The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-02-09

Did you ever try cracker puffs?
Split the crackers {siX Boston butter
crackers) and soak them for half an
hour in cold water. Take them out win
skinner, being careful not to preak
them. and place in a buttered pan, in
ner side up. Butter each half and place
in a hot oven. 1t must be very not or
the cracker will not puff In nall
hour they should be well pui1ed anu
brown.
Cayenne pepper is excellent as
means of Kidding a cupboard of mice.
The floor should be gone over care
fully and each hole stopped up with
piece of rag dipped in water and, theh
in cayenne pepper.
If the skin is broken, nothing is bet
ter than cold water, but if the skin is
whole, a compress dipped in equal
quantities of whisky or brandy and
water is more effectual. The spirit IN
creases the evaporation and produces
a greater degree of cold, and thus con-
tract the confused edges of the blood
vessels. which are the real cause of
bruises
If a few drops of turpentine are
sprinkled on a damp buster when clean
ing windows they will be found to dry
quickly and cleanly, and can easily be
polished with a dry buster: This is
particularly good hint for damp
weather.
To make cream of onion soup:
Cook two medium-siZed onions until
tender, then press them thru a sieve
and set aside until the soup is pre-
pared. For four people allow four
tablespoonfuls of butter, and when
melted add four of flour and stir until
mixed; then pour in quart of hot
H.. odd thn m
PURGE, salt and pepper to suit, and cook
up for few moments to heat the
onion. AS some fours thicken more
readily than others, if the soup is more
than just creamy add more hot milk.
To make cheese custard:
Cut rich American cheese into pinch
squares an inch thick; dip each piece
into the white of an egg diluted with
little milk; then cover with grated
bread crumbs sifted; then cover with
beaten yolk of an egg diluted with a
tablespoonful of cream, recoating with
more crumbs. Be sure that each piece
is well coated with the egg and crumbs
to keep the cheese from bursting when
the pieces are fried brown in deep, hot
fat The browning must be delicate.
Serve hot with the salad. The cheese
will melt and be creamy when opened
at the table.
If knife which has been used for
cutting or peeling onions be stuck into
the earth up to the handle for short
time all trace of taste or smell of onion
entirely disappears
A cut lemon may be Kept fresh for
a long time by laying it on piece of
waxed paper, cut side down, and fold
ing the paper over in such way as
to exclude the air.
For those who are fond of liver. the
following recipe for liver pie will be
found appetiZing:
Make a dressing of stale bread, sea-
soned with onion, parsley and thyme
finely chopped; add a little fat bacon
minced and moistened with water. Mix
on a plate a tablespoon of flour. salt
and pepper to season we'll Cut the
liver in thin slices and dip each in the
flour. Put a layer of liver in the bot
tom of a dish, then a layer of dress
ing; continue till all is used, having a
layer of liver on top, well in the middle
of the dish. Pour over a cup of stock,
or if you have no stock hot water with
a little butter in it. Cover with a short
crust and bake in moderate oven one
and one-half hours.
II has long been observed that those
who treat olive oil as a common article
Of food and use it as such are generally
= healthier ana stronger than those VINO
do not. The American housekeeper has
still to learn that there are many ways
of using the oil besides in salads. 1t
may be used with good effect as sub
stitute for butter in compromising the
ordinary brown and white sauce.
teaspoonful of oil, added just before
taking up, to every quart of split pea,
bean, potato or other soup lacking fat
greatly increases it's richness as well as
favor. A child-s soon learns to like the
taste of olive oil on bread in place of
butter, while any kind of cold meat that
is to be recooked is improved by hav-
ing little oil poured over it at least
half an hour before heating
Comforters should be amply long to
tuck in at the end and sides, and then
some, for when lie down we do not
care to haze chills creeping up and
down our spines because of stinted COW
erings. And again, if the covers are
pulled snugly under the chin, the feet
should not have to be drawn up out of
the cold TO keep them warm.
Here is a salad or sandwich filling
just as you may care to call it:
Chop enough crisp cabbage to meas
ure a quart. Chop one head of celery