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To Keep Milk Sweet

A tea- have the appearance of chocolate, and are spoonful of fine salt or horse-radish in a pan chiefly intended for the use of soldiers while of milk will keep it sweet for several days. in the field. A quantity of about 1 ounce of Milk can be kept a year or more as sweet as when taken from the cow by the following method: Procure bottles, which must be perfectly clean, sweet, and dry; draw the milk from the cow into the bottles, and as they are filled, immediately cork them well, and fasten the cork with pack-thread or wire. Then spread a little straw in the bottom of a boiler, on which place the bottles, with straw between them, until the boiler contains a sufficient quantity. Fill it up with cold water, 1634. Το Can Fresh Fruit. Procure a sufficient number of tin cans of suitable size, fill them quite full with the fruit, and solder them securely. Next pierce a small pin-hole in the top of each can, to allow the air to be expelled; place the cans in a boiler as deep as the cans are high, pour boiling water into the and as soon as it begins to boil, draw the fire boiler until within 1/2 inch of the top of the and let the whole cool gradually. When cans; keep the water hot over a moderate quite cold, take out the bottles and pack them fire, but not boiling, until the air ceases to in sawdust in hampers, and stow them away escape from the cans, and then seal the air in the coolest part of the house.