Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-14 | Page 5 | Household Hints

HOUSEHOLD HINTS MENU HINT. - -- -- Breakfast. Huckleberries. French Toast Honey Coffee. Luncheon. Shrimp Salad Sliced Tomatoes Bread and Butter Tea Dinner. Clear Tomato Soup Iloast Veal in Brown Gravy Potato Cakes Lima Bean Lettuce Stewed Peaches Coffee TO CAN MEAT. By Boiling Sterilise glass jars preferably with glass tops, when cooled cool-ed put a teaspoon of salt in bottom, pack as full of meat ns possible. A rib or marrow bone In each can adds to the flavor. Put on lids without rubbers and screw or clamp down. Put in boiler on a rack with water within an inch of tops of the cans and boil two and one-half hours. Remove from boiler nnd put on rubbers. Replace, Re-place, boil an hour longer. If vou have extra good rubbers thev will stnnd three hours boiling, but I find this way safest. If any rubber .proves defective the can must be boiled again with a new rubber. Any flat bottomed nail or ketttle can be used If it has a tight cover. Put no water In the jars, count lime from the lime it starts actual ac-tual boiling. By Roasting Sterilize and fill jars as before. Put in dripping pan or any similar pan and heat gradually on oven gradually, so as not lo break the oven gradually, so as not i-o nrenk the cans. They can be heated (Irst In the warming closet of the range. Roast with a moderate heat for two and one-half hours, remove and put on rings and leave in hour longer. The cans will not be more than half full of broth. Be sure thoy are cooking when you seal that that the rubbers are perfect. It is desirable as sandwich filling and makes good meat pies, soups, etc Each can will hold about two pounds of raw meat. A tin lid or piece of. board placed on top of cans will keep the lids from being cracked by the heat. Can meat as fresh as possible. Any kind of meat can be canned safely either way. DISCOVERIES. "Paint-up" Helps As it is " the time of year to brighton up with paint and varnish and many have laid their brushes away, which have become hard and dry. By boiling in vinegar they will become soft and easy to clean with kerosene or turpentine. Whero paint has dried on windows it may be successfully removed by applying ap-plying a paste. made with baking soda and water, as hot as can bo conven-j iontly used, j Save Your Discarded Combs for cleaning your carpet sweeper and suction suc-tion brushes. Run the comb around the brush nnd up and down and you will have a nice clean brush. To Keep a Drawer which holds wax paper and wrappers in order, catch; the papers with clothes pins. I For Wilted Vegetables If your gro-j cer sends vegetables that have been in the store too long and have become wilted, they may bo freshened by adding add-ing the Juice of a lemon to a pan of i cold water. Let the vogetaUies stand, in it for half an hour and they will be as fresh as when first gathered.