Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-08-17
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS.
Time OF the Year When They Should
Be Conserved For Winters Use.

Be Conserved For Winters Use.
This is the time of year when the
housewife should be adding each day
few cans of vegetables and fruits
to her winters supply.
The interest in this work of the home
should not begin and end with Mother
but the entire household should take
an active part, not just in counting the
cans when the product is done but in
actually lending a hand says M. Es-
te!Ie SpraSue, assistant club leader at
the Connecticut Agricultural College.
Inc young people, and on rainy days
the husbands, can greatly aid in pick
ing. preparing and packing the pro-
ducts in the jars ready for the cook
ing. If the Cold Pack Method is used
all this preliminary work may be done
away from the heat of the kitchen
Then if one has a deep kettle or other
form OF cooker having a tight cover
the cans may be lowered into boiling
water, and put to cook while the reg
ular morning work is going on. When
canning Vegetable which require a
longer cooking, one may be relieved Of
botherlng about the time EY setting
the alarm clock for the time when the
| product is done and if a steady heat
| IS kept up so the water will continue
| to boil vigorously, nothing more is
necessary until the product is cooked,
when the cans are removed, the covers
| tightly sealed and the cans set away
| to cool.
Greens and succuIent vegetables as
| peas, string beans, young carrots, caul-
| mower etc, are particularly valuable
as means of providing the system
| with these needed properties and SO
| a supply should be added to the list
| for winter
The de6pised weed, sour dock, is rich
| in oxalic acid ard if because of it's
| acidity one does not like it alone, it
can be cooked with other greens and
| SO be palatabIe.
A few cans each of spinach, Swiss
| chard lambs quarters, and beet greens
| will supply tonic at least once or
| twice a week during the winter
| The children's diet should be es-
! pecIally well selected for during the
| winter, when they are confined for
| months in poorly ventilated school
| rooms, often times drinking contarnin-
| ated water and subjected to disease
| germs OF many kinds, they must be in
| excellent physical condition or they
| will be unable to resist these bacteria
| Children do not enjoy vegetables as
| a rule, and the strong juiced vegetables
they particularly dislike One has nc
right to say to a child, well, all right
II you don't like what is set before you
go without A child should not be
unduly pampered but the child's diet
! should be so prepared that the neces-
sary food elements be taken, and if not
| in enc way, in another.
For example, most children dislike
| carrots but if possible they should cal
them because of the iron at least. The
| young carrots, two-thirds grown are
delicious when canned, and there are
so many ways of serving them thai
| at least one can be found, which the
| children will like. If not cauIifOwel
or spinach as a substitute and a means
OF introducing the needed mineral eIe-
ments.
Only 4 dozen each of these vege.
table products will go far towards in.
Producing a tonic during the winter
season.
Tomatoes are very easy to can, mos
people like them, and they may be uset
in so many different ways that they
are a great help to the housewife
Fruit juices as well as fruits Should
be freely used by all the family ant
not kept for company or for someone
VINO is III. We hope if they are used
freely enough, there won't be anyon,
i'll.
In making jelly, after the first ex
traction of juice has been used. a. littI,
water may be added to the pulp befor,
it has been thoroughly drained. Afte
| allowing this to boil a few minute,
strain carefully and put the juice il
cans. The Cold Pack recipe for can.
ming fruit should be used for cannins
| Irult juice. The juice may be put Ill
| without sugar which may be adde(
; to the juice when served. We hopr
by that time the price Of sugar will b,
| lower.
Recipes and directions for using TIL
Cold Pack Method may be had by writ
ing to the Assistant Club Leader a
Storrs, Conn.
The Cold Pack Method does no
mean the products are canned with
out cooking, but it does mean tn
products are packed in Jars and thel
cooked instead of using what is know
as open kettle method by which tn
Z product is first cooked and then trans
ferred to the cans.