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let it lie 4 hours in warm water. Should this then turn brown also, put the
cauliflower in boiling water and then stew.
To keep red onion.
Perfectly ripe and hard onions, should be kept in an airy, well ventilated room,
in order to dry slowly, then to be put in a big basket or box, which is to be
kept in a place where it cannot freeze, although it, at the same time, must not
be too warm. What is called Spanish onion is kept in the same way; but
Portuguese onions should be tied up in small bunches and hung up in a cool
place, while white onion is tied in wreaths and kept in the same manner.
To keep roots in sand.
Take a wooden box divided into several small spaces; then procure ordinarily
fine sand, not too wet nor too dry, but a little damp. Deposit some celery roots
in one of the spaces, but do not do so, until you
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