The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-02
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

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 The leg of beef Is very fine for soups
 and meat salads.
 Fried banana laid on bed or rice makes an excellent luncheon dish. | sausages should always be pr1ckeu with a fork before they are cooked.
 If cream or milk has turned slightly sour, stir in a pinch of baking sooa. Cabbage is delicious when ooiieo tender and chopped, then served with 1 cream sauce.
 To preserve jeIltes perfectly, cover each jelly glass with a coating or not paraff1ne.
 A painters small brush is the best thing for removing dust from rattan furniture.
 If your eyes trouble you, try bathing them regularly with hot water at bed time.
 1 When cleaning the oi1cloth. try using 8 little skinned milk in the water instead of soap. Embroidered linens should be 1roned on the wrong side and on a thick soft trontng blanket. To draw the fire out of a burn' moisten it with water at once and then cover it with baking soda. If onions are held under cold running water while being peeled, they will not move one to tears
 Cheese is very nourishing and whole some when prepared with macaron1, potatoes or bread crumbs. Wash and rinse cut glass in water that is not very hot and of the same temperature for each operation
 Never keep bread wrapped in a cloth as the cloth will absorb moisture and impart an unpleasant taste. Plain sausage is delicious served with butter melted and favored with a little. chopped parsley poured over It.
 When kitchen towels wear thin, stitch two of them together around | Brown sugar is a very delightful sweetening for cereals. It gives them a much richer flavor than granulated sugar.
 Cold tongue will be entirely skinned if cold water is run over it for a min ute after 1t is thoroughly cooked. When hot grease has been spilled on floor or table, you can prevent its spreading by pouring cold water on 1t at once.
 l. If underskirts shrink uncomfortably 1t is possible to save them by knitting a sufficient length to cover the bare spots.
 Cane chair seats that have sagged may be frightened by washing the seat in hot soapsuds and letting it dry in the open air.
 When travelling, try pinning your dress to the curtain of the berth with safety pins. It will not be wrinkled in the morning. A lump of charcoal in the ice box will keep the box free from odors and will absorb, impurities. It should be changed often.
 Delicious geIatine can be made with the juice of canned strawberries. Add the juice of an orange to the straw l berry.
 made by boiling two cups of brown 1 sugar and one cup of water until it will spin a thread. l All huckIeberries that are made either into cake Or pudding should be lightly dusted with flour before being mixed in the batter. When. Poaching eggs, stir the water until it whirls rapidly, then drop the egg in quickly. This will keep the edges round.
 1 keep their fresF ness much longer if they are put through a thin starch water when 1aundered. If granuleted 1ye is sifted down the drain of tPe kitchen sink once or twice a week, -.the pipe will never become 1 clogged( with grease. 1 To Aeep the hands soft and white while doing .housework, mix equal parts of lemon juice and glycerine and rub on while they are moist. l Sflverware will stay bright much longer if 1t is carefully washed in I II. then dried with a glass towel.
 Remember when buying gloves, if the gloves are too tight, they will not wear well, and the hands always look longer in a glove too tight. 1 The cheapest cuts of meat that can be bought now are the neck, sticking piece (underpart of neck), brisket, leg, shin bone and OK tails.
 When bread has been nodded into loaf form and allowed to become too light, mold 1t again. It will make very fine bread if treated this way.
 Before cooking beef, wipe it with cheesecloth wrung out in cold water, but never allow it to stand in a pan l or water, as juices will be drawn out
 When taking off your gloves, do not pull them by the finger tips, but from the wrist, drawing them inside out, and leave them thus for an hour or so
 Because of it's odor, fish should never be put into the ice box with other foods unless covered closely. A tin lard pail will be found useful for this purpose.
 Biscuits may be shaped in a great variety of ways. but they should al- ways be small. Large biscuits, though equally good, never tempt one with their. daintiness. A teaspoonful of camphor added to quart of soft water will kill earth
 worms in house plants. The plants should be quite ready for water when it is applied
 A very good caramel frosting can be made by taking a little of the cara
 mel, which the druggist is provided | with, and mixing it with the ordinary white frosting. vegetables which require o great deal i Of time in boiling can be done tender Tn half the time if a pinch of baking | soda IS put into the water when they