Dora's housekeeping by Kirkland Elizabeth Stansbury 1828-1896

Author:Kirkland, Elizabeth Stansbury, 1828-1896. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Home economics, Cooking
Publisher: Chicago, A. C. McClurg & company
Published: 1899-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

vacuum that helps to keep the preserves from spoiling."

" How must they be covered?"

" That's a business by itself. The easiest way is to use Mason's self-sealing jars with covers, which screw on and save you all further trouble; the next is to get glass jars with round corks that fit tightly into the mouths. There is a preparation of sealing wax sold at the drugstores, which you melt over a hot fire and cover the corks with this so as exclude the air completely; this is a more troublesome way, but less expensive. Remember always that if the air gets into your preserves they are ruined, unless you can use them up within a day or two."

" You don't have to take so much care with currant-jelly, do you, Aunt Jane?"

"Oh no; any kind of jelly or marmalade, not having syrup, which is the part that ferments, is in little danger provided you keep it in a cool place. You must cut pieces of white tissue paper just to fit the top of the jelly, and lay them on double, after dipping them in white of egg or brandy; then paste smooth brown paper over the top of the tumbler or bowl, letting it come about half an inch over the edge. Of course you don't do this until the jelly is perfectly firm."

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