Keeping Lemons

New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 947, 4 October 1957, Page 33

Keeping Lemons

Dear Aunt Daisy, Could you please help me through The Listener to solve two problems? I find many useful hints and receipes in your pages, and hope yeu will manage to keep up the good work for years to come. Firstly-We have a Lisbon lemon tree which produces a bumper crop every season but I cannot find a reliable method for keeping the lemons. Secondly-How do some people get that delightful aroma and flavour in brewing coffee? I would be most grate-

ful if you could help me.-

-interested, |

Hamilton.

Here are some ideas for keeping lemons, sent in at various times by the "Daisy Chain." 1. Take large, firm lemons and run a thread through the hard nib at the end of the lemon. Tie the ends of the strings and hang in a dry, airy place. Do not let lernons touch each other or anything else. Hang as high as possible,

2. Put a layer of sand in a box and lay clean lemons in rows, not touching each other. Cover with sand, and continue ‘till box is full. Keep in a cool place. 3. Coat each lemon with one of the pastes used for preserving eggs. Do not use the skins afterwards. Best to wrap each in a separate piece of tissue paper. As for the coffee, see that you buy a very good brand, and that it is really freshly ground if possible when you buy it, Also use plenty. Have you tried the popular Dripolator or Espresso method of making coffee? You can get both small and larger chromium pots in most hardware stores.