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fill up the can on top of the paper with boiling juice, and seal at 

 once. Ladies, try this way ; the fruit will never mold, and will 

 keep any lime, if you don't eat it. The papers keep the fruit from 

 risin-T to the top of the liquid. There is no use of setting cans 

 into water to heat them, or of putting them into quilted bags ; it 

 is too troublesome. I let the fruit shrink, and then fill up to the 

 cover as close as possible. Ladies must be governed by their own 

 common sense. 

 Adjourned. 



