The National tribune., 1909-02-04

A loaf of bread will keep fresh mucn
longer IL placed in a covered stone
crock. Wrap in large cloth to eAciude
air and keep the crock in cool place.
It is nicer than tin vessel and mrch
better than keeping bread in the refrig-
orator.
Take half a dozen onions, chop and fry
till brown; take half a dozen dry, RED
peppers soak two hours, then chop pep
pers fine and run through colander:
put peppers in with fried onions, add
about quarter of a pound of cheese
(sliced), good lump of butter, size of an
egg; take two slices bread, cut Off crust
and soak in one pint milk and put all IN
with onions and peppers; salt to taste,
let simmer half an hour and keep stir
ring Then boil half dozen eggs ~
minutes, cut eggs in half and garnish
dish Serve with boiled potatoes, and
you will have delicious dish.
Pills and tablets may be easily swal-
lowed if encased in a little snow. The
average child will think it fun to swal-
low a tiny SNOWFALL. Before giving him
q nauseating remedy like castor oil let
the child hold ice in his mouth for
moment. The cold blunts the bulbs of
taste and lets the medicine go down
with greater ease. Teach the little tots
to gargle their throats with plain water
WhCh tuSy diC we'll IL Will AOt NC iCS-
essary to teach them the trick when
their throats are sore and need to en-
ploy gargle.
In making mustard it is a good plan
to add pinch Of salt before mixing in
the water. A spoonful of vinegar should
always be used to moiSten the dry mus
tard in the first instance, while better
result can be attained by stirring in
warm water instead of cold when the
mustard is not required in haste.
Keep tacks in bottles. 1t saves OPEN
ing many boxes to find particular
kind.
Covering the pan when fish is frying
is apt to make the fish soft. A solid,
firm meat, that is at the same time
fiaky, is what the good cook likes.
Ammonia should not be used in the
evening or near a fire, nor should the
bottle be allowed to remain uncorked.
1t is inflammable and its fumes are not
specially healthful
Leftover cereals need not be wasted.
They are excellent fried like mush and
eaten with sirup or honey.
An easy way to remove down from a
duck or pin feathers from chicken is,
after the fowl has been well scalded, to
take rough towel and rub the fowl
This method saves much time and a te-
dious task.
To mark your tools effectively do it
with nitric acid. Place beeswax or tall
low on place where metal is to be eaten
out and scratch the letters thru the wax.
Pour the acid in the groove thus formed
and after few minutes clean off and
you will find your name in the steel to
stay.
A cheap custard is made by boiling
tablespoonful Of flour worked Into a
paste with cold water; stir till all is
nicely mixed and cooled a little. Add
two beaten eggs, sweeten, and flavor to
taste, set IN clean saucepan, which has
been rinsed with cold water, and SIM
mer while stirring until the custard
tastes cooked Stir occasionally till cool,
and then Place in custard glasses
To whsten kitchen tables, floors, etc,
mix together half pound OF sand, nalf
b pound Of soft soap and four ounces of
lime. Work all into paste with stick.
When scrubbing lay little on the board
and scour as usual Afterward wash the
wood with plenty of clean water. Wood
thus treated can be kept spotIessly clean
You must have a care, however, not to
let the stuff touch your hands, for it will
make them rough. The sand left upon
the floor can be swept off.
To make an Oriental stew take one
large white onion, mince fine and brown
In stew pan with butter; add some