STORING, PRESERVING, ETC. 87 



congested, and when under such circumstances it some- 

 times happens that the price realized is sufficient to 

 little more than cover the cost of carriage and salesman's 

 expenses. 



JAM-MAKING. 



This being a distinct art and craft, it is beyond the 

 scope of this work to describe the various processes in 

 detail, therefore a mere outline will be given. The work 

 commences with gooseberries, followed by strawberries, 

 currants and raspberries, then ripe gooseberries, and 



FIG. 19.- STEAM PA* FIG. 20. TILTING PAN. 



lastly plums. It is, of course, the case that large quanti- 

 ties are ready at one time, and have to be dealt with as 

 gathered. This is a busy time for the factories, and it is 

 an impossibility to complete the process of jam-making 

 with the whole of the fruit as fast as it arrives. There- 

 fore a large portion of it is " rendered," or simply boiled 

 and placed immediately while hot in large stone jars 

 corked tightly and stacked away, to be dealt with as time 

 will allow. 



