The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-24
NATIVE BERRIES MAY BE USED TO HELP WIN WAR Some Suggestion from the Food Administrator
 About Putting Them Up. MAKE EXCELLENT JAMS Most Any HousehoIdef Can Secure Enough Jams
 and Jel|ies Easily
 for Season.
MAKE EXCELLENT JAMS
(From Federal Food Administration
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(From Federal Food Administration Publicity Bureau.)
 In most families fruit is thought of as an extra bit taken often be- tween meals, usually to alleviate a thirst or simply because it tastes good. The latter fact reveals much in that it signifies that the system constituents of fruit. A study of available figures shows that fruits constitute by no means unimport- ant part of the diet since they sup ply about A per cent of the total food and 3.7 per cent. of the total carbohydrates of the average Amer ican diet Fruits and berries to- gether with green vegetables supply the body also with minerals it needs and with bulk, which is an essen tial factor in diet. Containing but little protein, fruits, fresh, dried and preserved are then the sources of energy, rather than tissue build CTS.
 At first thought, it seems to many of us that the berries here are pick few salmon berries or gather little pail full of blue and huckle- berries with no further thought than eating them at once. But, as matter of fact, we have berries ID plenty right around us, to fill com pletely our jelly glasses and jam pots. One housewife in Juneau, last year, put up 115 glasses of jelly and GA of jam all entirely of na- tive berries. Every thing was mixed results were delicious. The blue berries picked green or when they are just below dead ripeness make jelly of delightful flavor or may be canned by just being heated through we'll and sealed Many have failed in putting these up because the fruit has been cook ed too long and has turned out mostly juice with a few shriveled berries. They are very welcome then in gelatine desserts, pies and blue-berry bettys. Then there is the often despised bush cranberry that grows in almost every swamp spot around here. Sheep Creek basin produces these in quantities. When picked before they are ripe and mixed with apple juice these berries make as good a meat jelly as entrants or goose berries. Sal mon berries, the yellow or the red, also make a delicious jelly. Then there is wild goose berry, some- times called wild currant, very dark with little spines on it that, also, is good. Alaska is famous for her wild strawberries, and fortunate in deed, is the woman who can get some of them to put up. They are small, but wonderfully sweet. Then there is the Nagoon berry, some consider it superior to the straw berry in flavor It makes good sauce, good preserves, and a jelly with a piquant flavor. that cannot be duplicated. In August or Sep tember these berries are best and often find their way into the stores Anyone who can gather these ber- ries can realize quite little sum for them right here in Juneau.
 Now. we have not all access to these fruits, some of us cannot get out to gather them, but to those who can, would say pick all you can get for yourself and then get some for your neighbor who can not gO." We must work together and for each other. That way alone can we all pull through the days that are to come.