Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1915 — HOW TO BOIL FRUIT [ARTICLE]

HOW TO BOIL FRUIT

Royal Bociety Prints Series of Useful Food pamphlets ' The ' Royal' Borocmtnrsl society “la publishing a series of useful short pamphlets dealing with the care of food.. The following are their Instructions for bottling fruit, which is now plentiful and cheap. Choose wide mouthed bottles, and clean them thoroughly. Pick jnst ripe fruit clean and dry. Place in bottles. Apples and pears should be sliced in quarters, plums and damsons put In whole. Fill the bottles with fresh water. Stand them up to their necks In water In a fish kettle or open boiler. The bottles must be open. 81owly raise the water to the boll, and let It boil for twenty minutes or half an hour. Take out the bottles singly, and without the smallest delay tie the mouths with clean bladder whilst the water In the bottles Is at boiling heat. If corks are used Instead of bladders scald them first. Insert them and seal the tops with sealing or bottle wax. Remember to boil the water gradually. Store the bottles In any cool place. Blackberries can be preserved with a smaller quantity of sugar than other fruit. —Tit Bits.