WAUPACA COUNTY REPUBLICAN

September 7, 1874

 

Sugar for Preserving

 

            Good brown sugar is the sweetest, especially much sweeter than the so-called granulated white sugar, which contains much water of crystallization, and often a certain amount of free moisture besides, while the moisture of brown sugar is due to syrup or molasses, which increase the sweetness more than water does.  The finely-powdered white sugar made from loaf sugar is much, sweeter than the granulated white sugar, and goes almost as far in sweetening as the brown qualities do.  Loafsugar is best.

 

 

A New Way to Serve Peaches

 

            Take good sized free stone peaches, wipe them with a towel, halve them, and place, flat side down, in hot butter or lard. Let them fry to a nice brown, then turn and fill the seed cup with sugar, which, by the time the fruit is properly coated, will be melted and form with the juice of the peach a rich syrup.  Serve up hot, and if you do not like them you need not repeat the experiment.  Medical writers caution people against eating peaches served up in any form in the evening.  It is asserted that they are depressive to the circulation, and exhaust the system by the prussic acid which they contain.