Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-15
SAVE PEAS FOR WINTER
~ CANNING THEM NOW.

The only apparatus needed for homo
canning is a ham boiler, a deep pre-
serving kettle. or clothes boiler with
a piece of galvanized wire netting cut
to fit the bottom. either one OF these
will make as good d Gamer as an ex-
pensive one from the store and will
furnish the housekeeper with as many
canned products as she will find time
to put up during the summer. Which
ever vessel is chosen should be fur
nished with a top that the steam may
not escape easily, but may help in the
cooking of the products.
With this Gamer the garden peas
that are now coming in in such abund-
ance may be saved. Select pint jars
for peas, place them in the Gamer, in
which has been poured about three
inches of water Let this water come
tc boil and boil the jars for not less
than eight minutes. This will thor
oughly sterilize them. See that the
rubbers are new and then put them
in a pan of boiling water for three
minutes. Re move the jars from the
Gamer and stand in pan of hot wa
ter.
Grade your peas, keeping the youns
ard tender small peas in different
howl from the larger and older peas.
This grading is necessary if it is ex-
pected to keep the peas from boiling.
Old peas require a much longer boil
ing period than the young and tender
onces,
Place small peas in muslin sack
and plunge in boiling water one min
ute. (This is called blanching.) Older
peas must be blanched eight minutes.
Pour Immediately into the sterilized
lars. Fill to within one-half inch of
the top, filling the spaces with hot wa
ter until the peas are covered. Add
one level teaspoonful of salt and one
level teaspoonful of sugar. Place rub
Der on jars, screw tops down tightly;
Co. if spring tops. spring lightly. Add
cold water to the boiling water in can
ner to prevent jars cracking. Plac :
Jars on wire netting in bottom of can
ner. put top on Gamer and when the
water begins to boil count time. After
half-hour push the spring down tight
" on jars. By allowing the jars to
remain only party closed so that you
have exhausted the air and the tops
! can be tightly closed with very little
fear of having the rubers blow out.
Young and tender peas must boil or
process, as it is called, forty-five min
utes, after the tops have been tightly
closed, and older peas one hour, or
half-hour after tops have been tightly
closed.
Peas belong to the class of vegeta-
bles that must be processed or boiled
three days in succession, and after
the Jars have been set aside to cool,
they must be placed in the Gamer on
the second day for another processing
of forty-fve or sixty minutes. At this
second processing it is not necessary
to open the jars. Do not touch the
springs or tops; simply place in teplo
water. bring to a boil and process the
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required length of time. This pro-
cess must be repeated on the third day
The principle is this: All active
bacteria are killed the first boiling
but the spores are not affected. IN
the twenty-four hours between the first
and second processing these spores
develop into active bacteria. The sec
ond boiling kills them. but some spores
are so hardy that they do not develop