p. 794 | THE CARE OF FOOD

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 22, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 50.

THE CARE OF FOOD.

So FEW cooks or housekeepers seem to know that every article of food should be kept covered until it appears on the table. Milk and butter, for instance, should be kept in air-tight vessels and kept covered. They both take up every odor flying in the air, and are positively harmful to take into the stomach after standing uncovered for an hour or two, for not only odors, but the animalculæ that fill the air, are attracted to milk and butter. Uncovered jelly is a menace to family health. It is in gelatine jelly that expert bacteriologists imprison germs of disease to watch them propagate. They seem to thrive better on that kind of food than any other, yet in two-thirds of the pantries in the city will be found half-used dishes or glasses of jelly standing uncovered.—Selected.