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Plums / Janet Bond.

For preserving eggs : silicate of soda or water glass / Peter Leech & Son.

Food preservative : harmless, tasteless, odourless : directions for use.

Hills & Laport : preservers of milton native oysters, milk, cream, bottled fruits, pickles &c. : no. 48, Eastcheap, London : Herring, anchovy & other pastes.

L'heure des bonnes confitures / Industrie Rennaise du Fruit.

The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.

The wholesome herring / by Janet Bond.

Have you tried our delicious sausages? : They're good! : All our meats kept in cold storage in hot weather.

Oteg : egg preservative (wholly British) for dry storage of eggs in shell (fully patented) / Sozol (1924) Limited.

Specification of Francis Plowden : preserving animal and other substances.

Khimicheskii sostav i usvoiaemost' kaliinykh i natronnykh al'buminatov : dissertatsiia na stepen' doktora meditsiny / S.P. Malakhovskago ; tsenzorami po porucheniiu Konferentsii, byli professory A.P. Dobroslavin, V.A. Manassein i ad''iunkt-laborant Przhibytek.

Specification of William Newton : preparing and preserving milk.

Specification of Alfred Vincent Newton : preserving provisions, and ventilating buildings, cars, and vessels.

Water glass : a preparation for keeping eggs fresh all the year round.

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Food Preservation

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Specification of Francis Plowden : preserving animal and other substances.

Khimicheskii sostav i usvoiaemost' kaliinykh i natronnykh al'buminatov : dissertatsiia na stepen' doktora meditsiny / S.P. Malakhovskago ; tsenzorami po porucheniiu Konferentsii, byli professory A.P. Dobroslavin, V.A. Manassein i ad''iunkt-laborant Przhibytek.

Specification of William Newton : preparing and preserving milk.

Specification of Alfred Vincent Newton : preserving provisions, and ventilating buildings, cars, and vessels.

Water glass : a preparation for keeping eggs fresh all the year round.

Food Preservation

Images from the collections

Images referencing Food Preservation

Works from the collections

Specification of Francis Plowden : preserving animal and other substances.

Khimicheskii sostav i usvoiaemost' kaliinykh i natronnykh al'buminatov : dissertatsiia na stepen' doktora meditsiny / S.P. Malakhovskago ; tsenzorami po porucheniiu Konferentsii, byli professory A.P. Dobroslavin, V.A. Manassein i ad''iunkt-laborant Przhibytek.

Specification of William Newton : preparing and preserving milk.

Specification of Alfred Vincent Newton : preserving provisions, and ventilating buildings, cars, and vessels.

Water glass : a preparation for keeping eggs fresh all the year round.

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