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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1941
Page
7
Home canning guidance offers inexpensive preserves and desserts to ease living costs. Recipes cover Peach Apricot Mint, Quick Plum, and Grape Lime Jam with steps, yields, and safety notes. A final fact notes the world’s largest fig tree stands near Kingman, Arizona, 18 miles west.
On canning day serve a fresh fruit dessert platter nested in endive and crisp celery with melon balls diced apples sliced oranges halves of apricots oranges and grapefruit segments. Begin with hot soup mushroom cream or a bouillon for lighter meals. Include cucumber onion tomato salad and baked squash. Parboil small green squash for tenderness then bake with brown sugar and butter.
The Back Fence column invites housewives to share their best seasonal recipes and to request recipes they would like published. Editorial notes describe collecting reader contributions to enrich this traditional exchange of favorite dishes.
Fruit butters guide from Farmers Bulletin No 1800 explains how to cook pulped fruit with sugar to a thick spread. It covers apples apricots grapes peaches pears plums and quinces with sugar proportions salt and spice notes and methods to test thickening and seal in sterilized containers.
Recipe style blend noting dish preparation and bake time followed by a family attribution to Mrs David D Mitchell at 223 B Avenue NW.
Apples are excellent for cooking and reasonably priced in the market. Prune plums arrive midweek while lemons become more affordable with cooler weather. Oranges steady with uncertain summer supply, limes plentiful, peaches from Illinois good but undersized. Michigan and Colorado supply next week. Grapes not yet at desired sugar. California and Oregon Bartlett pears appear after Wednesday. short crop mostly to canneries. Celery, lettuce, peppers, peas, potatoes and sweet potatoes offered at fair prices. Carrots from local, Colorado and California. cucumbers winding down. summer squash cheap. eggplant abundant locally. Onions plentiful. tomatoes scarce from dryness, rain may bring some in. Beets and cauliflower from Colorado. meats feature beef roasts and steaks with smoked ham rolls on special.
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