maggot-fly

Updated: May 19, 2025

From the liquid smoke it will have acquired as much acid saving-grace, as from four weeks of old fashioned smoking. A smokehouse needs to be kept dark, dry, and cool, also well ventilated. Use fine screen wire over all openings, and make windows very small, with coarse, sleazy crash in the sash rather than glass inside the screens. Darkness prevents or discourages the maggot-fly.

Martha McCulloch-Williams - Dishes & Beverages of the Old South