Evening star., 1946-04-04
USES FOR LEFTOVER BREAD;
FEEDING CATS,


FEEDING CATS.
From Mrs. r. M. A., Washington. J
; When bread is too stale to serve
as is, steam it in a strainer ovel
! boiling water and serve hot with
butter or margarine. This must be
! eaten Immediately. Make French
toast for breakfast by dipping stale
bread In a mixture of egg anc
milk and frying in bacon drippings
to wipe out the bowl margarine
has been colored in. Use as top.
ping on casserole or brown in the
broiler and float on soup. Lei
bread get very dry, put through
meat grinder and use instead o1
-four to coat croquettes. fish. liver
and chicken Make bread pudding
! often, but have some variety. Ado
chopped dates and nuts, make il
with raisin bread, or flavor with
} Juice and grated rind of orange anc
lemon. Cook it with canned fruit
in the bottom of the pan and ado
meringue when it's cooked. Make II
with citron, apples, raisins and nuts
and flavor with little brandy: this
tastes little like fruit cake. Stale
doughnuts can be split, buttereo
and toasted in the broiler.
/ To Conserve Fat-Fat with deep
frying pan can be used indefinitely
if you can do this: When through
using, slice a raw potato into ii
and set aside to cool bit. Strain
through cheesecloth and store in the
refrigerator. (The potato absorbs
taste and odor.) When fat becomes
TOO cloudy, add a quart of hot water
and boil hard for minutes. Coo
} and put in the refrigerator. The
clean fat will form an almost odor-
less and tasteless cake on top, ane
all the crumbs and sediment will
settle in the water below. The fa'
| may have to boiled for a few min.
utes before using to remove all the
water. This method can also bt
used to purify beef and pork drip.
pings; use half-and-half with larc
for frying.
1 Re Feeding Cats-A kitten should
have milk four or five times day
Some cats who will not touch mill
or cream, like evaporated milk. Al
or 10 weeks, begin offering meat
! or fish, chopped very fine. A tea.
spoon a day is enough to begir
with. The more foods your cat viii
eat. the easier he will be to feed
so offer him all sorts Of foods ane
make a note of the ones he likes
Try several kinds of the prepared
cat-and-dog foods; this, with raw
or cooked beef, lamb, or horse
meat (never fat or pork and canned
or fresh fish no bones can form
basis of his diet. A cat, un.
like a dog. can stand some starch
IN his diet, rice, cereal, potato
gravy. l once heard of cat whe
preferred only mashed potato, ane
was apparently healthy. Mix II
whatever leftover vegetables he viii
eat, most likely carrots, squash
string beans, spinach. Don't over
do the starchy vegetables like corr
and limas. Few cats like fruit, bu'
have known one that was crazy
about melon, preferably honeydew
Mine begs for saltines and pump
kin: his mother liked raisins ane
mushrooms. I know another wh<
will leave even fish to get lettuc'
and tomatoes. I don't recommend
feeding cats all these things-1 jus
want to illustrate how many food
a cat will eat if he only has chance
to try them. One last point, i
your cat doesn't want to eat foot
that you know he likes, don't coa'
him with other foods. Let him q
hungry for day. Nothing is harde,
to feed than cat with a spoiled
flnicky appetite. Most grown cat
will eat two meals a day.
HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS.
(Fron, Mrs. w. E. r., TakomG Park.
RCH is the best part of a wonder
full paper and in return for th'
many helpful suggestions 1 hav'
used, may offer. a few to new
mothers of small babies? The mos
effective way have found to eliml'
nate the ever-present dampness O.
the posterior regions is to purchase
q 25-cent square of plastic-coatee
| material at 10-cent store, ostensi'
bly, to use as a shower cap. This
cut into several rectangles about I
by IL inches or large enough to com
pletely line a folded diaper. I silly
one Of these just inside the outside
fold of the diaper so that 1t is no
exposed anywhere, nor Wrinkled
Then when the diaper is pinned on
E all but the one thickness is next tt
6 the baby. 1t is entirely waterproof.
and pins do not harm it. 1t will, II
. time, wear out, of course, in th'
, corner areas where pins are stucl
repeatedly, but it makes so man,
. Innings and is so inexpensive i
hardly counts. fold a large stacl
of diapers at one time and line 8 o.
10 of the top ones. When each i!
changed, I slip the lining out ane
, and after I have or 6 take of
; few minutes and line some more
! to have ready. To wash, just dunl
: them in mild warm suds once day
= dip in rinse water and drape ovel
shower rod or towel rack. My baby
bed is never wet. Neither. are hel
buntings and carriage pad. Some
times If I have to leave her un.
changed for Z little longer, I slip {
disposable diaper filler on separat.
I and put half a filler inside tn,
n diaper fold, because if there is no
n enough material to soak up all tn,
moisture, it will spread over the en-.
{ tire surface of what there is, ane
a then of course run over, but never
n through the plastic lining. This ii
e much more comfortable for bab,
e and much less trouble for the moth.
:. ers than the usual rubber pantie:
4 which most doctors dislike.
ri And now, if I haven't taken ur