October, 1918 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



99 



Household Hints 



THE old timemethod of drying fruitand veg- 

 etables in the sun certainly made a better 

 and sweeter product, but it required much 

 attention and to be covered with cheese cloth or 

 mosquito netting as a protection against in- 

 sects, and to be taken in at night in case of 

 rain. 



A very simple home-made device would 

 save much trouble — use one hotbed sash 

 which measures three by six feet, make a 

 frame just as is made for a cold frame — two 

 feet high at back and one foot high in front 

 and the sides made sloping. Place this box 

 on a sunny roof of a porch with the trays of 

 fruit under the glass sash. The trays should 

 be lifted from the roof resting on two bricks 

 so as to be as near the glass as possible, and 

 are better still if made of wire mesh. Such 

 things can be gotten at the ten cent stores. 

 The glass draws the sun and dries the fruit 

 more rapidly and also protects it from the 

 rain, and so, the process of drying can be com- 

 pleted without moving the trays back and 

 forth. Sulphurating fruit is another method 

 which is very good and the fruit does not 

 turn dark as it does by sun drying. 



Sulphurated Fruit. Apples may be cut in large pieces with or 

 without peeling. Put in basket and hang in the top of a close 

 barrel covering with something heavy, an old quilt folded makes 

 a good cover. Have in the bottom of the barrel a pan of coals 

 on which to pour the sulphur. Cover and leave four or five 

 hours. One cup of sulphur to a half bushel of fruit will be suf- 

 ficient. Do not put all the sulphur in at once. It is best to use 

 half a cup and leave for an hour or two, then replenish fire and 

 use other half. It is a good idea to sulphurate in the afternoon 

 and leave basket hanging in the barrel overnight. Take from 

 basket, pack fruit in large mouthed stone jars and tie a muslin 

 cloth over top. Leave this without any other cover in order 

 that the sulphur may evaporate. Peaches halved and sul- 

 phurated are excellent, and delicious served with cream and 

 sugar. 



Where there are large orchards and vine- 

 yards much fruit goes to waste, but apple 

 and peach and pear butter is very palatable, 

 and the fruit juices which can be kept sweet 

 to use in winter are most desirable. 



Besides the receipt for apple butter, and the 

 one for keeping cider sweet, I add two modern 

 ones which are excellent. 



APPLE SYRUP 



Fill a kettle two-thirds full of sweet cider. Seven gallons of 

 cider will make one gallon of syrup. 



To seven gallons of cider put five ounces of calcium carbon- 

 ate, or carbonate of lime, sold in the drug stores as powdered 

 marble dust or precipitated chalk. Boil for a few minutes. 

 Pour into large jars and allow it to settle until perfectly clear. 

 Pour syrup back into kettle leaving sediment behind. Add a 

 level teaspoonful of chalk and boil liquid down to one-seventh 

 of the original volume, or until of the consistency of maple 

 syrup. Pour off and allow it to cool slowly and allow sediment 

 to settle. To cool slowly, the vessel containing the liquid can 

 be put inside of another vessel containing warm water and set 

 aside, both cooling. Pour the clear portion in kettle and heat 

 nearly to boiling point and pour hot into sterilized fruit jars or 

 bottles and seal immediately, or pour cold into bottles or jars 

 and set in boiler of water and sterilize as is done for fruits. 



Unfermented Grape Juice. Use thoroughly ripe grapes. Wash 

 the clusters and remove all imperfect grapes. Do not stem the 

 good ones. Fill a kettle with the grapes and put in enough 

 water to be seen down through the grapes. Cover and cook 

 slowly until the juice is extracted. Dram through a colander, 

 then pour the juice through a jelly bag, but do not squeeze it 

 out. Good ripe Concord grapes require no sugar, but if grapes 

 are sour, sweeten the juice to taste. Put juice in sterilized 

 bottles, put in corks lightly, place bottles on a rack in a boiler 

 with water half way up bottles and boil for five minutes and 

 push corks tight into bottles and cover with sealing wax. 



Apple Butter. Have your kettle thoroughly clean and fill it 

 early in the morning with cider made of sound apples and fresh 

 from the press; let it boil half away, which may be done by three 

 o'clock in the afternoon; have pared and cut enough good apples 

 to fill the kettle; put them in a clean tub And. pour the boiling 

 cider over, then scour the kettle and put in the apples and cider, 

 let them boil briskly till the apples sink to the bottom; slacken 

 the fire and let them stew, like preserves, till ten o'clock at night. 

 Some dried quinces stewed in cider and put in are an improve- 

 ment. Season with orange peel, cinnamon or cloves just before 

 it is done. If you like it sweeter, you can put in some sugar an 

 hour before it is done. If it cannot be finished the first day, put 

 it in a tub and finish it the next day; and when it is done, put it 

 in stone jars. Anything acid should not be put in earthern ves- 

 sels as the glazing is poisonous. This way of making apple but- 

 ter requires little stirring, but you must keep a constant watch 

 so it doesn't burn. Peaches and pears can be done the same 

 way. 



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