THE DIETETIC VALUE OF FRUIT 1413 



Windfall Apples for Pie Filling 



Peel, core, and slice apples. Scald for two minutes in boiling 

 water; plunge in cold water. Pack in glass or tin cans and add 

 about one teacupful of hot, thin syrup to each quart can. Adjust 

 rubber and top on glass can, and close loosely. (Cap and tip 

 cans.) Sterilize for sixteen minutes in hot-water bath, or twelve 

 minutes in water-seal outfit, or ten minutes under five pounds of 

 steam, or four minutes in pressure cooker. Eemove jars, tighten 

 covers, and invert to cool. 



The fact that the can is not filled with liquid in no way inter- 

 feres with the keeping qualities of apples canned in this manner. 



OVEN METHOD 



In using the oven method of canning, the jars and tops must be 

 sterilized by boiling at least twenty minutes. The fruit, prepared 

 as in the cold pack method, is packed raw into the jars, and the 

 jars are- filled to overflowing with hot syrup. The rubbers are 

 dipped in boiling water and adjusted, the glass tops put on, and the 

 upper clamp fastened. (If screw-top jars are used, screw as 

 tightly as can be done by using the thumb and little finger.) Place 

 in a moderate oven on a sheet of asbestos paper or in two inches 

 of water in a pan, and cook twenty minutes.- Remove, fasten 

 lower clamp, or tighten screw top, and treat jars as in cold pack 

 method. 



Advantages. This process may be used at the same time with 

 the cold pack or other methods, if the object is to get large quan- 

 tities of fruit put up in a given time. 



Objections. Flavor and appearance of the fruit are less attract- 

 ive than by the cold pack method. The jars require separate ster- 

 ilization. The process is costly in the matter of fuel. It means 

 working in a hot kitchen. 



Pears Canned in the Oven 

 8 quarts pears 

 1 quart sugar 

 3 quarts water 



Cover the bottom of the oven with a sheet of asbestos paper. 

 Sterilize the jars, prepare the fruit, fill the hot jars with fruit and 



