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This page gives advice for salvaging or disguising food that has begun to spoil. Spoiled food can carry dangerous bacteria and toxins that no washing, soaking, or seasoning removes; it should be discarded.
In addition, this page recommends preserving food with chemicals such as salicylic acid, borax, or formaldehyde. These substances are toxic when eaten, and their use in food is now prohibited.
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Thwaites' Fluid
Mix 1 ounce spirit of wine with creosote sufficient to saturate it; rub up with chalk to form a thin paste, and mix gradually with 16 ounces water. ounces water.
To this may be added an equal quantity of water saturated with camphor. which have already begun to undergo change.
Meat, either before or after it is cooked, may be preserved for a considerable time, even in warm weather, by being placed in the centre of a clean earthenware vessel, and closely surclosely surrounded with pieces of common charcoal . To