To Pot Cheese
Cheese that has begun to mould, can be kept from becoming any more so, by being treated in the following manner: Cut off the mouldy part, and if the cheese is dry, grate it; if not, pound it fine in a mortar, together with the crust. To each pound of it, when fine, put a table-spoonful of brandy; mix it in well with the cheese, then press it down tight, in a clean stone pot, and lay a paper wet in brandy on the top of it. Cover the pot up tight, and keep it in a cool, dry place. This is also a to treat dry pieces of cheese. Potted cheese is best when a year old. It will keep several years, without danger of its breeding insects. good way To Keep Vegetables through the Winter Succulent vegetables are preserved best in a cool, shady place, that is damp. Turnips, Irish potatoes, and similar potatoes, vegetables, should be protected from the air and frost by being buried up in sand, and in very severe cold weather covered over with a linen cloth. It is said that the dust of charcoal, sprinkled over potatoes, will keep them from sprouting. I have also heard it said, that Carolina potatoes may be kept a number of months, if treated in the following manner: Take those that are large and perfectly free from decay; pack them in boxes of dry sand, and set the boxes in a place exposed to the influence of smoke and inaccessible to frost.