Vol. 3-Interview-Timko

Used to make jelly from apples, + peaches, later, made from peaches + pineapple, also banana jelly with pineapple.

Apple jam ( underlined) Cooked apples with skin sliced up in pieces, until soft. Strain through a sieve to get skin + seeds out

Cook again with sugar + cinnamon till done , to right spreading consistency. Had small pint jars cleaned (washed with soap + water + rinsed). , on the stovem so they be hot. Pour it in boiling. Melted hot was ( parafiin) by put in pan on coal stove in back. Pour it on jam + seal it - a layer of 1/4 inch or more Layer should be in neck of jar. (?) Jars (in margin)

Jars (underlined) - used with zinc lid that screwed on. Washed + ( s + w) + boiled the lids if they were old lids, from the year before. Kept in a pan of hot waater on the stove. Had to use rubber collar - jar rings( underlined) - around the neck, withh zinc lids.

Kept in pan of hot water, sometimes in with the lids if were too many lids, Kept in a jar of hot water to keep soft so you could handle them better.

( looks like a hole was punched over the word Recipe) Grape Jelly (underlined)

Crush grapes with hands + cook till soft.

Put thin cloth over a colander: put cloth in collander, then put in grapes, and let juice drain into a container below. Squeeze grapes in cloth when it gets cool.

Used Certo, according to directions, to form jelly.

Also, used pectin powder, from stores, according to directions. Put in sugar to taste _ ( word crossed out) they used to use ( something crossed out) " a cup to a cup". She used more tha " a cup to a cup", since she thought ("it" is crossed out) that made the jelly too ("thin" is crossed out) watery. Boil sugar + juice together, till almost done.

Test it by putting some in a dish + put in refrigerator + let cool so you could tell how thick it was.

When was thick enough, put in Certo + let come to a boil for about a minute.

Bottle it hot. Seal with wax, ie, by pouring melted parafin (?) come out too thin, when used a " cup to a cup" . If cooked longer, it wasn't so clear. If you added more sugar, it would be sugary + when opened, sugar would settle to bottom. If warmed on stove, sugar would dissolve + recombine.

Canning Season Used to can in fall, whenever stuff was ripe. Grapes were jellied later than September. Canned in summer Kitchen. Used to do it herself, some times daughters washed jars. They'd be in school during day.

Vol. 3 Interview-Timko Education

All her kids used to go to school till 8th grtad. Mike and Agnes, her last ones, used to go halfterm a number of years because they used to bus in kids from Buck Mt. & the Eckley school had no room. All kids went to high school in Freeland, by bus - driven by Pat Evanchko & his wife. Anne had to take 1 girl out of schook, at 8th grade even if she was top of the class. because Anne needed help; she wasn't feeling well. She was oldes daughter. She finished at 14 years old in the 1930's. Ann had a strain in muscles of chest. Had a "gang" of people to work for & take care of. She had to do all the houes work, with Anne's help. Had 6 children & Anne & her husband. John - oldest son - was put through college by parents. His father never wanted him to struggle in the mines. Other sons - had other job opportunities that he could take & not be at college.[?] They were willing to put him through too.