Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1877 — Preserving Eggs. [ARTICLE]

Preserving Eggs.

For cite benefit of our readers who preserve eggs for future use, we will give the following from a correspondent* of the Knalixh Mechanic, who says: In 1871-2, I preserved eggs so perfectly that, after a lapse of six months, they were mistaken, wlieu brought to the table for fresh laid eggs, and I believe they would have kept equally good for twelve mouths* My mode of preservation was to varnish the eggs as soon a?ter they were laid as possible with a thin copal varnish, taking care that the whole of the shell was covered with the varnish. I subsequently found that by painting the eggs with fresh albumen, beaten ftp with a little salt they were preserved equally well and for as long a period. After varnishing or painting with albumen, I lay the eggs upon rough blotting paper, as 1 found that when allowed to rest till dry upon a plate, or on the table, the albumen stuck so fast to the table or plate as to take away a chip out of the shell. This is enentirely obviated by the use of the blotting paper. I pack these eggs in boxes of dry bran.