Preserved Currants

Weigh equal quantities of sugar and fruit stripped from the stalks. Boil the fruit, allowing half a cupful of water to each pound of fruit, for ten minutes. Stir, and crush with a wooden spoon. Add the sugar (brown will do), having heated it as for jelly. Boil ten minutes longer exactly. Then put into jars and seal. (Two pounds of currants will fill three pint jars. One pound of currants equals one heaping pint.)

Preserved Blackberries

The "high" blackberries are not good preserved. To one pound of the "low" blackberries allow one pound of sugar. Put in layers in the kettle with sugar on top, and fruit on the bottom. The fruit is so juicy that no water is necessary. Heat gradually, boil gently one hour, stirring often. Then put in jars and seal hot.

Preserved Oranges

(Marion Harland's Receipt.)

(This is the very best way to make Orange Preserves.) Allow pound for pound. Pare half of the oranges and cut the rind into shreds. Boil in three waters until tender, and set aside. Grate the rind of the remaining oranges, and take off and throw away every bit of the thick, white, inner skin; quarter all the oranges, and take out the seeds. Chop or cut them into small pieces; drain all the juice that will come away, without pressing them, over the sugar. Heat this, stirring until the sugar is dissolved, adding a very little water, unless the oranges are very juicy. Boil and skim five or six minutes; put in the boiled shreds and cook ten minutes; then the chopped fruit and grated peel, and boil twenty minutes longer. Put into jars, and when cold seal.

Two dozen oranges fill three quart-jars and one pint-jar.

Canned Tomatoes

Get the Trophy tomato if possible, early in September. Scald and take off the skins. Cut in small pieces, taking care not to put in a particle of green, for that would cause them to ferment. Add no water. Heat and boil fast. If you heat slowly too much juice is drawn out. Add a little salt. Boil ten minutes. Then pour boiling hot into glass jars, and seal at once.

One half bushel fills eight quart-jars.

Preserves And Jellies

String Beans Canned. Just like "Canned Tomatoes." These keep well.