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Fruits of the handsomest varieties are prone to make this exchange, and cheeses,
wines and even nuts will do the same thing.
You leave celery in the ice chest with cream cheese, and if you have a
discriminating taste you won't know which is which by nightfall.
Cream is so sensitive to influences that shut up in the cold box with a peach it
will taste like peach ice cream before two hours.
It is difficult to keep these items apart always, but care can be exercised by
placing the more delicate articles in covered jars and the vegetables in paper
wrappers or even paraffin. Keep the ones most likely to exchange confidences in
upper and lower partitions of the ice box, remembering that flavor crossing is
an epicurean annoyance.
MRS. PHILLIPS' CELEBRATED PICKLE PEACHES
Take a peck of half ripe peaches, put them into a strong pickle of salt and
water that will bear an egg. Let them remain in it three days, then take them
out. Drain them. Put them into a stone jar and stew them over one ounce mace,
one ounce cloves, one ounce grated nutmeg, a handful of sliced green ginger and
garlic, two bottles of mustard and cover with best vinegar, cold. They will not
be fit for use for three months.
HOW TO MAKE A LUNCH WITH NOTHING, AND A GOOD SOUP WITH WHAT REMAINS FROM
BREAKFAST
Some years ago we were at the Beverly House in Massachusetts. We were invited to
lunch with friends at Hamilton, twelve miles off. When we arrived our host met
us at the door in his shirt-sleeves, very red in the face with excitement. He
threw up his arms in despair and exclaimed: "Didn't you get my despatch telling
you not to
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