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Show When making sweet croquettes add a little sugar to the crumbs In which the croquettes are to be rolled. Celery can be much improved by soaking it for an hour in ice cold water wa-ter In which a lemon has been squeezed. Scratches on polished wood, If not too deep, can be removed by rubbing gently with fine sandpaper and then with a mixture of olive oil and vinegar. If you desire to serve a baked fish whole, and have It stand upright on the platter, put a carrot inside the fish before cooking and it will remain in position. When making lemonade one of the lemons may be peeled and run through a meat chopper with a small piece of the peel. This will give the lemonade a delightful piquant flavor. Housekeeping. It Is no longer fashionable not to know on which side the bread is buttered but-tered or how to cook a potato. The Intelligent woman of today Is scientifically scien-tifically domesticated. She can meet her own cook without flinching, and can, moreover, . give that autocrat "points" on culinary matters. Sweet Milk and Soda. Many cooks look on in horror if you use soda in sweet milk, but in this recipe for devil's food It can be used successfully: One-half cup sweet milk, three-fourths cup grated chocolate, one-half cup brown sugar. Put this on stove and let come to a boil, then pour it over one-half cup butter. Let this cool, then add one cup brown sugar and one-half cup sweet milk, two well beaten eggs and 2 cups sifted flour. Now add one level teaspoon tea-spoon of soda, dissolved in hot water. Bake -AO minutes. Marron Dumplings for Soup. Grate the crust of a breakfast roll and break the remainder into crumbs; soak these in cold milk; drain, and add two ounces of flour, chop up hall a pound of beef marrow freed from skin and sinews. Beat up the yolks of two eggs, mix all together thoroughly. thor-oughly. If too moist add some of the grated crumbs, salt and pepper to :aste. Form into small, round dump-lings, dump-lings, boil them in the soup for hall in hour before serving. |