| Show OP OPA A Reminds Housewives on Canning Sugar Not More Than 25 Pounds Per Person Suggests Sugarless Home Canning Families who have received their 25 pounds per person allotment of sugar for canning may not expect to receive more this season but this need not deter anyone from putting up all available fruit since it ma may successfully be canned with little or no sugar at all W. W C. C Cole Community Sen Service ce Member of the Delta War Var Price and Rationing Board has reminded housewives in inthis inthis inthis this area The OPA has advised the board that shipping facilities and domestic domes domes- tic Hc sugar supplies do not justify canning sugar in addition to the theten theten theten ten pounds per person allocated by bythe bythe bythe the use of stamps 15 and 16 in war var book one and the 15 pounds that may be allowed for each of the family by the loal loal lo- lo al board On the subject of or sugarless home anning tinning the board member quoted States Department of Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture Agri Agri- culture bulletin as follows The wartime canning rule is to illow one pound of ol sugar to four quarts of finished fruit A little ugar helps canned fruit hold color md and flavor but the sugar is not essential es es- es- es to keep the fruit from spoil spoil- ing If you ou have more fruit than sugar put up some fruit unsweetened unsweetened unsweetened ened and sweeten to taste when you serve Home canners' canners attention was called also to a provision in the rationing regulations which permits local war var price and rationing boards to issue up to 25 pounds of canning sugar to farm families I acre I rc the product will be offered for sale to others In this vent event however the person receiving receiving ing irig the sugar is required to report to the board each month telling the amount of the product transferred trans trans- during the past month and to whom It was sold or transferred Ration stamps at the rate of eight processed food points per quart must be collected at the time It Is transferred and turned in to the board along with the monthly re re- re port |
