Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1913 — Notes and Comment [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Notes and Comment

Of Interest to Women Readers

DRYING VEGETABLES. How the Thrifty Housewife May Bave Expense of Buying Jars. To have many home-canned vegetables for winter use, the expense of buying glass jars 1b quite a tax on the pocketbook, but the young housekeeper who needs all her jars for fruit may dry many of her vegetables and some of the small fruits with excellent results. Green shell beans, if shelled and dried quickly by the stove or in a sunny place, are equal to the canned OTOl:'; TJlfianrgans after being dried in this way. Corn should be boiled just enpugh to thicken the milk, and then shaved from the cob and dried. It should be spread out thinly or it will sour before sufficiently dried. If one dries hut a small quantity at a time, they can be spread upon plates and dried, but if more are to be prepared a home-made evaporator is very convenient to have. The diagram

shows plainly the construction, and of course it can be made any size. The four upright pieces should each have a wire nail driven part way Into the bottom to protect the wood from direct contact with the stove. The trays have a simple frame-work of wood, and are covered with wire netting or thin cheese-cloth. These rest upon the cleats which hold the uprights together. There may be as many trays as one chooses. In using this evaporator dp not place over a hot part of, the stove, for the object is to dry, not to cook. Vegetables or fruit dried in this way must be soaked In cold water over night.—Kathleen Abbott