St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-01-22
MIXED FRUIT RECIPES.
Excellent Jelly, Marmalade and Fruit
Paste Prepared from Combina-
ton of Cranberries and
of Apples.

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because the combined flavor may be
preferable to either alone and some
times because it may be more eco
nomical, as. for instance, when she
has too little of either fruit to use
for this purpose, or, to cite another
instance, when she wishes to extend
the flavor to some special fruit as
ounce through a cOnSldera Die
amount of material less highly flaw
ored, as apple. Sometimes, too,
there is an advantage in both flavor
and color, as when cranberry is com
bined with mild-fiavored apples.
An excellent combination for home
made jelly, according to the home
economics experts of the department
who have been studying the uses OF
different fruits, is cranberry with
apple. Equal quantities of cram
berries and Of apples cut UP into
small pieces should be just covered
with water and boiled until the fruit
is soft. Strain the juice through a
cheesecloth. Add to the pulp the
same amount of water as at first,
boil the pulp a second time, strain
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Of juice. Add three-fourths as much
sugar by measure to the juice, and
boil again. The jelly is done when
a few drops taken up with a mixing
spoon will flake on the spoon as it
cools instead of dropping off of it.
Pour the jelly into glasses which
have Just been sterilized in boiling
water and thoroughly drained. Seal
the glasses in the ordinary way.
The pulp which remains after the
Juice has been darined off for jelly
can be used to make excellent mar
malade," or fruit cheese" as old
time housekeepers called it. The
pulp should be passed through
sieve, an equal weight of sugar ad-
ded to it, and boiled until it is thick
and firm. 1t must be stirred fire.
quently SO that it will not burn.
The thick marmalade should be
poured into freshly scalded glasses
or jars. While the color is not quite
SO good as jelly, the flavor is distinc-
tive and good, and such fruit
cheese" is delicious when spread on
bread and butter or when used for
filling bread-and-butter sandwiches.
II less sugar is added in making
marmalade, it can be used in place
of fresh or dried apples for Brown
Betty and similar fruit puddings.
A fruit paste somewhat similar
to marmalade is we'll known in the
Orient, and tests have shown that
cranberry and apple make a paste
of excellent flavor and that it can
be readily made at home. Cook the
pulp which remains from jelly max
ing, with three-fourths of its weight
sugar, until it is very thick (about
three quarters Of an hour, stirring
it is the oriental custom to stir il
of a pound of finely cut
nuts Casually almonds, though pc
cans. walnuts, and other nuts may
be used at the housekeeper's con-
venienee) and little powdered Gina
mon just before the kettle is taken
from the fire. However, either nuts
or cinnamon, Or both, may be omitted
to taste and preference.
Spread the paste in buttered tins in
q layer about one-half inch thick,
and set aside to cool and become
firm. Then cut into squares or dia
spread the pieces on tin
plates, and dry out in a warm (but
not hot) oven for a few hours.
When the paste is dry enough not
to stick, pack it away In tin or other
air-tight boxes, putting paraffined
paper between the layers. The
pieces of paste may be busted with
powdered sugar to keep them from
sticking, II one prefers.
Such fruit pastes are also very fine
when made with ounce alone or will
apple, or with cranberry and ounce.
Fruit paste is not SO easy to make
IS marmalade, but is a very palat-
able and wholesome sweet. One or
Two pieces of it will please the child |
ZEN for dessert or in the lunch box,
while grown-ups will enjoy it as they
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S worth while for the housekeeper
Slo likes to economic in labor to |
that The paste keeps we'll |
Ind that not much more labor is re-
iuired to make large than a small |
Quantity.
News reaches this Office just as
We go to press Friday night that a
title girl named Williams was shot |
md killed by her brother, at Bon
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aimed.