Excerpt from The Housekeeper's Encyclopedia of Useful Information for the Housekeeper in All Branches of Cooking and Domestic Economy: Containing the First Scientific and Reliable Rules for Putting Up All Kinds of Hermetically-Sealed Fruits, With or Without Sugar, in Tin Cans or Common Bottles IN our grandmothers' time, no greater praise could be spoken of a lady, than to say she was a perfect housekeeper; while in the present generation, wo_man is taught too much to look on. 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.