The Dermott news., 1917-06-21

BY Miss Emma Archer, State Home
Demonstration Agent, Extension
Division, University of Arkansas.
Sterilize Jars: First. wash your
lars. lids and rubbers 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 ana
tender beans. String and break them
into short and even lengths. Wash
them, put in 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 ont
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
screw the lid down. until you can lit
the jar 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 o? wood
nailed together to make false bot
tom. which keeps the jars from hit.
ting together Remember 10 have a
oil a .at
a Gamer.
Directions For Canning Tomatoes
For Home Use.
Sterilize jars. Min one cup OF sugar
and one-half cup Of salt well. Select
good ripe tomatoes Of uniform size
and color, immersc in boiling wate-
one minute or until skin loosens, then
put in cold water With a 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 anG pack close
in jar: mix and put in two level tea.
spoons of the salt and sugar mixture
the lar is not full il liquid. use some
Juice from other ripe tomatoes, but II
YOU have packed your tomatoes good
in the Jar there ought to be plenty Oh
Juice.
Put on the rubber. screw lid down
until YOU can lift the jar By il, 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 10 hold a
much Of the steam as possible and
start cooking
Do not start counting time until the
water gets TO boiling good then boil
30 minutes. Take out and screw dowa
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 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
10 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 rubhers on Jars. put them for five
minutes in one pint OF hot water II.
which has been dissolved one level
teaspoon of soda
Select firm peaches. Scald for Il
seconds by putting them in wire
basket or cheese cloth sack and
plunsine into boiling water, then peel
by hand or by rubbing peeling
off with cloth Gu int halves:
fill sterilized cans or glass jars
out 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
siroy the freshness and natural fiayot
pounds. eight ounces 10 one gallon OF
water For the sweetest peacher OF
lower grades use from three and
one.half 10 four and e-hali
pounds of sugar To one gallon
of water Put sugar in cold va
ter and dissolve, bring slowly TO a
ooil and boil for one minute.
Never II g the early varieties OF
peaches for canning for market as
early fruit is usually very watery
and will not make nice pack
Peaches may be canned for pies with
ont peeling or without sugar. Wash
welt and rub "fuz" of with a coarse
cloth split in halves. fill the can
and cover with hot water. Peaches
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