Fresh Vegetables And Sweet Salads

ads. - Those who valuo fresh vegetables and sweet saluda will have none wasbed in the garden. Neither the onc nor the other shouldbe waslied until they are just about to be cooked or eaten. Kven potatoes lose flavor quiokly after being wuhhcd, so do carrots and turnips ; wbile water will speedily become taiuted in summer in contact with cauliflowers tnd cabbages, and thusdestioy their freslmess and flavor. The case is still worse with saluds. lf washed at all, it shou'd bo ony just before they are dressed, and they sliould be dried and dressed iminediately. Xothing ruin the flavor of vegetables, and rcuders good galnding uue;it;illo, 6oonor tliiin water hanging about thm. lï lettuct'8 are quite clean, they iual;n the best salud uuwiibhfd ; Lmt if washed the operation should be done quickly, and the water instantly phaktn out, and the leaves dried with a clean cloth. But, al. ís ! how otton are they cut and washed in the galden iu tho morning and pitobed into wiito: in the Btulltry sink until wanted. What Fronch artix'e would bo mad onough to rinse out his nulad juice, ajid then recharge his lettuee and his endivcs with senii-putrid water? The best practico ia simply to remove all superfluous earth by scraping or rubbing, and all rough top9 or leaves by cutting. Enough tender leaves may still bo lelt on cauliifowers and brocoli to overlap the üowers. Salad should be simt in from the garden with most of the outside leaves and inain root on. The tender leaves are easily taintud and and iujured by oxpoiore, and the ehicf root cut oif sharp much of the juice oozes out at the wound. Where the vegetables and salading have to be boufht from a town grecngrocer tha conditious aro all together different. Not only washing but soaking often becoiuob requisito to restoro something like pristiae crispuees. - American Arttian.