Middletown transcript., 1909-05-29
USEFUL THINGS 10 KNOW

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Watties are much iightefif made with
sonr cream aud the batter kept rather
thin. To eat with them, tfy chicken
gravy or cinnamon and sugar mixed, or
Jumps Of maple sugar melted down and
served hot.
Bread pudiiug takes on new dignity
stien ii is 0 Sfed with chocolate. Make
a chocois,e e4srard aud put ii in baking
dish with alternate layers Of bread. This
can be eaten either with OF without cream.
When making Yorkshire and boiled
batter pudding add two tablespoonfuls Of
coid water for every egg used. This
makes the pudding much lighter than Isl
otherwise would be.
Eggstains may be removed from spoons,
caused by using them with soft-boiled
eggs, by taking q little common salt be.
tween the thumb and finger and briskly
rubbing the stain, which will soon- dis
appear.
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To bleach feathers, immerse the feath.
ers in naphtha, rinse In second dish
aud dry in the open air. Place id closed
box and expose to the strong fumes Of
sulphur.
Liver is. delicious cooked as follows
Cut sIashes in the liver and thread into
them thin strips Of bacon season with
salt pepper and thyme, and bake for an
hour or SO.
Tarragon vinegar is an. essential touch
to sharp salad dressing.
For afternoon tea, toast seems to be
better liked than almost anything else.
It is thin and is cut in round or diamond
shaped pieces:
Appetizing sandwiches are made OF sal
mon and cream cheese.
Try tomato juice instead Of milk for the
omelet.
Honey should be kept in a dark place.
II kept in the light it will become granu.
lated.
Don't throw away bacon fat. use it to
fry fish, as ii gives the fish an excellent
favor.
There is prevalent fashion nov for
consuming buttermilk for ones health
and the beauty Of ones skin. The pop
uiar way Of using ii is to make it into
griddle cakes.
It is mistake to strain the buttermilk.
The housekeeper who does this loses
great deal Of richness.
1t is right to leave the little Aecks Of
butter in it.
A pint Of buttermilk and a bali pint Of |
clabbered milk are mixed together.
Enough -four is stirred in to make |
stitf batter.
This is we'll beaten until it 10 smooth.
A teaspoonful of salt is added and . |
teaspoonful of soda finely powdered.
This is beaten well into the batter, and |
enough buttermilk added to and veil |
stirred into gill Of flour.
Make it about the consistency Of buck
wheat cakes.
The weary woman who wishes to 700
sleep successfully should try a scented |
slumber cushion. Cased in dainty
cover Of washable silk, the contents vary
from vegetable down scented With layen-
der to the aromatic hop.
Other Filings may be substituted at will
by those who have access to freshly-groWn
sweet herbs. Lemon thyme, sweet grass,
verbena, sweet-scented oak leaf geraminm
and clover will all convey delightful
fragrance, and can be constantly renewed.
They should be slightly pounded before
they are placed in the cushion.
Newly moWn hay gives forth welcome
scent and forms particularly good stnf-
fng for slumber cushion. The effect of
the foregoing, intensified if necessary by
few drops of distilled essence of the
same, will be much appreciated By the
business woman as we'll as by the society
belle.
A certain wise housewife has q way Of
cutting pineapple that viii be boon 10
the many women who struggle with the
knots and "eyes" in the rind Of the juicy
fruit. She doesn't try to take the sieyess
from the pineapple; she takes the pine.
apple from the ''eyes."
She simply takes arp-edged spoon
and scoops ont the fruit, leaving the
center core inside, and cutting ont around
it. She makes no attempt to work with
the skin of the fruit. because no such
attempt is necessary. She just lets II
alone. III
The method had the additional advan,
tage of extracting the edible portion Of
the pineapple in soft aud juicy cOndi-
tion, far more delicious in fact, far easier
to eat-than the hard squares or slicea
usually served after such troublesoms
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Never boil eggs that are only a day cid,
Ior the shell will not peel off without
making the eggs look like-thirty cents.
Did you ever try pooching eggs in boil
ng milk instead Of water2 Season With
ALT, pepper and butter while cooking.
0ftentimes tits difficult to remove the
price mark from china II rubbed with
! cloth dipped in lemon and salt, the
figures will disappear. i