The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-15
\. N your column on January 4, In
your answer TO 'One Busy
Housewife on the ic cam.

~ your column OIL y al uuA : Y 5. = -
NIX YOUR answer to one Busy
Housewife on the canned
n goods question, you ask VINO
4 puts UP beans, asparagus ana ana
sreen peas. I have canned both string
beans and pole beans CRANBERRY peans),,
asparagus, green peas and caullnoWer,
1 as we'll as tomatoes. Corn y have not
yet tried. In the pantry have now
peas put up three years ago. ASPARAGUS
and string beans OF the past season,
caul.lowor ycnr ago last fan, ana
pumpkip two or three years old.
"All my canned goods are kept the
year around IN the pantry. which 10 on
the north side OF the house. In the first
place new rubbers are purchased c t'at1I
yenr: then every can Is tested by filling
with cold water, screwing the top on
and irverting. II It does not leak, tho
vegetables are crowded In. all the can
win possibly hold. then held under the
cold water faucet. and the water al
R lowed 10 MI It and overflow, until as
many as possible OF the bubbles III the
can are gone, then screw the tops on
tight and put In the steam cooker
which contains cold water, and steam at
least four hours for beans. and perhaps
not quite so long for the quicker cooking
vegetables. While filling the cans with
water. one hand will have to be held
4 over the TOP, with fingers apart, to keep
the vegetables In.
A S,,Whenl taken from the steamer US
,,ally nut tho cans Into O kettle OF not.
water and leave to cool gradually The
string beans are broken into small
pieces; the caulinowcr into sprays. and
4 the asparagus is cut up also. a bsoI,
lutely3 nothing but cold water IS put Win
z Sometimes even after being tested they
will break after the vegetables are IN
and they have TO be put into another
can. NY steam cooker has whistle
X which gives warning when the water IS
low and 1t can be filled without re-
moving the cover, so no steam ID LOST
XII yegctab les I have canned have been
i fresi, from my own garden. b nope
others may have as good o., success NC G. s;r,n !.
The foregoing letter may seem TO
casual reader out OF season.. ! lnse1t
I, ii now because fear 1t may be buried
IS out OF sight by an avalanche OF other
correspond cnce II I lay 1t by until "can-
Is ming time" and 1t is too good to lose.
MANY housewives natter me by saying
how carefully our recipes are preserved
and how systematic Is their arrange
q mont Of my household hints. TO these
ID commit the Keeping Of Die con-
\ tribution to household lore.
r. HAVE read in your valuable col.
- umns that 12-year-,old girl
5Hs wishes to find out the recipe OF
\ apple tafry. I am q girl II y ea Elr, old,
and last Saturday I made some nice
4 tafry apples for my brother, my sister
and myself Il
"select some nice apples and clean
them we'll, then round some sticks winch
can be made from the bottom OF @ peach
basket, remove the stems OF the apples
and insert the sticks. Boil cents worth
OF black molasses for few minutes
this is enough for u apples), butter
large shallow tin dish. Dip the apples
in the boiling molasses for several sec.
onds. and put them on the well huttered
dish. When we ate them Sunday morn
iinE-oh, they were grand!
II would be grateful II you would tell
I my mother how to get ink of carpet
without removing It. Hoping to near
from you. =. - y
Lot her cover the ink with paste
made OF buttermilk and salt-Qulte
thick, SO 1t will not run into the unin,
tured parts OF the carpet-and leave y
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