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Preserved Green-Corn

Select very full ears of tender corn, remove the husk and silks, cut the corn from the cob with the back of a knife, pack it in glass jars, filling them and pressing the corn down, and then close them with rubber and porcelain-lined covers. Place some laths across the bottom of a large boiler, and fill it with jars of corn, laying a little straw or hay against each to prevent them from knocking against one another during the boiling. Pour in sufficient cold water to cover the jars to half their height, place the boiler over the fire with a cloth, and the cover over it, and boil the corn continually for three hours, being careful to see that there is water enough to furnish a full volume of steam. Take up the jars and screw the covers as tightly as possible. When the jars are cold again screw the covers, and keep the corn in a cool, dark place. Mango, Preserved Put a hundred or so medium-sized green mangoes into a bowl of cold water to steep; grate off the outer coat very fine, cut them lengthwise in order to remove the stones, and throw them into weak lime-water. Put them into a preserving-pan with enough water to cover, parboil, skimming frequently; then turn them out onto a sieve and drain. Have ready a sufficient quantity of syrup, made of eight pounds of sugar, put in the mangoes and let them simmer in this, removing all the scum, until the sugar commences to crystallize; then remove the pan from the fire, allow the contents to cool, put the mangoes and syrup into wide-mouthed bottles or jars, and cork down when quite cold. Let them remain for two or three days, and should the syrup be getting thin, reboil it, adding the mangoes for a few minutes at the end of the boiling, and bottling again. This process should be repeated until there is no further sign of fermentation, corking down when quite cold. This preserve will remain good for a number of years if kept in a cool dry place. Enough syrup should be prepared at first, so that on the completion of the boiling there will be enough to cover the mangoes.