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To Keep Eggs Several Months

- It is a good plan to buy eggs for family use when cheap, and preserve buy eggs for family use when cheap, and preserve them in the following manner : Mix half a pint of unslacked lime with the same quantity of salt and a couple of gollons of water. The water should be turned on boiling hot. When cold, put in the eggs, which should be perfectly fresh, and care should be taken not to cracked, they will spoil directly.

The eggs should be entirely covered with the limewater, and kept in a stone pot, and the pot set in a cool place. If the above directions are strictly attended to, the eggs will keep good five months. The lime-water should not be so strong as to eat the shell, and all the eggs should be perfectly fresh when put in, as one bad egg will spoil the whole.