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About Beaverton times. (Beaverton, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1915)
SO"E COOKERY HINTS IDEAS THAT MAY BE OF VALUE TO THE HOU8EWIFE. Hew the Ideal Custard Should Br Mad Mayonnaise With Just the Right Flavor Beat Way to 8arve Cucumbers, T The bet custards ever made have hot beea baked on the oven floor. The tried-and-true method to make the de licious custard la one quart of fresh milk, scalded In a double boiler. No more nor leaa than (our eggs beaten and stirred Into one cup of granulated sugar. Always lemon extract with pinch of nutmeg for the delicate cus tard. U kills the egg flavor. Now, here Is your secret, place it in a pan of boiling water In the oven, cover your baking dish, bake it Just one-halt hour in a warm but not too hot oven. Insert a silver knife In the middle of the custard. If it comes 'out clean, the custard is done, otherwise the in gredients, stick to the knife. Of all the professional secrets hard est to obtain for the delicious mayon naise this was the hardest That un mistakable "tang,"' the tasty snap, though hidden with other, condiments was found to be nothing else but cu cumber. No, you could not taste it, for it was blended with the mayon naise The cucumber is grated for the purpose. . Then, think of it, the vinegar used. - Ordinary vinegar T Yes, but prepared with brown sugar, boiled with spices and churned into a white foam with one-halt its bulk ot olive OIL For potato salad this mayon naise, mixed with the cucumber rnd hard-boiled eggs is, really, one ot the finest flavored salad dressings known to the chefs who dislike to make known their professional secrets. Have you seen the encumber sliced, but in halt and decorated with slices of red radish? - Very pretty. Score the rounded aides of the cucumber Into one-eighth inch aections, but do not cut through the cucumber. Place the flat or cut side of the cucumber on the dish, slice the red radishes, leav ing on the red rim. Insert these slices of radishes between the slices of cu cumber, alternating the red and white; garnish with parsley, small pickles, email flecks of beet, and serve with ealad dressing. A delicious luncheon dish is known as "Devils on Horseback." Plump car dines, are used. Bach has a little blanket ot bacon pinned around his "tummy turn turn" and all is fried In deep fat and served on buttered toast . Dont Lose the Pie Juice. 'To keep the Juice in the pie, Instead ot using the cloth strips, which spoils the edge of the pie anyway, have the bottom crust larger than the pan. Cut the apples Into sections. Before put ting them in, cover the bottom of the pastry with half the sugar, r One cup ful of sugar to a good-sized pie will not be too much if the apples are sour. Lay sections of apples all around the edge. Then fill In the middle. Add the rest of the sugar. Roll out the top crust to fit and lay on.' Wet the edge all around and turn up over the top crust the surplus of the under crust Press down with the fingers, then mark all around with a fork. Make a hole in the top of the pie and wet all over with cold water. The oven should be fairly hot for the first 15 or 20 minutes. Then the heat may be reduced so that the apples may cook thoroughly. It will take about 40 minutes to bake good-sized pie Cooking Steak. To cook steak, have a nice red Are, not too hot or it will scorch meat ;ln a few minutes remove broiler, and ,Jt steak has changed color turn other aide, then change again. Have sharp Wfe and cut a little piece; if center is bright red and no sign of raw meat remove and put piece of butter on It and eat, the sooner the better. WHAT BRITISH CONSOLS ARE I Net Bends, aa We Uee Term, but , Perpetual Obligation of the . British Nation. , .. The Vltish government debt really i dates back to 1671, when It bore 6 per cent Interest Since then the major wars of the world have been recorded with more or less exactness in the fluctuations ot interest return to In vestors In British bonds. Incidentally., a very ancient and honorable British institution Is now apparently In the way ot being extinguished. In the middle of the eighteenth century about the time yonng George Wash ington was surveying In the wilds of Virginia England's government debt was consolidated Into a uniform Is sue bearing S per cent Interest; hence arose the venerated name "consols," long boasted as the world's premier security. .-..''' ;v", j War with the American colonies and with Napoleon sent consols down to 47 cents on the dollar, but by 18z4 they were up to 06, and England set tled back Into a conviction that her government bonds, bearing not. more than S per cent interest were among the permanent phenomena of nature, says the Saturday . Evening Post Nearly a generation ago Mr. Qoschen reduced the Interest on consols to 214 per cent then to ZVt per cent, 'and at the, latter . rate they presently aold above pan r ; :: ..'.' ' Consols are not really bonds,- aa we use the term, because the principal to not payable at all. They are the per petual obligation of the British gov ernment and the purchaser, Instead of getting a sheet ot engraved paper, i with coupons attached, gets merely an entry on the Bank ot England's books signifying that Interest Is payable to him. - Recently parliament authorised a loan of 16,000,000,000 payable In SO years and bearing 4ft per cent Inter est Consols are convertible Into the new loan at the rate of 66 1-1 cent on the dollar, by which process they may disappear. What other ancient and honorable Institutions the war may swallow up is problematical. The Fire-Brat The common sllverflih (Leplsma saccharine) is a well-known and trou blesome household insect but It near relative Thermobla domestics, known in England as the "fire-brat," Is less familiar. In a recent department of agriculture bulletin on silverflsh' Mr.' C. I Marlatt calls attention to the curious habit which the fire-brat has developed of frequenting ovens and fireplaces, where It seemingly revels in an amount of heat that would be fatal to most other Insects. The writer says: "It disports Itself In numbers about the openings of range and over the hot bricks and metal, manifesting a most surprising Immunity from the effect of high temperature." ' It was first described in this country In 1873, and began to be noted commonly about 1885 In Europe. It Is ot about the same size and general appearance as the silverflsh, except for some iusky markings. Color of Beards. The color ot beards arouses many points of interest All the ancient tap estries show Cain and Judas iscarlot with yellow or red beards, and Pon tius Pilate In ancient art always was given a beard. A reddish beard, how ever, doe not carry the significance that goes with red hair, for a large number of eminent men with dark brown hair have had reddish beards. Sometime the eyelashes have been ruddy, Savonarola, who had almost. Mack hair, having startllngly red eye brow and eyelashes. But, as a gen eral rule here alio, a silky brown beard, when accompanied by fine curl ing dark-brown hair. Is the most usual characteristic shown in the biograph ies of men whose names have been handed down to tame. DO YOU HAVE HAY FEVER? Ten Deubtles You Suffer Alee From the Solicitous Friend Cure -by Hearsay. 1 affect hay fever on tbe eighteenth day ot every August beginning at a quarter past three In the afternoon, Robert C, Benchley write In Vanity Fair. From then until September 10, along about ten o'clock at night my friend are never at a loss tor a mer ry laugh or a Jocund remark about my appearance. I am not proud man, but I have sensibilities. I there fore have a personal Interest In all alleged hay fever reliefs. But hay fever cures always come secondhand by hearsay. Someone snuggle up to you and says: "Oh, do you have hay fever r (to which the Ooldbergtan answer would be, "No, I paint my nose and eye red every day to frighten the gypsy moths away") and then, with an air of purveying diplomatic secrets they confide that they have "a friend who used to have hay fever, oh, terribly: couldn't breathe, and all that sort ot thing, you know; and someone told him of this kind of powder arrangement which you snuff up your nose and then hold your head under water for a minute or two, and. do you know, he's never had a touch ot hay fever since he tried It" And If you'd like, they'll ask their friend where to send for It and they take your telephone number eo that they can 'let you know all about It. Only If you are hardened to the type, you give them the number of the zoo, or the aquarium, or some thing Impersonal like that, tor the chance are that, when they do call you up It will be to suggest an addi tion to your life Insurance policy. It's mighty funny that yon never run across the original friend In tbe first place. No one ever steps . right up to you like a man say In o many words, "This baa cured, me of hay fever," pointing the while at a clearly labeled bottle. Poetry and Noses. ' '- I have read that no poem was ever written to a nose. ' Can you, offhand, recall a (Ingle rapturous or even ad miring description of one? ' I search my memory In vain, but produce in stead one Instance that baa always In terested me by its neglect You recall that little poem of Browning's, "A Face," the brief and charming descrip tion of a girl's profile against a back ground ot gold. Tbe "matchless mold" of softly parted Up, the "neck three finger might surround," and the "fruit-shaped perfect chin" all receive their due of praise; the nose, a seem ing necessity in any profile, I not even mentioned. It may be aa well; each reader supplies, in tbe lovely (ace, the line that suits him best The poet may have feared that by It mere mention he would produce the effect too often given by the noae In real life a heaviness that mars an other wise charming face. Atlantio Month ly. Curious Indian Game Traps. The discovery of the manner In which the prehistoric Indians ot tbe southwest obtained their meat supply was made recently by Washington scientists during an Investigation around the plateau' of the Pajarika park, near Santa Fe, where a number of game traps were found. It Is believed that the discovery of these traps Indicates that the south western Indian of preblstorlo times was far more Intelligent than his brother of the North. ' The traps are holes cut in lava rock at places where the poisonous gases make their way through to the sur face. They are Ingeniously arranged to suggest a cavern In which an ani mal may hide. Animal running from their foe see one of these traps and dive Into It Almost Instantly tbey are suffocated! by the gas. This manner of death doe not destroy their value ae food SAILOR "CAME BACK" .Vir - ; H; V JV ROMANCE OF THE SEA AS HI LATBO BY THE WRITER. ; , j w Cupid Triumphed In the End, Deepltt Effort et Father to Separate HI Daughter From the Man She Loved. Some SO year ago I sailed with a brlgantlne hailing from a New Eng. land town. Tbe skipper had an eighteen-year-old daughter, hi only child, on board, hi wife being dead. v The girl became friendly with on ot our ordinary seamen about twenty year old, a clean-cut chap, who al ready had his master' paper. On night, when the young fellow was at the wheel, the skipper cam on deck and found his daughter standing alongafde of htm, with her arm around hi neck. Tbe skipper became angry, hit the boy, and aent him forward, and would not allov him to come aft again, although the girl told him she was engaged to the boy. Now began a trying time tor the boy. One day the young fellow, goad ed to desperation, defended himself when the skipper struck him. This was committing an unpardonable act; The boy was put into Iron and when we arrived at Rio Janeiro, our destination, the harbor police took him to shore. I must state, to the skipper' credit, that he did not prose cute the boy, but of course hi berth was taken by another man when we left Rio. Five years passed. I was atlll with the me skipper and to . was his daughter, but she was not any mora the laughing, happy girl she waa be fore. W bad loaded pitch pin In Bruns wick, Oa., and were again bound for, Rio. Nearlng our destination, w were caught It a storm. TIM vestal rolled awfully, the cargo chafed back' and forth and we toon knew that we bad fire In the hold. We took off the main hatch to try and put out the flrct but a toon as w got It open tbe flame burst out and w had to take to the boat. This happened at night The vet set burned for two hours, when there was no more left of her. W stood by her, thinking the flame would draw tome other vessel to our assist ance. At daylight we saw a "tors and after" near by. In a short time ws were alongside. The skipper's daugh ter wat the first np the ladder and I was close after her to prevent her from falling backward Into the boat ' The skipper of this vessel, a young fellow, stood at the rail and helped us to the deck. Tbe girl looked at him and he at her; then they fell Into each other's arms and the girl cried from happiness. - The youag skipper was the boy her father bad treated so shabbily. Strange to say, the vescel wat bound tor Rio, too, -and he arrived there once more securely bound, hut not' with chains this time. The wedding wat celebrated In Rio and the bride went with lier hutband on hi vessel. Chicago Tribune. i How Much Radlumt Effort to determine the amount ot radium In the ocean have been few, Prof. S. J. Lloyd ot tbe University of Alabama find that about thirty templet of sea water have been tott ed, taken from tbe Irish and English coasts, the North and South Atlantic, tbe Mediterranean, tbe Black, sea, the Arabian tea, and in bit own deter, mlnatlon from tbe Gulf of Mexico S00 miles touth of Mobile. Discarding ex treme result, with a maximum 60 time greater than the minimum, It I concluded that the total radium In ' the sea somewhat exceeds 1,400 ton. A river contain little, It I assumed that this supply come from uranium In the sea, which must reach a total ot nearly 4,200,000,000 ton, making ura nium In sea-water comparable In quan tity to gold.
