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Agricultural Experiment Station Home Economics Pamphlets (1943-1957)

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Freezing Fruits And Vegetables, Minerva Kellogg Jan 1944

Freezing Fruits And Vegetables, Minerva Kellogg

Agricultural Experiment Station Home Economics Pamphlets (1943-1957)

More fruits and vegetables have been produced for home use this year than for any previous year for some time, and methods of preserving this food are needed. Canning is, of course, always a good method, but since the homemaker may not be able to obtain tin and rubber for containers, she must seek other ways to save her surplus garden products. The sharp freezing and storage of foods is one of the new and popular methods of preserving fruits and vegetables. Locker plants operating in South Dakota offer freezing service and many of them butcher and package meat. A …


An Evaluation Of The Baking And Boiling Qualities Of Eight Varieties Of Potatoes, Minerva Kellogg, W.F. Buckholtz May 1943

An Evaluation Of The Baking And Boiling Qualities Of Eight Varieties Of Potatoes, Minerva Kellogg, W.F. Buckholtz

Agricultural Experiment Station Home Economics Pamphlets (1943-1957)

In 1942 the Sebago, Pontiac and Sequoia potatoes grown. at Brookings were late blight-resistant and somewhat scab-resistant. The prevalence of scab in Deuel County and a part of Codington County may make it highly desirable to resort to a resistant variety for table stock production in that area. One of the prime requisites of a potato variety is its cooking quality, and varieties differ in their relative response to different methods; for instance baking and boiling. To evaluate these three varieties in that respect, they were scored, when baked and boiled, along side Early Ohio, Irish Cobbler, Bliss Triumph, Katahdin, …