The Mysteries of Jam Mating

Feilding Star, 10 November 1891, Page 2

The Mysteries of Jam Mating

The British Medical Journal throws more light' on I the mysteries of jam making. 'An inquiring stranger, it says, who was being' shown over a - British wine manufactory, was struck by several high mounds- of-, crimson dust. These he was told wtoe the fef uses of the wine presses, in. which the juice of raspberries, currants; and other fruit used in the busii&ftj^was extracted for makirig'the wine. = ' As it is seldom thnt anything is wasted ' in an English factory, an inquiry was made' as to the form in which these .mounds" would re-enter theinarket ; the visitor was promptly told that it Trae dlaposea-ot tv jam makers to giw the appearance of fruit to the pulp of turnip, Vegetable, apple) or whatnot, forming the basis of the confection. It' Hrould' seem" ttiatfelmdstf anything ■will do" to make jaatiof, as. the. chemist can produce a' flavour to imitate-^very kind of fruity is commonly supposed that orange-peel is picked, up in the- streets'Wherewitli to^"n»ke' marmalade. a slander on ' the preserve-maker j^but, according to t r the^report of a- case heard this year in a-/ metropolitan \police court, rotten oranges in the condition of ", a' " black pulpy substance," and,", quite unfit to eat," a¥ the inspector* very sapiently remarked, are considered by the owners of the' fruit as ''good enough' to be "chopped up for marmalade." Oranges for this '/excellent substitute" for butter at breakfalt/ l7 'it ,'was cost only 4s a box, whereas fruit fbr eating costs 12s. A disquieting' fact indeed.