Shelves and all portable parts, when washed and scalded, should be placed in the sun to dry; if this is impossible, dry before a fire.
Keep a good supply of ice in the ice chamber; it is cheaper in the end.
Never keep the doors or covers of the refrigerator open unnecessarily long; it wastes the ice.
A good refrigerator properly cared for should last at least twenty-five years.
How to Caramelize
Place sugar in clean agate-ware frying pan, and stir continually until the sugar becomes a golden brown sirup.
How to Poach
Place food to be poached in frying pan half filled with boiling salted water. Cook below the boiling point from three to eight minutes.