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Identifier: californiahortic09bayd (find matches)
Title: The California horticulturist and floral magazine
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Bay District Horticultural Society
Subjects: Fruit-culture Gardening
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : F.A. Miller & Co.
Contributing Library: California State Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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:up the flue. Food cooked by deflected heat contains more nutriment, is more easily digested, will keep fresh?longer, and is much improved in flavor and appearance. Cooking can be done quicker, and water boiled in;one-half the time required wheu using a stove or range, and with one-third the amount of fuel (wood oij)coal). Meats can be roasted without turning or basting; and cakes and pies baked to any desired tint witb*ijout turning or watching. Will dry and bleach your clothes in half an hour, and heat the irons, thus saving the wash-womanifrom exposure while hanging them out in wet weather or in cold rooms. Combined Heater arranged to Dry Clothes. ' 05 Ofi 05 « > V ^ 05 03 g 05 ^5 o o to (Ti Tl V 0) 43 ns d Cl Pi •r-l tj CJD O H~! 05 G -A3 a (J a 03 s on 05 G c O a
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G oo Fruit dried in the Boswell will gain from 20 to 40 per c.ent. in weight, and 30 per cent, in quality, over that dried by any other process. It will successfully dry any kind of Fruit, Berries, Grapes,Vegetables, Corn, Grain, Coffee, Tobacco, Meat, Fish, etc., etc. Fruit must be gathered when comparativelygreen to dry by the ordinary process, but with the Boswell it can be taken dead ripe (and it is far better atthat stage) and dried perfectly, because the atmosphere in which it is dried is heated by deflected heat,and retains all the oxygen in its pure state, which is as essential for solidifying and preserving the fruit, asfor its growth and maturity on the tree. Fruit dried by this process is acted upon by true absorption, thussetting free the water of organization which flows to the surface, and forms a saccharine coating, protecting ;and preserving the entire flavor and nutriment of its substance. Address for Price-list and Descriptive Circulars on application of Deflected He

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