Popcorn

Popcorn will pop better if slightly
moistened with water just before
putting into the popper, or if it is
frosty (having been kept outside in
the winter).

Funnel

A handy funnel, for filling salt
and pepper holders, can be quickly
made by using the corner of an
envelope, with a small part of the tip
cut off.

Cooling Foods

Hot foods, or a dish of pudding,
can be cooled quickly, by placing in
a pan of cold water, to which salt
has been added.

When it is desired to cool a dish
quickly, by placing on ice, put a fruit-
jar ring on the ice first. This pre-
vents the dish from sliding off.

Hot Liquids

To prevent a glass tumbler, or
dish, from breaking, when filling
with hot water, or other liquid, place
a silver, or metal, spoon, fork, or
knife, in the receptacle, before pour-
ing the liquid into it.

Fire

Wheat flour is the best extin-
guisher to throw on a fire, caused
by kerosene or gasoline. Household
ammonia, or sand, is also excellent
for this purpose. Water only spreads
the blaze. Milk will put out a kero-
sene fire at once.

Cakes

Buttermilk can be used for mix-
ing a cake instead of cream of tar-
tar, when it is called for. Add a
little vinegar to the buttermilk, if i7
is not sour enough.

Flour, or cornstarch, dusted on a
cake, before icing it, will prevent the
icing from running off. Icing will
remain thicker, and softer, if two
tablespoonfuls of cornstarch are
added when mixing. This saves
sugar, and is especially good for
fruit cakes. A boiled icing will not

break, when cut, if a teaspoon of
vinegar is added. A small piece of
butter, added to icing, will prevent
it hardening too soon

Cakes may be prevented from
burning on the bottom by laying a
piece of window screen on the bot-
tom of the oven, under the cake pan,
or sprinkling salt on the bottom of
the oven.

Cakes may be removed from the
pan, without breaking, or sticking to
the bottom of the pan, by placing
the pan on the top of the hot stove
for a few seconds, or placing the
hot cake pan on a cold @amp cloth
for a few minutes, before turning
out of the pan.

Stale cake may be re-freshened by
dipping, for a minute, in sweet milk,
and rebaking slowly.

A piece of apple, in the cake tin,
will keep cake fresh much longer.

To prevent cup cakes, etc., from
burning on the top, put a cup of hot
water in the oven along with the
baking cakes.

Boiled icings should be put on a
cold cake, cold icings to a warm
cake.

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