The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-30

may be quickly cleaned with strong tea, rubbed in well with a nail brush. They should then be rinsed in water A block of ice cream, covered with meringue, set in the oven for a mo- ment to color and served immediately is an easy device to combine heat and cold in one food.
 Many persons always cut the skin from radiSh before eating it. But certain authorities say the skin has certain digestive qualities which makes it desirable.
 To make croutons, cut stale bread in- hot butter to a golden brown, take up with a perforated spoon and drain in a heated colander
 Water in which rice has been boiled is excellent for stiffening sheer mater ial. After washing a Shirtwaist rinse it in diluted rice water, dry it partially and iron it while it is damp.
 Instead of pure bran and corn meal for cleansing purposes, it. may be soaked in benzine and then used for cleaning lace, gloves and other things which it would injure to plunge into pure benzine.
 When making a garment it is un- wise to hold the material in the hands when sewing the seams together. A lapboard or table should be used. Then there is no danger of fulling draw ing one of the pieces.
 To mark hosiery get the kind, with
 
 top. and write the name or initials with India ink. Number each pair. The ink will not wash out, and it is easier to keep the mates together.
 A good way to extract juice from beef for those who require that nour- ishment is to .broil the beef on a grid iron for few minutes and then squeeze with a lemon squeezer or po- tato masher. Add little salt.
 One of the best preparations for the COInDleXlOn is equal quantity of glycerine and benzoin. 1t is applied as any cold cream. The greatest care should be taken to use no grease that is the least rancid.
 If a cake browns immediately when put into the oven, it shows that the oven is too hot. It can be quickly cooled by lifting a stove lid. A piece of asbestos on the oven shelf will pro- tect the top of the cake from burning.
 Fat in any form should never be given to the sick. Fat is in large globules which do not digest easily. Cream is in small globules and there fore easier to digest than fats. But skim milk is the best food for children and invalids.
 To make an excellent tomato soup, mix pint of tomato sauce and three minutes in saucepan. Season with salt and pepper, add two tablespoon fuls of sago and boil again for fifteen minutes, stirring gently.
 A SlSnlly ana Qalnty OlSn TOT luncn- con may be served in individual rame- kins. Turn into each a little white sauce, in this stand tomato which has been peeled, cover it with sauce and bake slowly for about twenty min utes or half an hour.
 To serve with boiled rice remove the seeds from green peppers, cut them in to four or five pieces and boil until they are tender. Season with salt, pepper and butter and turn over the rice. If brown flavor is wanted, fry them in butter first.
 To remove the skins of tomatoes quickly, put them into a wire basket and sink it quickly into a kettle of hot water. Do not let them stand long enough to heat through, and plunge immediately into cold water after talk ing out of the hot. The skins will peel off