The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-16
PROPER WAY TO
GAN VEGETABLES
Follow Directions in the Following
Article and You Will Have
No Trouble.

By Miss Emma Archer, State Home
Demonstration Agent, Extension
Division, University of Arkansas.
SteriliZe Jars: First, wash your
tars, lids and rubbers well, and then
put them in a 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 in a flour sack and down
into a 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 sterilized jars.
Dissolve salt in the water that has
been boiled and pour this brine over
the beans. Put on the rubber ana
e~rew the lid down until you can hit
the lar by it; then place it in the
Gamer 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 I'M
til the water gets to boiling; boil
three hours, take out and screw top
down as tightly as possible
II YOU 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
g Gamer.
Directions For Canning Tomatoes
For Home Use.
Sterilize jars. Mix one cup OF sugar
and otle-half cup Of salt well. Select
good ripe tomatoes of uniform SIZE
and color, immerse in boiling water
one minute. or until skin loosens, then
put in cold water With sharp knife.
pointed at the end. cut out all the
hard core, care being taken not to
break seed cells, and peel carefully.
Cut off 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. II
the jar is not full il liquid, use some
juice from other ripe tomatoes. but if
you have packed your tomatoes good
in the Jar there ought to be plenty OF
Juice.
Put on the rubber, screw lid down
until you can lift the jar by it, place
in Gamer or deep keetle of hot water.
letting the water come to within two
inches OF the neck of the jar. Cover
the kettle with a 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 bot,
80 minutes. Take out and screw down
lid tight as possible. II 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 a close fitting lid
to the vessel you use as Gamer, as
the extra heat YOU get from the con-
fined steam insures success ii You
follow directions.
Directions For Canning Peaches.
Sterilize jars and cans. Before plac
ing rubbers on Jars. put them for five
minutes in one pint of hot water IT.
which has been dissolved one level
teaspoon of soda.
Select firm peaches. Scald for Is
seconds by putting them in a wire
plunging into boiling water; then peel
by hand or by rubbing peeling
off with cloth. Cut into halves:
fill ster1lized 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 O:
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 five
pounds. eight ounces to one gallon OF
water. For the sweetest peacher or
lower grades use from three and
one-half to four and one-half
pounds OF sugar to one gallon
of water. Put sugar in cold wa.
ter and dissolve, bring slowly TO 2
oou and boil for ono minute
Never use the early varietie. OF
peaches for canning for market a.
early fruit is usually very watery
I and will not make nice pack
Peaches may be canned for pies with.
out peeling or without sugar Wash
we'll and rub "fuz' off with coarse
cloth; split in halves, fill the can
and cover with hot water. Peach es
cut in quarters or eighths will lowder
their market value, Exhaust In tin
cans by putting them in Gamer. Have
the water nearly up to the top Of the
cans and bring to boil and boil for
three minutes. Tip cans and process
I by boiling in No. cans for 10 min.
utes.