The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-05-11

drained Season with salt and pep
per and sugar and cover with cracker
crumbs and on this place a thin
rasher of bacon or a bit of butter and
bake about twenty minutes If you
like them best without filling.
Baked beets are liked with beef
and they are better favored than
when boiled. They may be baked in
the cooker or in the oven. Remove
the tops and wash the roots, taking
care not to break the skin. Bake I'M
til a straw will pierce them, then
pare and dice and dress with. salt,
pepper and melted butter. Haricot
beans or butter beans and caulifiower
are excellent cooked and served to-
gether. Soak the beans and boil I'M
I'll perfectly tender in sailed water
Cook the cauiifiower gently in enough
water to cover it-twenty minutes
should make it tender. Pick the
flowerets apart and mix with the
beans gently so they will not crush.
Turn into a buttered shallow baking
dish and pour over them a pint of
well made white sauce. Crate cheese
ever the top and brown in the oven.
A delicate spring stew is veal with
rice. Cut the veal in smarl chunks
and put in stew pan with an onion
cut fine, a little diced celery and sea-
soning to taste. Cook rice in another
vessel, using the stock from the veal
for the liquor for the rice. Serve sep
arately.
1t is approaching the season Of the
year when mother says "a place for
everything and everything in its place"
and ties the maids head up in a red
bandanna and dons an apron herself
and starts the spring housekeeping
And father says, "A season for every
thing and everythoing in it's season"
and starts to the ball park. Obvious
ly 1t is mother who needs a little help.
A tea bath will not change the
white curtains to a pretty ecru as you
just read; it will make them stained,
streaky yellow. Myou have hangings
that you want to change in tint pur-
chase package Of dye and expert
ment with some cloth Of similar tex
ture until the right color Is found and
then dip the curtains with delightful
surety of the result.
When you come to removing finger
marks from the lintels and woodwork
of room Spainted light use a little
kerosene, but not in the water with
the soap and cloth as the ma gazines
direct but in a sensible way
Moisten a piece of flannel in the
Kerosene and rub the stained or very
soiled places lightly and the dirt will
come off. Now wash with very hot
water containing a bit of washing
soda AS this is the only thing that
VIII quickly remove the odor and tne
grease of the Oil.
Nearly every one has a met" way
OF housecleaning and no doubt one
way is as good as another but the
most approved place to begin is at the
top of the house and then work down.
A certain so-called popular" periodi
cal said last year that when house
cleaning time came that all the family
could help by carrying all their dis
carded belongings to some unused
room and there dumping them and
they could be looked over when mother
had leisure. The hue and cry that
followed this mode Of spring cleaning
showed that good housekeepers still !
existed.
All hard woods that are not
scratched or in need Of re- dressing |
may be cleaned by wiping with a |
piece of cotton batting wet in hot |
water containing a little borax; then |
polish with a dry channels.
Carved furniture may be cleaned |
and busted to the satisfaction Of the |
large soft paint brush that has been |
dipped in olive oil or sweet oil and |
wiped almost dry.
Spots on a polished table. caused by |
hot plates and dishes may be removed |
by rubbing very lightly with alcohol, |
hard rubbing will remove the varnlsa |
A safer way to do is TO hold a hot |
iron above the mark for a moment !
when it will disappear. A few dropSl
of camphor may also be used but the |
alcohol in this too often cuts into the
varnish.
An excellent polish for all furniture
is paraffine oil and turpentine in equal |
parts. Rub well into the surface with |
a wooden cloth and~efter a few mo-
ments polish with fresh cloth.
Scratches on doors and woodwork of /
furniture may be made almost invisi- 1
BILE with vaseline A pet kitten insist
ed on sharpening it's claws on the !!
highly polished and priced side board
and the long unsightly marks its sharp II
claws left made 1t seem as though a II
professional furniture mans services
would be needed. But the stable man
said, Fix IL like we do the carriages,
Miss. with a little vaseline rubbed on
at night and in the mornin' the marks
will be gone entirely" and sure enough
they were.
Ammonia is one Of the most useful
agents known to household science. IL
Is safe to use, does not injure< hands
or fabrics and cleanses wherever it
goes. China, glass, silver, paint and
all kitchen utensils are made sweet
and fresh and bright by it's use. The
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