Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-18
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Be peaceful and Joyous, consecrate
the simplest duties of every day, fill
your life with earnest endeavor and
perfect trust; and no matter how mar
row and painful it may seem to you,
when 1t is ended, you will look back
with wonder at the influence for good
your quiet example and cheerful spirit
have been.-Light on the Hidden Way.
Teach the boys, as well as the girls,
to cook and do all kinds Of homework.
In these topsy-turvey days OF changing
conditions, girls must know how to do
everything well, and it often comes in
handy for boys to know how to COOK
their own provisions in the absence OF
mother.
In the summer weather, bare kltch-
en- floor is preferable to one with a
carpet Such a room, however, may be
made to look neater by having few
nice rugs placed in suitable parts of the
room, and will save much cleaning.
Very pretty ones are made by cutting
old wooden socks and stockings IN
strips three inches or more wide, ravel-
ing them two inches or more, accord
ing to the width. These are then sew
ed to foundation. old wheat sacks
being the best They may be made in
fancy stripes, or colors mixed
A steam cooker is a great help in the
summer. They save fuel. for the yari-
Gus articles needed for a meal can be
put in it's compartments, and all cook
ed over one burner of a gasoline stove.
The food is much better than If cooked
in the ordinary way, for those who
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no wish to return to boiled or baked
ones. They they do not require con-
slant watching, and after the dinner
is put on, the housewife is free to at
tend to other duties until the cooking
is done
A nice change from common pieplant
pie Is to cut the pieplant in small
pieces, put on the stove with just
enough water to cover it and let it scald
just enough to change color, then drain
all the water off. Place this in a pie
tin lined war pie crust. Beat up two
eggs, two taUlespoOnfuls of flour and
enough lemon extract to suit the taste
with one cup of sugar. Pour this mix
ture over the pieplant and bake with
out an upper crust.
Although the country housekeeper
has-or should have-abundance of
milk and eggs, fresh fruit and vege-
tables, it frequently happens that she
is worse put to it, in the matter of
preparing varied and appetizing meals
than is the city housewife. For some
reason. too, she is less inclined to ex-
pertinent with new dishes In the hope
that she will be tempted to try her
hand at salad making a number of
hints and recipes have been gathered
together for this weeks Home and
Homemaking. Most housekeepers
shun salads like poison because so
many books give elaborate directions
and call for unheard-of things to make
them. Every country housekeeper
could learn in few minutes how to
prepare delicious salads out of the
commonest articles of food A salad
can be made out of any meat or yege-
table alone or in combination. Added
20 these are great variety of fruit
and nut salads. so that the subject is
really ineXhaustible. Since the dish
is constantly increasing in popularity,
being healthful chat is on general
principleS), easily prepared and at
tractivc, it behooves the housewife to
add it to her repertoire of standard
-
foods If she has not already done So
One soon learns to concoct salad out
of whatever is on hand in the larder
This is an excellent way in which to
utilize odds and ends of left-overs of
meat or vegetables AS the salad may
be as simple or complex as desired
one can always find something with
which TO make it. Perhaps the SIM
pest of these is the one familiar to all
that made by dressing lettuce leaves.
green eucumbers, ripe tomatoes, etc.
with vinegar salt, pepper and sugar II
liked. | recall seeing my mother long
years ago prepare a dish of cold sliced
potato, raw onion and fnely-shredded
cold fried salt pork, which. with vine
gar, salt and pepper was eaten with a
relish. This was as truly salad then
as now, but we had never heard Il SO
called at that time