Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-11-08
ktch sn Lore.

Lard will keep fresh much longer
while trying it out.
Wash string beans before they are
cut up really to cook. If washed !
after it spoils the flavor.
Ordinary coarse sandpaper is the
very best thing to clean scorched I!
kettles or pots with.
When making buildings and sauces /
mix the -four (or corRstarch) and |
sugar together and avoid Jumps.
On turning a cake from the oven
wrap a damp cloth around the tin,
and the cake will come out without
sticking.
Mix glasses should always be rinsed
il cold water previous to washing III
hot euds if you wish them to be clean
and bright.
Oxalic acid will take out ink stains.
Put powder in little water and pour
through stain, then rinse article well
in clear water.
To remove the limy substance from
the inside of tea kettle. boil a few
potato Feelings in it for an hour with
plenty of water.
To keep old potatoes from turning
black, when putting them on to boil
add one-half teacup of sweet milk to
the water in which they boil.
| had been a housekeeper a good
many years before learned to wet
corn meal before stirring it into boil
ing water to make Cruel or mush.
In making shells for lemon pies
turn your pie tin bottom side up and
press crust over the outside. Bake,
nice they are.
Before breaking eggs for frosting
let them stand in cold water short
while until the eggs are cooled
through, and the frosting will be much
sitter and nicer.
Large baking powder cans are
splendid for baking bread to be used
for sandwiches, as we'll as for baking
or steaming salmon, veal or beef
loaves, or various buildings.
Keep the flies away from the sick,
especially those i'll with contagious
diseases. Kill every fly that strays
lILO Inc SICK room. his UOIy is
covered with disease germs.
When putting up any kind of fruit
winter Or summer, it will keep better
if the glass cans are washed in hot
water to which has been added a
spoonful of powdered borax.
A small embroidery hoop and a
piece of cheesecloth make an excel
lent strainer for little milk or some
thing of the sort. 1t is much easier
to manage than the cloth alone
Stains made by brass may be re-
moved with rancid lard or butter,
rubbed we'll into the place before
washing. Warm white vinegar is
good for such stains on white goods.
If the baked cnstard, pudding or
anything of that nature which one
wishes to cook in the oven is covered
it will cook much quicker and will
brown in a few minutes when I'M
covered.
Take hard boiled eggs and haIve
them. Remove the yolks and chop up
with mixture of vinegar, parsley,
salt, pepper and butter Replace
them in the whites of the eggs and
serve for lunch.
To protect the eyes while peeling
| onions, grating horseradisb, or pre-
pairing any vegetable which is apt to
bring tears. wear pair of ordinary
automobile goggles which may be
purchased for twenty-five cents.
Grape jelly made with brown sugar
| will not turn to sugar. or have those
little hard grains in it as it does when
made with granulated. In fact brown
sugar is best for all kinds of Jelly.
| The same amount of sugar makes
sweeter jelly.
Powdered starch applied instantly
will take out almost any fruit Juice
stain from wash goods. if allowed to
remain on the goods for a few hours
until the discoloration passes into the
starch. Starch thus applied will also
remove Iodine stains.
Jars in which lard has been kept
for some time can be purified and
cleansed of all odor by filling with
skimmilk and letting stand over
night Place on the stove and heat
slowly until it reaches the boiling
point. Scald with soda water.
To can string beans, pick from the
vines. and without stringing or cut
ting them place in fruit can all it