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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1917
Page
6
Instructions for winter use jar storage of rhubarb with water sealing and cooling process. Then recipes for rhubarb marmalade with Jamaica ginger, walnuts, lem ons, lemon rind, sugar, and instructions to seal with paraffin. Also a rhubarb jam recipe with citrus juice and sugar and paraffin sealing.
Cut the rind with green skin and pink fruit into large squares. Soak in water with a pinch of alum for 24 hours, drain, then cover with vinegar and add whole allspice cloves and white mustard seed. Boil hot and pour over rind. Heat vinegar for three mornings, then re pour while hot. Ready in one week.
Watermelon can be kept for two or three months. When ripe, cut from the vine and seal the cut end with wax to exclude air and moisture. Place in a cool cellar to have watermelon for Christmas.
Instructions describe canning peaches with a syrup of sugar and water and tips for avoiding jar cracks. It also covers pickled peaches with sugar vinegar and whole spices tied in cloth, noting the same method can apply to pears.
Scrapbook recipe from the U.S. Department of Agriculture instructs filling fruit jars with fresh cider and adding sugar per quart. Jars are sealed and sterilized in a hot water bath for ten minutes, then cooled and tested. For a tart or slightly fermented cider, let stand two to three days before a 12 minute sterilization.
Six pounds of fruit with four pounds of sugar and one pint of vinegar is simmered with one tablespoon each of cinnamon allspice and cloves until tender. The mixture is then sealed in glass jars for later use.
A method to save fat scraps from pork, lamb or steak by rendering in a skillet then clarifying with a potato and cloth strain. Use the clarified fat for frying doughnuts and other shorteners, but not suitable for pie crusts.
In winter, prepare mixed vegetables for soup by blanching and cubing. Pack into jars with seasoning, fill with boiling water, seal loosely, and sterilize for 1144 hours. Remove jars tighten tops and invert to cool.
The guide outlines cellar conditions and handling for grapes apples pears and plums to maintain quality. It covers temperature, light control air circulation and timing for harvest and storage including grape box sizing and light exclusion and pear ripeness indicators.
Instructions for two tomato catsup recipes list ingredients such as ripe tomatoes onions peppers vinegar sugar salt mustard pepper and allspice. Steps include chopping grinding peeling mashing and simmering then straining or pressing and sealing in jars or corking bottles.
Instructions outline methods for making grape juice grape marmalade and grape preserve. Steps include washing stems boiling with minimal water pressing and straining through a bag or colander and sealing in jars or tumblers with sugar adjustments and pariffin once cool.
Wild greens such as pepper grass lambs quarters sour dock purslane dandelions marsh marigold and wild mustard can be stored for winter. Cultivated greens include Swiss chard kale rape turnip tops spinach and more. Wash thoroughly blanch in steam then pack in jars with water salt and sealed tops for sterilization and storage.
A lemon farm starts on a wild tract in south Jersey. Kearny council passes a resolution requiring members to wear dress suits at meetings. New Russia admits four women lawyers to Moscow bar. France conducts coal census to limit to one ton per person. Pacifist who punched Senator Lodge enrolls in Plattsburg training. A Kansas bootlegger hides liquor in a hot water bottle and serves it via tubes in cups.
Russia reveres Lieutenant General L. G. Korniloff, famed for Ga Licia victory and his rapid ascent from Siberian roots. The narrative traces his boyhood in western Siberia, cadet schooling, and pivotal roles in the Japanese war, Turkestan service, and his reputation as a scholar and military tactician.
Doctors inspecting draftees follow a weight height and chest measurement table. Chest measurements are taken level above the nipple. Obesity is not disqualifying unless it creates proportion issues. Men taller than six feet six inches or poorly proportioned are rejected.
Two hundred acres of wheat on the Oren Smith farm at Valley Center Kansas are being thrashed and averaging fifty bushels per acre of high grade wheat. Farmers say this is a Kansas record with seven measured acres yielding sixty eight bushels per acre.
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