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portant that these be reduced to the 

 lowest limit consistent witli good work. 

 It should further be made a matter of 

 reasonable certainty what the buyers 

 will be willing to pay for evaporated 

 stock. The fresh market should be 

 studied as carefully as the other, for 

 the two will to some extent be in active 

 competition. In some such way, by 

 exhaustively analyzing the possibilities 

 of this business the same as any other 

 enterprise, a man can soon decide such 

 questions as whether he can atford to 

 evaporate his apples at all, what he can 

 pay his neighbor for his apples, just 

 how high a grade of apples he can 

 handle in this way, or whether after 

 all in his own particular case it would 

 not be more economical to turn the 

 apples ofl' for hog feed. 



Pulping Fruit 



Every housekeeper is anxious to 

 build up safe reserves of fruit and vege- 

 tables for winter, and a good provider 

 takes justifiable pride in well-filled 

 shelves. To such women the 25-pound 

 allotment of sugar, or even a more gen- 

 erous allowance for canning, will not 

 provide a safe margin unless there is a 

 careful allocation — so nnich sugar for 

 cherries, and so much for peaches — and 

 this program backed up with generous 

 supplies canned without sugar. Eng- 

 land has adopted a method of preserv- 

 ing fruit without sugar, known as 

 "pulping," that is employed both com- 

 mercially and in the homes. This 

 method is economical of jars, as no 

 water is used in canning the fruit. The 

 method, according to the Bulletin of 

 the Hoyal Horticultural Society, is as 

 follows: Pack sterilized jars full of 

 fruit, add no water, place rubbers and 

 caps in position, and fill pan with water 

 up to the shoulders of the bottles. 

 Place pan on lire and bring water to 

 the sinnuering point and keep it at this 

 point half an hour. Remove bottles 

 and fill them one from the other, re- 

 place rubbers and caps, and put the 

 bottles back in the pan and bring them 

 up to the simmering point again for 

 another five minutes. Take them out 

 one at a time and screw down the tops. 

 Invert to cool and test the joints. Wrap 

 in paper to prevent bleaching and store 

 in a dry, cool place. Cooking the fruit 

 before bottling is a simple method of 

 pulping, but the fruit will be darker 

 than if the above method is followed. 

 This method is as follows: Place fruit 

 over a gentle heat until enough mois- 

 ture comes out to |)revent burning, then 

 increase the heat until the fruit boils. 

 Boil an hour, stirring all the time, and 

 can, following usual methiuls of steril- 

 izing. In putting up apples a little 

 water will have to be added to the fruit 

 to prevent burning. Puljjcd fruit can 

 be used for jam, stewed fruit, puddings 

 and pies. The EnglLsh housewife who 

 has to be very careful of sugar makes 

 up pulp into jam one jar at a time, 

 allowing half a i)int of sugar to a pint 

 of fruit. This does not make so sweet a 

 jam as the usual (|uantit.\ of sugar, but 

 as this Ijiglish woman writes, "It is 

 (piite good enough and in these days 

 jam of any kind is almost a lu.xury." 



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