Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1917 — Mother’s Cook Book. [ARTICLE]

Mother’s Cook Book.

Every ounce of food the housewife saves from being wasted in her homeall food which she or her children produce in the garden and can,„dry or jpreserve—every garment which care and skilful repair make -unnecessary to replaceall lessen that household’s draft on the already insufficient world supplies. Summer Vegetables for Winter Soup. Take one bushel of ripe tomatoes, one peck of okra, three dozen ears pf corn, one-half dozen green peppefp, four pods of red peppers, one-quarter of a peck of white onions and a cupful of salt Scald and peel the tomatoes, cook down about one-third., Cut the okra, onions and peppers into thin slices and cook until the okra is

nearly tender, then add the corn cut from the cob. Add the salt just as it is ready for the can. When thick put it into pint jars and seal immediately. When cool wrap in papers and jjut in a cool, dark place. Where okra is not grown, green string beans were substituted. When serving add a small amount of this mixture to any seasoned soup stock. - Spinach; onions, carrots and celery make another combination especially good, blanch and chill the vegetables, allowing twice the time for blanching the spinach, then pack in jars, fill with boiling water, and add a teaspoonful of salt to each quart. in a receptacle deep enough to allow an inch of water to cover the top of the jar. Allow two hours for cooking a quart jar. Have a rack to keep the jars from the bottom and count the time

from the beginning of the boiling. Do not screw the lids on quite tight but have them flrm enough to lift in and out by the tops. Pint jars will cook ! n five minutes less time, two quart jqrs need ten minutes more than the two hours of sterilization. Japanese Mint Jelly. Put eight quarts of unripe plums into a kettle with a large bunch of mint, add cold water so that It shows' around t the plums and cook until the fruit is tender. Strain over night in a jelly bag and then proceed as In any other jelly. Green grapes also make a good jelly with mint. The pulp left in the bag may be rubbed through a sieve and made into marmalade, so that nothing is wasted. Windfall apples, or fruit thinned from various choice trees may all be untilized in some form so that none need go to waste. Apples are delicious. Dip in a mild salt solution to keep them from burning so brown when 'dry.