Home-making Hints tor the Rural Housewife SAVING THE BEUCIOUSLY FLAVORED ELBERTA PEACH BY MRS. JANE S. McKIMMON State Agent and Assistant Director m rP IS almost time to can the finely flavor ed Elberta peach Early peaches contain too much water and are not fleshy enough to make a good canned product and I ad fise everyone to wait until the firmer peach ripens. >' THE ELBERTA The Elberta is classed as a semi soft peach and its flavor and size recommend It as a table fruit. As a canned product it cannot compete In appearance with the California Cling peach because the texture breaks down riightly under heat and the juice in con eetiuence is cloudy. But oh! the flavor. No California peach tan touch it. When a can of Elbertas is opened a real peach aroma fills the room arid you know you are eating peaches not something jusjt sweet and wet. If I am to make the choice between looks and flavor I will i^ke the thing that tast es good every time. Why can't people living in a peach sec tion make the prettiest pack possible from their semi-soft peaches and then take for their slogan "Watch for the Flavor." SELECTING PEACHES FOR CANNING Select thoroughly ripe peaches for can ning if you wish to get the best flavor. If peaches are canned before they are ripe they may be firmer in texture but the fla vor has not had time- to fully develop. It Is the ripening process tha? develops fla vor. This is true of all friuts and vegetables which are to be canned.' They are in prime eondition for canning when they are thor oughly ripe. Place Eibertas in a muslin bag and plunge them in boiling water for thirty seconds. Dip immediately in cold water and you will find them easy to peel. After peeling cut the peaches In halves and remove the pit. Have ready a boiling syrup made of 1-2 pound and 7 ounces of sugar and 1-2 gallon of water. Add a few cracked peach pits to the boiling syrup to improve the flavor and remove them when the syrup is ready for use. PRE COOKING Drop a small amount 'of peach halves into the boiling syrup at one time and al low them to cook for one minute or until tender but not soft. ECONOMIZING SPACE Pill a quart jar quite full of fruit. You may ecoomize on jar space by placing the peach halves in the jar pit side down and packing them in layers right into the neck of the jar. Add the syrup as you pack and press down gently with a spoon that all spaces may be filled. Partially seal and place the jars in the canner. If both peaces and syrup are hot when the jar is filled there will be no danger of cracking the glass when it is plunged into boiling water. PROCESSING Peaches are safely canned in a hot water canner at 212 degrees (boiling temperature) Have either a home made or a commer cial canner ready with water at a jump ing boil, add the hot jars, and process or boil a quart jar 25 minutes. 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Directions for using and making a hot water canner may be had from the Divis ion of Home Demonstration Work, State College, Raleigh, N. C. SWEET PICKLE PEACHES One of the most delicious peach products is Sweet Pickle Peaches and here the Elberta, or semi soft, peach is much supe rior to the cling. Haven't you tried to eat a cling stone sweet pickle peach and have it shoot across the table or into your nei ghbor's lap when you tried to bite it? With the Elberta your teeth sink into a lucious tidbit, soft and yielding, and you lose no particle of the sweet meat. RECIPE FOR SWEET PICKLE PEACH Sweet pickle peaches are easily made. Take 1-2 bushel of firm Elbertas peel by hand or you may peel as directed for canned peaches by dipping in boiling wa ter for one minute and next in cold. Taks. care not to let them get soft in the process and use them whole for pickle. Make a syrup of 1 gallon of vinegar and 10 pounds of sugar and flavor it with 1 ounce of cloves and 3 sticks of cinnamon tied in a bag. Boil the vinegar, sugar, and spices 5 minutes and to the boiling syrup add the whole peaches, a small number at a time. Allow these to remain in the boiling syrup for one minute but not until soft. Remove from the fire, place in a large stone crock , or glass jar and when all have been scalded or cooked pour over them sufficient boiling syrup to cover generously. Seal the jar and let the pickle stand for three weeks before packing in smaller jars. This procedure insures plen ty of syrup while osmosis is taking place. Which means while sugar is absorbed by the peach and juice is drawn out. RECIPE 1-2 bushel of Elberta peaches 1 gallon of vinegar 10 pounds of sufar 1 ox. of cloves and 3 sticks of cinna mon tied in a bag. 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The following table shows the rr< J the referendum by States: Total No. Sc Ti Eligible of Yes' of y STATE Voters Voters VotenTi Florida 1,864 1 4?6 86 Georgia 22,009 1 4.723 2.185 South Carolina 25.845 18.106 256 North Carolina 150.939 130.622 1.4-2 Virginia 25,223 19.308 20" 225,880 134 T55 North Carolina Is Largest Producer Of Tobacco In C North Carolina is by f.> r the bacco producing state in the count? one season with another produces per cent of the nation's c:op. Production varies rather wic-ly son to season but the state is 3 holding its own. Given below is parative production of No: "it C ?*-' some of the other leading -tates 'r past three years: TOBACCO PRODUCTION IN POUND LOTS STATE . 1932 !&33 North Carolina ? .295.03*3 "33 ?5 Kentucky ? . # .. 312.(325 ^>2" 15 Tennessee ....... 105.855 132 24? South Carolina 39.235 83. ;??' Georgia _ .. 12.565 58124 Virginia . , . 55.595 9"W Pennsylvania . _ .. . 45.31(1 2 1 33,! Coniecticut ? _ ? 26.623 13.578 Wisconsin ....... 36,180 16023 TOTAL U. S. 1.026,091 377 639-4 With hog prices already at 10 ctuB* (larger markets and with a short !?& (market will undoubtedly profit threret.r- " crop, formers who feed hogs well ftfj* A. L. DuRant, extension livestock at Florence, S. C