The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-25
JELLIES FROM WILD FRUITS
a FARMERS WIFE FINDS HER
WARES ~ DEMAND.
FiaNor to Her Jams and Preserves Not
Found In These Made From Guilt
waited Fruit-Her Custemeru Found
In Her Own Immediate NeIgbbOFhOOtl.

'Fcr several summers have earned
pocket money by making preserves.
Jellies and wines out % wild fruits said
the wife 81 New York State farmer
i began by making Jam of Wild plums
for lady who came from the city each
summer and BEARDED with one 81 our
neighbors. From making plum jam
began to get orders for elderberry and
wild grape wines.
For some three or four years now
have had orders for all the wild grape
and elderherTy wine that | could sup
ply. and for Ave gallons of blackberry
cordial Raspberry shrub sells well last
summer I made mp something like seven
gallons and have already sold and de-
llvered Il all OF course could supply
much more cordial aud shrub. but II -
impossible FOR me To get fruit for the
wine
wild blackberries make much more
tasty cordial than the cultivated fruit
and ! always Use the wild fruit. This Is
unless I run short and the person order
ing - willing to have me Use the cult
waited fruit As for the shrub. | number
that among the products of wild fruits
because mix in Wild blackberries plenti-
fully IL changes the taste considerably
and gives my shrub favor which IL not
to he found in any other that have ever
heard Of.
have a lot Of orders for Wild grape
jam and for Wild apple Jelly. made -
fruit from trees that have been growing
in uncultivated soil for 50 long that the
fruit has a Wild tang These trees are
quite plentiful around rs growing by
the roadside as we'll a. in old settle
ments
Their" are two varieties usually. one
quite tart and the other Sweetly in-ipid
II IL the tart apples that should b. used !
These apples are considered too poor for |
eating or cooking. but for marmalade or |
Jelly they are about AZ good a. can he /,
found IN 'he b"-t cultivated orchard
i have mad" ielly from one tree now |
for fifteen years and have never had a |
glass go over from one season 70 the next |
either m my own family or with ny Gus
TONERS. The flavor IL all its own, ~ | /
never add lemon or anything else. while "a |
for beauty u IL the color II amber and |
Several 81 our neighbors who have
eaten my ielly made from these apples
have taken cuttings and slips from the
trees These have grown and horne fruit
but never with the taste a that tree stand
ing on tho edge ~ the marsh Their an
ples ar" always larger than the fruit on
the old tree Sometimes they bear pl.nti-
fully. but the tast" - sill gone
This jelly has got a great name az the
country club which il not far from our
farm Thy ura lot 81 NV preserves
and lellie- there every summer. and last
wear they tried 10 pui in a hid for all the
years in advance ! couldn't take that
order Won know because ! felt sure nv
private customers who had been getting
II for their own Use would want 10 keep
up their orders ! did agree ~ le' The
club hav" all hat Nasn actually ordered
IN advance
At 'hr~.. " he club plcinics las, SUM-
NOR all tho preSar- ~ Isliiss pickles and
vince wer" made nv mo I hea ri that an
III" bread and cakes S"r" also homo made
and that all the meat - hSh was native
grown People are b" ginning to find out
hat thew can got rs good 'hingS from The
farrna around them ~ hV s"ud nc to a
distance A. soon a. this know ledge be-
om"e general look =" 500 the fairness
and thsir women folk taxing more mans
With their orchards and gardens
No hav" ns' - shipped anv pre-
'~rvss or Jslliss People from tho CITY ,
rave ted mo could sell through the ,
Nomen's Exchange. and might try II |
lad not work 81 ny such nice little trad.
lrnong nv summer n"ighborS In these :
laws. when there are factories to maj . 7
NJ kinds % preserves and wines ~ seams f,
~ me the best mark - for such things FOR ,
he farmers family = among the city
'eople who com" To "a" country for the I
iImmar
u have heard that nav wares Guild 4
rims higher prices - sent to tho city
ut Nv the tim" the cost ~ hacking the =
NpTe-s and the comm i~-ion Tor selling d
~ deducted don't holi"ve ! would dear
- much ! have q netghbor who shipped L
large hoN ~ preserves mad. from ,
cultivated fruits u New York. and though y
he got third more than | sell the same {
preserves Tor she made les money ON G
what she sold and at he beginning ~ the a
Glowing summer she had lot - her plum
ely and strawberry Jam shipp-.d hack "a
. her hscai-- u hidr' spld People r
n tho city don't care 10 hold preserves
yer tho hot months
III she had kept her goods At homo what
he didn't sell could have h...n used on
cr own table and what WAS loft over .
ould have heen ker' m her own cellar
hai would have saved charges for p1ck-
NJ in New York and eyprasSaRe 20 her
one Nv the time everything was paid ,
he told me she was IN debt FOR the sugar.
n ] asked her what good the high price
or tine few iar- had don" her