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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
In the Home - Fashions - Household Hints Recipes
THE various kinds of cereals require
different lengths of time for cook
. ing. Wheat preparations should be
cooked at least two hours; oat meal is
pot thoroughly cooked short of five
hours. If cereal is purchased in a pack
ago, it is advisable to double the length
Of timo for cooking specified in the di
rections. A general rule for combining
the ingredients in cooking cereal por
ducts is as follows: Allow one tea
Bpoonful of salt to each quart of water.
Bring the water to a boil in the upper
part of the double boiler and slowly
stir in tho cereal. After tho mixture
has boiled tip, place the vessel over hot
wator in tho lowor part of tho boiler
and cook the required length of time,
without stirring. Enough water should
be used in cooking the cereal to swell
the grains to the maximum size; but
guard against the gruel consistency, as
the cereal will then slip down in all
probability without thorough mastica
tion. Fruits served with cereals provide
delicious variations, ltice cooked with
raisins, steamed rice with figs as a gar
nish and dates with oatmeal are whole
some and dainty breakfast dishes.
Way to Wash Bedding
W"3E following is the best way to
I wash blankets: Slice half a cake of
any good laundry soap in two quarts
of water. Set on the stove and stir un
til dissolved. When dissolved, add to
cold water in a tub. To this soapy water
add four tablespoonfuls of powdered
borax. Soak the blankets in this over
night or for several hours. Wash io
this water. Rinse twice in cold water,
wring and hang on the line. This recipe
will wash four blankets. Be sure and
use only cold wator, and they will come
forth as soft and beautifuras when new.
A teaspoonful of glycerine added to the
rinse water will improve them.
Arcry heavy blankets may sometimes
be cleaned by hanging them on the line
and turning the hose on them, spraying
them all over. Stretch them full length,
and fasten a heavy weight at each hang
ing corner to prevent tho wind from
swaying and wrapping thorn into a roll
upon the line. The weights hold them
in shape, and when spread out in this
manner they dry quickly.
Cotton blankets are washed differ
ently from those mado of wool. Soap
them well with laundry soap, fold, and
allow them to soak in tepid water. Wash
them in an hour or so and place' in a
boiler of hot suds to steam, not boil.
Binse in several waters. Use a very
little bluing and dry them double on
the line. Tress dry on the wrong side.
. Quilts that are liable to fade if
trashed, may be cleaned with gasoline.
Allow it to remain over night. Drain
and place in a second tub of gasoline.
Strain -the gasoline in the first tub and
use it, with a fresh supply for cleaning
the second piece. When washing col
ored quilts avoid using alkali. It will
run the colors and ruin the material.
If quilts are badly soiled, put kerosene
in tho first tub. It will cut the dirt.
Bedding washed early in the spring
may be dried out of doors, bit the
pieces should afterward be thrown over
a line hung in a room, to dry thoroughly.
Ticking should be soaked in water con
taining borax. Iron the pieces dry, If
thin, coat lightly with paraffin on the
wrong side. This will prevent feathers
irom working through.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
CIMFOBTS and quilts dried in a good
stiff breeze will be as light and
fluffy as when new.
Save cold tea left after supper and
'use in place of water on your house
plants.
If yonr rugs curl at the edges they
way be made to lie flat by dampening
the curled edges, and pressing with a
Jiot iron on the wrong side.
Lamp chimneys rubbed with salt af
ter washing have a surprising brilliancy.
A few drops of turpentine added to
the water in which clothes are boiled
will whiten thera,
Clean gilt frames with a sponge mois-
tenou with turpentine.
Creamed cauliflower served in green
- makes a dish as tasty as it is
ing to the eye.
fou must clean a window in a hurry
on a cold day dampen a rag in alcohol;
it will work fine.
Dried fruits should be thoroughly
washed and soaked until they swell to
normal sira, before stewing.
Little scraps of sheer white material
can be made into dainty little handker
chiefs for the children to carry to
school. ,
Borax is most effective in softening
water for laundry purposes, as it whit
ens the clothes and does not injure the
hands.
A teaspoonful of creolin put into a
quart of tepid water makes a good dis
Fashion Talks
8297 One-Piece Skirt With Yoke For
Misses and Small Women,
16 and 18 Tears.
With Single or double puffed tunic
with natural waist line or with high
waist lino with or without shirring and
frill.
IRLS who are planning summer
U frocks will be sure to like this
skirt. It is the very newest to
have appeared and is in every way
charming for summer fabrics. Since it
can be mnde with single or double
puffed tunic, ib-can be utilized for dif
fcrent purposes and for different ma
terials and can be varied in many ways.
This is a silk season and any one of
the summer silks will be charming made
with the double puff and frill but the
model also is a pretty one for cotton
crepe and all materials of such sort. For
a dancing frock, a smart and attractive
effect can be obtained by omitting the
lower puff and substituting a flounce
of lace. White taffeta mado in this
way with a bodice of lace makes a really
ideal dross for summer functions. There
is only one piece in the skirt but it is
joined to a yoke beneath the tunic and
the upper edge of tho puff is attached
to this yoke at whatever point the fin
ish is made.
For the 18 year size, the skirt will
require 5 3-4 yds. of material 27, 4 yds.
30, 8 yds. 44 in. wide.
The pattern 8297 is cut in sizes for
16 and 18 years.
Recipes
THE latest addition to culinary lit
erature contains a recipe for brown
bread, contributed by the former
Mrs. Cleveland: "Take one bowlful of
Indian meal, one bowlful of rye flour
and one bowlful of sour milk, one large
cupful of molasses, one teaspoonful of
salt. Bteam ior two anu a nan nours
and bake from 20 minutes to half an
hour, depending upon the heat of the
oven.
Strawberry Conserve,
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan gives
a recipe for strawberry conserve that
sounds very good. Four boxes of straw
berries and one pineapple aro required.
Crush tho berries a little. Put pine
apple througBT a meat grinder, using
coarsest wheel. Place pineapple over
infectant in which to dip the broom
whon sweeping.
It is said that white vegetables like
cauliflower will keep their color while
boiling if a couple of lumps of sugar are
put into the water.
Have some clever and bright quota
tions from your favorite authors hang
ing in. the kitchen; they may cheer you
when the cake burns.
You'll find it an excellent habit to
always wash dishes and tidy the kitchen
before starting your daily work else
where in the house.
By May Manton
8215 Child's Petticoat, 2 to 8 ears.
With High or Natural Waist Line.
Clothing that is supported at the
shoulders and unconfined at the waist
lino is perhaps the best for little chil
dren. This petticoat is very charming
in a simple dainty way and Is closed
by means of buttons and button' holes
at the shoulders, the back portion being
cut to form straps. On the figure it
is made of batiste with scalloped edgos
and there is a great tendency toward
a finish of that sort. Scallops wear
well and are very pretty, while hand
work gives a certain sense of refine
ment not to be found in any other
trimming. Children's frocks must be
straight and narrow as well as their
elders' and the simplo finish is' desir
able, but wherever needed the frill can
bo added. There are only two portions
to the petticoat, and, consequently, only
under arm seams. In the back viow the
neck and armhole edges are finished
with under facings and narrow frills.
For tho 4-year size the petticoat will
require lb yds. of material 30, 1-3 yd,
44 in. wide with 1 3-4 yds. embroidery
3 in. wide for the ruffle, 1 1-4 yds. of
insertion, 2 3-4 yds of edging.
The pattern of tho petticoat 8215 is
cut in sizes from 2 to 6 years. Ask
your merchant for this pattern.
slow fire until juice comes out; add
berries. If there does not seem to be
juico enough to keep fruit from burn
ing add a littlo water. When tho fruit
is tender add sugar to taste. Boil down
to the thickness -dosired. Stir con
stantly.
Texas Corn Bread.
Mrs. Albert Sidney Burleson, wife of
the postmaster general, is a uative of
Texas, and sho has given a recipo for
genuine Texas corn bread. Sho says
"The best corn bread in the world is
mnde of simple cornmcal, scalded with
a littlo boiling water and thinned with
cold water; salt aud melted lard, two
tablespoonfuls to a cupful of meal. Bake
in a shallow pan insido tho oven or on
a griddle on top of tho stove. We never
eat corn bread made in any ether way. '
Dressing Beef.
Very quaint arc tho recipes furnished
by Mrs. Champ Clark, wife of tho speak
er of the house of representatives, tor
some of them date back to revolution
ary days. Here is one: " To dress beef
sufficient for two gentlemen, with a
fire made of two newspapers.
"LeU the beef be cut in slices and
Dut on a Dewter clatter. Pour on water
sufficient to cover the slices, salt and
pepper to taste and cover with another
platter, inverted. Placo the dish upon
a stool, buttom upward, the legs of such
a length as to raise the platter several
inches from the board, cut tno news
naners into strins. lieht with a candle
and apply them gradually, so as to keep
a low fire under the whole aisn. w neu
the paper is burned the steak will be
done."
Pear Preserves.
Mrs. Clark is also the happy possessor
of Martha Washington's recipe for pear
preserves.'
"Ye pears should be very iresne.
Washe and put them into boiling lye for
a minute. Removo and place them m
cold water. Next put ye fruit into a
prepared sirupe of sugar and water. Use
half a poung of sugar for everie pouna
of ye fruit; water to dissolve. Now
cook for a quarter of an hour. Remove
and put on plate to cool. Boyle sugar
down to one-half its original quantetio.
Pot ye sirupe and pears into jars ana
add brandy. Seal while hotte."
Sic and Cheese.
Tinil one enn of rice in milk seasoned
with butter, salt and pepper, until done,
thnn nil t in hakinff dish and grate a
good layer of cheese over the top, bake
until well browned, use as vegeiaoie u
preferred,
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