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Show FARM. NOTES j BY GOLDEN L. STOKER j j Beaver County Agent May Can Fruits Without Sugar i Fruits may be canned or . fruit : juices bottled without sugar, but they will not hold their color, flavor, or shape so well, according to the Bureau of Home Economics. Unsweetened canned fruit is useful for pie-making and also for diets ! for diabetics. Juicy fruits such as berries. . cherries, currants, and plums should be canned in their own i juices rather than with water when no sugar is used. Extract the juice from the ripened fruits by crushing, heating, and then strain-I strain-I ing. Pack the remaining fruits i closely into glass jars or tin canr ! without preheating and add enough boiling juice to cover them. Partially Par-tially seal the jars or exhaust and then seal tin cans. Process them in a hot-water bath from 5 to 20 minutes depending on the density of the fruit. Another method is to precook the fruit at simmering temperature for from 2 to 4 minutes min-utes and then pour it hot into containers. con-tainers. Seal and process. The less juicy fruits such as , apples, peaches and pears, when canned without sugar, require some water. But to hold all natural flavor possible, use only the smallest small-est amount of water necessary. ' Simply follow the standard direc-; direc-; tions for canning these particular fruits using water instead of sirup. Honey or light-colored sirups I are sometimes substituted for all I or part of the sugar in canning, but the results are not so certain j as with granulated sugar. Utah will harvest tomatoes from 6,600 acres this year as compared to 6,800 acres last year, according j to estimates by the bureau of agri-i agri-i cultural economics. The pea acre-! acre-! age is 14,000 acres this year and i was 12,700 acres in 1936. This j year 9S0 acres of snap beans will be harvested as compared to 790 acres last year. The Utah winter wheat forecast for this harvest is 726,000 bushels. |