Holiday Hints

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30028, 12 January 1963, Page 2

Holiday Hints

“Your holiday is tor retaxation end pteasuce, and if you do your pert in ehminottbsee ’boUdaar spoilers,' you will moke it pteseetrt for those who follow in your footsteps and you win come home feeling your holiday baa done you and your famUy toe world of good,” says Mm Cynthia Gflitag in the second two MW Gffiuv’to a member of the Hrtdto Education section of toe Department ot-Heelto in Christchurch.

Fbdd Feteeteng.—The summer holiday is the time when food poisoning is most prevalent Dirty bands, flies and dust infect your food and suddenly the whole family io laid up tor several days with symptoms of vomiting and diarrhoea. It tote should happen and medical aid is not available, eat raw apple, peeled, cored and graded, and drink plenty of boiled water. Fruit and Wash these before you leave home (it is often more convenient) and keep them in a plastic beg. Don’t keep food in open tins and don’t leave left-overs until the next day. Drinking Water.—lt is most unwise to take water from ponds or edges of a stream. Always bod it when you are in doubt. Clear water is not necessarily safe. Protecting Bread—Keep bread in a hinged, covered box with your name on it This saves any misunderstanding for toe baker and other holiday-makers.

Bush Safe—lf you have no access to a refrigerator you must not expect to keep meat raw for more than two days in hot weather. Hang meat in a fly-proof, well-ventilated safe (metal or muslin) in a shady, airy place, high enough to be safe from dogs if out of doors. As meat must have air, unwrap it from toe paper in which you brought it home. Do not keep it flat on a plate. Hang it on

a book fa toe rote; of IM safe above a plate to cateti toe drips. You wiM find a meat skewec useful . tor tote. ■Oik SappMea.—Uapeoteurtoed mflk should be scalded and used toe same day. When scaMed pour into a dean jug, and cool rapidly by standing in cold water in a cool airy place. Cover toe with rinan muatin, making sure that toe edges are coswtantlv dinned in water. Stand on a dean brick in a large bowl of water. Keeping Batter Firm— Place on a wire grid over a bowl three quarters full of cold water. Cover toe butter with dean wet muslin, making sure that the edges dip into the water. Alternatively place the butter on a brick in a dish of water and cover with mudin as previously described. Be sure that the doth is aiiways moist Renew the water, wash the wire grid or brick and rinse toe doth everyday.