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FHE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Home-Canned Vegetables. 
Home canning of vegetables should be 
given practical consideration in every 
household, and especially by those liv¬ 
ing in a locality which produces fresh 
vegetables only a few months in the 
year, for a wholesome vegetable diet is 
essential to the well-being of everyone 
and imperatively so for aged people, 
who should eat sparingly of animal food 
and cereals. As the season of Summer 
vegetables is so uncomfortably short, 
the prudent housekeeper “looketh well 
to the ways of her household,” and pro¬ 
vides a liberal quantity of canned ma¬ 
terial for their use. This work should 
as necessarily form a part of her task 
as pickling, preserving, etc.; in spite of 
the theories held by many that vege¬ 
tables are more difficult to can success¬ 
fully than fruit. You frequently hear 
an otherwise notable cook say she sel¬ 
dom has good luck with vegetables, as 
they invariably spoil, or are so tasteless 
that she does not care for them. There 
is really no luck in this work; it simply 
requires care given to it, the same as all 
other housekeeping tasks where the best 
results are attained. 
Some advocate the use of tartaric acid 
in canning vegetables. This is not a 
commendable practice, for a dish ot 
vegetables which requires a strong solu¬ 
tion of soda to counteract the acidity 
before using is unquestionably not fit to 
be eaten. Take the vegetables in the 
routine in which they come, being very 
particular to select the earliest and 
choicest varieties. Here is where the 
average person makes a mistake, by 
waiting until the vegetables have lost 
their first freshness, or have become 
hard and flavorless. This is the class 
of vegetables which are frequently 
canned; the surplus stock after they are 
less palatable for fresh table use, or the 
family appetite has become cloyed. 
Where such is the case, it is not strange 
that many fail in producing a superior 
quality of canned goods. There is still 
another point to be gained in using the 
finest grade of vegetables in home can¬ 
ning; factory-canned ones are rarely of 
this class, for where it is done in large 
quantities the use of fully-grown ma¬ 
terial is more economical than very deli¬ 
cate choice specimens. 
The first of the vegetables to require 
attention is asparagus. Cut the tender- 
est shoots into inch lengths; boil until 
tender in sufficient water to cover. Pill 
up, allowing the liquor to overflow the 
can; just before sealing add one heap¬ 
ing teaspoonful of salt. When used it 
will require no cooking, merely reheat¬ 
ing. Season the same as though fresh¬ 
ly cooked. Peas follow next in order. 
Select, as I said before, the most deli¬ 
cate variety obtainable. Cook five min¬ 
utes in very little water; fill the cans, 
add a teaspoonful of salt to each can 
the last thing before sealing. Place the 
cans in a kettle of hot water, and when 
it reaches the boiling point, cook one 
hour. Always place a small piece of 
board in the kettle before setting in the 
can; never allow a glass jar to come di¬ 
rectly in contact with hot iron. String 
beans are treated much the same as 
peas. Cut them in halves, or in inch 
lengths, cook five or 10 minutes, fill the 
cans, add the salt, seal and cook from 
1% to two hours. Beans retain their 
flavor better than peas and rarely if ever 
spoil. Young beets are delicious canned; 
cook until tender in salted water the 
same as for table use. Cut in thin 
slices, fill the cans and cover with hot 
vinegar, sweetened .and spiced, seal. 
For canned corn, select young and ten¬ 
der ears, cut a thin slice with a very 
sharp knife, followed by a scraping 
movement of the knife, which removes 
the corn in a milky mass. Fill into the 
can a little at one time pressing it down 
firmly with a small wooden masher un¬ 
til the milk overflows the can. Add a 
teaspoonful of salt. When all are filled 
place the cans in a boiler and cook half 
an hour with the covers laid loosely on. 
Remove from the fire and seal; return 
and cook two hours longer. By cooking 
it a while unsealed it gives the corn 
room to swell without endangering the 
cans, which sometimes burst if cooked 
sufficiently sealed from the first. 
In making succotash, first fill the cans 
half full of green Lima beans—if dried 
beans are used cook until tender in a 
little water, drain and fill into the cans. 
Prepare the corn the same as for can¬ 
ning alone, fill the remainder of the can 
with this, pressed firmly in. Add a tea¬ 
spoonful of salt to each can, seal and 
cook two hours. Tomatoes are one of 
the easiest of vegetables to can, and 
may be treated In a variety of ways. 
Many people use them as a fruit, can¬ 
ning them as you would by any other 
sweet method. They look better when 
canned whole. Remove the skins by 
pouring boiling water over them. Place 
the tomatoes over the fire and let sim¬ 
mer slowly a few minutes, or until thor¬ 
oughly heated through. Lift out with a 
fork, being careful not to break them, 
fill the cans, add the teaspoonful of salt 
to each can. Pour the hot juice in which 
they were cooked over the tomatoes un¬ 
til the cans overflow and seal. But the 
simplest way is to cook a quantity in a 
preserving kettle 10 or 15 minutes in 
their own liquor; fill the cans to over¬ 
flowing, add the salt and seal. Never 
can overripe tomatoes; those which are 
partially green will keep better, besides 
retaining their form when canned 
whole. 
Cauliflower may be canned either in 
vinegar or water. Break into flowerets 
and cook until tender in a small quan¬ 
tity of water, pack the cans as full as 
possible, add the salt, and All to over¬ 
flowing with the hot liquor in which it 
was cooked, seal. When vinegar is 
used, steam the cauliflower until tender, 
fill into cans and pour over hot vinegar, 
sweetened and spiced. Mushrooms are 
as easily canned as any other vegetable. 
Cook until tender in their own juices; 
a little salt added when they are put 
over the fire increases the flow of juice. 
Fill into cans, add a little more salt, 
pour the hot liquor in until the cans 
overflow, seal. Canned mushrooms are 
excellent for all meat pies and gravies. 
All of the above vegetables have been 
tested successfully by the given meth¬ 
ods, but undoubtedly some of the suc¬ 
cess was attributable to always filling 
the cans to overflowing and hermetical¬ 
ly sealing. sarah rodney. 
A Handy Medicine Cabinet. 
In most houses when an accident hap¬ 
pens some one runs to the cupboard for 
medicine, another to the ragbag for 
bandages,while the rest skirmish around 
for scissors, string and court-plaster. 
Very few people can afford to buy a case 
costing several dollars, but anyone who 
can handle common tools can make one 
such as I saw in a country kitchen. It 
was placed in the kitchen to be near the 
kettle in case hot water was needed. It 
was made out of a pine box, painted 
white inside and out. The hinges and 
latch cost 15 cents, and the paint was 
left from the barn, so that the whole 
cost was only the 15 cents. It was two 
feet high, nine inches deep and 18 inches 
wide. It was fastened to the wall out 
of reach of the children, though no poi¬ 
son was kept in it. There were four 
shelves neatly covered with paper, and 
on top a small lamp always stood ready 
for use at night. Below hung a pair of 
shears, a bag filled with bandages and 
a case of lint. The bags for lint and 
bandages were made of table oilcloth 
to keep out dust. The shelves held a va¬ 
riety of bottles and boxes, but so syste¬ 
matic was the arrangement that the 
mistress of the house could instantly 
put her hand on the remedy wanted. 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low's Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
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The first shelf held everything necessary 
for burns, cuts and scalds, the second 
was given up to remedies for childish 
complaints, the third plasters and oint¬ 
ments for sprains and bruises, while the 
last held what the owner called her 
“instruments.” 
The medicines were all reliable, and 
many an illness had been broken up in 
the beginning by having the right thing 
at the right time. On the first shelf 
were vaseline, camphor, salve, soda and 
a glass bottle containing a strip of iodo¬ 
form gauze. The children’s shelf held 
cough syrup, mild cathartics, skin soap, 
and tin cans filled with herbs. There 
were mustard plasters, turpentine, witch 
hazel and oils on the third shelf, as well 
as the hot water bag. Cups, spoons, a 
small thermometer and many other use¬ 
ful articles filled the last shelf. This 
woman owned a book telling what to do 
in emergencies, but being the mother of 
a large family, she learned in advance 
what to do instead of consulting the 
guide at the last moment. “In time of 
peace prepare for war” she often quoted, 
as she replenished her cabinet and stud¬ 
ied new health notes. “In the city it 
may be all right to depend solely on the 
doctor, but in the country it takes sev¬ 
eral hours to get one, and delay is often 
dangerous.” 
Collect your remedies, label them 
plainly and some one can always be 
found to make the case. The sense of 
relief in always being able to find a fin¬ 
ger stall, bit of court-plaster, salve or 
any one of the many things you search 
for in times of sickness, will more than 
repay your trouble. There are women 
calling themselves good housekeepers 
who turn the whole house upside down, 
when one of the boys comes in with a 
black eye. All physicians advise keep¬ 
ing cool when accidents occur, but this 
is only possible when the necessary 
remedies are at one's command. 
HII.DA RICHMOND. 
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stimulant but a health builder and the children as 
well as the adults can drink It with great benetit. 
Costs about l 4 as much as coffee- 15c. and 25c. per 
psekage Ask your grocer for Grain-O 
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