For instance, I have noticed that if you chop up an onion with a knife, and then spread butter with the same knife, the butter gets a most objectionable taste.

You have onions about the house, I suppose." "I have." "Then you might try that.

And there's a way of dealing with bacon.
I'm not quite sure how it's done, but the taste all goes out of it, and it gets extremely tough.

Then you fry it in such a way that it's quite limp, and sprinkle a little soot on it.

I've often tried to eat bacon done that way--before I was married, of course--and I never could.