HOME-PRESERVED FRUIT
Sir,-I was amazed when listening to the lunch-hour Country Session talk on 3YA on December 14 to hear a Mrs. Miller assert that women were wasting their time in bottling fruit. There was, ' she said, no nutritive value in any bottled fruit other than black currants, gooseberries and tomatoes. and the fruit was very insipid. She advised listeners to buy either tinned fruit or the frozen article. These days home-preserved fruit has reached such a degree of excellence that there is very little to choose between it and the tinned article except in cost. Mrs, Miller must be a very lucky woman to be able to pay 3/- odd for a tin of fruit as often as she requires it. The average wage-earner certainly could not afford this, nor would a good housekeeper be willing to do so when the same food processed at home, once the preserving bottle is bought, often’ costs only the price of the sugar and of the firing. This is the time when thriftalmost a forgotten virtue in New Zea-land-should be encouraged.
E. L.
TAPSFIRTH
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 756, 15 January 1954, Page 11
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183HOME-PRESERVED FRUIT New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 756, 15 January 1954, Page 11
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