PUTTING UP GREEN CORN — EXPLANATION.
In your issue of September 3, page 573, at bottom of column, under the heading, “To Put Up Green Corn,” you say, To four quarts of corn, use one quart of salt. Is this not an error? The ocean contains but three per cent of salt, and is not drinkable; but your recipe gives twenty-five per cent! If I were going to put up corn, I would use only from one quarter to one half an ounce for four quarts. GEO. GRAHAM. EXPLANATION.— The salt named was not to be eaten, but for preserving purposes. Read last clause: “Put to freshen the day before using, in afternoon, by pouring on boiling water, changing it.” Change water as often as necessary to make it sufficiently fresh—as we freshen salt fish before using.