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Show BUOUSEHOLD HMlflTSS When recipes call for "frying out" salt pork or other fat, cut it in small pieces and heat it slowly in a heavy frying pan until the fat is extracted. When putting new elastic in a garment, pin the end of the new to the worn elastic. Then as the worn elastic pulls out, the new elastic will pull in. Milk containers made of waxed cardboard make a handy receptacle recep-tacle for bread crumbs after they are washed and thoroughly dried. Parsley Is easiest cut with a scissors. Fold over several of the sprays of one stalk and hold between be-tween the thumb and other fingers of the left hand and cut fine with the scissors. In the use of self-sealing lids for canning, the screw band must be screwed down tight before processing. By tight, it means with the full force of the hand. A regular shoe bag with its numerous nu-merous pockets makes an ideal catch-all for the kitchen. Tack it up in an out-of-the-way place and put all the small things into it that usually get mixed up in some kitchen drawer. Fill cream puff or eclair shells with ice cream and serve with a tutti-frutti sauce made from cherries, cher-ries, bananas, oranges and pineapple. pine-apple. A child's sprinkling can is a good size for watering house plants. |