The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-11

Az ua nfoked orr wav through a leafy
g1ada : baard.
~ ool Dorot,vr rbe first real autumn
Loo I mnst pet home to nv preserve
closetr
! brazan hit Of foliage twirled in the
hreava as If # wanted to eloat in its gold
and crimson coat over the duh greens
about II. / picked the poor thing in the
,n3ast of its ouiyering ecstasy and with a
deer courtesy replied.
aHere INV tickle one: take this straight
10 your cottage. If YOU leave it up here
var, will forget that preserve closet as
sure as fate.,n
eAud." / added. at is iellies you are
bothering over2 And iellies YOU say YOU
mnst have Wen there is not much time
70 lose. I see nothing for it but to pack
vour trunks and decamp."
Ielies If was We talked them for an
ho,,r or more. / cot no new points. We
agreed mar old-time ideas were good
enough and that Jelly any way was as
tricky as a belle in her first season.
There is no use irving to saw that luck
has nothing to do with getting that clear.
firm mixture of fruity havors inside a
plass
some davs Seem TO have been cut out
far iellv making others from hour to
hour appear under entire control of an
evil eenii. There are -housekeepers who
boasf entire success every season. They
string IN uncertain mortals to a nervous
state that Is cr,el whenever they get 4
chance.
what is loft to ieIl7 Peaches cranes.
wild ana cultivated cranberry annie,
damson plnm. ounce and pear. A. por-
ccIainlined kettle is the hest for preserves
ans ~ielllies
coad 1elv makers all agree unon one
noi,,t-tbat fruit mice boiled down ana
srear added win give results that can
never be obtained by any other process.
six thrifty h-ousekeepers have given me
the same rules to follow in Jelly making.
They a, declare in emphatic terms that
never once mas a single glass been spoil
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me fr,st FIRST mt into a crock. This
is placed in a pan or kettle Of tepid water.
Whe,, the heat of the boiling water has
reduced the fruit to a broken mass of
pieces it is ready for straining.
The Jelly bag must be made of strong
material. but porous enough to allow the
mice 70 escape. Only place in the bag a
little fruit at a time, and when this has
been pressed through rinse out the pulp
with hot water.
Proportions-one pint Of juice to one
pound Of sugar. The juice is put on the
stove to boil and the sugar is placed
in pans inside the oven. The sugar must
be stirred now and then.
Watch the clcck. Be careful to time
your Jelly from the moment it gives the
first bubble. 1t is really boiling? Then
riset your eyes on the tisnepiece. Twenty
minutes from the second it really boils
is Just long enough to let it cook. AS
soon as the twenty minutes expire the
enoar IL ad,isds Around ana around Hies
the spoon until every sugary particle is
melted. When the sugar has had one
chance 20 boil up the syrup is taken from
the lira4and poured into glasses that nave
stood IN sealaiag water.
II the fruit IS -lot at the proper state
of r~ipeaess this other wise infailible re-
cipe will fail.
After fussing and fussing with jelly that
is never firm one wonders what's the
matter. The fruit was .over-ripe.
Flannel is the fayorite material for
making a jelly bag.
Too much economy in extracting Juice
will cloud the Jelly. Pippins make fine
annie ipllV.
Fruits that are tart make a frmer
sweet.
Flavor a peaeh syrup with peach ker-
nels.
some housekeeners also add a little
lennon ;,,ice 10 neach ieliv
one of the most delicate of all aayorss
ss found in groom fox ieIlv This wild
crane reo,,ire more sugar One and a
half mounds IF s,earso = mini of i.ice is
III. o,,antitv called for
when making crab-annle iellv do NOT
cora ar mare the annles Roth rive IA vor.
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poootas = IN now ana original,
peaI and c,t tbe rjneef neacbas into
onarteree Law tbem IN dreseinq Of
nartI;re obamnap ne with nink rose
ne4sls aoaf5ne in Il Naefar,nes NAV he
s,bst,tntea for naacbas ana Rb;ne vino
~ arara1Ia ~ $500. a. 1rhinnaa
oroam mar 10 ,ata o1 tbo -. na~Iu
$500 ba1rod ana staa.aa ~ uhi+a r,ine
~ s,rar 49, awaa,Iaa+ 500 ~
$3.50 rs,tS r+raa-ha~r,a. rasnbar~fas ~
hlancbed a,nonds Pina aes ha1vad
$500 - eararaI ha,yrx "a $500
srsaa 80 tl1aa aav,araa ,r,+h auar -
s1,rt41r .a14o5 u.hanes a-oa