Modern housecraft : the art of reasonable living / by Lucy H. Yates.

  • Yates, Lucy H. (Lucy Helen)
Date:
1906
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Credit: Modern housecraft : the art of reasonable living / by Lucy H. Yates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    was scorched. The suet pudding, which ought to have been as light as a feather, was hard and heavy ; no one liked it and it was left. Many things get left. We hear about ways of using up the “left-overs,” as Americans call them, but these refer to those pieces which are left on dishes; no one has yet been bold enough to tell us how to use up those which are left on plates. There is only one good way, and that is to prevent their being left. Many a leakage occurs, especially in summer- time, by things “ going bad.” It is an unfortu- nate way they have. But there are such things as preservatives—harmless ones—which will keep decay at a distance, and there is such a thing as heat, which will kill any germs most effectively. By putting a pinch of boric acid into milk, sprinkling it over meat, by washing: the outside of meat with a weak solution of Condy’s Fluid, by part-cooking a joint, you will effectually prevent that little trick of going bad. If you made a practice of emptying all scraps of. milk and cream into one jar each day, and let: them collect until you had enough to make a few scones or a plain cake, you would find that even if they were quite a curd, they would make you a delicious loaf, needing no butter, and only a pinch of carbonate of soda to make