Weekly journal-miner., 1919-07-30

| vail but pleasantly modified. Apple and wild grape pulp make delicious jam or spiced butter, and the wild grape juice bottled for a drink is better than any of the market brands of grape juice.
 Cold Pack Fruit Canning.
 This method is so good for berries, apricots, and yellow freestone peaches that we should at least know how to go about it. Rather firm fruit should be used with no soft or decaying spots. Peel the fruit, put in wire basket or cheesecloth bag and dip a minute or two in boiling water; drench with very cold water, and pack quickly in hot, sterile jars. Fill the jars to the top with boiling syrup made by using two measures of water to one of sugar or half and half if very heavy sweet fruit is desired.
 Have rubbers in place, screw on caps to about turn from the bottom tight enough that you can lift the jar by the lid without it coming loose: set in boiler with a wooden rack to prevent caps resting on bot tom and boil from twenty to forty minutes. Peaches and berries take less time than pears or mellow ap- pies, but all fruit will have better flavor if not Overcooked. lift the jars from the boiler, screw the lids down tight, turn upside down for AS hours and watch to, see if any rubbers loosen.
 This will not happen often but such fruit can be used at once or cooked into d preserve. 1 often leave my fruit upside down for weeks but this is not necessary. Jars of cold packed fruit are never full when the cooking Is done but as the inside of the jar is sterilized by the boiling there is no danger of spelling. Be cause of this settling and shrinkage all jars should be filled as full as possible; crab apples and solid plums will shrink almost half unless pushed in as firmly as possible.
 Canned Fruit Juices For
 Summer Drinks.
 Last summer because of the sugar shortage I canned lot of fruit juices for future jelly making but they proved so delicious for hot weather drinks that none was made into jelly and I plan to put up a lot this year for drinks.
 The fruit was cooked exactly as for jelly, drained off but not pressed closely, clarified by being strained twice through d sheet of absorbent cotton, heated to boiling point and canned as quickly as possible ill hot, sterile jars. It was put away in a dark place and every jar kept per iectly.
 When We Buy and Sell
 This Is the time to get out to the ranches for string beans and corn Tor canning; the next two weeks will see these crops in fine condition and only fresh stuff should be used for canning. Early peaches and apples are ripe ill most orchards, as well as ,rab apples and plums-this is the ime to get out to the ranches and ouy right off the trees.
 Here in town the canners' head quarters is the B.-B. Co. and they nave everything going to make the work easy. This week they are hay ng special sale of all sorts of de ightful cool gingham dresses, from hose plain enough to wear while we york on the fruit to others dressy nough for resting and visiting. There is g per cent off from the egular price and it is years since ave seen such bargains. They have lso lot of house aprons in all prac- ical styles that are just the thing to -ork in these hot canning days.
 Another sale worth watching starts his week, the midsummer clearance hoe sale of the Tribby shoe store. his is 2 sale of broken lines of up- o-date summer shoes, both high and ow, at one-third off The stock in .udes ladies', misses and chiIdren'S hoes in many styles and prices. here is something for everyone in lis sale. no matter what the shape ', r age of the feet, and some remark ole bargains will be offered Don't i Iiss this if you are in town this week z its worth coming in for. 1 saw young men in punches in q ont of the window where Oscar w. |. ruchman has the greatest showing i { fancy silk shirts ever. The variety . nd prices are right and there are the lost beautiful new ties and new eek bows to match, as we'll as the f -ettiest silk socks ever shown for a f ollar a pair. The summer under f ear on sale al this store is worth d f ,ecial look. too. f The handsomest early fall suit that f have seen up to date is in the win [ ow of the ]. C Penny store q silk f icotine so beautiful that it is a larming forecast of fall styles. I here are shirt waists equally at V