CHAPTER IX.
PRESERVED VEGETABLES AND FRUITS.
Vegetables and fruits are preserved in two ways.

We can have them preserved both in bottles and tins, but the principle is exactly the same in both cases, the method of preservation being simply that of excluding the air.

We will not enter into the subject of how to preserve fruit and vegetables, but will confine ourselves to discussing as briefly as possible the best method of using them when they are preserved.
Unfortunately there exists a very unreasonable prejudice on the part of many persons against all kinds of provisions that are preserved in tins.
This prejudice is kept alive by stories that occasionally get into print about families being poisoned by using tinned goods.

We hear stories also of poisoning resulting from using copper vessels.

Housekeepers should endeavour to grasp the idea that the evil is the result of their own ignorance, and that no danger would accrue were they possessed of a little more elementary knowledge of chemistry.