BIENNIAL CONVENTION OF THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S TRADE UNION LEAGUE
Biennial Convention of the National Women's Trade Union League WHEN A CONVENTION is called, as the convention of the National Women's Trade Union League has been, with the announcement that it will...
...Of greatest practical value, perhaps, of all the points brought out is the fact that the pulp left after the fruit has been boiled and strained, the part that is usually made into marmalade or "butter," so-called, may be made into good clear jelly if it is boiled in water and again strained...
...The presence of pectin may be detected and a rough estimate of the amount in a given fruit juice may be made in the following ways: Take a small volume of the juice, one or two tablespoonfuls, in a glass and add to it an equal volume of ordinary 95 per cent...
...According to Dr...
...The making of blueberry jelly successfully seems to be a mere matter of avoiding the use of too much sugar...
...Domestic Science for High Schools ASYLLABUS of Domestic Science and Domestic Art for High Schools of Illinois has recently been published by the Household Science Department of the University of Illinois...
...The only danger is that it will lack acidity and flavor, faults that can be overcome by boiling the juice down...
...The quality of the jelly depends on getting the right amount of sugar for the pectin present...
...But it would be impossible in this limited space to give all the practical suggestions which the bulletin offers to inexperienced jelly makers or all the interesting lines of experiment which it points out to experts...
...Good jellies can be made out of such fruits as strawberries, pears and peaches if a very little of some vegetable acid, citric or tartaric, or, better still, the juice of an acid fruit, sour apples, for example, be added...
...Victor Berger, the Socialist whom Milwaukee has sent to Congress, is evidently using the second guide bosk, for he is visiting the alleys of Washington and he is likely to prove to the American people that they do not know their National Capital if they have seen only its broad streets and its beautiful parks...
...It may be obtained free by addressing the University of Illinois, Urbana—Champaign, Illinois...
...Mix thoroughly, and cool if it is warm...
...The Syllabus should be very helpful to all who are interested in putting work in domestic science on a firm educational basis...
...There is no danger, she says, that the jelly made from the juice obtained by the second and third boilings will be cloudy...
...It contains, besides an outline of work, a very extensive and carefully classified list of reference books...
...The "why" is this: The most indispensable ingredient of fruit juice, considered as the basis of jelly, is pectin...
...The "Whys" of Jelly Making EXPERIENCED as well as inexperienced jelly makers will find much of interest and value in "Principles of Jelly Making," by Dr...
...The two together make the ideal jelly, transparent and quivery, able to hold its form yet not tough...
...By giving the "whys" of the process it adds to the intellectual interest of this branch of cookery...
...T®o little sugar will make the jelly tough...
...The author tells a story of two women who divided equally between them some partially ripe grapes...
...Pectin alone when boiled in water makes a tough opaque mass while sugar alone, as we know, makes a syrup...
...If this part is f eed from the yellow layer, it will have no bitter taste...
...the other made seven glasses of good jelly by means of re-boiling the pulp...
...The Convention will be held in Boston and the meetings will begin on June 12...
...The pectin will separate out in a gelatinous mass which can be picked up with a spoon...
...It may be obtained by writing to the University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois...
...WE ONCE SAID in this Department that there are two kinds of guides to Washington...
...Biennial Convention of the National Women's Trade Union League WHEN A CONVENTION is called, as the convention of the National Women's Trade Union League has been, with the announcement that it will begin on a certain day and that its sessions will continue until its work is done, we may be sure that its purpose is a serious and im-important one...
...It should be ground fine in a food chopper, soaked in water for twenty-four hours and then boiled...
...One made two glasses of jelly out of her portion and five glasses of grape butter...
...It is the result of four years' work on the part of a committee representing the University and the High Schools, and it has for its purpose the unification of the course in domestic science in the high schools of the State, and also the outlining of a course which shall be credited for college entrance...
...Miss Stella Franklin, 79 Dearborn Street, Chicago, is secretary...
...Nellie E. Goldthwaite, recently published by the Household Science Department of the University of Illinois, for it contains not only helpful hints on the art in general, but also suggestions for the use of fruit juices which have up to this time been considered unsuitable for jelly making...
...one telling of all the public buildings and parks and show places, the other, called Neglected Neighbors, telling of the alleys in which hundreds of people live in squalor and under the most unhygienic conditions...
...Or the white skin may be dried and saved for use with fruits which yield little or no pectin...
...It may then be combined with some of the juice of the fruit and thus real orange or lemon jelly, as distinguished from gelatine jelly, may be made...
...A second interesting discovery is that while no pectin can be obtained from lemon or orange juice, large quantities can be obtained from the white part of the skin...
...This list should be of great value to women's clubs in preparing programs...
...too much will make it syrupy and formless...
...This is present in some raw fruit juices but is more often developed in juices when they are boiled...
...Goldthwaite has discovered that usually a small fraction only of the pectin is obtained by the first boiling and straining and that a second and sometimes a third boiling is necessary if the greater part of the pectin is to be extracted...
...Goldthwaite, failures are more often due to the use of too much sugar than to the use of too little and jelly that will not "jell" often needs to be boiled with more of the juice...
...When we think of what has happened sinee the last biennial conventien—the two great strikes involving women workers and the awful catastrophe in the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory—and of efforts now being made to secure labor legislation, we can easily understand why the League does not wish te set a date for closing its deliberations...
...The pamphlet is distributed free in Illinois, but a charge of 25 cents is made to those living outside of the state...
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Vol. 3 • May 1911 • No. 18
