Hints Of Seasoning

A dash of black pepper greatly improves vanilla ice cream. Make snow cake with arrowroot llour; the flavor is delicious. Bean soup is mucU improved by adding a little mace just before serving. When making corn bisque use cayenne with a little sugar for seasoning. Add a cup of good eider vinegar to the water in which you boil fish, espe cially saltwater fish. Place on top of lïsh wiien baking thin slices of salt nork; it will baste the flsh anil tlio seasoning is fine. Boston baked beans can be greatly lmpr&ved by adding a cup of sweet sream the last hour of baking. Put sugar in the water used for basting meats of all kinds; it gives a good Iavor to veal more especially. Te give a fine flavor to cornbeef hash use good soup stock for moistening, with a pinch of salt, sugar and cayenne. Three tablespoons of freshly made Japan tea, with a bit of nutmeg, gives in indescribable flavor to an apple pie. Put a few sticks of cinnamon bark and a little lemon juice with crab apple when makins jelly; the flavor is gooö. To give an appetizing flavor to a broiled beefsteak cut an onion in half, rub it over the hot patter with the melted butter, When making tomato soup add a raw ucumber sliced fine, boil soft and strain with tomato. It gives a seaBoning quite taking. Soup stock is better seesoned by ticking whole cloves and other spices Into tlie meat while boiling instead oí using powdered spices. Sliced onion fried in butter or in butter and flour, and rubbed through a Bieve and put into soups Just before íerving gives a fine flavor and good color. A good mixed seasoning to have on hand for almost everything is: Four 'ablespoons of salt, one tablespoon of íustard, one-quarter teaspoon black epper and a pinch of cayenne.