Care And Preservation Of Food In The Home

Author : Jennie R. Bear
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ISBN 13 : 9781330600887
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Care and Preservation of Food in the Home (Classic Reprint) written by Jennie R. Bear and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Care and Preservation of Food in the Home The health and efficiency of a community are largely dependent upon its food. It is not only essential that the community have an adequate food supply, but that it should be a clean and uncontaminated food supply as well. Much is being done by federal, state and local authorities to provide pure and clean food for the public, but more could be done if the woman in the home had a more thorough knowledge of the various sources of food contamination, and would co-operate with the authorities by refusing to purchase foods from stores which do not meet the sanitary requirements. It is also essential that the home maker should watch the care of food in her own home. There are many sources of food contamination in the home, and most housekeepers are guilty of neglect along these lines. Unlike charity, the care and preservation of food should begin, not at home, but outside of the home at the various places of production and distribution, but the same care and vigilance must also prevail in its handling in the home if we are to have a clean and wholesome food supply. The care and preservation of foods is also an economic question, and is becoming a matter of greater importance as food increases in price. If this nation is to successfully feed her growing millions, her people must not only learn to produce far more per acre, but they must learn to utilize to better advantage everything produced. The misuse and waste of foods account for the bankruptcy of many firms and many households. Micro-organisms Why Foods Spoil. There are two main causes for the spoiling of foods: First, normally there occur in foods, such as fruits, - vegetables, eggs, meats, and seeds of all plants, certain processes, called life processes, which cause the fruit to ripen, seeds to grow, and meat to soften, and which lead to decay. Second, there are present in or on the foods certain minute living organisms which feed on them and change them so that they cease to be desirable, and may even become harmful to us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.