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Show ISHOPPER'Sl CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY IN A JAM Now's the time for all good homemakers to get in a jam a good one! From the grocer's shelf to your pantry shelf from summer's sum-mer's plenty to winter's sweet-tooth sweet-tooth hunger! Get in that jam, lady either buy it from your grocer, or better still, make it yourself! Just look what your grocer has to offer today plums, early peach-i peach-i es, late strawberries, limes, lemons, 1 oranges and that answer to a sum- ; mer thirst the toothy watermelon! ! Jams, marmalades and pickles all ; for the asking, while you wait for the berries and later peaches all j for present eating fresh, and future eating in preserve form! ! While all melons are good, water- ! melon is still King crowned around i the Fourth of July, and ruling the American appetite long thereafter. The price of watermelon you'll find in plenty at your grocer's is moderate and thrifty manager that you are you will waste nothing! Even the seeds dried out and salted make delicious appetizers. Enjoy I the fruit itself, straight with the teeth in that typical watermelon ! .grin; or as the center of a salad of other melons and fruits. Then , save the rinds for those watermelon pickles like Mother used to makej j However you're using 'em you'll ! be smart to buy only half a melon at a time, to insure its maturity, r But if you buy a whole one, look ior a firm, symmetrical melon, I colored bright shiny green on top, I -and creamy yellow on the under- I side. j PULL OF A PLUM ; Good news for plum-lovers! This I year's crop is expected to reach 32,000 tons, which will lower the price of plums at your grocer's steadily as they flood the market. You'll have plenty! Like 'em in fruit salad, combined with other fruits? You can buy 'em, I eat 'em, and like 'em. Or do you I like upside down cake? Plums add I a delicious flavor to this favorite I -dessert! j As for plum jam you can carry that haunting flavor into the winter, toy preserving as many extra plums as you can hide from your family, They'll thank you, come winter! |