cold ; the skin will add a nice color to sauce. This sauce
is nice served hot with goose or pork.
Apple Sauce II.
Wash, quarter, core and pare eight tart apples.
]\[ake a syrup by cooking one cup of sugar and one
of water✪ Apple Sauce II for ten minutes. Add enough apples to cover
bottom of the saucepan. Cook rapidly until apples are
tender. Remove and place in glass dish in w^hich you
are going to serve them, place as many more in the
syrup, and continue until all are cooked and removed
to serving-dish. Cook syrup for ten minutes rapidly,
and strain over apples. This sauce is delightful.
Apple Ginger.
"Wash, quarter, pare and chop enough apples to
weigh two pounds. Put in saucepan with one and one-
half pounds of light brown sugar, juice and rind of one
lemon, one-half ounce of ginger-root, pinch of salt and
water enough to keep apples from burning✪ Apple Ginger. Cover
and cook very slowly for three and one-half hours,
adding water as needed. This wants to be closely cov-
ered. Keeps a long time.
Baked Quinces.
Wipe, pare and quarter ten medium-sized quinces.
Remove seeds, and put in baking-dish. Sprinkle with
one cup of sugar and two cups of w^ate✪ Baked Quincesr. Cover and
cook in slow" oven until tender. Quinces require a long
time for cooking.
Baked Pears.
Wipe and halve ten nice-sized pears, and remove
cores. Put in baking-dish, and sprinkle with sugar.
Add W'ater to prevent their burning.✪ Baked Pears Cover closely.
356 SCIENTIFIC COOKING.
and cook for two or three hours in a very slow oven:
A casserole is nice to bake them in. The Seckel pear
is delicious baked; they are baked whole.
Rhubarb Sauce.
"Wash, wipe and cut in inch lengths with scissors.
If you are using the strawberry variety, do not peel it,
as the peel malvcs a fine color to the sauce. Allow one
cup of s-ugar to two and one-half cups of the rhubarb.
Make a syrup with three-fourths of a cup of water and
the sugar. Boil for three or four minutes, and add
the rhubarb. Cook until tender.
JELLIES.
Jellies ai^e made with fruit juices 'and sugar. You
prep'are th'e glasses by washing them well, placing
them in a kettle of cold water, and letting them come
to a boil. Leave them in the hot water until you are
ready for them, then drain them and place on a cloth
wrung out of hot water when putting the jelly in.
Cover the top of the jelly with paraffin, and when cool
put on tin top. Label and put -away in a cool, dry
place.
Apple Jelly.
Wash and wipe tart apples. Remove stem and blos-
som e.nd. Cut into quarters, and place in granite or
porcelain-lined preserving-kettle. Add cold water to
cover✪ Apple Jelly nearly to the top. Cook slowly until apples are
soft. ]\Iash and drain through coarse sieve. Avoid
squeezing the apple or you will have a cloudy jelly.
Strain the juice through a double thickness of cheese-
cloth; when all has dripped through, place the juice
in agate saucepan and cook rapidly uncovered for
twenty minutes. Add an equal quantity of heated
FRUITS FRESH, CANNED AND PRESERVED. 357
granulated sugar, boil up five minutes, and turn in
jelly-glasses, then seal and set to cool. A pared apple
makes a much lighter jelly.
Crab=apple Jelly.
Follow the rule for the apple jelly, leaving the
apple whole.
Quince Jelly.
Follow the recipe for the apple jelly, using quinces
instead of apples, and remove the seeds from the fruit.
Currant Jelly.
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cold ; the skin will add a nice color to sauce. This sauce
is nice served hot with goose or pork.
Apple Sauce II.
Wash, quarter, core and pare eight tart apples.
]\[ake a syrup by cooking one cup of sugar and one
of water for ten minutes. Add enough apples to cover
bottom of the saucepan. Cook rapidly until apples are
tender. Remove and place in glass dish in w^hich you
are going to serve them, place as many more in the
syrup, and continue until all are cooked and removed
to serving-dish. Cook syrup for ten minutes rapidly,
and strain over apples. This sauce is delightful.
Apple Ginger.
"Wash, quarter, pare and chop enough apples to
weigh two pounds. Put in saucepan with one and one-
half pounds of light brown sugar, juice and rind of one
lemon, one-half ounce of ginger-root, pinch of salt and
water enough to keep apples from burning. Cover
and cook very slowly for three and one-half hours,
adding water as needed. This wants to be closely cov-
ered. Keeps a long time.
Baked Quinces.
Wipe, pare and quarter ten medium-sized quinces.
Remove seeds, and put in baking-dish. Sprinkle with
one cup of sugar and two cups of w^ater. Cover and
cook in slow" oven until tender. Quinces require a long
time for cooking.
Baked Pears.
Wipe and halve ten nice-sized pears, and remove
cores. Put in baking-dish, and sprinkle with sugar.
Add W'ater to prevent their burning. Cover closely.
356 SCIENTIFIC COOKING.
and cook for two or three hours in a very slow oven:
A casserole is nice to bake them in. The Seckel pear
is delicious baked; they are baked whole.
Rhubarb Sauce.
"Wash, wipe and cut in inch lengths with scissors.
If you are using the strawberry variety, do not peel it,
as the peel malvcs a fine color to the sauce. Allow one
cup of s-ugar to two and one-half cups of the rhubarb.
Make a syrup with three-fourths of a cup of water and
the sugar. Boil for three or four minutes, and add
the rhubarb. Cook until tender.
JELLIES.
Jellies ai^e made with fruit juices 'and sugar. You
prep'are th'e glasses by washing them well, placing
them in a kettle of cold water, and letting them come
to a boil. Leave them in the hot water until you are
ready for them, then drain them and place on a cloth
wrung out of hot water when putting the jelly in.
Cover the top of the jelly with paraffin, and when cool
put on tin top. Label and put -away in a cool, dry
place.
Apple Jelly.
Wash and wipe tart apples. Remove stem and blos-
som e.nd. Cut into quarters, and place in granite or
porcelain-lined preserving-kettle. Add cold water to
cover nearly to the top. Cook slowly until apples are
soft. ]\Iash and drain through coarse sieve. Avoid
squeezing the apple or you will have a cloudy jelly.
Strain the juice through a double thickness of cheese-
cloth; when all has dripped through, place the juice
in agate saucepan and cook rapidly uncovered for
twenty minutes. Add an equal quantity of heated
FRUITS FRESH, CANNED AND PRESERVED. 357
granulated sugar, boil up five minutes, and turn in
jelly-glasses, then seal and set to cool. A pared apple
makes a much lighter jelly.
Crab=apple Jelly.
Follow the rule for the apple jelly, leaving the
apple whole.
Quince Jelly.
Follow the recipe for the apple jelly, using quinces
instead of apples, and remove the seeds from the fruit.
Currant Jelly.