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green, they gather them,dry them, pound them and put them in bags. This powder
may be found at Park & Tilford's, N.Y., or at Solari's Grocery Store, Chartres
St., New Orleans.
GOFIO
Gofio is some corn meal dried in the oven and salted. It is an Indian
preparation. They put it in a bag and eat it on their tramps, or when they go
out hunting.
HOW TO DESTROY FLIES
To one pint of milk add a quarter of a pound of raw sugar and two ounces of
ground pepper. Simmer them together for eight or ten minutes and place it about
in shallow dishes. The flies attack it greedily and in a few moments are
suffocated. By this method kitchens may be kept clear of flies all summer
without the danger of poison.
FOODS THAT STEAL FLAVORS
It is generally understood that butter and milk can be tainted by proximity to
decided flavors or odors, but not that all foods absorb and give out more or
less of their individual aroma.
Vegetables of the plainest varieties are the worst offenders, not only onion and
leek and the more pronounced ones, but the tame little beet and the saucy
radish.
The subtle ways of these demure ones is something that households should guard
against, but do not.
"We do get so tired of boarding," exclaims a woman who has gone back and forth
from hotels to private boarding houses, but she does not realize the underlying
reason.
The real reason is that the foods are all kept in the same place and all cooked
in the same atmosphere, double occasion for the flavor exchange that takes
place.
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