Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-09
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE OTHOMAS

err a 45-minute process, but repeti-
tion the next day is safer. Do not
take the tops off after they have been
processed once. Blanch the corn be-
only enough to fill the cans that are
ready. 1t really takes two to put up
corn, one cutting and the other pack
ing in the jars. Don't use your HANDS,
have a large spoon, and before you
dip it in the corn dip it in boiling
water.
The glass tops should have the wire
over them but not clamped down
while being sterilized.
When you think jar is not safe
put it in a convenient place and
turned upside down; look at it in
twenty-four hours. If still uneer-
tain, loosen the top and sterilize
again, or if it lis a defective top take
it off and do your work over by put
ting on a new top and sterilizing the
full time.
Many people keep beans splendidly
by putting them on in enough water
to cook them, adding pint of good
vinegar and a handful of salt for
peck of beans. Cook till tender, put
is not water enough to cover them,
pour in some boiling water. The vim
egar takes the place of the acid that
some think they can't do without.
! And just before they are going to
use the beans they are put in clear
water to get the sour taste out or
them. L had some put up that way,
| and I always used mayonnaise dress
| ing on them, for l imagined they
were sour. Pure imagination, but the
mayonnaise helped them. tG4
Mrs. Lizzie o. Thomas:
! While reading your letter of to-
day in the Atlanta Semi-Weekly
Journal on canning fruit and vege--
! tables properly ] will be thankful
! for your advice for safely canning
| of beans and canning corn and to-
matoes with corn for soups. I've
lost most of my fruit every year.
such as peaches, plums, also yege-
| Would also like to find way to
kill Irish potato bugs as they are
! destroying our potatoes rapidly.
Thanks for informal ton.
MRS. T. P. G.
am giving the Information about
the beans and corn. The Jars ana
lousy clean and taken out of not
| water rs used.
Potatoes should be hand-picked the
first time, almost as soon as they pc
gin to grow, the bugs are few then
| and they can be killed by dropping
in a can with some coal oil in 1t.
Then look under the leaves for the
| clusters of yellow eggs, mash every
! one, The next crop of bugs Will
come, but the plants will be tough
enough then to sprinkle with PaIlS
green water, a heaping tablespoonful
of the poison to a bucket OF water:
| If YOU have too much poison 1T Will
! burn the leaves. III you nave no
spray pump use whisk broom or
| small hearth broom, dipping 1t IN
the water and sprinkling them wei.
Had Mrs. It. P. given her tuli name m
I would have written to her. TOT tne
bugs can almost demolish potatoes
in a few days.
steamed blackberry Pudding
Mix and sift two cupsful of hover
four teaspoonsful of baking poWaeT,
and half a teaspoonful of salt. WORE
in two and a half tablespoonful OF
nutters, using the tips of the myers.
then add one cupful OF MIX, ni4iil nf
quickly. Sift two tablespoonsful OF
fiour over one cupful of berries, add
To the mixture and turn into a but.
tered mould, having the mouId 1os
more than two-thirds full. Butter
the cover and place In boller o.
hot water. Put an inverted TIN plate
under the mould and COOK LOT e.,
away always add boiling water. leL-
ling il come half way up the moula'
NeTer let it stop boiling: or you
can pour the pudding in bag ana
drop in the boiling water. 80. -.
|. roaming Sauce,-Cream nan a q
. cupful of sugar, (the powdered Is
; best), Then add an egg, well beaten,
and a teaspoonful of your favorloes
, aaVoring. Pour in saucepan, SCI
. in another pan of boiling water ana
: beat until it is heated.