| Show FIRST PLACE HISTORICAL ESSAY PEA CANNING Eleanor Madsen 295 East 1lst Ephraim Do of of load some North Utah 84627 you remember following behindwagon withpeas on its way to the viner and pulling off the tender pea pods popping them open and relishing each tasty County before you cherish The bit 1960 summer this before If you may be was lived one married pea canning session one hot August went into the fields and pulled up loaded with peas We sat of under in Sanpete the memories helped processing the bottles large With some of peas boiler of little were hot salt sealed water tall and with The day Asfamily we the vines which were bushes Danish Field west of Ephraim and shelled the next step was to take them home and put them for with peas peas The into bottles filled hot in the lids were with and kept water put in boiling for about five hours with the coal stove kept plentifully supplied with wood and coal How good those peas tasted oncold from the them Some of through were the cool first ringer winter day as they were cellar where they had been brought up stored the ladies who canned their own peas shelled the wringer of the clothes washer The peas put in hot water the peas rolled and as the pods went through back into the tub Most memories of canning peas were related to the pea factories in Manti and Ephraim The farmers who raised the peas and those who worked at these plants can recall days In Ephraim Ben of Olsen Vice Ephraim were project hard work 1914group of men in Ephraim organized the Cannery Company Peterson was President Rasmussen Jensen long was the President Peterson Hans Directors built that Charles year Christensen building and 97 Johansen the and to house first peas John the were |
