Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-05-24
Saaies' Column.
KITCHEN MAXIMS.

Clean oil cloths with milk and water
a brush and soap will ruin them.
Tumblers that have had milk in them
should never be put into hot water.
Cool rain water and soda will remove
machine grease from washable fabrics.
A small piece of charcoal in the pot
with boiling cabbage removes the smell.
Cut bread fine for filling for fowls
this is better that to crumble it. No
sogginess.
Large holes in loaf of bread are
proof of a careless cook. The kneading
has been sighted.
Milk cans or pans not kept clean are
liable to impart to the milk dangerous
fermentive poison.
Fresh meat after beginning to sour
will sweeten if placed out of doors, in
the cold, over night.
When cooking onions, set tin cup
of vinegar on the stove and let it boil,
and it is said you will smell no disagree
able odor.
A housekeeper writes that she rubs
spirits of camphor on white spots on
furniture, made by heat, and thus re-
moves the spots.
To clean kettles easily, pour a little
hot water in them and put cover on !;
the steam will soften the dirt so that it
may be easily removed.
Salt will curdle new milk, hence in
preparing porridge, gravies, etc., the salt
should not be added until the rest of the
dish is prepared.
Meat and poultry will lose their flavor
and frmness if left in the water after
they are done; as will also fish, which
will break in pieces.
If any of our readers have a better
griddle greaser than piece of ham, the
fat part with the skin on, held by fork
through the skin, let US know what it
is.
To keep seeds from the depredations
of mice, mix some pieces of camphor
with them. Camphor placed in trunks
or drawers will prevent mice from doing
them injury.
Spots on vanished furniture are read
lily removed by rubbing them. with
essence of PEPPERMINT or spirits of cam
phor, and afterward with furniture
polish" or oil.
To take the brown discolorations off
of cups in which custards are baked:
Rub with damp flannel dipped in best
whiting. Securing sand or sand soap
will answer the purpose.
1t is a mistaken idea to cover a car
pet with a drugget in the belief that it
saves it. What wears out carpets is
the grinding on the floor, and the protec-
ton should come from beneath.
When about to cook anything get to-
gether everything that you expect to
use See that the fire is right to begin
with, and remember that as much de-
ponds on the baking as on the making.
A carelessly kept coffee-pot will i'm
part a rank flavor to the strongest infu-
sion of the best Java. Wash the coffee
pot thoroughly every day, and twice
week boil borax and water in it for
fifteen minutes.
Mica in stoves (often wrongly called
"isinglass') when smoked is readily
cleaned by taking it out and thoroughly
washing with vinegar little diluted.
III the black does not come off at once.
let it soak little.
Arrange fat-irons or the stove in two
rows, "heel and toe," or so that when
ready for a hot fiat you can take the
next one in order without loss of time
In trying or "sissing" them, being sure
OF getting the one that has been heating
longest.
Make the most of the little nutriment
In potatoes. They ought to
be steamed or baked. The latter is best.
and soaking in cold water for half an
hour before putting in the oven is an
advantage. In neither case should the
skin be removed before cooking.
To take the woody taste out of a
wooden pail, fill the pail with boiling
not water; let it remain until cold, then
empty 1T and dissolove some soda in
uke-Warm water, adding little lime to
It, and wash the inside we'll with the
after that scald with hot water
md rinse we'll.
Flour is like butter, it absorbs smells
eadily' 1t should not be kept in
'lace where there are onions, fish, vege-
ables, decaying or other odorous sub
tances, nor in damp room or cellar.
Keep IN cool, dry, airy room, where
lot exposed to freezing temperature,
or to one above 100, and always sift
efOre using.
10 remove oil marks from wall paper
mere lnconsiderate people rest their