The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-03-23

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when not in use will prevent it tar
pishing.
One of the quickest and easiest ways
10 ~extinguish the flames of burning gas
,line is with ordinary -four.
$50
Put hard, dry lemons in water to
soften the skin before trying to crt
Them. The skin will absorb some OF
The water and make it easier to squee.t
The juice out.
Getting Acquainted with Your Stove.
In an article on the use of a gas
stove, The Boston Herald gives sound.
sensible advice, which should be of con-
tiderable benefit to housekeepers, par
ticularly to those not experienced IN
the use of gas for cooking.
The gas stove is perhaps the most
widely used as yet, so we will assume
that it is the one which will be in our
kitchen. OF course, most of us must
take the kitchen as the landlord hands
II to us. But, if we have our choice,
the first thing to say is: "A high oven,
please" not one below, which will mean
back bending every time we peep in,
and next an oyen warmer, which may
be the dinners life saver when he
bhones at five minutes to ! that he will
be half an hour late.
Two other ~conveniences are the fire
BY lighter on top of the stove that does
tway with matches, and the tiny sim
merer. The latter is quite as important
ls the giant burner, for when the pot is
pnce boiling only a little gas is needed
TO continue it. Hard boiling for most
things, a few cereals being exceptions,
Is disastrous to quality and tenderness,
Ind only wastes water and time in re-
plenishing.
Lighting the Gas Stove.
Don't approach the stove with super
|,titious fear, wondering if il is going to
pop" back at you. That should never
happen if the stove is regulated so that
The right mixture Of gas and air blows
through the pipe and if You give the
fixture about five seconds before you
fpYly the match.
If you try this way several times and
still it continues to pop" or to make a
blowing sound. move the air regulator,
which is the dial a few inches back OF
he stopcock, a little backward and for
ward and experiment forward to re-
luce the air if the flame burns yellow
ind smokes1, until the flame burns blue
ind is noiseless. If you can't get it, call
the gas mani
To light the oven, first open the oven
and broiler doors. Turn on the gas and
apply the match to the pilot, which
acts as a taper.
The cause of explosions in the oven
Is that too much gas has been confined
before lighting. If the stove doors are
ppen this can never happen.
Checking Up on the Oven.
A thermometer will take the guessing
put of baking. There are standing oven
thermometers, which have been tested
pnd approved. The dial thermometer
sometimes set in stove doors is only a
general guide. 1t is practically never
Pccurate. Easiest of all for the ADVICE
|. the oven regulator, of the type which
ran be set at the temperature called for
in the recipe and left TO its " de-
tices
In other words, when the indicator
pn the outside is set at SLOW oven,
moderate" every hot or at any de
gree needed for baking or roasting.
This heat is produced and held in the
pven without further adjustment by
the cook.
The cook has only to remember when
to remove the food from the oven.
Armed with a table of time and tenn