The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-04-10
FRUIT RAISING.
How a Superabundance of Fruit May Be
Made Profitable.

Made Profitable.
Dried, with or without stoning. cher
ries arc scarce at eighteen to thirty
cents pound, and l have seen choice
pitted cherries at higher price. Hard
ly any fruit is easier to prepare, as
cherries want no pairing, and no dried
fruit keeps so much richness. Picked
cherries are a cheap, excellent relish.
and would sell at remarkable prices if
any were to be found in market.
When fruit sells too low for profit it
is time to preserve it and reap treble
gains. The quickest and cheapest
ways of keeping frait will be found
most profitable. and are the only ways
in viii CHI grower can work off crop
i'm time to save it. Dried fruit is easily
handled ard is coming back into favor
with knowing heusekeepers, who rec
ognizc good tn ngs and know how they
should be cooked. No expense for
evaporators is necessary. l long since
made up my mind that evaporated fruit
is inferior to snn-dried in flavor. and
talking with old dealers in family
for their own use. The best cook l
ever knew sa ID the same, and there is
reason for it. The sun ripens and de-
yelops sugar and flavor IN cut fruit
dried in itsravs To have a nice quail
ity of dried fruit, select firm. fine, ripe
specimens, wipe clean, pare and cut
with silver knives. as steel turns them
back on THE edges, and hurry into the
sun a fast as they can be prepared.
The cheapest and best way of drying
fruit is TO lay it on lengths Of cheese
cloth, suspended on frame, out of
doors, in full sun, with white mosquito
netting over to keep off shrods and in
sects This allows the air to reach
both sides of the fruit at once, and
when you want to turn 1T, the whole
can be swung over on another cloth,
leaving the first ready for "a new
batch. Apples should be pared. cored
and cut in eight pieces. Peaches
should not be pared, fer the riches:
flavor is lost with the skin. They
should have the fur removed by dip
ping baskets of them into weak boiling
I've of wood ashes or common potash,
and wiping them with coarse towels
Common peaches only need to be cut
in halves to dry. We hah peaches
airied in this way last winter, which
when cooked would he hard to tell
from the best canned peaches in looks,
with richer flavor.
Picked peaches might he as staple
las cucumber pickles. and sold by the
-firkin instead of the quart. Apple and
peach butter ought to he in every
grocery, as plenty as raspberry jam.
and a great deal better. Inferior fruit
can be put to good use in this way,
only no fruit should becooked in metal
kettles, brass. copper 'Or tin. Brass
kettles spoiled the SADIE of old-fashioned
apple-bu,ter. Sometimes | find a box
of it at the large Boston grocers, bat
when it leaves ooppery stain on a
} knife blade. and still more coppery
taste in the mouth. dealers are shy of
recommending it. Yet there is no
canned fruit or preserves better than
good apple-butter spewea down in ITS
own fruit sugar TIL its juice thickens
into syrup. Ii you have not porcelain
kettle. make it in three-gallon stone
Jars. filling the oven with them, and
YOU will have a better thing with less
trouble.
With all the tons Of grapes raised.
how is it that there as not gallon OF
grape syrup to be hai for love or money
in marketp If you don't know that
grape juice bo LED down to a clear
syrup is the most relishing thing in
sickness or health for 'consumptives
and to keep people from getting Goa
sumptive, to be eaten asfood or diluted
for drink. that would Danish wine soon
er than all the temperance societies.
YOU have something to learn. This
article. once known, would prevent all
danger of an over-crop of grapes. for
it would be made and kept bv the bar
rel. and exported for use in all cl mates.
The new product On of CIDER ielly,
which is merely cider boiled down,
without any add ton till it is solid.
dark Jelly, is great gift TO the house.
keeper. and will be the,sasvatiOn of the
apple orchards. Whist if apples are
fifty cents barrel in October? Set the
cider mills gong. ana the huge enam-
,eled evaporating pans. Perhaps cider
Jelly at twelve cents Poun1w.ll repay
the work, as no sugar is ,used.-COr.
iTick's Monthly.