Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1882 — Jam from Turnips and Tar. [ARTICLE]

Jam from Turnips and Tar.

According to the correspondent of a trade journal, it is a mistake to suppose that fruit is absolutely nece-sary to the manufacture of preserves. He describes a visit to a large jam-producing factory, invwhich he found that the work was being bravely earned on without the aid of fruit at all. Jams of variou t kii Is were being produced before his ey< —currant, plum, strawberry, apricot, raspberry and gooseberry. Yet neither currant, plum, strawberry, rasp-

berrv nor gooseberry was in the building. Turnips served the purposes of the fruit. The flavoring matter was extracted from coal-tar, and the resemblahCe to raspberry and strawberry jam was further produced by mixing the compound with small seeds of sottle cheap innocuous herb. A common form of sugar is used, and this is the only honest ingredient of the mess. These preserves are offered as made from “this season’s fruit.”— London Times.