Cooking Dried Fruits To MAKE a most delicious conserve of either apples, apricots, pears, peaches, figs or prunes, proceed as follows : Pick over the fruit and wash it thoroughly but quickly. Put it in a dish, earthen is preferable, at about noontime and, covering it generously with water, allow it to soak during that afternoon and night. In the morning take the fruit carefully out into a cooking utensil — a granite-ware kettle or saucepan or an earthen crock — and pour over it, being careful not to disturb the sediment at the bottom the water in which it was soaked ; then cover the dish tightly and set it either on the back of the range or in a moderate oven, where it will quietly simmer, and let it remain there for eight or ten hours. If you have an unreasoning sweet tooth, and must spoil things with sugar, add that article not more than twenty minutes before removing the cooked fruit from the range, and add it sparingly, since, by this method of cooking, all the natural flavor and sacchar- ine quality of the fruits are preserved, and nearly every one who is privileged to taste them thus prepared readily concedes that they are quite "suflBcient unto themselves." Prunes and dried grapes become simply "idealized" under this treatment — plump, smooth, juicy and generally delicious, and the sliced or quartered fruits rival the daintiest and richest of preserve, in their amber-hued translucency, as well as in flavor. Verily, if the cooks and housewives would add to their little bills of fares the dried fruits of California, cooked after the fashion herein prescribed, the cry for "more" would be so loud and so unanimous that all the State's broad orchards would be quite inade- quate to supply the demand of even the home market. Oakmcad Orchards. Fulton P. O., Sonoma Count}-, Cal. Geo. D. Dornin. Table of Weights or Measures (SELECTED) WEIGHT I quart of Sifted Flour (well heaped) i pound I " " Unsifted Flour i pound, i ounce 3 coffee cups Sifted Flour (level ) i pound 4 teacups " " " i 1 pint Soft Butter (well packed) i 2 teacups " " " I i'/^ pints Powdered .Sugar i 2 coffeecups " " (level) i 234^ teacups " " " I 1 pint Granulated Sugar (heaped) 14 ounces i}4 coffeecups " " (level) i pound 2 teacups " " " I " 1 pint Best Brown Sugar 13 ounces iX coflFeecups Best Brown Sugar (level ) i pound 2 X teacups " " " " I " 2 tablespoons (well rounded) Powdered Sugar or Flour i ounce 1 " " " Soft Butter i 3 " Sweet Chocolate, grated i " 2 teaspoons (heaping) Flour, .Sugar or Meal eqaial i heaping tablespoon LIQUIDS I pint contains 16 fluid ounces (4 gills) 1 teacupful equals 8 fluid ounces (2 gills) 4 teaspoonfuls equal i tablespoonful 2 teaspoonfuls equal i dessertspoonful 4 teacupfuls equal i quart A common sized tumbler holds about one-half pint 1849 LARGEST FIRE INSURANCE CO. [ QQQ Chartered by the State of Massachusetts Incorporated 1849 charter perpetual Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Co. OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS. Annual Statement, January 1st, 1900 CASH CAPITAL = 1,500,000 DOLLARS ASSETS Cash on hand, in Banks and Cash Items $ 135,541 49 Cash in hands of Agents and in course of Trans- mission 362,994 63 Rents and Accrued Interest 48,142 94 Real Estate Unincumbered 126,400 00

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Cooking Dried Fruits To MAKE a most delicious conserve of either apples, apricots, pears, peaches, figs or prunes, proceed as follows : Pick over the fruit and wash it thoroughly but quickly. Put it in a dish, earthen is preferable, at about noontime and, covering it generously with water, allow it to soak during that afternoon and night. In the morning take the fruit carefully out into a cooking utensil — a granite-ware kettle or saucepan or an earthen crock — and pour over it, being careful not to disturb the sediment at the bottom the water in which it was soaked ; then cover the dish tightly and set it either on the back of the range or in a moderate oven, where it will quietly simmer, and let it remain there for eight or ten hours. If you have an unreasoning sweet tooth, and must spoil things with sugar, add that article not more than twenty minutes before removing the cooked fruit from the range, and add it sparingly, since, by this method of cooking, all the natural flavor and saccharine quality of the fruits are preserved, and nearly every one who is privileged to taste them thus prepared readily concedes that they are quite "sufficient unto themselves." Prunes and dried grapes become simply "idealized" under this treatment — plump, smooth, juicy and generally delicious, and the sliced or quartered fruits rival the daintiest and richest of preserve, in their amber-hued translucency, as well as in flavor. Verily, if the cooks and housewives would add to their little bills of fares the dried fruits of California, cooked after the fashion herein prescribed, the cry for "more" would be so loud and so unanimous that all the State's broad orchards would be quite inadequate to supply the demand of even the home market. Oakmead Orchards. Fulton P. O., Sonoma County, Cal. Geo. D. Dornin. Table of Weights or Measures (SELECTED) WEIGHT I quart of Sifted Flour (well heaped) i pound I " " Unsifted Flour i pound, i ounce 3 coffee cups Sifted Flour (level ) i pound 4 teacups " " " i 1 pint Soft Butter (well packed) i 2 teacups " " " I i'/^ pints Powdered .Sugar i 2 coffeecups " " (level) i 234^ teacups " " " I 1 pint Granulated Sugar (heaped) 14 ounces i}4 coffeecups " " (level) i pound 2 teacups " " " I " 1 pint Best Brown Sugar 13 ounces iX coflFeecups Best Brown Sugar (level ) i pound 2 X teacups " " " " I " 2 tablespoons (well rounded) Powdered Sugar or Flour i ounce 1 " " " Soft Butter i 3 " Sweet Chocolate, grated i " 2 teaspoons (heaping) Flour, Sugar or Meal equal i heaping tablespoon LIQUIDS I pint contains 16 fluid ounces (4 gills) 1 teacupful equals 8 fluid ounces (2 gills) 4 teaspoonfuls equal i tablespoonful 2 teaspoonfuls equal i dessertspoonful 4 teacupfuls equal i quart A common sized tumbler holds about one-half pint 1849 LARGEST FIRE INSURANCE CO. [ QQQ Chartered by the State of Massachusetts Incorporated 1849 charter perpetual Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Co. OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS. Annual Statement, January 1st, 1900 CASH CAPITAL = 1,500,000 DOLLARS ASSETS Cash on hand, in Banks and Cash Items $ 135,541 49 Cash in hands of Agents and in course of Transmission 362,994 63 Rents and Accrued Interest 48,142 94 Real Estate Unincumbered 126,400 00

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