FoodNet

A manual of home-making

1919

Page 347

Presented as published in 1919. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
(!) Select meat in perfect condition. Sterilizing will not render spoiled meat hixnnless. Tough cuts lend themselves well to canning, (2) Trim oft dark-colore<i or strong-smelling portions, and surplus fat. Wij>e the meat well with a damp cloth. Save the bonea for soup stoek. (H) Free the meat from bone^, and cut it in pie*M:« .suitable for packing in the jars. Touf^h eut^ of beef are sometimes passes I thrtiugh a meat-ch upper befoi^ they are eanne<L (4) If addiiional flavor is de^-^ircsl, partly bnjwn the meat in a heav>' frying pan, using a small quantity of fat. (5) Pack the raw meat solidly into tc?sted clean glass jars, filling them to within % inch of the top- (6) Add l^^ Uy 1 teaspoonful of salt for each pint nf meat, and other seasoning, such as choppetl onion^ celen^ leaves, or bay leaf, if de- sirc^d. Add no water. (7) Arljust the rubbers and the t^jvers, and paxtiy seal the jars, (8) Sterilize the jars in the pressure rooker. B^I^^^V 614 A MANUAL OF HOME MAKING ^H For soup stock all hones and triinniiiigs of the canoed mtf^ should he eovert^l with cold water, ftalt(*<i» and ftlowfy 8iniiii0el until the flesh dro|>s in shreds from the bone&«» mid the liquidL or stock, is concent rateil. i^iisoning, such as onion and % hii of celery leaf, may be added. The ntock may be s' ' ! if \^ sired, rehcattHi, and boiled for 10 minutes. It feb imht poured into scalded jars, and sterilized for 1 hour ou each of two successive days. ^^^ TABLE LIIL— A ri\u>TABr.K for Caxntno Fiterm, ArtD V'KOTralH AND Meats by the .Sincjle, or t'oNTiNuors, PfcntoD or Hi^TlKO ^ Food Timf of blanching Time of cookinff in pitU jan 1/ ihe fmi-mtkr balh iM tutrd ^mktr iff mmi Miimten Mmut(« 1 Apple Ciller Apples. , 20 13 1-2 20-:jo 10 ApriwiU* - . 1-2 Hi 10 Blarkbprriea, clewtwrriw irt 0 C*hcrries 16 10 Fruit jiiier«. , '20 10 Gravies 10 10 Hucklehorrit^ 10 s Pejijches. i-2 IW 10 Pears 1-2 20 10 PirieftppU's Pluma . 00 40 _. . la 10 Quinces 1-2 00 4a Kaspbcrri<»s 10 8 KbuhaH» 1 -2 10 10 8 tra wherries* 10 10 S(iuerkr:iut, , , 120 60 TrmiftUM^ 1-1! 22 10 IVimutoi* ami <^»>rn 9t] fiO Toriittto Juiee 20 15 Mc^t . . , lino 180 M FOOD PRESERVATION 615 TABLE LIV. — ^A Timb-Tablb for Canning Vegetables by Three Periods of Heating, or the bo-caixed iNTBRMnrBNT Method Food Time of blanching Time of cooking in pint jar f First day Second and third days Asparagus Beans Minutes 5 5 6-10 6-10 5 5-10 6-10 5 "*5 ' Minutes 60 60 60 60 60 60-75 60 60 75 75-90 75 60 Minutes 60 60 •Beets Carrots 60 60 Cauliflower Com 60 60-75 (depending on closeness of pack) 60 60 Parsnips PpfVf, Pumpkin Spinach and other greens Squash . . . : Succotash 75 75-90 (depending on closeness of pack) 75 60 * A good method for canning beets is to cook them in the open kettle before they are pared until they are almost done, and then pare them and sterilize them for 1 hour in the jars. t For quart jars 10 to 15 minutes additional time should be allowed each day; for 2-quart jars 30 minutes should be added. 616 A MAaNUAL of HOME-MAKLVa