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Grandma Eckberg's Recipes

A Few Rules For Successful Dining

   Foods at the height of their season are the best choice, both for economy and interest.
2. Serve a light dessert with a heavy main course and vice versa.
3. Do not repeat flavors in the same menu (tomato soup and tomato salad, etc.)
4. Serve at least one hot dish, even for a midsummer meal.
   For bruised muscles a continual bathing in a hot solution of epsom salts is very good to reduce swelling and soreness. About ½ cup of salts to 1 quart hot water, applied with a hot towel wrung almost dry. Keep the solution hot and apply as hot as can be borne.
   For hot tired and aching feet: Put into a tub ½ cup epsom salts, add enough hot water to dissolve, then enough warm water to come well over the ankles, as hot as can be borne; soak your feet in this for 30 minutes or more, adding hot water as it cools. Then get into bed. You will feel like a new person in the morning. --E. Schoff
   To extract onion juice. Cut a slice from root end of an onion, scrape juice from center with edge of a teaspoon.
   To cut sticky foods: use scissors or sharp knife dipped in cold water.
   To acidulate water, add 1 tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar to each quart of water.
   Garnished ice cubes. Put in each compartment of refrigerator pan a marchino cherry, a candied cherry or one or two mint leaves, a small flower or ¼ slice of lemon. Fill with water and freeze.
   A pinch of baking soda added to any boiled syrup will keep it from crystalizing.
   A teaspoon of vinegar beaten into boiled frosting when flavoring is added will keep it from being brittle and breaking when cut.
   When making fruit pies, put in the sugar when the dish is half full instead of on top; the pastry will be lighter.
   Bread should never be wrapped in a cloth as it imparts an unpleasant taste. Keep wrapped in waxed paper.
   To keep sandwiches moist, wrap in waxed paper, cover them with a cloth wrung out of cold water. Keep in a cool place and they will keep moist longer. --Mrs. Matilda Chase
   A tiny pinch of salt to the egg whites makes them beat more quickly.
   Rub marks on paint made by scratching matches, with a cut lemon.
   Soak that ink spot in cotton, silk or woolen goods in turpentine for several hours and then rub between hands.
   Drop a few drops of bluing in soap suds when washing your glassware. This will make the glassware sparkle.

Printed in the Bureau Township Community Cook Book, 1939

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