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Show RULES FOR THE HOUSEKEEPER. When You Are Cooking You Can Use the Following Proportions. One quart water to each pound meat bone for soup stock. Four peppercorns, four cloves, one teaspoonful minced herbs, and one ta-blespoonful ta-blespoonful each of chopped vegetables to each quart of water for soup stock. One saltspoon of white pepper to each quart of soup stock. One teaspoonful extract to one quart of custard. One tablespoonful extract to. one quart custard or cream for freezing. .7 One teaspoonful extract to one plain loaf cake. A pinch of salt or spice is a salt-spoonful. salt-spoonful. A few grains is less than a saltspooh-ful. saltspooh-ful. The following table will be found very useful and should be hung in every kitchen along with "cook's golden gol-den rules." One teaspoonful soda to one pint sour milk. ' One teaspoonful soda to one cup molasses. mo-lasses. Three heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder to one quart of flour. Half a cupful of yeast or quarter of a compressed cake to one pint of liquid. One teaspoonful salt to two quarts of flour. One teaspoonful salt to one quart soup. - i i One scant cupful liquid to three cup-fuls cup-fuls flour for bread. |