p. 349 | Home-Made Ice-Chest

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 4, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 22.

Home-Made Ice-Chest.

OBTAIN two common dry-goods boxes, of such sizes as that the smaller one will be large enough to hold the ice and food you wish to keep within it, and the other will be about four inches larger all around. The smaller one must be lined with zinc, or it will absorb the moisture from the ice, and soon make trouble. Near one corner of the bottom of the smaller box bore a hole an inch in diameter, and when the box is lined with zinc have a tube about seven inches long securely fastened into this hole. There must be no crevice into which the water can soak. A cover, which also should be zinc-lined, must be fitted to the box. Then procure some charcoal, broken finely, and fill the larger box (in which first a hole has been bored to receive the tube from the inner box) with the powdered charcoal to a depth of nearly four inches. Place the smaller box in the charcoal, and fill the space between the sides of the two boxes with the charcoal up even with the inner box, and cover the space with a neat strip of board. This will give you a box with double bottom and sides filled with charcoal, which is the best of non-conductors. With an outer cover the size of the large box, and four blocks to raise the whole from the floor, so that a pan may be placed under the tube to catch the water which comes from the melted ice, the whole will be done, except that shelves can be added as desired.—Christian Union.