The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-04
Desicating Vegetables.

If the moisture is removed from vege-
tables by drying them in an evaporator,
none of the solid contents is destroyed,
and when they are boiled the flavor is as
strong as before. In fact the flavor may
be made very decisive II too much water
is not used In the process of desiccauon
the weight is very materially reduced, so
that the product is compact, and may be
shipped at small cost for freight. Some
of the steam evaDoratorS now in the
market evaporate very successfully.
There is a great demand for desiccated
vegetables for ship supplies. and to SUD
ply points too distant from agricultural
land to be supplied with fresh vegetables.
A correspondent writes to the Bakers
field Californian, outlining his experience
as follows:
For three years at Vacaville and one
year at Chico he successfully desiccated
vegetables in connection with the bust
ness of evaporating fruit. He found that
the valuable qualities could be preserved
for any reasonable time and put in the
best form for shipment to any part of the
world at a low cost by the use of steam
and hot air.
Tomatoes were peeled, sliced, dried ard
packed in two pound and i've pound fold
ing boxes. They We're wholeSaled at 10
cents pound to go to sea and to dis
tant mines. BY restoring ten times their
weight of water the original flavor of
the tomato was reproduced.
Green Peas-These were steamed in the
pod when they shelled very easily and
were among the most satisfactory of all
eVapOrated goods.
Sweet Corn-This was husked, then
steamed on the cob and evaaporated.
When thoroughly dry it was run through
a shelter and tanning mill and when
soaked and cooked it retained the very
best part of the corn, the part that SqGir-
rels always prefer and that is thrown
away with the cob when they can corn
Pumpkins-These were pared with
spoke-shave, sliced with cabbage slicer,
dried until hard as bone, ground into
-four. bolted, and put up in two-pound
folding packages. After giving everybody
that handles these goods a fair profit. it
IS cheaper for housekeeper to buy the
flour needed to make one or two pumpkin
pies than to use the fuel to cook the
pumpkin from her own garden.
Onions-If YOU want to keep sailors or
soldiers healthy and ready for duty. every
tables and keep off the scurvy- For this.
steam. and evaporate your onions and
they can bep ut up in packages like lit
tie bales of hay to be carried TO the
iarthest parts of the earth.
Potatoes-Pare these in hollow cylin-
run them through the slicing machine
and evaporate. They will take one-third
the space and one-fifth the weight of the
fresh article, and will keep until you soak
them for use.
A mixture of desiccated vegetables for
soup would be quite salable II properly
introduced as ii would be so convenient
for cooks. and it might also pay to mix
CeSiccated soup meat in suitable proper
lions to make a good soup with least
trouble.
The popularity OF all these goods de-
bends greatly upon the recipes sent out
with them and upon their being put up so
that the original package reaches the
cook and has a recipe with it by which
a toothsome dish can easily be made