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keep the juices in. He knows that if the juices are not in the meat 

 when he cuts it, it is not a success. 



A man often makes a better cup of coffee than some women, 

 because he makes only one thing at a time and gives all his atten- 

 tion to it. He has freshly boiled water and measures out his coffee 

 carefully. Many women will not measure, they use a "pinch" here 

 and a ''little" there. The high priced chefs and cooks are not women, 

 but men. A man makes coffee stronger sometimes than a woman, 

 because he knows that it is not a good thing to cook coffee a long 

 time in order to draw out all the good, as the bad comes out at the 

 same time. 



Question. Will you tell us how to make good coffee? 



Mrs. Salisbury. Take two level tablespoons of coffee to each 

 cup of coffee to be made. If eggs are not too high, use an egg and 

 the broken shell to six or eight cups. The white of the egg settles 

 the coffee and the yolk makes it richer and improves the color. If 

 you have good cream it will be good enough without the egg. Mix 

 the coffee, egg and water and put over the fire, when it comes to the 

 boiling point let it simmer for two or three minutes on the back of 

 the range. The cover of the coffee pot should be tight to keep in 

 the aroma. 



There is a right and a wrong way to boil eggs. There is a 

 right and a wrong way to boil water. For drinking, hot water 

 should be used when it is bubbling; freshly boiled is the only kind 

 that is used to make tea. Do not allow the water on the tea to stand 

 more than four or five minutes or too much tannin will be extracted. 



Always women are going to have more or less to do of the home 

 affairs. If they are not going to do the actual work themselves they 

 will have to manage it. Do not let a girl grow up and marry and go 

 into a home of her own unless she has a knowledge of home making. 

 It is a business worth studying and when you study it you will find 

 that there is a good deal in it. Don't think just because you are 

 keeping house you are doing nothing worth while. You are en- 

 gaged in one of the greatest works. Home-making is a subject 

 every woman should know because it is woman's work. Don't think 

 that the girls should be denied the knowledge because you had a 

 hard time learning to cook, but insist that they understand the 

 science of it. 



I read a story about a boy whose only work in a factory was to 

 make bolts. All day long he had nothing to do but run a piece of 

 metal up to a certain machine and hold it there until the bolt was 

 made. It got monotonous, but instead of giving it up the boy de- 

 cided to get something more out of it if possible. He began by try- 

 ing to eliminate energy and to make more bolts with a decrease of 

 effort. In a few years he was an expert in eliminating work in 

 foundries. The same thing will apply in cooking. You cook pota- 

 toes every day ; try to see if there is some other way to do it, to save 

 energy and get better results. Save time for yourself and study new 

 methods and you will find new interest. 



