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preserve the jar.

Mrs. Fletcher gave us some other recipes - favorites of hers with garden vegetables. In the first page of her cookbook she admonishes the reader to use “gumption" in cooking. Good advice to cooks — and advice that Mattie Ball Fletcher has obviously followed—using an extra measure of "gumption" in cooking, in gardening and in living.

Swiss Chard

Boil chard until tender. Boil eggs, peel, chop, and serve with chard and salad dressing.

Zucchini-Rhubarb Jam

2 cups grated zucchini

1 cup chopped rhubarb

2'/j tblspns. lemon juice

Scant weight of other ingredients in sugar.

Stir all but lemon juice together. Let stand one hour. Strain off liquid; cook down to half. Add lemon juice and can.

Fried Squash Blossoms

Gather fresh squash blossoms and wash (handle carefully).

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