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About Beaverton times. (Beaverton, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1915)
WITH COFFEE FLAVOR VARIOUS PREPARATIONS THAT MAY BE RECOMMENDED. Mid From It Uee m Beverage Thar Art a Number of Way In Which Dalleloua Baan May Ba Employed. Coffee la a flavor always at the call of the cook, and one that con be re lied on when trulta fall. The medici nal qualities of coffee are due to its aromatic essential oil and it Is that, of course, which gives the flavor. As the roasting brings out the flavor of the oil, the roasting should be care fully done. When using coffee for flavoring make it by percolating boil ing water through the freshly ground beans. Coffee Jelly. Soak an ounce of gelatin in a cupful of cold water and dissolve in three cupfuls of boiling water. Add two cupfuls of sugar and two of strong coffee, and strain into mold. ' Harden and serve with whipped cream, garnished with mao aroons. Coffee Mousse. Boll a cupful of coffee and two tablespoonfula of sugar together, and slowly pour it over two egg yolka. stirring all the time. Strain when cold and add two cupfuls of whipped cream. Pour into a mold and pack in ice and salt for three or four hours. Serve In tall glasses. Coffee Icing. Melt two cupfuls of sugar and boll until It forms a string from the spoon. Stand the saucepan in a dish of cold water until the sugar begins to form on the sides, and then work in a cupful of strong coffee, pressing It against the sides of the saucepan with a spoon. When the mass granulates it is ready to nse as icing. Coffee Cake. Cream halt a cupful of butter with two cupfuls of sugar. Add half a saltapoonful of cloves and a saltspoonful each of mace and cinna mon, with a cupful of molasses. Beat for five minutes, and add the creamy yolks of three eggs and a cupful of strong coffee. Then alternately add live cupfuls of sifted flour and the whitea of three eggs beaten stiff, a teaspoonful of saleratus dissolved in hot water. Lastly stir in a quarter of a pound each of raisins and cur rants. This will make two loaves. It should be kept covered after it is baked, as it loses flavor it left un covered. Coffee Pudding. Beat four eggs thoroughly and add five tablespoonfula of sugar and half a teaspoonful of salt Gradually add two cupfuls of boiling milk and half a cupful of hot coffee. Pour Into a pudding dish and bake in a pan 01 water in a hot oven. Serve very cold. Coffee Creams. Mix strong coffee with confectioners' sugar, a little vanilla, a tablespoonful or two of cream and the white of an egg. Add enough sugar to make a stiff cream, mold into balls and put a walnut meat on each side of each ball. Peach Jelly, Soak one-half cupful of gelatin, one cupful of sugar and one dozen of halved peaches for one hour, then pour over a cupful of boiling water, press all through a strainer and stir over the fire until gelatin dissolves, then set aside to cooL When ready to harden stir in a cupful of whipped cream with a pinch of soda. Put Into a mold and set on the Ice. Southern Batter Bread. Two cupfuls white Indian meal, one cupful cold boiled rice, three . eggs well beaten, one tablespoonful melted butter, two and one-half cupfuls of milk, one teaspoonful salt, pinch of soda. Stir the beaten eggs Into the milk, the meal, salt, butter, and last of all the rice. Beat well and bake quickly in a shallow pan. Reetpe may b halved with success. SALMON WITH BOILED EGG Delicious Trifle for Hostess to Serve to Guests at Formal or In formal Luncheon, A salmon sandwich Is a tempting ar ticle of food, and should be half mixed with chopped boiled egg and very thin slices of olives and pickles. The wise hostess will make two different kinds of sandwiches, some with the mix ture moistened with vinegar or lemon juice, others without, for many per sons cannot eat acids. Practically all meat sandwiches are extremely rich, and strong condiments are used in the tilling, especially mustard and catchup. While white meat makes a delicate sandwich, darker meats mixed with mayonnaise and other relishes are more appetizing In every way. When hot sandwiches are served at a noon day luncheon at home, the contents of the sandwich should be placed be tween the layers of bread and fried, or the bread toasted and covered with a cooked meat filling, then covered with buttered toast and served hot ECONOMY IN THE LAUNDRY Savings May Seem Small, but Amount to a Lot In the Course of a Year. Soft water for use in laundry work, saves soap, clothing, time, energy and money. Buying soap by the box is more eco nomical than buying It by the quar ter's worth. Removing the soap from the box, and piling it In such a way that It will dry, causes It to wash away less rapidly, and therefore to last longer, than If not dried. Having a firm, substantial wash bench, of a height suited to the worker, so constructed as to hold the tubs securely in position, saves time and energy. A good stationary wringer, or one which is so made as to be clamped securely to the tub, Is a necessity. When through using the wringer, loosen the screwB to relieve the pres sure on the rubber rollers; wash clean, wipe dry and put it away where it will keep clean until needed. Occasionally cleaning the wringer with kerosene, and the washing with soapsuds, rinsing and drying, tends to keep It In good condition. Unique Salad and Dessert. . Extra mayonnaise Is served in a half lemon skin that has been relieved of the pulp and had a slice cut from the end so it stands upright It may also be covered with a fluted paper cap. ' The yokes of hard-cooked eggs may have pepper, salt, olive oil, a dash of Worcestershire sauce added to them and mixed to a paste, then formed Into small balls, roll them In powdered nuts and drop them Into the salad, using the rings of white for the garnish on top. f For the simple borne luncheon the ordinary pancake may do duty for dessert Kitchen Hints. If an ordinary white pin Is held be tween the teeth while peeling onions It will do away with forced weeping. It you want only a little bread crumbs and are not a provident house keeper with a Jarful ready rub two stale bread crusts together over a bowl until enough Is rubbed off. This saves time and trouble of cetting out board and rolling pin. Corn Puffs Luncheon Dish. Mix one and one-half cupfuls canned corn with one cupful milk and yolks of two eggs beaten; stir one rounding teaspoonful baking powder into on and one-half cupfuls pastry flour and one-half teaspoonful salt Fold in the beaten whites after the other ingredi ents are thoroughly mixed. Bake in gam pans 20 minutes In a moderately hot oven. GROWTH OF MODERN NAVIES Ironclad and Submarine May Be Said to Be the Result of Evolution. Ironclad is the name given to a naval vessel wholly or partly cased with Iron plates. It was given before the days of modern steel battleships. The experience of the British and French fleet before Sebastopol, during the Crimean war, demonstrated the need of armor for battleships. The French at once began to build Ave armor-plated vessels, and the British followed soon after. In 1859 a belt of armor was fitted to a wooden vessel, renamed La Qloire, and she was the first armor-clad warship. In June, 1859, the British government began the construction of the armor-plated all-Iron frigate Warrior. She was the first iron warship, and was completed In 1861. Converted Into a floating workshop, she was still In use In 1910, under the name of Vernon III. The Nemesis, an iron vessel, not a battle ship, had been engaged in 1842 in the Chinese war, but great objection was felt to iron as a material for battle ships before the Crimean war on ac count of the supposed danger from the enemy's shot. The Introduction of iron as a recognized material for ships In general is often dated 1818, when the lighter Vulcan was built near Glas gow. The very first Iron boat built was launched on the River Foss, in Yorkshire, In 1777. The earliest attempts at a subma rine craft began early In the seven teenth century. The earliest success which has been chronicled was that of 1620, when a Dutch natural phi losopher, Cornelia van Drebbel, built a boat which could be submerged. The first undoubted success was se cured by the American engineer Bush nell in 1775, with a turtle-like craft, worked by one man. During the war of Independence a boat of this kind was submerged below the British war ship Eagle, and the operator tried to attach a magazine containing fifteen pounds of gunpowder to her bottom planking. Ho failed In his object, but the magazine later exploded some dis tance from the ship. One of the first submarines of me chanical power was the French Plon geur, built in 1863 from designs by Brun. During the Civil war the Con federates built a number of cigar shaped boats, some worked by hand and some by steam, which were armed with torpedoes. They were known as Davids on the account of their size a compared with battleships. In 1864 a hand-worked one attacked the Federal ship Housatonlc and sank her by means of a spar torpedo, though the submarine herself was sunk in the operation. Many other Inventors, ot course, besides those mentioned have succeeded In the construction ot sub nerslbles. New Aid for Cupid, New York Is full ot lonesome girls who are Just pining away because they have no male to tote them around. For this reason it has been proposed that an introduction bureau be estab Untied where young people may meet, become acquainted and help Increase the earnings ot the marriage license bureau. But here's the proprietor of a beef-and emporium who advises all lonely girls to become waitresses. He says the brown-the-hash girls have stenographers beaten to a frazzle in the pastime of grabbing off mftal ticket. In fact, he says more wait resses are marrying their bosses than those engaged In the gentle occupa tion of mauling a typewriter. "I don't know of an occupation where girls get married quicker." says the restaurant man. "I have bad six girls In my em ploy marry In four months, and all married well. A waitress makes good tips and meets hundreds every week, and men get a chance to study them more than in any othor trado. A wait ress ba a chance to study men and can pick her company Intelligently."-) New York Time JOHN SAW THE LIGHT AND THE WEDDINQ BELLS RANG IN DUE COURSE. Fact That Mollis Had Much the Best of the Situation May Have Had Something to Do With HI ' Decision. It Is three years since the report of the ease with which wealth could be acquired Id this country reached John Doe's ears in Europe and lured him across the broad Atlantic To the questions ot the Immigration Inspec tors at Ellis Island John Doe answered that he had been twenty-three years In this world; that the blessedness ot the married state had never appealed to him, and that he could eke out hi existence by plying his trade as a cloakmaker, His first year In American John Do devoted to earning and saving every cent he could, picking up English meanwhile. The second year found him starting out In business for him self and meeting with marked suc cess. The third year a general strike occurred among the cloakmaker and the manufacturers had a hard Urn to pull through. The strike found John with large batch of unfilled orders contracted for at the lower rate ot wages. When th workmen had won their strike for higher pay and returned to work John discovered himself facing bankruptcy and he cast about him for a mean to save what he could out of the wreck. MolIIe was an exceedingly pretty girl. Even John, whose thought were devoted to ways and means tor mak ing money, noticed this fact, and now as he racked his brain for a scheme to save something from the oncoming storm he looked reflectively at Mollle where she sat working at a sewing machine, and a plan suddenly occurred to him. Why not pretend that ba was ongaged to Mollle and give her valu able presents ot Jewelry In honor of the fictitious event, and when the bankruptcy had blown over reclaim his property and start up again with the money thus spared T When first she heard of It Mollle demurred at being a party to such project, but upon John' offering ber a substantial consideration she con sented to undertake the role of tem porary fiancee. John then presented her with several pieces of diamond Jewelry, lucb a a ring or two, a lavalllore and earrings, and to make the engagement leem more plausible he fitted out a flat with nice furniture. After the bankruptcy took place John wa forced to testify to the various presents be had made to hi fiancee, and the court thereupon or dered that all the jewelry be turned over to the receiver In bankruptcy. In the course of time John's case wa completed and he wa free to start over again. Accordingly he de termined to sell the furniture he had bought for hi supposed bride-to-be, but by this time Mollis had become so attached to the furniture and so reconciled to the thought ot getting married that she refused to give up the property. John wa In a quan dary. "You promised to return it to me wbon I bought it and put It here," said John, as he looked around the cozy little flat "But all my friends think we are really and truly going to be married toon, and I! I return It to you and we don't get married I may never get another young man. If you are going to break off the engagement you should at least leave me the furniture so that I will have It for a dowry when I do got married." John looked at Mollle and she was really good to look upon. "I was only tooling you," said he with a smile. "Como, loft get mar ried right away."