KEEPING FOOD FRESH

Evening Star, Issue 16908, 4 December 1918, Page 4

KEEPING FOOD FRESH

To waste food is an offence, ■with hoary penalty. To let food “go bad,*when a. Jittlo care and a few precautions would have kept it fresh, is, if not a legal offence, very wrong. So read, mark —and remember. Don’t put meat on a plate in a larder or safe. Hang it up. And bang it in u muslin bag which has been, dipped in vinegar. The bag keeps away flies, and the vinegar nets ns a preservative. In your safe or larder Lava a plate of charcoal. It will iako to itself all the bad odors, and keep things absolutely sweat. Keep your larder window wide open with a- piece of muslin fnckc-d across. This does not strip the fresh air, but block? dust end flies. If you hn vc a portable meat safe, sea that it is flsed against a south wall. Keep your bread moist by having a good, deep bread pan, and pouring in, t'.vi-’ss a week. s:u depth of water, a bit of board to fit in the pan 4in or Bin over the yaier, and place your loaf or loaves on that. Vegetables can bo prevented from wilting if you have a broad, shallow tin with an inch or so of water in it. Lettuces, cabbages, beans, etc., if placed with their cut ends in the water, will keep fresh for davs. Marrows, too, respond to the water treatment. Butter should be. stood in n dish which stands in another dish filled with water. Put a piece of greased paper on the butler. and on tho papier la;,* two or three lumps of charcoal. T;* von have suspended kitchen fires, the oron is often one of the coolest spots in tho house. Many a wise old housewife keeps her butter in the oven.