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Show 1 Kitchen and Cable THE SUNDAY MENU". BREAKFAST. Grape Fruit. Oat Flakes ad Cream. . Sausage. Baked Sweet Potatoes. Buckwheat Cakes. Coffee. DINNER. Tomato Soup. Roast Loin of Pork. Boiled Rice. Gravy. Spinach with Eggs. Turnips. Lettuce and Celery Salad. Apple Sauce. Cheese. Straws. Black Coffee. SUPPER. Sardines with Lemon. Brown Bread. Boston Baked Beans. Sweet Pickles. Orange Jelly. Tea. Cake. RECIPES. -Prunes.',. To- preserve the rich, fruity flavor, do not boil the fruit. Allow it to soak overnight in cold water, enough to just cover. Next day stew in the water in which they were soaked; add lemon peel and a very little sugar. I To Clarify Butter. Put the butter into a stew pari and set it on the stove till the scum rises at the top and the milk settles at the bottom. Remove all. the scum most carefully with a metal spoon, and when the butter is quite clear, use it. Potato Cakes. ; Take cold boiled potatoes, press them through a sieve, moisten with a little milk, and work in sufficient flour, in which baking powder is mixed, to I make a Arm dough, adding a pinch of salt. Roll out the potato paste, thinly sprinkle with dry flour, cut into shapes and bake on a hot griddle for ten minutes; min-utes; butter while hot, and serve. Quick Chocolate Frosting. Cocoa is as useful in making chocolate choco-late frosting as the plain chocolate. A confectioner's recipe for a quick, soft frosting is to mix a heaping table-spoonful table-spoonful of cocoa with a cupful of confectioner's sugar. Enough warm water is then added to make it spread easily over the cake perhaps four ta-blespoonfuls ta-blespoonfuls or possibly a little more. If a bit of essence is desired to tone the chocolate flavor, it may be used. Household Hints. Never pierce meat while cooking, or the juices will escape. Fish for frying must be always dried thoroughly and' dredged thickly with flour before being brushed over with egg and breadcrumbs. When cleaning your stained knives, take a piece of raw potato, dip it into brickdust, and scour them with it. In this way the most obstinate stains may be erased. To clean zinc, rub it with a paste made of coal ash and paraffine, using a piece of thick flannel. Then scrub with soft soap and plenty of hot water. wa-ter. Water in which vegetables have been cooked should never be poured down the sink if it can be avoided, as it causes a disagreeable odor in the house Such liquid should be thrown upon earth, which will quickly absorb the unpleasant smell. When there is no earth available for this purpose, always al-ways let the tap run directly the vegetable veg-etable water has drained from the sink. |