To thin icing that is too thick, use a little milk

To thicken icing that is too thin, use a little powdered sugar. To keep mashed potatoes warm for anyone late for din- ner, place in top of a double boiler and place over hot water

Set on stove over low heat. To keep pickles from molding, place a small piece of horseradish in jar on top of the pickles. To make cake light and spongy add a tablespoon of warm water to the egg before mixing. When cooking sauerkraut, add one teaspoon sugar. For special touch with fried oysters serve with finely shredded cabbage salted with celery salt

It is very good. When going camping take along a few cans of cream style corn

Fry bacon crisp in a Dutch oven or heavy fry- ing pan, then pour out all but a little of the bacon grease

Pour in corn

After cooking for a short time, break 3 eggs into the corn and scramble

This makes a good breakfast along with the crisp, brown, and tender bacon. When frying potatoes make them 1/3 carrots for a change

Then sprinkle a little flour over the potatoes and carrots. To tenderize an old hen or prairie chicken cut up into serving pieces and slice the breast of the chicken

Soak in a little soda water all night, rinse well in cold water, then fry very slowly with a lid over the frying pan so as to steam the chicken. For a lamb roast, brown well on top of stove, then stick 6 cloves into the roast and roast very slowly until tender

The taste will be more like deer meat than lamb. For noodle soup, use good brown gravy left from a beef roast to make soup

Cook noodles in salt water

When tender, pour the gravy into the water and the noodles

Add black pepper to taste. For an extended camping trip take along a yellow rain slicker so you can take a footbath like an old-time cow- puncher on a roundup

Just dig a small hole in the earth about the size of a wash basin, place slicker in the hole, pour in warm water

Sit down and stick your feet in the water. For variations of fried mush boil a pot of yellow corn meal mush, making it thick

Dip a pan into ice-cold water then pour the mush into the pan

Let sit in a cold place to chill

Then slice, roll in corn meal, and fry until brown. To whip thin cream dissolve 1 tablespoon of unflavored gelatin in 1 tablespoon of hot water

Then add to 2 cups of cream; chill for a few minutes, then whip. To remove lime boil a cup of vinegar and a cup of water in a lime-coated teakettle

This will soften the sediment and it can easily be scraped off. To tenderize meat add a tablespoon of vinegar to the water in which meats are boiled. To brown fresh potatoes sprinkle a little flour over the pan of freshly sliced potatoes along with the pepper and salt

This will help to brown the fresh potatoes. To peel oranges pour boiling water over oranges and let stand 5 minutes

This will cause the white lining to come away with the peeling when the oranges are to be sliced. To scale fish more easily first dip fish into boiling water, then scale in usual manner. To preserve eggs an old-time patented liquid is made like this: Take a bushel of lime, 2 pounds of salt, 1 /2 pound of cream of tartar, and water enough to form a solution strong enough to float an egg

This liquid sup- posedly preserves eggs for 2 years.