How to Preserve Eggs.
— ♦ . A correspondent of the London Standard writes : In an eleven years experience of poultry keeping, several years ago, no better method for preserving eggs was tound than the following : — When an egg is still warm from the nest it should be buttered all over with a tiny piece of quite sweet fresh butter ; if kept with the larger end uppermost it will be good, even for boiling at the end of three months. We never tried to keep eggs beyond that time that I . can remember. If a little bran be put at the bottom of a large jar, to receive the first layer of eggs layer upon layer of eggs can be fitted on the others for storing. Of course for travelling they would need far greater care. Eggs buttered on removing from the nest do not suffer from thin shells like those preserved in lime* ,;
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Manawatu Herald, 18 April 1893, Page 3
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151How to Preserve Eggs. Manawatu Herald, 18 April 1893, Page 3
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