The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-10
ToAsTs OF AL KINDS.
Many Ways In Which Housekeepers Can
Utilize Stale Bread.

There are variety of excellent dishes
that can be made from stale bread which
Is thrown away as useless. Economical
housekeepers strive to utilize every par
ticle of food, and often with admirable
results. The following will be found
good methods of using stale bread
which otherwise would be thrown away
Buttered Toast-Cut the slices some.
what thick; when toasted, butter them
on both sides, and keep warm until
served. A toasting fork should be used,
and care taken that the bread does not
get burnt. a
Milk Toast-Toast the slices of brsR,
pile them in dish, which must be we'll
warmed, boil some milk with little
salt, teaspoonful Of -four, one of but
ter, rubbed together; pour this over the
toast, and serve hot.
Vegetable Toast-Take the remains
of any cooked vegetable, the flavor of
which blends we'll, season with little
pepper, salt and French mustard, add
the yelk of an egg, and mix well;
thicken over the fire, then spread the
mixture over the slices of toast, brush
bread crumbs on the top, and serve hot.
French Toast-Beat two eggs, add one
cupful of milk, with pepper and salt to
taste; dip into this slices of bread, and
fry them in hot butter until brown.
Sausage Toast-Fry some sausages,
strip the skins off, and mix with the
meat some scalded parsley, chopped very
fine, add little cheese grated, mix in a
very little mustard, and spread the mix
ture on brown bread that has bee.
toasted and buttered.
Lemon Toast-Take the yelks of threo
eggs, beat them we'll and stir them into
cupful of milk; cut some stale bread
in slices and soak them for minute in
the eggs and milk, then fry to light
brown in butter, and dust on little
powdered sugar, and then add little
lemon juice.
Peach Toast-Cut some round slices of
milk rolls, remove the crust, and fry
them pale yellow in butter. Take
tin of preserved peaches, turn out the
Juice into saucepan, add little sugar
and glass of white wine; boil it up, put
in the peaches, simmer few minutes,
drain them, and place half a peach, con-
cave side uppermost, on each piece of
bread, place piece Of currant jelly in
the cavity of each peach, pour the syrup
round, and serve.
Egg Toast-Poach some eggs, lay them
on buttered toast, and pour over them
some Worcestershire sauce. Serve hot.
Ham TCast-Grate some cooked ham,
-
butter, and a little cream. mix all to.
gether, ard stir over fire until hot;
fry slices of bread in little butter, and
pour the mixture over them.
Hash Toast-Chop very fine cold roast
beef, and boil in little water, add
little milk, and thicken with -four;
season to taste, and pour over slices OF
| toast.
Anchovy Toast - Wash and pound
| finely quarter of a pound of anchovies,
mix them with some curry powder. a
little mustard, few drops of lemon
juice, and teaspOonful of butter.
Cover buttered toast with the mixture,
and serve hot.
Chicken Toast-Chopc cold chicken very
fine, put into saucepan, season with
pepper, salt and mustard, add small
piece of butter, one tablespoonful of
cream. and just enough water to cover
the chicken, simmer altogether fifteen
minutes, and serve on buttered toast.
These dishes are all simple and f.ex-
pensive, and make an excellent vaNety
for breakfast, luncheon and tea.-Dem.
orest's Monthly Fashion Journal.
LEFT-LEGGED HUMANITY.
Curious Revelations Regarding Our Nat
uraI Pedestrian Eccentricities.
Professor Ball, in ''Le Duadisme Cere-
bral," speaks of man as a right-handed
animal. Being right-handed, it is popu.
larly assumed that he is also right
legged, but this does not appear to be
the case. Standing working with the
right hand there is a tendency to use
the left leg for balance. Many people
find less exertion in going round circles
to the right than to the left; race-tracks
are nearly always made for running cir
cles to the right.
| So the majority of the movements are
more readily performed to the right, as
dancing, running, etc. The rule in walk
ing is to keep to the right, and this APP
| pears to be almost universal! 1t is more
| natural to bear to the right. Of large
| number of people from the better edu-
Gated classes asked about the existence
of rule, only 81 per cent. males and So
| per cent females were aware of the
rule; the larger majority obey it uncon-
sciously in walking. Crowds tend to bear
to the right. The left leg being the
stronger is more readily brought into
action; hence troops start off with the
| left foot; it is the foot which is placed
in the stirrup of the saddle or step of
| the bicycle in mounting; so that the left
| foot is the foot from which a man takes
| off from in jumping.
In the experiences of Mr.. G. H. OAR
win blindfolding boys aad telling them
to walk straight, the right-handed one
| diverged to the right and vice-versa.
| From measurements of DR.. Carson of
| the skeletons of the two legs, in 54.2
| per cent. the left was the longer and
1873 the right. For measurements OF
the feet the writer collected the draw
ings and measurements OF 200 pairs with
the result that in Al per cent. the left
was longer, in 2l.5 per cent the right
and in 34.5 per c~nt. they were the
same size. Measurements at the first
| joint gave 56 per cent. larger, and at the
instep 42.5 per cent. From the table OF
the figures it is observed that the left
foot is the more frequently the larger
| in the male than in the female sex.
and the percentage of feet of the
same size is greater in the female. The
percentage of the right larger than the
| left is very constant, whereas the num-