Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-08-28
Hon1e,Fireside and Kitchen
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

pared with once filling the fire-box
with wood, and substantial lunch at
that. But you say the water in the
tank will not be hot enough to wash
the dishes. Don't depend on It. AS
soon as your fire is built fill your tea
kettle and an open iron kettle with
water, Which will heat on the two
back covers while the meal is being
prepared, and you will not need to
keep fire more than half an hour at
the longest.
Make simplicity the rule in all your
summer cooking. Your digestion and
purse, IL nothing else, will be bene-
fitted. Plan your work. Remember
that nothing is successful unless well
planned. On washday, or ironing
day, take advantage of your good hot
oven, and roast piece of meat appro-
pirate to the size of your family.
Save some of the choicest pieces to
slice cold for lunch the next day.
The ragged parts may be stewed or
made into meat pie still day later,
IL desired. The meat will be per-
fectly good, II kept in cool place.
Don't iron with your back to that
awful stove! 1t is but little expense
to have cheap table on the cool back
porch, where you can iron in comfort
or, il your porch isn't cool one, iron
on your dining table, II you have a
large square board. II yours is long
slim ironing board, 1t can be arranged
in the dining-room, just as well as in
the kitchen.
Unless one pie will not Ego round,"
do not bake two in one day Put the
remaining crust in bowl or cup, pack
ing tight so as to leave as little ex-
posed TO the air as possible;cover with
an inverted saucer aud place in the
dour drawer. In this way every pie
may be fresh one, without juice
soaked under crust.
Make as few pies and cakes as you
can without provoking open revolt
among the husband and children. OF
course you all enjoy them occasionally,
but don't make enough goodies" to
render you cross. They'd all prefer to
eat bread and butter,
II you cook and serve your green |
corn In the old-fashioned manner
that is, on the cob, steam 1t In the
steamer, as 1t takes no longer and is a
little sweeter than when simply boiled
In water.
If you have corn left, do not throw |
1t out. Slice from the cob, spread
thinly on an old plate, land place In the
oven to dry. Dry it rather slowly, ,and |
do not let 1t scorch. When died,
store In baking-powder cans, and next
winter soak it and cook as canned
corn, which 1t far excels.
Learn to depend upon your own |
common sense, to a great extent,
when trying cook book recipes. 1t is
a rare recipe that gives the exact
amount, of flour, required. They
usually fall several cupfuls short.
Also, difference in the size, Of the
eggs used, will effect the amount OF
-four required.
Cold string beans and fresh sliced
tomatoes, each cut quite fine, make
an excellent salad, although a"mussy"
looking one. Season we'll with salt,
pepper and vinegar, and II desired
with two tablespoonfuls OF melted
butter.
The variety, Of salads and salad
dressings, is indefinite, and very few
cold vegetables need be thrown out.
II your family are determined to
leave the crusts of bread, and won't
eat bread puddings, utilize by making
into dressing the same as for roast
fowls or meat. This is supposing you
have no dog or cat to feed. II you
have, do give them plenty.
Excellent, for lunch, are toasted
crackers and cheese. Cover each
crackker with very thin slices OF
cheese and dust lightly with pepper
Place fatty in dripper and set In
the oven to brown, which they VIII
do very quickly, necessitating a close
watch.
New potatoes are far more mealy II
cooked with the jackets on. Wash
clean and cut of the stem end and
any blemishes. 1t is also best to
steam or bake them, instead OF boil
ing, as they will not then come to
pieces,
Shredded cod fish with milk gravy
is very much improved by the addl-
tion OF one or two eggs broken into
the boiling gravy and quickly stirred.
The eggs cook in shreds Of white and
yolks, and the vessel should not re-
main over the fire long after they are
In or they will become too hard MIX
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