Household.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1639, 6 January 1883, Page 6

Household.

Geneual Dikections.— Gather fruit when it is dry. Long boiling hardens the fruit. Pour boiling water over the seive used, and wring out jelly bags in hot water the moment you are to use them. Do not squeeze while straining through jelly bags. Let the pots and jars containing sweetmeats just made, remain uncovered three days. Lay brandy papers-over the top, cover them tight and seal them, or, what is best of all, soak a split bladder and tie it tight over them. In clrying, it will shrink so as to be perfectly air-tight. Keep them in a dry, but not warm place. A thick leathery mould helps to preserve fruit, but when mould appears in specks, the preserves must be scalded in a warm oven, or be set into hot water, which then must boil until the preserves are scalded. Always keep watch of preserves which are not sealed, especially in warm or damp weather. The onty sure way to keep them without risk or care, is to make them with enough sugar, and seal them, or tie bladder covers over.

THE MORALS OF COOKERY. ' The Oscaloosa Herald has lately given some articles on the morals of cookery, that aie rich in sterling sense. Not only are health and comfort dependent upon the ease and quietude of the stomach, but temper and morals besides. " Whoever saw a dyspeptic with anything but a morose, peevish, whimsical temper? Or a good digestion unaccompanied with a bouyancy of spirit that carries the happy owner over all small failings' and troubles, with forebearance and good humour. 1 ' A stomach loaded with " fat salt pork, greasy pastry, sour bread, ill-cooked vegetables' and narcotic drinks," cannot but | complain, and ultimately rebel. Unnatural ;crayings set in, and visits to the saloon supplement visits to the drug store. All ends in , final 'w/eck and ruin, for an eftete stomach can never be restored, nor can it be replaced. A ; simple rule that should be impressed upon young is that'anything'Swallowed 'which makes itself felt uneasily two or three hour's afterwards is as dangerous as poison, and i;h'e' beginning of years'Sif incurable^misery.' 1 iFrom EuralNcw Yorker.' ' , W. . - -f ' i-'^X.;^ — ' . ■ . V, '