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Show j Ever Taste Peach Jelly? ! Now's The Time to Make It :;: i X V HOT, summer days call for cool and delicate foods and there's really nothing quite like a glass of sparkling peach jelly for waking up warm-weather appetites. The delicious- flavor of the spread flatters flat-ters your salad and iced drinks . . . and its pale, sunbeam color is as pleasant to see as it is to eat. Any and every fruit will jell today to-day with the encouragement of proper directions and a half-minute boil! Choose fully ripe peaches, and your jelly will have every bit of the fine, fresh flavor of the fruit you use. Directions like these, when followed exactly, turn out a perfect product every time: Peach Jelly 3 cups (1 lbs.) Juice 6'i cups (23' lbs.) sugar I bcttle Irult pectin To prepare juice, remove pits from about 3V4 pounds fully ripe peaches. Do not peel. Crush peaches thoroughly. Add Vz cup water, bring to a boil, cover, and simmer 5 minutes. Place fruit in jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out juice. Measure sugar and juice into .large saucepan and mix. Bring to a boil over hottest fire and at once add bottled fruit pectin, stirring constantly. Then bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard minute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly. Paraffin hot jelly at once. Makes about 9 glasses (6 fluid ounces each). Peach Jam 3V2 cups. (I'M lbs.) prepared Irult 4"2 cups (2 lbs.) sugar 1 box powdered Irult pectin To prepare fruit, peel about 2 pounds fully ripe soft peaches; pit and grind or crush thoroughly. Measure sugar into dry dish and set aside until needed. Measure prepared fruit into a 5- to 6-quart kettle, filling up last cup or fraction of cup with water if necessary; place over hottest fire. Add powdered pow-dered fruit pectin, mix well, and continue stirring until mixture comes to a hard boil. At once pour in sugar, stirring constantly. (To reduce foaming, teaspoon butter may be added.) Continue stirring, bring to a full rolling boil, and boil hard 1 minute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly. Paraffin hot jam at once. Makes about 8 glasses (6 fluid ounces each). |