"UNSOPHISTICATED JAM."

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1366, 17 February 1912, Page 12

"UNSOPHISTICATED JAM."

It seems'that the Bimple,.old jam of onr grandmothers is nowadays as difficult t0..-, ; find ns.the proverbial iicn with, tepth. ' That well-known, authority, 011 rural .mat- , .tei's, "Ilome Counties,".discourses on .this w,: f (subject in tho "World's Work", for January. lie says that tho. jam. of to-day. ia .< ■ much too sophisticated, and that few people' seem to. care, whether they-havo i their. jam' innqCeiit .or : yuilty. "Ono :bej.gins," , h.e 'adds, _,'.'to. wander how many.- ;■ pcopl£ r .i:h<?iio < -~ais\iil-;.:this'; country- -who..: i • rca 1 • kriow, -ijio .'tasto .-■..0f,; perfect • jaiht-•'■' t that -is,-jam;.iii(tdc-.-ft6iii.' a-, single fruit*-,-:. 1 Ono- wonders wh.o they are-who catc'efr t.v .tain jains'.tho»shops stock."- 'rv ' The - .simple fact.' about jam, according to itliioutlwrity, is that jf .you go into : •> almost liny shop or store in' tho United . •/ Kingdom and-ask for a pot of strawberry' : oi'.'any other'jam,- the probability is that ■'■' you : >viil.vjiot get what you-ask for. l'rei" '•' stinmbly, wlwt you want.when you ordfcr strawberry jam is ■ 'jam made of straw- '• berries. What tJie jam 'manufactufor ordinarily supplies to the grocer olid ha vsupplies to liis customer is strawberry jam' * ' 'adulterated with the juice of a cheapcr fruit. There is no doubt nbout.it. "Homo ' Counties'' copied the' following phrases from-a collection of j'nni-jiot. labels:— : With-fruit juice,t Improved-iritlv'fTuit juice, ,V Improved willi'V sinall proportion of .. .' ' fruit': jelly.'' • Ho also prints the label. ofa firm wlrtlch. - says; "This preserve contains a propor hon.of.rhubarb",- but wJiethcr a -lirln of : such extraordinary.!candour .is still-! in' ,v business.he-doss jiotimow. ■'.'■