Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-30
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"a lot of corn this summer; also beans
end tomatoes. l also hope to have okra
and tomatoes mixed, for what makes
better Soup?
a good way to car beans is to pre-
pare really tender beans just as you
would for dinner, put them in a cheese
cloth bag and boil ten minutes, then
put them in the cans, which must be
perfectly clean, cover them with water,
cap the cans, exhaust for fifteen min
utes, seal the cans and then boil forty
five minutes.
Beets are boiled tender peeled, sliced
and canned just as you would tomatoes.
Select nice ripe tomatoes, put them in
a sack or wire basket, drop in boiling
water just long enough to make the
skin slip Chat takes three minutes),
peel and core, pack in cans, adding
teaspoonful Of salt to each can, if you
like, but did not. Cover with their own
juice, cap, exhaust ten minutes and then
seal and boil twenty minutes.
Sweet potatoes are fine canned. Then
you have a sure thing when unexpected
company comes. Boil them tender, peel
and can just as you do beets.
Gather okra while tender, wipe dry
after washing it and proceed as you did
with your beans, or mix it with your to-
matoes that are not whole enough to
can alone.
soldering is like many other duties
we dread, not half as hard to do as We
expected But tile irons must be kept
clean. The damp cloth is alright as
4 rule, but get an old cup and put into
it an ounce Of the soldering fluid and
a dram OF muriate of ammonia. While
your iron is very hot dip the point in
this liquid ana see how clean it comes
out, have a piece of tin, little solder
and a little of the liquid and by rub
oing your iron on the tin it will take
a beautiful timing. Each Gamer has
a Gaping Instrument, but if you are
using a wash boiler and must buy your
capper separately, try to get the semi
circular capper, then you know as 1t
glides ever the obstruction that some
thing is wrong and don't stop until
you see what il is. This iron will let
you cap a dozen with one heating.
The Elauching process is to put the
vegetable first in hot water and then
in cold. 1t helps beans as they pack
better.
Have a clock and don't guess at any
thing. Three minutes is the time to
loosen the skin of tomatoes, and in can
ming corn try to get it started as soon
as it is brought from the field. Use
only yOunS, tender corn. If you care
to cook it before you put in the cans
you may do so, but my plan is to cut
il from the COZ, not too close, scrape
the cob lightly and pack each can two
thirds fun, add a teaspoonful of salt
aud fill with cold water. Seal, exhaust
fifteen minutes, cap and boil two hours,
then next day boil one hour.
As You put things on set the time
down for its easy to forget when to
take them out Right here the thought
occurs that many fail with string beans
ana why l cannot tell Fill the cans
to half an. inch, after they have set
tied, then pour boiling hot water, salt
ed or not, ours are not sailed, but let
the water come to a quarter of an inch
of the top and see that it covers the
beans And do not let the corn be
sloppy, just moistened thoroughly.
1 am much tempted to buy steam
pressure aluminium Gamer, but am not
certain about it, Without it l can put
up any small quantity and stop, but
if I should buy a steam pressure
would feel like 1 had to sell enough
to help pay the difference between that
and the usual sort, see? But enough
for this time.
Faithfully yours,
LIZZIE o. THOMAS.
Tuscumbia Ala.