The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-18
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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 if
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 rot spoil your knife, do not
make it too hot
One reason that an onelet is so often
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 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 it.
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
-1S0 degrees Fahrenheit is the de-
sired temperature if one uses q ther-
mometer in cooking.
Tinware can be kept bright indefi-
nitely if it is washed in soap suds, to
which few bits of washing soda have
been added, and placed for few
seconds either on the stove or in the
sun after being wiped lightly with the
dish cloth. When warmed through
it should be dried with a domet flannel
towel.
Glasses which have been used for
milk and eggs should never be plunged
in lot water. Immediately after using,
fill with cold water and allow them to
stand. Next wash them in lukewarm
water, then in hot suds. and rinse. The
result, especially if linen toweling be
used, will be glassware that sparkles
as if it were 'cut.
To clean agateware put the ware on
the stove filled with water ard into
the water put tablespoon of salsoda
tWashing soda and then after while
use a securing soap and you will be
pleased with the result. Also put your
bean pot on the stove and good
generous tablespoon of soda and it
will wash as easily as a cup. A little
soda put in your greasy baking pans
and keeping them warm while washing
your other dishes will help along that
most disagreeable task.
Crate American dairy cheese ana
mix it to a paste with piQuant
sauce. with a few drops of kitchen
bouquet. Pack it into small jars. and
put On the table with toasted crackers.
Many people insist upon having the
cheese and crackers served with the
salad, and indeed this is the proper
thing. Cheese belongs with salad quite
as much as it does with coffee 1t
should not be removed with the salad
plates. except at formal dinner. when
it is brought back with the dessert
or with tie ice. if there be more than
one dessert