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Show Dehydrated Vegetables Popular This Season I Mehvdratlon or drvlng vegetanies ; and fruits promises to be popular this season on uccount of the scurcltv . Dd high price of sugar that is so liece sary In running and preserv ing Small amounts of gurden products can be I successfully dried before an electric fan. Wash and dry the wooden racks I coer wire netting with clean, white I cheese cloth Wash, pare or scrapo and then cut the f -vi !t or vege'ablcs In cross sections about one eighth of j an Jnch In thieknesa. Spread the siloes In single layers on the cheese , cloth. Tho racks for drying can bt j bought In any number desired but , three or four Is the usual number used ! with an electric fan. I'laee tho electric fan about a foot from the end of the rack and turn on the current. Leave current on until the food looks withered and fcete cry. The length of time varies according to the water content of the food but the average time Is about ten hours. The most Important point In regard to drying vegetables and large fruits is steam first." But the prepared vegetables vege-tables In the upper pair of a steamer and steam, allowing five minutes for the steaming of green vegetables like spinach and string bMiw and eight to ten minutes for steaming of root vegetables. vege-tables. Ears of sweet corn should 0S plunged In boiling water for thre-mlnutes thre-mlnutes or long enough to set the milk, then cut from cob and place on clean cheese cloth In dryer, turn on current cur-rent and keep fan going continuously until kernels are dry. At a rate of 10 cents per unit (kilo-watt (kilo-watt hour the fan can be run from 25 to 40 hours for one dime. |