Preserving at Home

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Excerpt from Preserving at Home: A Book for the Home EconomistIn the preservation of fruit the most essential thing is to keep the fruit, as well as the utensils used, sterile. This should be observed from the earliest stage in the preparation Of the fruit to the final sealing and storing. To sterilize a substance or thing is to destroy all life and source of life in it. It is necessary to do more than exclude the air, for investigations of scientists, particularly Pasteur, have shown that it is not the oxygen of the air which causes fermentation, but bacteria and other microscopic organisms. Yeast and nearly all kinds of bacteria require oxygen, but certain species grow equally well without it, so that the exclusion of air is no protection if one Of these bacteria is sealed in the can.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.