Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-23
Price Four Cents.

ing direct to the factory one can be secured of freshly put up fruit and vegetables at decided reduction, and especially if two or three families club together and g quantity is bought. Fruit can be canned at home with better results than have yet been ob- tained in factory work, but tomatoes, corn and various other vegetables are sure to Eatis- fy and also to cost less than if put up at home
 All canned articles must be kept in 8 cool. dry place, and if in glass darkness is also es- sentiaL This implies storeroom of some sort, and such place is an essential, no mat ter how simple the housekeeping as buying in driblets is not only in itself constant an- noyance, but makes the cost of supplies fully third more yearly. Objection to this is of ten made by husbands on the ground that with & quantity in the house there is reckless use and waste. This might be so were ser wants allowed free access, but the careful housekeeper will never permit this. Sup plies should be given out each week, and far better knowledge of what is actually required by family will be had in this way than where the hap hazard system of sending ont for thing only when 1t is needed for use is adopted Troublesome as 1t may seem to settle definitely the average consumption of each week, 1t is an art soon mastered, and in- sures finally a wiser economy and better knowledge of what fixed sum can do than any other method.
 Flour improves with age and costs far less if bought by the barrel than in small quanti- ties. The drier the place in which it is kept the better, dry, cool place being the stand ard rule for all stores. If there is room it is better to have two barrels, one of old pro cess or St. Louis flour, the other the new process or Haxall. The latter packs much more closely than the old and a pound will not measure as much, while it swells more. It therefore makes a much harder cake or pastry than the old, which is to be preferred for everything but bread, and in all cases an eighth less is to be taken than of the old. Thus in a rule for bread calling for four quarts, but three and half would be re- quired.
 Graham flour should be good wheat, ground and unsIfted, but is more often inferior flour mixed with bran Various forms of whole wheat meal" are now in the market, but to be had only at the best grocers' or directly from the mills. Like flour, Graham, if kept cool aRd dry, improves with age. Rye, on the contrary, can only be bought in small quantities, as in hot weather it speedily be- comes nusty. Indian meal. if made b. the old process, will give the same trouble. By the new, the corn is dried for two years be- fore using, and is ground in such 8 manner that granulated meal is produced which keeps as perfectly as four. Yellow meal is richer and thus more nutritious than white Oat meal, cracked wheat and hominy all keep perfectly, tin being the best for this purpose, as weevil are more likely to get into wooden boxes Small cracker tins are excellent for this purpose.
 Granulated sugar will be found cheapest and best for general use Being perfectly dry there is more to the pound than in any brown sugar, and it is also sweeter It is one of the few things in which it makes but little difference whether one buys in small or large quantity but barrel at a time is 8 convenience. Where syrup Is used 1t is much better to make it at home from sugar, as the refined" syrups of various names are too often made up of adulterations. For gingerbread and general cooking Porto Rico molasses is decidedly the best, but had better be strained before using, as all molasses con- tains many impurities.
 Whole spice of every variety Is as necessa- " as the ground, and better far havoring all soups and sauces A small bottle of curry powder will last years, and so with essence of anchovies, Halford sauce or mushroom ketchup, all useful in hsvoring gravies- The storeroom should also have always on hand rice, tspiocs, barley, dried beans and peas macaroni and vermiceli, vinegar, mustard and pepper, tea, coffee and chocolate. In buying coffee 1t may better be roasted, as this is much more perfectly done in a rotary roaster than at home, but 1t should be kept tightly covered, and ground only as needed Tea also requires to be Kept from the air, and for both, if bought in small quantities, self scaling glass 10 the best possible thing in which to store them