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Show NOTES FOR THE KITCHEN. Cans of potted meats or fish may be kept some time after they are opened and partly used if they are covered with a little melted butter or lard and kept in a cool place. This makes the contents air-tight and is easily removed re-moved when needed. To prevent the salt frm absorbing the dampness and becoming hard in the salt cellar! during the summer season, sea-son, mix a little cornstarch or rice flour with the salt, using one spoonful of starch to six of salt. Flies dislike, the oil from bay leaves. It is not an expensive drug, and if a very little is kept in a dish on the window ledge, or if the doors and window win-dow casings are coated with any color of fresh paint to which four per cent of oil of bay has been added, insects will shun them. |