Preserving Eggs.

Manawatu Herald, 3 December 1895, Page 3

Preserving Eggs.

■♦ ■ ■ The "Farmers 1 Advocate," Ontario, offered a prize for the best method of keeping eggs over winter, tnd this is the one to which it was awarded : — " Whatever excludes the air prevents the decay of the egg. What I bave found to ba the most successful method of doing so is to place a small quantity of salt butter in the palm of the left hand and turn the egg round in it, so that every pore of the egg is closed ; then dry a sufficient quantity of bran in an oven (be sure you have the bran well dried or it will rust.) Then Sack them with the small heads own, a layer of bran and another of eggs until your box is full; then - place in a cool dry place. If done when new laid they will retain the sweet milk and curd of a new laid egg for at least eight or ten months. Any oil will do, but salt butter never becomes rancid, and a very small quantity of butter will do a very large quantity of eggs. To ensure freshness I rub them when gathered in from the nest ; then pack when there is a sufficient quantity."