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In the Home - Fashions - Household Hints -- Recipes
WHITE broad was said by experts,
or by thoso who claim to be ex
perts, to be much superior to
brown bread a few mouths ago, and we
woro told that the idea of eating gra
ham bread or any bread containing
part or all of the bran of wheat and
other portions of the grain which are
taken out in the bolting process was
old fashioned and might lead to injury.
Now come the medical inspectors of
the French army, a group of very dis
tinguished physicians and scientists,
who say that bolting pushed beyond a
certain limit eliminates the useful ele
ment of flour in moro than one respect
and does nothing but improve the color
of the bread. When white bread is
used exclusively they have found that
the men eat and need more meat, but
When the flour is only partially bolted
and only the coarser particles of the
bran aro removed the soldiers are in
better health and they eat less meat,
which results in superior economy and
efficiency at the same time. The method
of bolting flour was invented some cen
turies ago and it seems about time that
the relative values of white and un
bolted flour wero settled, but the doc
tors can no more agiee about it than
they can about the therapeutic value
of alcohol.
Recip
es
Substitute for Eggs.
When the cake-maker hesitates to
begin her baking for fear of extrava
gance in eggs, let her try gelatine in
their place. A tablespoonful of gela
tine added to a cake batter will equal
three eggs. Dissolve it in a little cold
water and add enough boiling water to
make a cupful. Beat it with an egg
beater and add to the cake, and see if
you can tell the dijerenco.
' Spanish Beefsteak.
Take about two pounds round steak
an ineh thick, pound until thin, season
with salt and cayenne pepper, cover
with a layer of bacon or salt pork cut
in thin slices, roll and tie with a cord;
placo in a covered baking dish and
pour around it half a cup each of milk
and water; cook two hours, basting oc
casionally. Potted Steak.
Three pounds of bottom round steak,
iix onions (medium size), one cupful
of diced turnips, ono cupful of tomato
juice, two cupfuls of green peas, one
tablespoonful of salt, one-eight tea-
spoonful of popper. Cut the steak in
pieces suitable for serving, dip in flour
and brown well in drippings. Add the
onions, turnips, tomato juice and seas
onings and barely cover with boiling
Water. Simmer until tender (about two
and one-half hours), replenishing the
yrater if necessary.
Salted Almonds.
Blanch by pouring boiling water
Over them and rubbing the brown skin
off with a cloth. When blanched and
dry, over each cupful pour one table
spoonful olive oil. Let stand one hour.
Sprinkle one tablespoonful salt over
each cupful. Mix thoroughly. Spread
on tin pan. Place in warm oven ten
minutes.
.
Graham Gems.
One pint of sour or buttermilk, 1 tea
Upoon soda (stir well), half cup sugar,
half cup molasses, 1 cup of flour, half
eup corn meal, 2 cups graham, 1 tea
spoon salt. Bake 30 or 40 minutes in a
loaf or gem pan. This is fine.
Good Supper Dish.
One cup rice, washed several times;
oak 1 hour in warm water; then put on
to cook with 1 quart tomatoes, 2 me
dium sized onions, minced fine; 1 table
ipoon of butter, salt and a pinch of red
pepper. Cook one hour and serve pip
ing hot.
To Preserve Butter for Length of Time.
Work out all the buttermilk, use rock
salt, ppr' ' airtight jars or cans, keep
in a com j...;ce and you will have good
butter all summer or longer if desired
Apple Salad.
Choose a solid apple, peel and scoop
ut the inside, leaving just a shell of
the apple. Chop half a cupful of nuts
and mix with the chopped apple taken
from the inside and a quantity of may
onnaise. Fut back into the shell and
serve on a lettuce leaf.
German Potato Salad.
Six medium sized potatoes, one-fourth
pound fat bacon, one small onion, two
teaspoons salt, one-fourth teaspoon of
black pepper, one-half cup hot vinegar,
one-half cup hot water, two tablespoons
salad oil. Cut bacon into small dice
and put into frying pan over a slow
fire. Shred the onion into a large bowl.
add salt, hot vinegar and hot water.
When the fat is a light brown eolor ana
the dice well crisped, add onion turn-1
ing slowly at first. Serve on crisp let
tuce and garnish with pickled beets.
Baked Bice Pudding.
Boil ono-half cup of rice in plenty of
water, and when cooked drain, put in
buttered pudding dish with one pint of
milk, four level tenspoonfuls of sugar,
nutmeg to taste, one-half teaspoon of
salt and two or three eggs. Bake as
you would custard, stirring frequently,
until custard begins to form. Tapioca
can be used the same way by soaking
one-half cup of tapioca over night, then
drain and proceed as above. Bake in a
moderate ove- so custard does not boil.
Kitchen Tables.
There are kitchen tables now with
tops covered with zinc. Where there is
no room, and where you can not afford
to put in a kitchen cabinet, a table of
this kind will prove very satisfactory
and is inexpensive. A top of this sort
is easy to keep clean and is indestruct
ible. The white oilcloth makes a neat
table, but it has to be renewed often.
An old-fashioned marble top or a slab
of soapstone is fine for making pastry
or candies of the cream variety which
require a board for kneading and
molding.
Tongue and Egg Salad,
Cut cold tongue in thin slices, then
cut again into pieces about ono inch
square; arrange a layer of tongue on
fresh lettuce leaves, and on the tongue
place a layer of hard-boiled eggs sliced
thin; then another layer of tongue, and
cover all with a good mayonnaise. Dec
orate tho dish with slices of cold beets
and parsley.
Jellied Meat,
One cup of beef which hag been
cooked and put through food chopper,
half cup bread crumbs, salt and popper
to taste, mix well. Stir into this two
thirds cup of boiling wator which has
had one-half an envelope of gelatin dis
solved in it. Pack in a tin and set in
a cool place, after which it can be
sliced.
Window Draperies for Country Homes.
Dotted or figured swiss is charming
for the window draperies in the sleep
ing-room of a country home if the col
ors harmonize with the wall paper and
other things in the room. Kaw silk,
sundour or a mercerized material are
also all right.
The Fireplace in Summer.
Make the fireplace attractive in Sum
mor by having a box to fit it, the box
to be filled with soil and used to hold
ferns transplanted from the woods. A
white birch log may be cut the desired
length and placed in front of the boi
to hide it. It will give the effect of
ferns growing behind the log.
Fashion Talks By May Manton
Kitchen Motto
SOMETHING a little unusual as a
kitchen help found its way to one
woman m kitchen a framed copy
of one of Robert Louis btevenson g
prayers. "The petty round of irritat
ing concerns and duties," to which he
referred, seemed to her a particularly
appropriate phrase for the domestic routine.
His petition for help to perform them
"with laughter and kind faces" is a
good tonic with which to roll up one's
sleeves and plunge in. "Give us to go
blithely on our business," prayed the
brave poet, stricken as he was with
mortal disease; and the housekeeper
echoes the prayer however weary she
may bo. This idea is worth imitating.
Stationers and art dealers lurnisn an
attractive selection which find their
way into many offices and homes. The
fashion of introducing them into kitch
ens might be followed with advantage.
Th reason why opali are an often lost
from their tutting 1 that they expand with
heart more than other precious Btonea, and
consequently fores open the go'i which holda
them in placo.
Household Hints
8211 Two-Pieco Flounced Skirt,
22 to 30 waist,
WITH OR WITHOUT RUFFLE.
Everything that flares to produce a
wido effect to the skirt is fashionable.
This one is mado with two circular
flounces. It is very simple and very
smart and it can be treated in a number
of different ways. As shown here, it is
all of one material but the flounces
could be mado of plaid or other fancy
material while the skirt is plain, or, if
the material is heavy and it is desirable
to reduce the weight, thin silk can be'
used for tho skirt beneath the flounces
while the lower portion only is of the
material. Tho model is a good one for
all reasonable materials. Tho heavier
ones will require only to be stitched on
tho edges, the lighter ones, such as taf
feta and other silks, can be finished
with little plaitings of ribbon of nar
row ruchings of tho material or in any
mannor that tends to give the effect of
fullness at the lower edges.
For the medium size, the skirt will
require 2j yds. of material 27, 44 or 50
in. wido, with 2f yds. 27, 2J yds. 44 or
02 in. wide for the flounces; width at
lower edge 3 yd. and 20 in., for medium
also. Ask your merchant for this pattern.
8215 Two-Piece Skirt for Misses and
Small Women, 16 and 18 years.
WITH BUSTLE EFFECT, IUGII OB
NATURAL WAIST LINE.
Here is one of tho very newest skirts.
It is made in two pieces but there is a
seam at the front and one at the back
in place of the sides and the fullness
that comes at tho front is laid in plaits.
At the back there is a quite novel
treatment, the skirt being slashed and
joined to a yoke while the outer portion
is arranged to give a bustle effect. Ihe
model can be used with success for the
Spring suitings, for silk and also for
linen and tho like, for it is rcaliy very
simple and means no complication that
will prove a hindrance to tho laun
dress. In the picture, tho material is
taffeta and the simply Bitched edges
mako some thing of a feature.
For tho 16-year size, the skirt will
require 8J yds. of material 27, 26 or 44
in, wide, i'he width at tho lower edge
is 3 yd. and 33 in.
The patter- of the skirt 8215 is cut in
sizes for 16 and 18 years. It will be
mailed to any address by the Fashion
Department of this paper, on ecoipt of
ton cents. Ask your merchant for this
pattern.
Use vinegar instead of water to thin
paste, and the paste will not spoil.
Ordinary adhesive plaster will mend
satisfactorily a rent in an umbrella,
A cloth moistened with camphor will
remove white spots from furniture.
White or very pale shades of dress
goods can be successfully dyed any
color.
To civ a soft tread to oilcloth, ai
well as to increase its length of serviee,
put a layer of sawdust on the floor be.
fore.' laying the oilcloth.
Plant brushes that have become dry
and hard may be softened by immers
ing in boiling vinegar for u few nun.
utes, aftorward washing in strong soapsuds.
In addition to trimming the stems of
cut flowers to Testore or preserve their
freshness, place a small piece of char
coal or borax in the water. U roees,
add salt.
Contrary to belief, a cedar cheat
may bo used in any room and will
go well with any furniture. As a util
ity article, it is used by itself and in
most cases tbe natural finish is to be
desired.
Waxed floors may be kept in excel
lent condition by rubbing once a week
with a mixture of equal parts of tur
pentino, sweet oil and vinegar, using a
soft cloth. Tolish afterward with a
soft rag, which may bo wrapped around
a floor broom.
To clean matting, brush it free of all
surface dirt and then scrub it with
bran water or with water to which a
small quantity of salt has been added.
Rinse with cold water, run as ary as
possible and hang on line to complete
drying. Do not use soap, wnicn ua a
tendency to turn matting yenuw.
Tim best silver polish is of whiting,
either fluid or moistened with alcohol
or sweet oil, prepared chalk, cream of
tartar, milk or a solution or aium.
Moisten the whiting with soapy water,
rub it over the silver carefully and al
low it to dry; then rub it off with
very soft woolon or linen clotn.
THE UNTRAINED MOTHER.
PROBABLY the idea of training the
children aright started with Mosea,
Solomon prodded it along a littlo.
But no ono seems to have given any
admonitions about trailing the pnrcn'1.
No doubt all the rules for bringing
up children wore laid down by the par
ents themselves, so, of course, thoy
complacently think they are quito cap
able of rearing children properly. But
many paronts need training quite at
much as tho children, and many a
young boy or girl whose life Is wrecked
is primarily not to blame for it. The
real cause lies not with his or her will
ingness or deception, but with the par
ents, who lacked the training that fitte4
them to guide the Uvea of others.
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