shortage the small grape arbor takes on a new light. Little sugar for jellies and jams will make it necessary to turn most of the surplus grapes into some other channel. The patriotic grower will look into the possibilities of homemade home-made grape juice, which is made without with-out sugar, and which is so wholesome used as a beverage or in desserts of one kind and another. ODly clean, sound, well ripened, but not overripe, grapes should be used. These may be crushed and pressed either by hand or in aa ordinary cider mill. If a light-colored juice is desired, de-sired, the crushed grapes are put in a. clean, well-washed cloth sack and either hung up and twisted or grasped hy two persons, one at either end, and twisted until the greater part of the juice is expressed. Then, in a" double boiler or its equivalent, such as a large stone jar placed In a pan of hot water, so that the juice does not come in direct contact with the fire, the juice is gradually heated to a temperature of 180 to 200 degrees F. The temperature should never be allowed al-lowed to go above 200 degrees F. Heat to Steaming Point. It is best to use a thermometer; If none is available, however, the juice may be heated until it steams, but it should not be allowed to boil. It should be poured immediately into a glass or enameled vessel and allowed to settle for 24 hours then the juice should be drained from the sediment and run through several thicknesses of clean flannel or through a conic filter made from woolen cloth or felt and fixed to a hoop of iron, so that it can be suspended wherever necessary. The juice is then poured into clean bottles, space being left at the top for the liquid to expand when heated. A good home substitute for a commercial com-mercial pasteurizer is an ordinary wash boiler with a thin board fitted ovet the bottom on which the filled bottles are set. Ordinary glass fruit jars serve" the same purpose equally well. The boiler should be filled with water to within an inch or so of the tops of the bottles and heated until the water begins to simmer. The bottles bot-tles should then be taken out and .sealed or corked immediately. Only new corks that have just been soaked for about thirty minutes in warm water at a temperature of about 1-10 degrees F. fiouid be used. It is well to take the further precaution of sealing the corbs with paraffin or sealing wax to pre Tent the entrance of mold germs. |