The joy that has no stem no core, 1
Nor seed that we can sow,
Is edible to longing.
But ablative to show.
By fundamental palates 5
Those products are preferred
Impregnable to transit
And patented by pod.
Nor seed that we can sow,
Is edible to longing.
But ablative to show.
By fundamental palates 5
Those products are preferred
Impregnable to transit
And patented by pod.
(F.1762/J.1744)
[1–4] joy, edible:: the joy of making canned fruit.
[5] fundamental, preferred:: foods with less processing are better for cans.
[7] Impregnable to transit:: the benefit of cans, the original requirement of the invention.
[8] pod:: a small container.
Among new patent compounds of this period were meats, desiccated vegetables, and concentrated milk, sealed up in cans; but army prejudice was strong against these tin-clad substitutes. (Desecrated vegetables and consecrated milk was the camp vernacular for such articles.) ─ History of the United States of America: 1861–1865. The Civil War (1899)
To Can Peaches.－Select ripe and sound fruit; peel, and if you wish, cut in halves, and take out the stones. To make your syrup, take in the proportion of a half a pound of sugar to one pint of water. When all the scum has been removed, place the fruit in the syrup gently, and boil five minutes, or until it is well scalded through. Then, with a skimmer with holes in it, romove the fruit to cans set in hot water. Put more fruit in, and continue in this way until your cans are filled. Then pour the scalding syrup over the fruit, till the cans are full, bring the water to the boiling-point, and seal the cans. A very good sealing-wax, for this purpose, is made by melting two parts of resin and one of beeswax, together. ─ The Philosophy of Housekeeping (1869)
