SING A SONG OFSIXPENCE
Sheridan, Mary
Sing a Song of Sixpence by mary sheridan NEARLY EVERY WOMAN I know canned furiously all Summer. I, having spent the canning season looking for a place to live, look with envy at the fruit cellars...
...It has a good natural flavor, no tinniness, and a nice body...
...They are rich not only in vitamin C but in A, Bl, and other qualities which the body particularly needs during Winter...
...Many doctors and nutritionists insist that tomato juice is the best substitute for oranges...
...Because of the tremendous volume of home canning this year, still adequate grocery stocks of most canned goods, and months now of adjustment, few cooks, to my knowledge, have difficulty coping with the blue ration points...
...It has possibilities—but it isn't butter...
...Of the eggs kept at room temperature, nine out of 180 lost their freshness in a single day and 112 were stale after a week...
...At the moment that isn't practical because canned tomato juice is much lower in points than the whole vegetable...
...It's about the consistency of cream cheese, and tastes like a cross between cream cheese and buttermilk...
...But I miss them already...
...By squeezing and straining an orange, 55 per cent of the vitamin C is lost...
...Of the cold eggs, only 10 out of 180 lost their original freshness to any extent in one week...
...It doesn't pose as a butter substitute...
...Or wipe floors and woodwork with a damp cloth dipped in water and a small amount of kerosene, or a 5 to 10 per cent solution of borax in water...
...They are beautiful—rows and rows of shining jars of tomatoes, tomato juice, beans, carrots, cherries, strawberries, peaches, jam, pickles, and relishes...
...The hothouse variety is back in the grocery, wan and tasteless and expensive...
...The Butter Problem Orange juice is one luxury a lot of us would hate to give up...
...If the mildew is heavy, leave an open jar of calcium chloride in a damp closet to absorb the moisture...
...Ardent butter fans, unless they belong to large families, are having a hard time...
...Some of the fruit...
...Here in Madison, there has been a limited supply, running from 59 to 79 cents a dozen...
...I, having spent the canning season looking for a place to live, look with envy at the fruit cellars of some of my friends...
...To fight mildew, turn on the central heating system, leaving doors and windows open...
...Canned tomato juice has never been a favorite of mine...
...All Summer long I feasted on gorgeous tomatoes fresh from my friend Clarence's garden, and about a month ago, along with a lot of gardeners, I thought it would be all right with me if I didn't see or eat a tomato for a spell...
...Carl N. Neupert, Wisconsin state health officer, 35 per cent of the vitamin C is lost by squeezing an orange...
...Talk your grocery store into keeping them in the refrigerator...
...In Madison there's a new dairy product spread called Dyne, developed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, but it isn't butter either...
...Even vicariously, I felt a thrill viewing someone else's labor and riches, and I find myself, when there's a brief pause in the kitchen, gloating over the cache of home canned things stored on the upper shelves, scarcely able to resist patting those presents from Rhoda and the Associate Editor...
...Campaign For Cold Eggs Oddenda: It's too late to help this season, except for its storage suggestions, but you may want to read The A.B.C...
...It is, however, expensive and wasteful...
...It is made from milk solids, not fat, and has a 26 per cent butterfat content...
...But, all oleo advocates to the contrary, it isn't butter...
...The New Jersey State Department of Agriculture recently compared eggs kept at 40 degrees Fahrenheit with eggs kept at 78 degrees, room temperature...
...And butter is one of the things you can't can...
...According to Dr...
...cost a pretty penny, and there was no time and a half for the hours of work that went into the enterprise, but the end result is there for you to behold, a provident reserve for the wintry months ahead...
...to check up on your errors and to have ready next Summer...
...But Dyne is highly nutritious...
...of Canning, edited by Ruth Berolzheimer (25 cents from Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc., 153 N. Michigan, Chicago, Ill...
...After many experiments with brands, my choice for the best tasting canned tomato juice is the Co-op Grade A brand...
...Surveys made by the American Federation of Labor show that food prices have gone up from 50 to 200 per cent since the war began...
...Join my pet campaign for cold eggs...
...In fact, I never knew how good tomato juice could be until a recent taste of it, home-made...
...For the first time in the last 10 years, the California crop of oranges was exhausted before the Florida and Texas crops were ready...
...it's a "good morning" in itself...
...There are plenty of canned tomatoes available, but they are expensive in points...
...Before rationing, some people preferred to get their tomato juice by draining the pulp from a can, drinking the juice and using the pulp for stews or casserole dishes...
...At those prices, there might as well be none, for most of us...
...a tinny flavor is noticeable in most brands...
...Surfeited...
...You can't cook with it...
...whole oranges are better for us all...
...And profits before taxes for food wholesalers went up more than 200 per cent between 1939 and 1942...
...Virtues Of Tomatoes With the orange situation what it is, the stock of home canned tomato juice is going to be dipped into sooner than most cooks thought...
...Oleomargarine— shades of the war—is now for sale in various Wisconsin stores...
...Neupert adds, "right now oranges are too important to allow any of their food value to go in the garbage can...
...That situation may change as fresh vegetables and fruits become scarce (it doesn't seem possible they can rise much higher in price), but at the moment this part of rationing takes less planning than that required for the points covering meat cheese, and butter...
...And, as Dr...
Vol. 7 • November 1943 • No. 46
