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Puttin’ Up the Pantry

by | Aug 7, 2009 | Art, Guns and Culture

Tireless work canning fruit reaped benefits in the winter.
“I have just bought fifty-seven pounds of apples to make jelly for the winter; they were two and a half cents a pound,” wrote Mrs. E.M.H. of Lake County, California, in 1885. “We had to stew the apples to a pulp, and then put them into clean flour-sacks to drain the juice out for jelly, and then rub the pulp through a sieve for jam. The jelly is lovely, and is


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