Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-11-30
SAVING IN HOUSEKEEPING.
In Reality Bread Il Expensive and
Should Never BE Wasted
About Other Thrift.

Too many housekeepers are waste
ful OF bread. In loaf. slice. or crumb.
At the best, bread Is an expensive
part OF the daily menu. and not q
crumb should DO wasted. When II be-
gins to grow stale In the loaf, dampen
the crust and put the loaf into hot
oven for ten minutes, or slow one 20
minutes, when II will DO thoroughly
renewed" Or It may be cut into
slices half an inch thick and toasted
over q slow IRE to dry II thoroughly,
then put away In q paper bag for fu'
sure use-as q bed" for hashed meat
OF fish; broken or cut Into squares for
soups, stewed tomatoes, etc.
Slices, and parts Of slices, crusts anc
small bits, may be put on q tin plate
and set In a slow oven to dry and to
brown lightly. When thoroughly done,
chop fine and put away in q covered
far to use for q cereal ("rusk" II IL
called at one sanitarium OF which j
know with milk; as thlckening for
soups, TO roll oysters In, veal outlets
FISH, etc, before frying, and In pancake
batter, to help make II porous. In
deed, griddle cakes made almost en-
tirely OF bread crumbs so prepared
with but enough our to aid the wettins
Ia sticking them together, are daintier
than those that are made wholly from
-four, and 80 delicate that they can be
eaten by many whose stomachs reject
the heavier cnes.
Crumbs, too, should be saved, and
treated to q drying process. to be saved
for the dozens OF things for which re-
ceipts call for "rolled cracker or bread
crumbs" Cut the bread on the bread
toard, over which clean white paper
1: spread (the one In which the Loaf
came. II you patronize the bakery and
SO save time and trouble in transfer
ring the crumbs from the board to the
crumb jar-for every time you save
time or trouble In doing your work
carefully you save money.
Burn your garbage. your old news
papers, boxes, shoes and other refuse
in the kitchen range. OF course II yoh
have only q gas range you cannot do
this, but In house hunting or fiat hunt
ing II Is we'll to remember that these
things furnish as much and as good
caloric as an equal weight Of coal, and
coal costs money.
Economies in soap are small. 1t lie
true, but 1t pays to look after even lit
tie things, whether the income Is linn
tied or not. Here are few hints:
/. Do not let It stand in water that
las drained from 1t when 1t has been
tut from your wet hand.
2. When the hand soap gets too
small for convenient use put the pieces
into a glass jar or wide-mouthed bot
tie and cover with hot water. When
there are enough pieces saved to make
It pay to fuss with them. put into a
TIN and add more water, mixing the
now soft mass with third as much
raw oatmeal or Indian meal, and le'
Il cook together Ave minutes. When
partly cool turn into cups, enough In
each to form an inch thick cake.
3. Save the bits Of laundry soap 10!
the shaker" ut the kitchen sink and
cover with hot water. The shaker may
be made from a baking powder can by
punching holes in the cover with q
hammer and nail. Punch from inside
the cover. Shake the soap and water
over the greasiest dishes in the pan
after these have been rubbed as clean
as may be with bit Of newspaper
which Is later put into the range &c
burn. the fat adding to your fuel stock
4. Buy all soap in as large quanti-
ties as you can conveniently pay for
and store-as when green" 1t wastes
rapidly.
s. CASTLE, by the three pound bar,
sliced into cakes an inch and a halt
thick is economical and otherwise de-
sirable for hand and body use.
6. Don't use too much soap In the
dishwater-and for two reasons. It Is
Lad for the hands as well as for the
Purse. Most dishes are well cleaned
with plenty of clean. hot water and
clean dishcloths; only the very greasy
ones need soap; but the cloths and
dish towels should be kept absolute y
free from all impurities.-N. Y. World
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