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Title: The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, Janet McKenzie, 1852-1933, ed Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Home economics Cooking
Publisher: Boston : Boston Cooking-School Magazine
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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dren; and all thefamily spend part of the year in thefragrant, wonderful outdoors. Thegarden, too, is a place of loveliness,having flowers, vines, and trees, be-sides its vegetables and grain. Eventhe poorest families have these rest-ful garden spots, and a few flowers inthe window casements, to relieve anotherwise dismal home. It is common for each country fam-ily to raise enough hay for its owncattle, wheat and barley enough forbread, and flax enough for clothing.Then there is always an abundant sup-ply of vegetables, for the storing ofwhich is a spacious room under thedwelling. To one home belong a fewsheep, to another a few goats; and itis a picturesque sight to see a sweetmiss conducting her little flock topasture. Not much meat is eaten. The chieffoods are milk, delightful cream, andgood cheese. One palatable and popu-lar dish is made of cheese curds stewedin cream, and then baked with a littlebutter. About the kitchen is a fine stockof shining brass cooking utensils; for, if m\
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the Swiss housewife has a weakness,it is for such possessions. They arenot in a pantry, but hang on the kitchenwalls in glittering array. Every home has a few nut-bearingtrees and some fruit. Besides thereare fruit-trees along all the highways.In America, sad to say, such treeswould be of no consequence, as thefruit would certainly be picked byidle children before it was ripe. In-deed, we are often compelled to pluckprematurely fruit growing on our ownpremises. I must either eat greencherries or never taste one, said oneof my neighbors last year. I doubtif such a case ever exists in Switzer-land, as it seems to be inculcated inevery childs brain that unripe fruitis absolutely unfit for use, and, fur-thermore, that wilful waste makes wofulwant. There is not, so far as I could dis-cover, a vestige of waste among thesepeople. Refuse from barns, poultry-houses, and pig-pens, is carefully savedand applied where it will do most good.Wood ashes are fine for grapevines.Vines that are pruned a

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