Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-10

fore you can eat them all. If vol
pour about one-half an inch of olive
oil in the bottle the leftover olive.
will retain their flavor. To keey
lemons fresh, put them in glass jar:
and cover with water. Change the
water about every other day. In this
way you can keep lemons in gooC
condition for some time. even fol
several weeks. They can also bt
kept fresh for some time if put into
a tightly covered tin can or pal
and kept in a cool place. If you
use a lemon squeezer to- extract onion
juice from onions. there will be nc
! irritation to your eyes. Slice off the
| root end of the onion and proceed as
you would with half lemon, using a
glass or aluminium lemon juice ex
| tractor.
Favored Buffers.
| Favored buffers are specially
acceptable for use in savorieS, sand.
witches and for giving flavor to chops,
outlets. steaks, filletS, and fish and
poultry dishes, either hot or cold.
Maitre d'Hotel Butter.-To an ounce
Of butter add a teaspoonfu of chop
ped parsley. half the quantity of
chopped tarragon, little salt pepper.
or cayenne, and a teaspoonful of
lemon juice. Mix we'll together with
a knife on a plate and shape into
a pat Leave in a cold place until
required. The tarragon may be
DeViled Butter.-Mix an ounce of
butter with pinch each of cayenne,
curry powder, ground ginger and
black pepper.
Shrimp Butter.-This may be made
by pounding a gill of picked ShrimpS
with one and one-half ounce of but.
ter. Add a teaSpoonful of anchovy
paste. season and sift.
WatercreSS Butter.-Pick the leaves
from some watercress, wash, then
chop fine, squeeze dry in a cloth, and
to a tablespoonful of the chopped
cress allow two ounces of butter
Pound well. adding a squeeze of
lemon juice and salt and pepper.
Bread spread with any of these but.
tiers makes good, tasty sandwiches.
just for a Pleasant Change.
Mix one cupful of chopped tart APP.
ple with two cupfuls of ground cooked
beef to be baked on a griddle for
breakfast.
curry powder mixed with the Juice of
Let half a pound of prunes simmer
with the pot roast.
Put small bunch of green mint
with the peas to be served plain, or as
soup, and put a good-siZed bunch Of
mint to cook with boiling white po-
tatoes, especially if they are new.
Pour the juice of an orange over
sugared blackberries and chill them on
ice before serving.
Mix three chopped cooked slices of
bacon and sprinkling of celery seed
with hamburg steak before cooking.
Add small pinch of baking soda to
the icing for cake. This will keep it
from coming too hard.
For Breakfast.
For better batter cakes use one
fourth as much corn meal as white
flour, one heaping tablespoonful of
sugar or two tablespoonfuls of strip
and mix in at the last two tablespoon
fuls of melted shortening. The corn
meal and shortening prevent the bat
ter from becoming tough and make
it possible to fry the cakes without
greasfng the griddle, while the sugar
gradients may be added to any good
recipe for batter cakes.
To prevent Jumps forming in corn
meal muSh the water must not be
boiling when the meal is put in. Add
to steam, then add the salt and corn
meal and then stir until 1t boils.
When making mush for frying put
little milk In the water. It makes
the mush fry much nicer and