The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1917-06-08

| BY Miss Emma Archer, State Home
Demonstration Agent, Extension
Division, University of Arkansas
Sterilize Jars: First. wash your
Jars, 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 and
tender beans. String and break them
into short and even lengths. Wash
them, put in a -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 sterilized jars.
Dissolve salt in the water that has
been boiled and pour this brine over
the beans Put on the rubber and
screw the lid down until you can lift
the jar by it;Zthen 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 un-
til the water gets to boiling; boil
three hours. take out and screw top
down as tightly as possible.
If you use kettle or deep pan TO
place jars in, put in strips of wood
nailed together to make a false bot
tom, which keeps the jars from hit
ting together. Remember to have
tight fitting lid to the vessel used az
Gamer.
Directions Fer Canning Tomatoes
For Home Use.
Sterilize jars Mix one cup of sugar
and one-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 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 and pack close
in jar; mix and PIT in two level tea
spoons Of the salt and sugar mixture
Do not use any water in spur jars. If
the jar is not full f liquid, use some
juice from other ripe tomatoes, but II
you have packed your tomatoes good
in the jar there ought to be plenty OF
juice
Put en- the rubber, screw Id down
unit you en- # he Jar by I, 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 close lid to hold as
much Of the steam as possible and
start cooking.
Do not start counting time until the
water gets 10 boiling good, then boil
80 minutes. IKE cut 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 a close fitting lid
to the vessel you use as a Gamer, as
the extra heat YOU get from the con-
fined steam insures success if 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 liz
which has been dissolved one level
teaspoon of soda
Select firm peaches. Seald for is
seconds by putting them in a wire
basket or cheese cloth sack and
pluneing into boiling water: then peel
by hand or by rubbing peeling
off with cloth. Cut into halves.
fill 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 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
boil and boil for one minute.
Never use the early varieties NJ
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" off 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
three minutes. Tip cans and process