"Hannah Parsons had filled two large baskets with the clear yellow globules (of tomatoes), and taken them into the kitchen. She had washed them and put a great kettle full of them over the fire, and on the big white polished kitchen table she had spread out the other ingredients for her preserves. The big gray sugar jar, the ginger jar, the spices, the measuring cups and spoons, were all there at hand, and ranged along the wide oilcloth-covered shelf that ran from sink to stove were shining jars, and rings and covers lying in bowls of hot water; two long silver spoons to put in the jars so the hot stuff wouldn't break the jars when it was poured in, soup plates to put beneath the jars lest a drop should be spilled, though Hannah Parsons never spilled a drop when she was filling her jars. . ."
-- Excerpt from "Sunrise" by Grace Livingston Hill
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