The household gas cookery book

To Make Good Tea, the water should never be allowed to boil up twice. If Clothes are put away after washing without airing, mildew is likely to result. A few drops of vinegar added to cold water will make glass easier to polish if rinsed in it. Finely powdered bath brick cleans knives quite as well as knife polish, and is more economical. Never slam the oven door while baking; it makes pastry and puddings fall, and become heavy. A little ammonia added to the water in which silver is washed greatly enhances the brightness. BREVITIES* To excite the good opinion of the eye is the first step towards awakening the appetite. ***** Many families owe their prosperity as much to the carefulness of female management as to the activity of the father. ***** There is no peacemaker in the world like a good dinner. ***** The dinner table is the only place in the world where a man is never bored during the first half-hour. ***** Plain dinners are often spoiled by the addition of delicacies; so much time is consumed in dressing the latter that the more simple cooking is neglected. ***** The Creator, in making it obligatory on man to eat to live, invites him thereto by appetite, and rewards him by the pleasure he experiences. ***** Tell me what you eat and I well tell you what you are. — Savarin. ***** Good living is an act of our judgment by which we give a preference to things agreeable to taste. ***** A dinner without cheese is like a pretty woman with only one eye. ***** Men live best upon a little. Nature has granted to all to be happy, if the use of her gifts were but known. — Claudian. Animals feed; man eats; the man of intellect alone knows how to eat. * * * * * The stomach of man is not formed to digest raw flesh, hence the instinct of rendering it digestible by the application of heat, dictated by Nature, and found in the most savage tribes of humanity ; the alteration by heat is called cookery. ***** A golden rule for the art of giving dinners is — let all men’s dinners be according to their means. ***** The clove tree is a native of the Spice Islands ; the blossoms are first white, then green, and at last red, and hard, when they become cloves. When dried, they become yellow and then dark brown. ***** A French physician has called spinach the ‘‘broom of the stomach,” for it cleanses and purifies that organ. Apples will not break in baking if they are pricked with a fork before being put into the oven. ***** Enamel saucepans should not be washed in soda, as it will crack the enamel, but salt rubbed in will remove any stains from the saucepans. To prevent mint discolouring new potatoes, put the juice of half a lemon into the water they are boiled in. ***** Stale sausages are said to produce precisely the same effects on the system as mineral poison. Cakes will be considerably lightened if the whites of eggs are beaten up separately from the yolks. Take care of the liquor from meat or poultry. In five minutes it can be converted into excellent soup. * * * * * If liquor is too salt, only use half the quantity, and the rest water. * * * * * Cheese can be kept from becoming mouldy by being