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Foods
Within 3 years had a 5 1/2 month strike + 5 1/2 months again, it was like 1 full year of not working. This was in the 20's. There was no income- the people had to grow food in garden + can it - "putting the stuff up." The materials to preserve it was available - vinegar, sugar, spices.
Vinegar - for chow chow + pickles
sugar - added to everything
Ketchup added spices,
Ketchup
(?) For ketchup. used beer bottles + put in bought corks, for storage. Later on, used to wax them - that didn't help, The stuff used to spoil sometimes, if the seal was loose, Later, got a capping device that capped the bottles by hands. This was before the 20's.
Ketchup
Cook peeled tomatoes -
that had been sliced or pieced, till they got soft enough to come through a seive. Then put it through a sieve + cook the mass. Add salt to taste, sugar, pepper + ( atl lined through) spices,( cloves with a line through it), Put (?) spices by put in cinnamon directly, (? lined through) but allspice + cloves, ground, in a piece of cheesecloth, twist it up +