The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-06-11

Not too many berries should be
gathered in one basket or bucket,
because those in the bottom will be
bruised and the juice extracted. The
berries should be sorted, putting all
the whole sound berries in one lot,
and the broken, bruised or under
ripe ones in another container. Wash,
taking care not to bruise or leave
standing in water. Fill the jar with
the whole berries, shaking them down
into position. Use the broken berries
to heat and crush to extract juice.
Fill the spaces in the jar with this
juice, partially seal , and process
quarts or No. 3 cans 20 minutes at
boiling. Seal and store in a dark
place. The color of the juice is i'm
proved if a few of the under-ripe
berries are used. This also increases
the quality of the juice for jelly
making later in the year. Berries
canned in this way may be drained
from the juice and served with cream
and sugar as fresh berries, while the
juice is adaptable for jelly making or
punch. Berries require enamel-lined
containers if put in tin.
Help Curb Initiation
President Roosevelt has said: "The
achievement of victory in war and
security in peace requires the par
~ticipation Of all the people in the
common effort for our common
cause" Safeguarding our economy
at home is the very least that u
soldiers, sailors, and marines have a
right to expect Of US civilians -"
The result will mean that each and
everyone of us will have to give
up many things -. We shall have to
live our lives with less Our
standards of living will have to come
down.
To aid the national war effort let
US plan to buy less for our use
and to take care of what we have.
Let US not hoard things that are
scarce. You and l, your family and
mine, will pay cash instead of using
the installment plan. We are rails
ing more of our own food and feed
and will have to buy less. We re-
solve to buy less of such things as
sugar, candy, and soft drinks, which
are not important to maintaining u
health. We will repair farm and
home equipment and remodel our
clothing and buy less. To save rub
Der, gas and metals we will drive our
car only as necessary and at speeds
not exceeding 40 miles an hour. We
will save paper, scrap metals and
rubber.
This year we will reduce debts,
meet current obligations and buy
wal bonds and stamps. We will in
crease the production of food, fiber
and oil crops needed for victory.
How Can I Stretch The Sugar
| Do Get For Canning:
Answer: Add a small amount Of
sugar to the fruits own juices, in
stead of making the usual sugar
strip. Fruits naturally contain q
great deal Of water and you can
make best use Of your sugar by
sweetening this rather than by adj
ding more water in the form of
a strip.
Heat the slightly sweetened fruit
carefully in a sauce pan. This draws
out the juices, shrinks the fruit,
and drives out the air, making it
possible to pack generous amounts
of fruits in each jar. There should
be enough juice to cover the fruit
completely. Honey may be used to
replace up to one-half the sugar
called for in canning, and corn strip
up TO one-thrid.
Fruit juices are not provided for
in sugar-rationing allowances Blu.
they may be bottled or put up in jars
with little or no sugar, When sweet
and tart juice is processed at sim
mering rather than at boiling tenn
peratures to keep the natural fruit
flavors.