The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-11
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Always keep your celery roots and
dry them. They are good for season.
Ing soups and sauces.
An attractive way to prepare maca.
roni au gratin is TO bake the macaroni
In shell of Edam cheese.
Cut flowers will last much longer il
little carbonate of soda be added to
the water in which they are stood.
If the bread knife is hot new bread
can be cut as easily as old But, if
you would not spoil your knife, do not
make it too hot.
One reason that an omelet is so often
q failure is the use OF too many eggs.
The more eggs the more difficult the
matter of turning and folding. Four
eggs are all that should ever be used
at one time.
After rice or macaroni is cooked,
place in a colander and drain off the
water, then quickly turn cold water
through and you will find that the
sickness which is so undesirable will
be prevented.
A good general rule always to re.
member in the use of gelatines is to
soften the gelatin in cold water, then
to dissolve in boiling water. Neglect
Of either part of the process will cause
trouble in making jellies.
The coffee pot should be washed as
regularly as other cooking utensils
but should not be put into the water in
which other dishes have been washed
1t should be cleansed with fresh. hot
water without soap, and then thor.
Oughly scalded.
To cook fish in water, do not boil II
Plunge the fish into the boiling water
to scar the surface and retain the
juices, then reduce the heat SO as to
Keep the water below the boiling point
-lsO degrees Fahrenheit is the de.
sired temperature i one uses ther.
| mometer in cooking t'.'...
Tinware can be kept bright indef.
nltely If it is washed in soap suds, TO
which few bits Of washing soda have
been added, and placed Cor few
seconds either on the stove or in the
sun after being wiped lightly with the
iish cloth. When warmed through
should be dried with domet flannel
lowell
Glasses which have been used for
mix and eggs should never be plunged
n hot water. Immediately after using,
Ill with cold water and allow them TO
'tand. Next wash them in lukeWarm
water, then in hot suds, and rinse. The
esult, especially If linen toweling be
ised. VIII be glassware that sparkles
Is If it were cut.
TO clean agateware put the ware on
he stove filed with water and into
he water put tablespoon of salsoda
washing sodal and then after q while
ise a securing soap and you will be
leased with the result. Also put your
,ean pot on the stove and a good
generous tablespoon of soda and II
will wash as easily as a cup. A little
Oda put in your greasy baking mans
md keeping them warm while washing
rour other dishes will help along that
most disagreeable task.
Crate American dairy cheese and
nix it to a paste with piquant
Iauce, with a few drops OF kitchen
bouquet. Pack 1t into small Jars, and
,ut on the table with toasted crackers.
Many people insist upon having the
.heese and crackers served with the
lalad, and indeed this is the proper
hing. Cheese belongs with salad quite
Is much as 1t does with coffee. II
,hould not be removed with the salad
plates. except at formal dinner. when
4 is brought back With the dessert
r with the ice, II there be more than
,ne dessert ---------------