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Show rS THE p8 flKiTcnEN m tea CABINET L3 (. 191:6. Western Newspaper UnJon. ) A good conscience, a good table, good digestion and a good "wife what bettor hast thou in thy store, O heaven! CASSEROLE DISHES The nice thing about casserole s it may be as pretty as one can afford to buy and may be j e n Casserole. I Peel, core and cut Into eighths ten j god flavored apples, arranging In the casserole. Add one-half cupful of I sugar, or honey, and one teaspoonful , of vanilla if the apple flavor is not , pronounced, or a grating of lemon peel. Cover the top with bits of butter, but-ter, cover and bake until the apples are tender. Decorate with marshmal-lows marshmal-lows and brown. Serve with cream. Chicken en Casserole. Cut two chickens as for frying, remove the meat from the bones and put the bones into a kettle with one quart of cold water with salt and pepper to season, adding a clove of garlic and a stalk of celery. Simmer until reduced to half the amount. Fry the chicken and arrange ar-range in-a casserole; over this put one cupful of cooked rice, pour in the stock and cook an hour and one-half. Duck en Casserole. Cut one cooked duck into pieces. Melt two table-spoonfuls' table-spoonfuls' of butter and fry the duck In it. Sprinkle with one tablespoonful of flour and brown. Add two cup-fuls cup-fuls of stock, one chopped onion, a little parsley, a bayleaf, one teaspoonful teaspoon-ful of lemon juice, the same of meat extract and currant jelly, with a few drops of kitchen bouquet. Cauliflower au Gratin. Cook a large cauliflower until tender in boiling salted water, then drain. Divide in flowerets and place in a well buttered casserole. Cover with well seasoned white sauce, sprinkle with one-half cupful of bread crumbs and one-half cupful of grated cheese well mixed and brown in the oven. Greek Stew. Take one cupful of lamb cut into small pieces, one chopped onion and four tablespoon-fuls tablespoon-fuls of fat ; cook all together until the meat is partly brown ; then add three cupfuls of string beans, two cupfuls of canned tomato, and two cupfuls of diced potatoes. Cover in a casserole and cook 45 minutes. Kidneys and Vermicelli. Split and skin eight or ten sheep's kidneys and cut into slices, saving a few uncut for the top. Cook a few minutes in butter, but-ter, add two sliced onions and fry. Add a tablespoonful of stock or water, salt and pepper to taste and put to stew in a casserole until tender. Place cooked vermicelli over the top of the dish, garnish with whole kidneys, reheat re-heat and serve very hot from the casserole. cas-serole. Prune Butter Take one pound of washed prunes, soak overnight In water wa-ter to cover, then cook slowly In the same water until tender. Kemove the pita and mash through a colander, add one cupful of brown sugar, one tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of cinnamon and a little grated orange peel. Cook until thick. Put into glasses and cover with paraffin. I Hints Worth Noting. I Nuts in the shell, which have become be-come too brittle to crack without used in countless 3 ways as a serving i and baking dish j and then be an J ornament to the ' table when you are ready to serve. Buttered Apples breaking, If treated to a bath of boiling water, will crack and seem like fresh nuts. Keep the smallest bits of candle ends and put Into a muslin bag. Use to polish the irons or keep the kitchen range bright. If leaving an iron stove tor any length of time grease it well all over with unsaited fat, to keep it from rusting. A broom which is badly worn may be made to serve much longer if the stitching is ripped out below the top row. Trim the bottom and soak in soap suds, then dry thoroughly. A bit of ginger added to doughnuts Is said to keep them from soaking fat. but all other conditions for good donglmuts should be met. Fat-soaked doughnuts are wasteful of fat tnd Indigestible In-digestible to eat. The amount of bacon to be used for seasoning may he lessened If it is put through the meat grinder before adding add-ing to the dish. It is thus more evenly even-ly mixed through the tlish In this way. Stale bread put through the meat grinder, then browned in the oven, makes a fine breakfast cerer.I with milk. This Is especially good for an invalid. A run in silk hose, if not too long, may be taken back with a crochet hook. Old stockings cut round nnrl round make fine rags for crocheted pillow tops. The silk hose with various vari-ous colors nre most attractive. The white ones mr.y be dyed to gi-t desired shades. When making mayonnaise, if It curdles, bent another egg and rlnip the curdled mixture drop by drop Into It, beating all the time: it will, if carefully care-fully done, Mend well, then proceed to finish with more oil ami lpni'.n Juice. Lemons plnred In the oven nnd heated hot will remlrr their li.ice more freely. |