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Show f HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS UpT It is better to steam vegetables. Vegetables in boiling lose 30 to 50 per cent of their mineral salts.; If steamed. only 10 per cent is lost. :..; Sprinkle chopped, candied ginger gin-ger over thin biscuit dough. Then spread the combination with soft butter. Cut into strips a fourth of an inch wide and two inches long. Bake quickly. Serve hot. Try tinting your ice cubes with vegetable dyes. A spring salad, for instance, is delightful to look at and unusually crisp if it is set in a bowl of green ice cubes. Desserts Des-serts may be worked out in the same way. Tack several thicknesses of heavy cloth or paper over the corners cor-ners of the table before covering it with new oilcloth. The recovering recov-ering job will then be easier and will look much neater. i ! Place a piece of zinc on red-hot coals in the kitchen range or furnace. fur-nace. The vapor that arises while the zinc melts will remove soot from the chimney. j |