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Show Kitcben and Cable ! i I KITCHEN AND TABLE. The Sunday Menu. BREAKFAST. Apples. Sausage. Creamed Potatoes. Buckwheat Cakes. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Cold Roast Beef. Tomato Salad. Baked Apples. DINNER. Chicken Bouillon. Boiled Mutton. Caper Sauce. Mashed Potatoes. Peas. Carrots. Mine Pie. Coffee. Sponge Bread. Here is a southern recipe for spoon bread: Stir into a pint of milk enough white cornmeal to make a thin batter; add a teaspoonful of baking powder, salt and two eggs the whites and yolks of which have been beaten separately. Pour the mixture into a baking dish, smooth the top with a broad, flat knife and dot with pieces of butter; bake and serve in the dish with a spoon. This is excellent was gravy for the nursery table. - How to Toast Bread. We toast bread, says the Family Doctor, Doc-tor, not merely to brown it, but to take out all the moisture possible that it may be more easily moistened with the saliva and thus easily digested; then we brown it to give a better flavor. If the slice be thick and carelessly care-lessly exposed to a blazing fire the outside out-side is blackened and made into charcoal char-coal before the heat can reach the inside. in-side. The moisture is only heated, not evaporated, and makes the inside doughy or clammy, and, butter, when spread upon the bread, cannot penetrate, pene-trate, but floats on the surface in the form of oil, and the result is one of the most indigestible compounds. The correct way is to have the bread stale and cut into thin uniform slices, and dry it horoughly before browning it. Such toast moistened with water or milk may be easily and thoroughly acted upon by digestive fluids. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To Get Rid of Mice. Mice loath cayenne pepper, and if their holes are filled with rags liberally lib-erally sprinkled with it, they will, not attempt to come through it. A "Left Over" Hint. If at any time you have a little a?-ple a?-ple sauce left over, try using it in this way: To a pint of sauce allow one ounce of cake or bread crumbs, a tablespoonful of lemon juice, one egg well beaten, and sugar to taste. Mix and bake in a buttered dish for about half an hour. Served with cream, this make a delicious pudding. To Renovate a Petticoat. Petticoats always get shabby round the bottom long before the upper part shows signs of wear, so it is quite worth while to cut off the lower part, make a deep shaped frill of alpaca or any other material and join on. Then you have what is practically a new petticoat with very little outlay either of time or money A Dressmaking Hint. If you are what is called an "out" size, and the paper patterns cut in ordinary sizes do not fit you, rip an old well-fitting dress bodice apart, iron out the pieces so that they will lie flat, and cut a bodice pattern in paper from this. By allowing extra width where fulness will be needed you can cut blouses from the same pattern. S To Clean Delicate Lace. The best way to do this at home is to spread the lace on paper, cover with calcined magnesia, place another paper over, and put it away between the leaves of a book for several days. Then all it needs is a good shake to remove re-move the powder. If the lace was very dirty, however, the process may need to be repeated. To Clean Furs. The cost of sending furs to be cleaned is too great for" small incomes. But you can do them quite as well at home with sawdust and benzoline (the kind that can be bought at any oil shop). Saturate a little of the sawdust saw-dust with benzoline. rub well Into the fur, and continue till the whole is done. Then shake out the sawdust and go over the whole thing again. Take Care of Your Gown. If by any chance you get caught in the rain take your dress off directly you come in, rub it with a dry duster and hang up in an airy place. A dress that isdamp creases terribly if sat upon, and it Is almost impossible to get the creases really out afterward. Remember, too. that the majority of dresses never look quite so well after aft-er being worn in the rain, so don't wear your best gown on a stormy day, unless really necessary. . . Crochet Edging. Have you ever tried any of the Irish crochet, edging patterns? - An : edging about an inch wide done in the cream shade of cotton in a fine number makes a charming trimming for the frills of washing petticots, and looks almost as well as lace, while it wears treble the time. The prettiest way to use it is to make an ordinary petticoat in any washing material plain zephyr is cheap, and washes and wears excel lently. Trim it with two or three narrow nar-row frills, and edge each frill with the crochet and there you have a petticoat pet-ticoat fit for the smarest occasion. The crochet can be kept on hand and done at odd times, and it is wonderful how , quickly the odd spare moments mount up if one is on the lookout for them. |