After the water is boiling in your canner the second day, place your cans in for a second boiling i hour in length, remove, set aside for 24 hours, and boil again i hour on the third day. This is the only sure method of keeping corn. Never use any acids or preserving powders. , Butterbeans, peas, okra, and soup vegetables are canned in the same manner. Add i level teaspoon of salt to butterbeans, peas, okra, and soup ; and 2 level teaspoons of sugar to peas. After a can of fruit or vegetables is removed from the canner, it should be cooled as quickly as possible. EXERCISES AND PROBLEMS 1. Examine mold through a good magnifying glass, and see if it looks at all like the picture. 2. Why is a rubber ring used under the cover of the can ? 3. Explain why candied fruit does not spoil. 4. Why do figs and dates keep ? 5. Why does the boiling temperature help to preserve food .? 6. Look up the meaning of the word " sterilize." Lesson 13 value of fruit in a diet We often think of fruit as a pleasant thing to eat ; but we do not realize that it is a food needed to keep the body in health; and that we should use it every day. In what other ways may fruit be prepared for serving } At one of Miss Travers' lectures before a Farmers' Institute, one man who owned a large apple orchard and sold many barrels of apples, said to her that he had thought people ate apples because they liked them, and that it was news to him that fruit is food. THE HOME SUPPER 109 Indeed; we do like fruit, and we m^y be glad that so many kinds grow in our own country. When the early settlers began to clear and burn over the land, how happy they must have been to find blueberries and huckleberries and blackberries growing wild for them to gather ! What do you suppose the children said when they saw their first wild strawberries and checkerberries in the new land ? They found, too, the cranberries in the bogs and the wild red plum on the sandy beaches of the coast. Perhaps in your own home country, wild fruit grows now for you to gather. Have you ever heard of Johnny Appleseed ? He traveled through the forests and over the plains, so the story goes, planting apple seeds wherever he went, and warning the settlements of the coming of unfriendly Indians. Many people who never heard his name have wondered, perhaps, at finding apple trees in unexpected places. Do you know what the word " benefactor "" means ? — A blessing maker. Do you not think that Johnny Appleseed was a benefactor ? Planting fruit trees. You are all benefactors if you celebrate Arbor Day, as they do at the Pleasant Valley School, by setting out a shade tree somewhere near the schoolhouse every year. But let us have more than one tree day, and set out fruit bushes and trees for home use. They do not cost very much ; and there are pamphlets and books that tell you what kinds to buy, and how to set them out and care for them. The ground can be enriched with wood ashes and with fertilizer from the no FOOD AND HEALTH barn and henhouse. Fruit trees and bushes "will more than repay what they cost, on account of the value of the fruit in the diet. More about the value of frui^. We have talked about this in the first lesson on fruit drinks, but it is worth while to study the fruit question again. Have you heard the rhyme : "An apple a day, Keeps the doctor away" ? This is too much to claim for one apple, but the rhyme is worth remembering because it keeps the importance of fruit before our minds. What fruit contains. Al- though fruits are largely made up of water, they con- tain sugar, a very little pro- tein, and so little fat that it is not important. The min- FiG. 54 -The composition of the cral matter is the treasure in apple makes it a valuable fruit in fruit, including iron, phos- thediet.1 11. .

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After the water is boiling in your canner the second day, place your cans in for a second boiling i hour in length, remove, set aside for 24 hours, and boil again i hour on the third day. This is the only sure method of keeping corn. Never use any acids or preserving powders. Butterbeans, peas, okra, and soup vegetables are canned in the same manner. Add i level teaspoon of salt to butterbeans, peas, okra, and soup ; and 2 level teaspoons of sugar to peas. After a can of fruit or vegetables is removed from the canner, it should be cooled as quickly as possible. 1. Examine mold through a good magnifying glass, and see if it looks at all like the picture. 2. Why is a rubber ring used under the cover of the can ? 3. Explain why candied fruit does not spoil. 4. Why do figs and dates keep ? 5. Why does the boiling temperature help to preserve food .? 6. Look up the meaning of the word " sterilize." Lesson 13 value of fruit in a diet We often think of fruit as a pleasant thing to eat ; but we do not realize that it is a food needed to keep the body in health; and that we should use it every day. In what other ways may fruit be prepared for serving } At one of Miss Travers' lectures before a Farmers' Institute, one man who owned a large apple orchard and sold many barrels of apples, said to her that he had thought people ate apples because they liked them, and that it was news to him that fruit is food. Indeed; we do like fruit, and we m^y be glad that so many kinds grow in our own country. When the early settlers began to clear and burn over the land, how happy they must have been to find blueberries and huckleberries and blackberries growing wild for them to gather ! What do you suppose the children said when they saw their first wild strawberries and checkerberries in the new land ? They found, too, the cranberries in the bogs and the wild red plum on the sandy beaches of the coast. Perhaps in your own home country, wild fruit grows now for you to gather. Have you ever heard of Johnny Appleseed ? He traveled through the forests and over the plains, so the story goes, planting apple seeds wherever he went, and warning the settlements of the coming of unfriendly Indians. Many people who never heard his name have wondered, perhaps, at finding apple trees in unexpected places. Do you know what the word " benefactor "" means ? — A blessing maker. Do you not think that Johnny Appleseed was a benefactor ? Planting fruit trees. You are all benefactors if you celebrate Arbor Day, as they do at the Pleasant Valley School, by setting out a shade tree somewhere near the schoolhouse every year. But let us have more than one tree day, and set out fruit bushes and trees for home use. They do not cost very much ; and there are pamphlets and books that tell you what kinds to buy, and how to set them out and care for them. The ground can be enriched with wood ashes and with fertilizer from the no barn and henhouse. Fruit trees and bushes "will more than repay what they cost, on account of the value of the fruit in the diet. More about the value of frui^. We have talked about this in the first lesson on fruit drinks, but it is worth while to study the fruit question again. Have you heard the rhyme : "An apple a day, Keeps the doctor away" ? This is too much to claim for one apple, but the rhyme is worth remembering because it keeps the importance of fruit before our minds. What fruit contains. Although fruits are largely made up of water, they contain sugar, a very little protein, and so little fat that it is not important. The min- FiG. 54 -The composition of the cral matter is the treasure in apple makes it a valuable fruit in fruit, including iron, phosthediet.1 11. .

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