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Show POINTS ON TOMATOE8 Do you know how to skin a tomato oxportly. Aro you not tempted to paro off tho pool from tho round sldo first? It Is so easy to take this off that it seems ns though It must bo tho qulckor way but It la not tho right way. First cut out tho stem, but with tho coro adhering to it, thon romovo tho skin. No mattor what uso Is to bo made of the tomato, this Is tho way to handlo it unless tho BBBBBBhBBBBBBBBBJBBBBBBKBBjBJBJBBJ skin is to bo left on as when It Is stuffed or baked wholo. A tomato Is over Vi per cent water, wa-ter, and good water at that, which evaporates when this vegctablo Is baked. In somo cases, when Its wettest wet-test purt Is removed to bo replaced bv a stutllng tho only thing left of the tomato nfter it Is baked Is a la-vor la-vor and sometimes but a very slight flavor at that. Wholo tomatoes may bo boiled with out breaking up or losing their shap-s though tho peel and coro havo be;ii removed. This method of preparing fl (hem leaves to them their natural B bulk, and thoy may bo Just as hand- ,B somo for a garnish as most baked to- r ' matucs. They may bo mado hand- somo by boiling them on a bed of flavoring vegetables In beef stock or I water and butter and a llttlo sugar, If the liquid Is all boiled away. Hut plnlrt boiled tomatoes with a t'oasonlug aro also good; better If a little butter Is added to tho wa'. which If not boiled away, may be used in soups nnd sauces. Theso ate good cold with French drecsln& os a salad and may be eaten by th ;?o who Mud tho raw tomato Intolerable for somo reason. Roll carefully In an aluminum kcttlo. They aro likely to br.in on to onamolod wnro.. |