Show your home and you n 0 i by betsy callister Calli ater SALT IN DAMP WEATHER T TO 0 housewife damp summer weather lier means caked salt and stopped salt aalt shakers it Is true that various sorts of special table salt do much to help this difficulty and the trick of putting a few grains of rice in the salt shaker also does some good addling adding a little cornstarch to the salt undoubtedly helps to keep it from caking though it also adulterates it english people have a sharp dislike for the salt shaker and this is perhaps because they have so much damp weather they regard the open cellar as the only fit dish tor for salt and salt shakers as aa gross american isms iams on the other hand we are apt to look on open salt dishes as not so conveniently sanitary as shakers if we do use them they should be refilled before each meal and never allowed to stand uncovered where dust might get on then them then too they should be used with little glass salt spoons silver cor corrodes rodez too readily in contact with salt the only trouble that pepper gives the housewife Is that it loses strength if kept on hand too long it may remain hot enough but loses the characteristic ackerl act tle spicy flavor that Is so BO much stronger ronger Bt in freshly ground pepper from a little hand pepper mill than in pepper shaken from a can of ground pepper that has been kept on hand band for some time oddley enough some persons dont like the freshly ground pepper they have hare become so accustomed to state stale pepper that the fresh kind taste like real pepper most housewives have some prejudice or other regarding the time to salt vegetables some insist that potatoes should be boiled in salty water others that this takes from the flavor some cooks never salt meat until it la Is partly cooked others do not add the salt until it Is entirely cooked while others dredge moat meat wit a little salt and pepper before beginning to cook it to boll meat or vegetables tn in alty talty t water ts Is believed by some to toughen them there Is as a matter of act very little if any difference in flavor whether food Is seasoned before during or after cooking so the best advice Is to go ahead in the way to which yau are accustomed only of course with cereal or anything that becomes thick with cooking cooklis it Is easier to distribute the salt if it Is added before cooking ae 1931 mcclure newspaper fenu serlee |