Excerpt from Canning, Preserving and Jelly MakingEvery suburban and country household should plant and nurture a garden and raise small fruits, then during the summer from the products of this effort the bulk of the food for the family should be provided and all surplus should be carefully preserved for future use. The economic conditions of the age demand this.Modern methods of canning and jelly making have simplified and shortened preserving processes. This is one of the many debts the housekeepers of to-day owe to the United States Department of Agriculture, the State universities and cooking experts.In this book the latest ideas in canning, preserving, and jelly making are presented, and it is submitted to housekeepers everywhere with the hope that they will find it a thoroughly reliable and trustworthy guide to successful methods of utilizing fruits and vegetables that would otherwise go to waste.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.