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MR. PUTNAM : I would like to ask the gentleman, if he 

 was making jam, and so forth, does he use pound for pound? 

 That is to say, taking away one-half the sugar, will it keep 

 unless it is canned? 



PROFESSOR CHENOWETH : No, it will not. 



MR. PUTNAM : That is what I thought. You did not 

 tell al)out that. 



PROFESSOR CHENOWETH : It must be hermetically 

 sealed, if you reduce your quantity of sugar. 



MR. PUTNAM: In my experience in apples, if you go 

 through Worcester County, there isn't a woman who won't 

 tell you that a Gravenstein apple makes the best apple pie 

 that can be made. If you get any apple that has no acid in 

 it — what we call flat — it won't make a pie that anybody 

 wants to eat. They want something to sharpen up the pie, 

 making it taste good. They all think a Gravenstein is the best 

 pie apple raised in Massachusetts. That is my experience, 

 and I have sold a good many. 



Supposing we take a Garden Royal. Every man knows 

 that it is a sweet, nice apple, take it just the right time. Is 

 there anyone here that would think that would make a good 

 apple pie? You wouldn't need much sugar in it to get the 

 acid out of it. 

 n PROFESSOR CHENOWETH: If you prefer a tart 

 taste, simply make it by adding apples and cider together 

 until you get the desired consistency, which is rather a thick- 

 ish substance. If you want it sweet, then you have got to 

 add some sweetening, sugary substance or sugar, and the 

 amount of sugar you will add, you will have to be governed 

 quite a little bit by the taste you desire ; but ordinarly, about 

 six pounds of granulated sugar will sweeten a bushel of ap- 

 ples to which two gallons of cider have been added. That 

 will give you about 3 1-2 gallons of apple butter so you will 

 add, really, you see, the equivalent of two pounds of sugar. — 

 approximately two pounds of sugar to one gallon of this ap- 

 ple butter and it gives you a sufficiently sAveet product. You 

 could eat it spread on bread. 



