The Nevada County picayune., 1917-06-21

Demonstration Agent, Extension
 Division. University of Arkansas.
 Sterillze Jars First, wash your tars. lids and ruhbers well, and then put them in pan Of water or can ner. and let boil while you prepare the vegetable or fruit to be canned, Directions For Canning String Beans.
 Sterilize jars Select young and tender beans String and break them into short and even lengths. Wash them, put ip . -four sack and down into pan of boiling water for eight or ten minutes or until you see them change color. Then take them out and pack them in the steriiized jars. Dissolve salt in the water that has been boiled and pour this brine over the beans Put on the rubber and screw tho lid down until you can lift the jar by 1t; then place it in tho canner or deep kettle of hot water which comes within one-half inch of the lid of the jar. Cover closely and start cooking Do not count time un- til ths water gets 10 boiling; boil three hours. take out and screw top down as tightly as possible.
 If vov use kettle or deep pan to place jars in, put in strips of wood nailed together to make false bot tom, which keeps the jars from hit ting together. Remember to have tight fitting lid to the vessel used as . canner.
 Directions For Canning Tomatoes
 For Home Use.
 sterilze jars. Mix one cup of sugar and one-haIf cup of salt well. Select good ripe tomatoes of uniform size and color, immerss in boiling water one minute, CT until skin ioosens. then put in cold water. With sharp knfe. pointed at the end, cut out all the hard core, care being taken not to break seed cells, and peel carefully. Cut on little blossom end, and any black or green spots and pack close in jar: mix and put in two level tea spoons of the salt and sugar mixture. Do not use any water in your jars. If the Jar is not full if liquid. use some juies from other ripe tomatoes, but if you havs packed your tomatoes good in the jar there ought to be plenty Of juice.
 Put on the rubber, screw lid down aaul ysu can lift the jaf by Ii, place ia eannsr or dssy kestls of hot water, lstt.ng ths water come to within two inches of the neck ef the jar. Cover the kettle with close lid to hold as much of the steam as possible and start cooking
 Do not start counting time until the water gets to boiling good, then boil 90 minutes. Take out and screw down lid tight as possible. If you use a kettle or deep pan to place jars in, put in strips of wood nailed together to make a false bottom, 10 keep jars fro mtouching the bottom as that will break them Pack paper or straw be- tween jars so they cannot hit to- gether
 Be sure to have close fitting lid to the vessel you use as a canner, as the extra heat you get from the con. fined steam insures success if yon follow directions.
 Directions For Canning Peaches.
 sterilize jars and cans Before pIac ing rubbers on jars. put them for five minutes in one pint of hot water iE which has been dissolved one level teaspoon of soda
 firm, nao1has Scala for : seconds by putting them in a wire basket or cheese cloth sack and plunging into boiling water. then peel by hand or by rubbing peelns of with cloth Cut into halves: nll sterilized cans or glass jars. but do not crush. Vary the de gree of syrup according to the quality of fruit being used. Under no circumstances pack poor quality of fruit in heavy syrup; neither should high grade peaches be packed in light syrup. Too much sugar will de stroy the freshness and natural flavor of the fruit For syrups use Ave pounds. eight ounces to one gallon of water. For the sweetest peacher or lower grades use from three and one-halt to four and one-halt pounds of sugar to one gallon of water Put sugar in cold wa. ter and dissolve, bring slowly to bou and boil for one minute.
 Never use the early varieties Of peaches for canning for market as early fruit Is usually very watery and will not make a nice pack. Peaches may be canned for pies with, out peeling or without sugar. Wash well and rub "fuz" of with a coarse cloth; split in halves fill the can and cover with hot water. Peaches cut in quarters or elghtAs will iowdcr their market value Exhaust in tin cans by putting them in canner. Have the water nearly up to the top of the cans and bring 10 boil and boil for three minutes Tip cans and process