Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-09-01
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tits avery desirable thing, certainly, to tliscov-
er a mode byWhich all the nice summer and fall
fiuits with which we are so beautifully supplied,
can be put up without the use Of sugar, so as to
retain theiF natural favor months or years after
wards and 10 gain this point dealers in fruit have
tined various experiments with more or less sue
cess. The attention of the public was ftstg given
to mode for the preservation ofanmal substances,
as. forming the more sdlil basis of human food,
thdta1mies 10 desert places and fleets in unknown
seas, might have supply of flesh provision, so
necessary to the comfort and health OF their men,
Experiments proved that FISH. oysters, IOast NUT
ton. turkey, Chicken and beef together with soups
and milk, conldibe kept fof years in an excellent
suite representation by the Dramatically sealing
process. This much being gained, attention was
directed 10 the preservation OF lTui'S aud vegeta-
bleS III the same way. aud though the rule when
applied TO animal substances was found to work
admirably, still but little success attended the first
experiments with fruits, and with garden vegeta-
bles they proved complete failure. The expert
meHls going on, finally met with success in many
things, first with Tomatoes, then Strawberries,
Blackberres, Ptunls, Peaches, and TO some extent
with Peas, Beans, Corn, &c. Butleyen now the
Pnpciple Is not well understood, and many persons
have the modification to find their fruit spoiled
when they open ii in the winter and very few iu-
deed succeed with Cora and Peas. The remark
is often made that the process OF putting up fruit
rs very simple. So it is-to those who understand
II. soiis the process of building steam engines
the art OF navigating ships-the ntricacies Of the
sewing macline-and tile mysteries of the art of
Printing. Everything is simple when we under
stand II, and we are apt TO thtnk we understand
good many things which we do not, AMI amongst
these is the process OF putting up fruit OIL the
hermetical principle. We know that the air must
be exhausted, anil the vessel tightly sealed, but
we have no way OF asceEtaining when this is done,
aud are compelled 10 do our best, aud leave the
rest 10 chance, and the pop, pop, pop of corks
from bottles tell many prudent wife thHt her
judgment has failed aud her labor is lost. II we
want 10 succeed with our fruit, we must have the
right kind of vessel, and the right kind of fruit
to put nit. Fruit can often be preserved well in
any kind Of vessels, such common bottles, jugs,
&c; but the very best vessels for fruit that have
yet come under notice, are the common tin
ShH1 anu llSH uAtlSlS tGSCuLIg gut UP ny MGSSLSs
SWEENEY & Son, aud which We will presently
describe.
The tin can should be made round, OF size to
hold about two pounds, with hole about two i'll
ches in diameter in the top. Alter having select
ell the kind of lfuit or vegetable you wish to put
up, being careful thatit lsewel rlpened and care
fully picked, yon will select the number OF cans
you wish to I'LL, and arrange them in a convenient
place. If you have selected tomatoes, you will
scald and peel them, and put as many in kettle
on the fire, as will fill the number of cans you
have selected. When they have cooke d about
twenty minutes, you will send for your Timer,
and when he arrives, Gil your cans and let him
Immediately solder piece of tin over the open
lug inthe tops of the cans, first perforatng them
with an awl blade. After your cans are soldereG
set them in boiling water on the stove. Small air
bubbles will be noticed coming from the can :hro'
the awl hole. As soon rs these stop, drop piece
Of solder IN the awl hole, and your cans are then
perfectly tight, and your fruit will keep for five or
six years, and even longer, should you want to
keepit. II you want your tomatoes very nice,
rub them Though a seive before putting them in
cans. II you do not want to cook your tomatoes,
dlLCE HGGllu6 luGuuS cut lNeIu Ill quarters ana
put them in the cans cold. then set the cans in
boiling water on the stove for thirty minutes, then
treat them as before. Plums should be cooked for
thirty minutes and then treated the same as toma-
toes. II yUn have trees of your own, by picking
your pumS very carefully so as not TO disturb the
bloom, they will keep by placing them in the cans,
and heating them for thirty minutes in hot water,
closing the cans while i'll the water; but fruit
6oughtin market will not keep when put up IN this
way. The plan first given for putting up tOmu-
toes we know TO be good, forwe have eaten them
when so put up after they were two and three
years old, and though we had them on the table
fresh from the vines, we could not distinguish be-
tween them. For family use, when .transporta-
ton is not desirable, we consider the Fruit Jars
pgotup by the Messrs. SWEENEY fully equal to the
cans We baveexalnned, not attended with the pres
ence AMI expense of timer, aud having the advan-
tsge OF transparency, so if the fru: shows anyin-
dcation Of fermentation, it may be Immediately
used. The Jar shown us is made Of beautiful
flint glass, holding about three pns, with mouth
Of good size for putting in fruit. The stopper,
which is of glass, is ground, as also is the mouth
of the jar, rendering it almost air-tghl; around
the stopper is small groove TO be fiIleI with seal
lng-wax, which renders the jar completely air
tight. To put up fruit IN these jars, it should be
treated tue same for the cans. Fill the Jar
with the fruit and put in the stopper. Then set
the jar in vessel of cold water on the stove, and
letitremain in about fifteen minutes after the wa
ter comes to a boil, and then apply the sealing
wax. and you have all safe. In putting the jars,
or cans either, away for winter nooler csra is re-
CURED than.to place them ::where them will not
freeze. BY calling at the Glass Store Of r. SwEE-
My & Sow, Main street. specimens of these i9rs
can be seem aud we think our readers will agree
with US, after seeing them, that they are the very
thing needed for family use.
sOSo OF The HrAwArHA.-of the new poem
which Longtellow has now in press, we find the
subioined briet notice in the Ctayon of This week:
''T have been reading the sheets of Longfellow's