These are but a few devices. Any mother can supplement them with successful ones of her own, and she will find that by the use of a little imagination and ingenuity a child can be tempted to eat almost any kind of desirable and necessary food, and enjoy it. A. G. M.
In order to preserve weathered oak furniture and keep it fresh, rub it with floor wax, Johnston's or some other wax for hard floors. Do this once or twice a year.
Instead of throwing away the flour left after rolling meat for frying, save it and use again for similar purpose.
Cut a groove around the handle of the broom about three inches from the end. Make a cap with a draw string of some dark soft material and fasten this over the end of the broom. Then when the end of the broom rests against the wall there will be no marred places on the walls. This idea is especially good where one has white walls.
There is nothing that equals the boiled icing, and by boiling the sugar and water without stirring until it spins threads when run off a spoon or fork, then turning this syrup on the whites of the eggs, which have been whipped dry, then beaten until cold, one will have a delicious covering.
Given in May, but suitable for other months--about 200 covers.
Cold Tongue Creamed Potatoes Lobster Salad Rolls Jelly Coffee Pineapple Ice Cake
8 cans tongue @ $0.62½ $5.00 100 lbs. lobster @ .16 16.00 1½ doz. lettuce @ .90 1.35 Salad Dressing: 2 cans oil $1.80 2 qts. milk .16 Box mustard .30 1 qt. vinegar .07 2 doz. eggs .64 2.97 ½ bushel potatoes 400 rolls 3.34 4 lbs. coffee 1.52 2 qts. cream 1.20 1 can milk .60 6 eggs .16 3.48 20 glasses jelly donated.
Pineapple Ice, 4½ gal.: 12 cans pineapple 2.40 6 lemons .10 Sugar .65 ? Freezing 2.50 Dipping 1.00 6.65
Served only 150 1 box domino sugar $0.48 1 can milk for potatoes .60 2 lbs. flour .10 1 lb. crackers (scant) .13 Parsley .10 5 lbs. print butter 2.10 1½ lbs. tub butter .52 Ice .15 Help 7.00 22 loaves cake (2 left), donated. Laundry 3.00 Express .25 Soap, etc. .20 ---- 14.63 ------ $53.42
12 cans of grated pineapple 6 quarts of water 6 quarts of sugar 6 lemons
Boil the water and sugar fifteen minutes, add the pineapple, let boil five minutes; when cold strain, add lemon juice and freeze as usual.