Middletown transcript., 1911-09-30
USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW


| Toremove potato, onion and other vega
table stains from the hands, rub with ripe
tomatoes.
Get the stoves in order for the frat cold
snap, when you really feel the cold more
than in winter weather.
Crumpled newspapers pushed up the
tiues of unused ehimneys keep out flies
that would enter there.
Be sure to keep old scissors in the
kitchen for the purpose of cutting raisins,
lettuce, celery, etc.
Skim the fat off the chicken broth and
use it to shorten biscuits. These are much
more delicious than when you use lard.
Don't fail to put up some ounce honey:
Pare and CRATE five large ounces. To one
pint Of boiling water add five pounds of
sugar. Stir over the fire until the sugar
Is dissolved; add the ounce, and cook
twenty minutes. Turn into glasses. When
cold it has about the color and consistency
I of honey.
See that there is plenty of grape Juice in
the fruit closet for winter and summer use
1t is one of the most valuable drinks for
the invalid. Prepare it by removing the
well washed grapes from their stems, add
water to just show among the grapes, and
simmer until thoroughly scalded. Drain,
and return to the fire and sugar TO taste
and put up boiling hot. See that the bot.
ties are well sealed by dipping them into
melted parafin.
1t you have peck of small beets in the
garden, just can them for winter use.
Boil and remove the skins, then put into
cans and pour hot vinegar that has been
sWeetened little. Seal and keep in a dark
place.
Change a salmon salad by adding a
chopped sour pickle to ii or little cocoa
nut, of course unsWeetened.
Fresh cocoanuts may be peeled of their
dark inner skin and ground first with the
coarse knife of the meat grinder, then put
again through the cutter, using a finer
one. This makes the nut fine enough,
when mixed with sugar and dried slowly
in the warming oven, to take the place of
the boughten package variety, and at a
quarter the cost.
Use a fiat paint brush two or three
inches wide to dust books. It is easily
and quickly used, and does the work bet
ter than cloth.
A small skewer which the butcher pass
through your meat will make fine dirt
remover. Wrap cloth around the end
and use in the corners Of windows when
them, and in all creVices hard to
reach. The tidy housewife is known by
The way she keeps the out.of.the-way
places.
Keep drawer downstairs for odds and
ends which have no especial place, and
always put them there. Then when asked
Tor an article like nail or a piece of wire
i you have it, it will be there.
Pieces of glass that just fit over the
dresser top and covers the lace or linen
scarf keeps it and the dresser always dain
y, as the glass is so quickly cleaned.
Save all your coffee grounds; rinse them
and use them to stuff pincushions. They
will hold indefinitely and the pins push
n easily.
II tablespoonful of sweet milk is add.
I'd to each yolk of egg when making Gus.
ards, the mixture will not curdIe when
added to the boiling milk.
When cake icing is too hard so that you
'an not spread it on, add little water, a
1rop at time. When it is too thin add
sufficient powdered sugar, first rubbing
Tut the Jumps.
When pairing vegetables, especially the
lumble tuber and odorous onion, slip
,Ver the forefnger OF the right hand kid
inger cut from an old glove. Il will save
he hand from an unsightly stain.
By inspecting the canned fruit OCCASION
ally, the housewife will be able to save
my that has begun to spoil, by carefully
that which is tainted and cook
ng the rest over. recanning it as in the
tart.
Use worn-out white stockings for wash
-ags. Cut away the foot. Feld the top
louble and hem or overcast the edges.
The edges may be bound and strap fas.
iened across the center to slip the hand
through.
To cock egg plant, cut into slices half
IN inch thick and let them lie for half
In hour in salted water TO remove the
bitter taste. To fry, put the slices in the
rying pan with small quantity of but.
Ter; turn when one side is done.
Have you tried baking eggs2 Grease a
with butter, break the eggs
nto it, cover with cream. Add salt, pep
Der and tablespoonful of butter. Set it
u moderate oven few minutes. Length
If time depends on whether you like
hem soft or Well.done.
Bread for sandwiches should be "a
hours old. Do not spread butter or filling
IN the bread before it ia cut from the loaf
md into shape. Cream the butter, using
small wooden spoon for the purpose,
nd then it can be spread upon the most
lelicate bread without crumbling.
To the woman who must sew in her
living rooms, would recommend sew"
ng rug, made OF piece of denim of the
light size to fit light corner of the room.
he edges are hemmed. Along the outer
ide which comes next the wall are four
uttons evenly spaced. At the center of
ach end strip of cloth forms handle.
When wishing to tidy the room, I fold
yer the rug lengthWise one-third, which
rings four eyelets worked with carpet
varp on the wrong side of the rug along
be fold. The other side ia then folded
yer and the buttons on the edge slipped
1to corresponding eyelets. The ends are
ben brought together, and the rug is
ung by the handles on closet hook.
A useful solution for cleaning old,
ainted woodwork preparatory to repaint-
~ ia to dissolve two ounces of washing
ida in one quart of bot water. It should
9 used warm and the paint afteFward
Iashed with clear water.