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. Remove from
the canner and set aside ,to oool in a place
A HOME-MADE CANNER IN A COOL SPOT NEAR THE FARM HOUSE-.
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Fine Strawberry Crop
i Grown In N. Carolina
One of the finest strawberry crops In
years was harvested in North Carolina this
spring. Production was close to 2,500 car
loads. including the large volume moved
by truck.
The shipping season started about a
week early and berries came in ahead of
the numerous competing states that start
around May 1. Quality was excellent for
the most part and fair prices were real
teed.
Weather conditions were very bad this
season from a consuming standpoint as the
season was cold and rainy, and not at all
conducive to an active demand for straw
berries.
Express cars were used extensively in
loading out this season's crop as the ex
press rates were reduced and very prompt
delivery was ' given. This enabled North
Carolina shippers to get their berries into
market while they wire still In prime con
dition.
free from draughts.
Directions for using and making a hot
water canner may be had from the Divis
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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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Growers Favor The
Flue-Cured Control
Program By 9 Ti
The Agricutltural Adjustment aczs
tlon announced today that virtually
plete returns from the referenda,
ducted in June to determine xhethe
cured tobacco growers desire an arj
progiam to follow the one whitf
with the current season. 5ho* that
83.3 per cent of the eligible voter?
98.2 per cent voted in favor of an n
of the program.
All sharecroppers, share-tenanti
and landowners engaged ;n -.he yoj
of flue-cured tobacco were e'.uible j
in the referendum. Flue-ctired is
chiefly in North Carolina. South 0
Virginia, Georgia and Florida. R?::
ceived through today accounted for
persons eligible to vote in the
Of the number of eligible voter? .
or 83.3 per cent, actually ;oted. 0
voting, 184,755, or 98.2 per cent, va
favor of a program to follow &
which expires this season and 3i
1.8 per cent, voted against such >
gram.
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