Middletown transcript., 1912-11-09
USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW


A very attractive way to serve serambl
led eggs is to put the eggs into deer
dish and cover with bacon, which ha
been cut very thin and cooked rather
crisp.
We always feel a risk when cleaning
fruit, wine or grease stains from very
dainty materials. Either will remove
almost any stain without doing the
slightest injury.
Never allow the tirebox of the range tc
be more than three-fourths full. When
tull the draft is checked, large amour,
OF fuel is consumed and much heat is
lost.
Tin tunnels should not be used care
lessly. The action of acids on tin is
very dangerous. For this reason it is
much better for every housewife to have
porcelain funnel.
To reheat a pie, stand it in a deem
baking dish filed with boiling water for
half an hour. Twenty minutes before it
is to be served put it in the oven to heat
the crust.
Your cabbage boiled until tender and
served with cream dressing, into which
you have put good quantity of butter,
Is as palatable and easily digested as
caulifower.
Cream soups and purees, if allowed to
stand, separate. To prevent this, melt
butter, and when bubbling, add an equal
quantity Of -four. When well mixed.
add to the boiling soup, stirring con-
stantly.
Before putting milk on to boil put a
little water in the pan and allow it to
come to boil; empty it out and put the
milk in Immediately. If this method is
followed The milk will not scorch or stick
to the pan.
When hanging one-piece dresses,
sweaters or children's coats out to dry,
hang them on wooden coat hanger
fastening them to the line with a string
They will be more shapely than when
pinned to the line.
One way to mend children's hose is to
trim the hole smoothly and evenly with
crochet hook and darning cotton. Go
backward and forward, or around and
around with the single crochet stitch
until the hole is closed.
When you have little beefsteak left
over chop it fine mix it with rice. put
in butter, pepper and salt and mite Of
onions. This makes a delicious filling
for stuffed peppers. Cut off the small
end, clean out the seeds and fill them;
bake them until tie peppers are soft, but
not until they lose their shape.
Te keep fire over night, remove the
ashes from under the Gre. Put on
euought coal to fill the box, close the
dampers and lift the back covers enough
to admit the air. This is much more
satisfactory than lifting the lids over the
frebox and prevents poisonous gases
from coming out into the room.
Good care prolongs the life and good
appearance Of a veil. 1t is alwsys
economy to buy good yelling. Do not
tie it in a knot when you put it on,
gather the ends together, roll intoa kind
of ball and fasten witt pin hen you
take the veil off, roll il retebfng it into
correct length at the aaue time:
To keep the finger nails clean and
white. bottle of pure olive oil, soap and
water should be on every washstand.
About one tablespoonful OF liquid soap to
an eight-ounce bottle of water. Add a
tablespoon OF peroxide of hydrogen
Keep an orange stick handy, and after
each washing of the bands, dip the
orange stick into the bottle and run the
stick around under the nails. Il will
both cleanse and bleach the nails.
The most delicious salads are mixed in
the bowl in which they are served. This
can be done by the hostess at the table.
The bowl should be plenty large. First
sprinkle the salad with salt, then popr
plenty of oil over it; then toss il about
lightly in the bowl with the wooden
salad fork or spoon; then pour over the
vinegar and mix it again; put in dash
OF cayenne pepper. You will be sur
prised how much better this salad tastes
than when the fresh dressing is mixed
separately and put over the salad.
II lace curtains are very dirty, it is best
to wash them fret quite quickly thfouOb |
one lot of suds, then soap well ana let |
them soak for few hours in fresh suds
Then wash them thoroughly and Iinse in
clean water.
An excellent furniture polish is made
by mixing three parts linseed oil and one
part spirits of turpentine. Use a piece of
cloth or fine flannel and apply to the
surface OF the furniture, the rub will
with wooden pad.
To remove grease spots from silk.
make paste Of equal parts OF powdered
French chalk and fullers earth with
either water or turpentine and apply it to
ihe spots, allowing it to stay on few
lays before brushing it off.
Natural wood kitchen tables shonld
occasionally be robbed over with q cut
emon, then rinsed well with clean warm
water. The result is a white board with.
ut the rough top made by continual
Crubbing with brush.