The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-26
HOUSEHOLD NOTES


 white by boiling in cream of tartar | water.
 ! over are delicious when toasted for l breakfast.
 If a fire is used constantly during the. day, replenish the coal frequently 1 and in small quantities. Peach stains are very difficult to | remove, but try soaking the fabric in spirits of camphor before wetting.
 Mix salt in the starch to prevent l it from being, sticky and Iumpy- l eleven parts starch to one part salt. l When mica or nickel needs cleaning, | use vinegar, and if you add a little salt, it will also clean brass very nice | 1y-
 should @ not nc i be % put into the a cellar untii 1 it has cooled, or it will harden into a 1 lump.
 l Pastry and pies should be kept in a l dry place or they will lose their haky 1 texture. Never put them in the re- l frigerator.
 1 A bowl of quick1ime, if placed in ! a damp pantry or closet, will absorb i the dampness and any odor that may | be in the closet.
 | A clean frebrick makes excel l lent iron stand. The iron will retain
 it's heat much longer than if metal 1 stand were used.
 1 black in one particular spot, it can be made less conspicuous if rubbed over | with dry whiting.
 I Very dainty bedspreads can be made l organdie muslin trimmed with bands of lowered muslin, in the form l of five-inch pannels.
 l Save all the lard pails They are useful in storing sugar: coffee and i rice. Any dry greens will keep clean and dry in these covered kettles-
 comes home. By this smethod she 1 avoids mistakes and probable loss. grass stains from linen is to soak it l for a few minutes in kerosene. then wash it with hot water. using plenty 1 of soap.
 1 Files that have been stained or dis l coIored, can be improved if cleaned l with fine sand and parafine It may ! be necessary to give them two or 1 three applications
 When putting in filling of any. kind 1 remember to toss it lightly with a 1 fork; don't pack it tightly. If you do, l your filing will be heavy and too Vienna coffee is made by mixing 1 one cupful of mixed cream to one and 1 one-ha1f cupfuls of boiling milk and 1 pour this into one quart or more of | strained coffee.
 1 cleaned with salt and vinegar. Put ! a dessert spoonful of rough salt into 1 a decanter and moisten it with vine gar; then shake the decanter until the stains are removed.
 scrambled eggs is to put the eggs into l deep dish and cover with bacon. which has been cut very thin and cooked rather crisp.
 We always feel risk when clean very dainty materials. Ether will re- move almost any stain without doing the slightest injury. to be more than three-fourth ths fuH When full the draft is checked, a large amount of fuel is consumed and care1essly. 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 deep baking dish filled with boiling water for half an hour Twenty T minutes n tt before it is to be served put 1t in the oven to heat the crust
 Your ca bbage boiled until tender and served with a cream dressing, lnIo which you have put good quantity of butter is as palatah1e- and easily digested as caulihower.
 Cream soups and purees, if allowed melt butter, and when bubbling, add an equal quantity of flour When well mixed add to the boiling soup, stir
 Before putting milk op to boil put little water in the pan and allow it to come to a boil; empty it ont ana ana put the milk in imm ediately If this method is followed the milk will not seorch or stick to the pan.
 When f1anging one-piees ices dresses, n,st +o dry, hang them on wooden coat hanger, fastening them to the line with string. They will De more l shapelys 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 alarming cot ton Go backward and forward. orI around and around with the single crochet stitch until the hole is closed
 When mending broken china, also place it to set in a large box of saw dust. By this means. it is easy to stand the article in any. desired posi- ton, so that its own weight holds the piece in place when the cement is
 very good substitute for egg and bread crumbs is :. a. fairly l1 thlck el2a paste outlet to be fried in this paste and sprinkle thickly with finely cruInbled bread. When fried, it will be oeau- tiful brown color.
 The most economical steaks you can buy are the round and the trump, be- cause they have no bone in them. To make them tender, mangle them. Af- ter steaks are mangled they shou1d De cooked on a very hot bro1ler, or they will lose. their juice.
 colator become clogged it is apt tol make the coffee muddy. Take one teaspoonful of oxalic acid crystals to . nint of water and let it percolateI about twenty minutes. Then take a stiff brush and clean it thoroughly.
 When a fish bone lodges in the throat the easiest and safest way to- remove it is to leave it alone, and do not irrftate the membrane by cough ing and swallowing hard substances, but slowly suck and swallow the juice of lemon. Fish bone can be dissoi- we'd by lemon juice.
 Avery good boiled pudding is made of the Ieft-overs of fruit anr fruit juice mixed with bread crumbs, lit fle salt and a little butter. Boil the pudding in a mold; serve either with cream or a sauce. Before putting the fruit in it should be dusted with flour
 Ribbons slightly soiled can be well powdered with French chalk or mag nesia and held over the heat from The stove for few minutes. They will shed any grease soil. Then 71o TraeSed after