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For Woman’s Work.
A LOAD OF APPLES AND WHAT
TO DO WITH THEM.
BY MRS. MILLIE MARCH.
nngi
S I have been solving this prob
lem myself, and it is still fresh
in mind, I will give it to the
readers of Woman’s Work,
and they may take it for what
it is worth. Presumably, the load cf ap
ples will not all be “good keeping” ones;
if so, the problem would be easily solved
by putting them away in the cellar to be
prepared when neeaed; but even then,
these same recipes will be found excellent.
My load was of various sorts, so I first
“sorted” them over, putting the winter
ones away for future use, the sweet va
rieties at one side for sweet pickles and
preserves, and the remainder to be used in
various ways. Then 1 went to work, and
this is the assortment I had when I had
finished:
APPLES FOR PIES.
As I think stewing the apples before
making the pies almost spoils the pies, I
put up what I wished for pies in this way,
which is called the California cold method,
and is just as good fojr other kinds of fruit:
Dissolve one ounce of salicylic acid and
six and one-fourth pounds of sugar in three
and one-fourth gallons oi hot water; when
cold, pour over fruit—already prepared by
paring and slicing and placing in jars. Be
sure the jars are full, and that no more air
bubbles will arise ; then screw on cover.
When you open it your fruit will be found
like fresh. You can put up your fruit—
apples, pears or peaches—without paring,
and grapes and currants need not be picked
from the stem; nor is it absolutely neces
sary to seal, though I prefer it that way as
I think it retains its flavor better.
CANNED STEWED APPLES.
Pare, quarter and core; add one-half
teacup sugar for each quart ot apples, and
water to cover; cook until tender—then
seal. I have better success with tin cans
for these, although, of course, glass cans
may be used.
APPLE SWEET PICKLES.
Pare and cut fruit in halves, or in quar
ters, if very large; if small, pare and core
and leave whole; put in steamer and steam
until easily pierced with a silver fork, then
place in a jar and pour over theui a syrup
made in the following proportion: One
quart best cider vinegar and three pints
sugar; pour over the fruit boiling hot, re
peating each day until the fruit is the same
color to the center; a few days before fin
ishing, place the fruit, after draining, in
the jar to the depth of three or four inches,
then sprinkle over a few cloves and a lit-
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tie cinnamon bark, then another layer of
fruit and some more spices,repeating until
the jar is full, using about two teaspoons
cloves and tour tablespoons cinnamon
bark to a gallon of fruit. Use the sweet
apples for these, as they will not cook to
pieces so badly as the sour.
APPLE PRESERVES.
Take three-quaiters of a pound sugar to
each pound ol apples (sweet); make a syr
up of the sugar and water in which ginger
root has been boiled until the strength has
been extracted; that is, if you do not dis
like the ginger root; if you do, omit it,
using enough clear water to make a syrup
of the sugar. Add a little lemon juice or
sliced lemon, skim ofi the scum, and boil
in the syrup a lew apples at a time, until
they are transparent; then place in a jar.
When all are done, boil the syrup until
thick, pour boiling hot over the apples,
and cover closely. I usually seal mine;
then there is no danger of mold.
APPLE JELLY.
Place in a porcelain kettle your apples,
quartered and cored (if cores are defective)
but not pared; cover with water. Boil
until tender, turn into a bag and place to
drain for three or four hours. To one pint
of juice add about three-quarters of a pint
of granulated sugar, stir until sugar is dis
solved, then no more; boil rapidly, and
make but a small amount at a time. Use
tart apples for this. To test jelly, drop a
little in a glass of very cold water, and if
it immediately drops to the bottom, it is
done, or drop in a saucer set in cold wa
ter; if it does not spread, but remains
rounded, it is finished. When ready to
put away, seal with writing paper and the
white of an egg.
APPLE BUTTER.
Boil a barrel of new cider down one
half; peel and core three bushels of good
cooking apples; when the cider is boiled
down to half, add the apples, and when
soft, stir constantly for irom eight to ten
hours. If done it will adhere to an invert
ed plate. Put away in stone jars (not
earthenware), covering first with writing
paper cut to tit the jar, and pressed down
closely upon the ap; le butter; cover the
whole with thick brown paper snugly tied
down.
MINCE MEAT.
I made mine in this proportion: Two
bowls chopped apples, one of chopped
boiled bee*, one-fourth pound of chopped
suet, grated rind and juice of one lemon,
two teacups molasses, one large teaspoon
each of cinnamon and cloves, ground, one
nutmeg grated, one pound raisins, one-half
pound currants, one-lourth pound citron
cut fine, one quart cider, one tablespoonful
salt, and about one pound sugar—accord
ing to taste. Currant or grape juice may
be used instead of cider, and cranberries,
dried cherries, jellies, etc., may be used
partly, instead of raisins or currants.
When making pies, add bits of butter, a
little sugar and a few more raisins. Seal,
and put away for use. If made later on,
it will not need sealing.
For Woman’s Work.
MRS. JOB’S DINNER.
BY AMY M. BRADSHAW.
P
|OOR Mrs. Job, in a disturbed
frame of mind, sat by the
bright wood fire that sparkled
and crackled as if to drown
the rear of the wind without. Now and
then a bright flame danced merrily up from
the grate and cast its rays upon a silver
dollar in Mrs. Job's lap. causing a bright
reflection from the large, round coin.
“Dear me!” sighed Mrs. Job, “nobody
ever had the afflictions I have; here is just
a dollar to buy the dinner for to-morrow,
with the larder nearly empty, while two of
Job’s city friends will be out to spend the
day with us. Os course I must wait on
them, clean up their rooms, wipe up to
bacco stains from the parlor rug, sweep
out their mud, be chief cook, and carry a
generally good and thankful air in spirit
of the day!’’
Though Mr. Job was not covered with
boils, he was more exasperating at times
than a man with a boil, nay fifty of them.
The fact of the matter was, Job was of so
hospitable a nature that it sometimes knew
no bounds, and often ran beyond the lim
its of the slender purse which defrayed the
household expenses of the young couple.
Mrs. Job demurred from these miscella
neous invitations to luncheons and dinners,
but Job always reminded her that “he
was running for office and had to use pol
icy, you know.”
Other women, and good women, too,
have had to endure the same affliction,
nd this in a measure dispelled the exhibi
WOMAN’S WORK.
tions of bad temper which the little wo
man sometimes indulged, as she counted
the days till election time would roll
around and perhaps end her trials; for she
had only been married three months, and
was just beginning to realise that “a man’s
a man for a’ that.” •
Perhaps Mrs. Job would have preferred
her husband to have the affliction of the
proverbial one thousand boils, with an ac
companying ill temper, than that he should
wear her life out in everlasting boiling
and stewing and brewing for uncongenial
company, (and then get no thanks for the
task) while Mr. Job and his friends re
paired after the repast to the “club” for
the evening, and she repaired to the dish
pan! If she was sour tempered at times,
she had enough, don’t you tbink, to give
an acid tinge to her disposition? For,
though of quite a hospitable nature her
self, she grew tired of the constant stream
of company which filled their little home
and emptied the small purse. How often
she longed for the quiet of “love’s cottage”
which she had pictured in the “courting
days,” when she imagined that Job would
find perfect contentment; the charm of his
existence would be in her companionship,
so truly did she mean to be “Job’s comfort
er.”
Now, Mr. Job was not wholly bereft of
good qualities, for he loved his little wife
in his own way, but, like many other men,
marriage ended the “courting days,” and
sentimentality was all bosh after the notes
of the wedding march had died away.
Jobcouldn’t imagine why Mrs. Job was so
downcast at times, when he brought home
his bachelor friends for tea, for he argued
that the more at a meal the merrier; of
course one or two more couldn’t make any
difference in expense, and it was very lit
tle trouble to set two extra covers. Now,
on this particular afternoon, Job had just
departed for the office after a mechanical
sort of a husband kiss on the pouting lips,
leaving his little wife sitting by the fire
with the dollar he had dropped in her lap
to buy the next day’s feast.
“A dollar—what possibilities in a dol
lar!’’sighed Mrs. Job. “If I only could
see them.”
And then she resolved to make the best
cf the situation—for the ticking of the
clock on the mantel told her that the after
noon was fleeting, and she must hasten
down to the market to buy the “company”
dinner.
How trim looked the little wife in her
gossamer hood, which was a fitting drama
for the brown ringlets which the damp air
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