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In the Home - Fashions - Household Hints - Recipes
ITOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
Household Hints
TAKE a large wooden barrel hoop,
eut in two in the middle, fasten 3
or 4 feet apart with lath, then
tack on mosquito bar. This is good to
keep the flies off baby while he is
sleeping.
Baking soda will remove coffee stains
from dishes. Moiston the soda and rub
on the spot with a cloth. 6oda will
also remove berry Btains from granite
ware, tinware and the hands.
To prevent the stains that often re
sult from muddy skirts dilute sour milk
with water and soak the skirt in it
overnight, then wash In the usual way.
The skirt will wash easier and look
whiter.
If yon have beans to ean snap them
as for fresh eating, and to two quarts
of rain water use three tablespoonsful
of good vinegar. Boil the beans till al
most tender, and seal in glass jars.
" To Darken the Stove To darken the
top of a eook stove form a piece of
clean old cotton cloth into a pad, wet,
sqncezo and apply any yellow laundry
soap and rub the top" until the pad
becomes too hot, then dip tho soap into
water, rub tho eloth and the stove, and
continue the process. If a stove is
soaped twice a day or even once, just
after dinner, it will be kept in a pre
eontablo condition during the after
noon. The soapy odor may be overcome
by placing a pinch of ground coffee on
tho stove top. There is an old saying
that a new stove rubbed daily with a
soaped cloth will never need blacken
ing on the top.
Salt fish aro quickest and best fresh
enod by soaking in sour milk.
Pillowcase tubing makes practical
petticoats for small children.
Jelly roll rolls easier if tnrned out
on a hot cloth. Boll np and pin the
eloth firmly around nnti cool.
A wholesome salad is made of cooked
or well-soaked table prunes, tho seeds
removed and stuffed with nuts. Serve
on a lettuce leaf with salad dressing.
To remove paint from the window
panes, dissolve soda in hot water, wash
the glass with it, and In half an hour
rub the paint off with a dry cloth.
When stitching seams on tho machine
in a silk garment, use either fine cot
ton or one thread cotton and the other
ilk. By so doing yon will obviate any
puckering of the seams, and if you
should have occasion to rip them, yon
will have less trouble.
"When placing a patch pocket on a
oat of woolen or silk material, slip a
narrow piece of fcatherbone through
the top hem and catch It fast to eaeh
tide when you stitch the pocket in
place. This will prevent the pocket sag
ging at the side.
Always use very fine eotton when
stitching chiffon, crepe de chins, silk,
muslin net, mousaeline, or any of the
finer materials. Place a piece of clean
paper under the goods and stitch it
with the material, then tear away the
paper after the work is done. In this
way you will avoid having the woTk
puckered or drawn.
Cold breakfast cereal molded In small
nps and served with dates or fruits is
appetizing for supper, provided it ean
be served with rich cream. Good gems
are mado by taking equal quantities of
flour and breakfast food, adding one
teaspoonful of baking powder to a cup
of the mixture, and then adding suffi
cient milk to make a batter which will
drop from the spoon. Mix thoroughly
and bake in hot buttered gem pans.
Having tho pans very hot is one of the
secrets of success with these gems.
To remove a rusty screw which fails
to yield to the screwdriver, apply a
heavy skewer, or other piece of metal,
seated red hot, and when the screw
Itself is hot, the trouble will bo over
come. On wash day, if having to rinse in
hard water, before adding the bluing
to the water, add a cup of sweet milk
and the clothos will sot bo streaked
but white.
To remove the odor of fish from
silver knives or forks or from dishes,
let them stand for a little whilo in
old water before washing them,
Before and After Cooking
(Special to Farm Magazine.)
INSTRUCTIONS for eooking a meal,
together with the preliminary and
the subsequent operations, have
been given to members of the Girls' In
dustrial Clubs in Oregon by Mrs. Lulie
Bobbins, extension worker of tho Ore
gon Agricultural College, in a manner
so plain and so easily understood and
followed that ignorance of the funda
mental home processes should be con
siderably less in evidence when the
thonsands of members throughout the
state have finished their project. The
instructions not only give the methods
of eooking but explain fully how to
prepare for the work and how to "rid
np" after the cooking operations have
been completed.
Beforo beginning tho cooking be sure
to Fave everything in readiness. There
must be plenty of fuel on hand for the
fire, and the utensils well cleaned
should be within easy reach or placed
on the table. It is a good plan to have
a pan or plate just to hold spoons,
knives, egg beater and other such
things necessary to the work. It will
not only result in having them handy
to use but will avoid soiling the table.
Bo sure to have the hands washed
clean and tho dress protected with an
apron. Watch yourself carefully and
see how many unnecessary bowls and
cooking utensils you use. Try to use
as few as possible and work as quickly
as good work will allow. It is not
necessary to spread work all over the
kitchen or leave signs of disorder any
where. Coarse grains like hominy or cracked
wheat should be well picked over,
washed and soaked. To make them
really good and thoroughly digestible
the prepared breakfast foods need much
longer cooking than the time stated on
the package.
To avoid lumping, all finely ground
eereals should be moistened with cold
water before being added slowly to
boiling wateT. Allow one teaspoon of
salt to every quart of water. Cereals
are best cooked in a double boiler. Such
a boiler can be easily improvised by
putting a small pan in a larger one
that is partly filled with water, in such
a way that the bottom of the smaller
docs not rest on the larger. Cereals
and other starchy foods should bo cook
ed a long time, Tho starch is protect
ed by several outer coverings of the
grain. Theso coverings must be suffi
cient in eooking so that the starch may
swell and burst from tho grains. Con-
Fashion Talks By May Manton
LACE FLOUNCING ARE TO EE MUCH USED THIS SEASON.
M LMOST every possi-
ble kind of lace
flouncing is fash
ionable this season and,
since the long straight
tunics are greatly in
vogue, lace is used to
great advantage. This
young girl's costume, for
example, is made of
white taffeta and white
lace, the result being an
extremely dainty gown
available for various
afternoon functions. If
preferred, the sleeves
ean be mado shorter
and the flaring collar
omitted, .giving just the
round neck finish, but
tho long sleeves make a
somewhat important fea
ture of latest fashions.
The frock is a very aim-,
pie one in spite of its
extreme smartness and
consists of a two-piece
skirt with a tunic ar
ranged over it and a
blouse that is full be
low a yoke. In the
smaller view, it is shown
made of striped and
plain wool material and
the result is a simple
dress that eould be used
for school or college or
any every day occasion.
When one model can be
made to serve for two
inch widely different
purposes and effect two
sueh distinctly different
costumes, it is indeed an
available one.
For the 16 year size,v
the dress will require lj
yards of material 27, 4
yards 16, 8 yards 44
inches wide, with 2
yards of flouncing 24
inches wide, 2J yards
lnee 6 inches wide for
bertha, 1 yards for
sleove frills; or, 2) yards
of striped material 36,
2J yards 44 inches wide
and 8 yards 44 inches
wide to make as shown
in the small viow.
The May Manton pat
tern 8361 is cut in sizes
for 16 and 18 years. It
will bo mailed to any
address by the Fashion
Department of this
paper, on receipt of 10
cents.
I ' ( $ 1 ' "I
sidering these facts it is easy to scj
why we use a great deal of water in
cooking cereals and why they rhould
be cooked a long time in order to soften
thoroughly. Careful measurements of
right proportions is quite important,
Tho cereal should cook up all tho water;
If water is added after cooking is be
gun the result is not bo satisfactory.
Finely ground cereals take four, time
as much water as cereal, while flaked
or rolled cereals take only twice as
much water as cereal.
To put the kitchen in order after
the eooking is over may not be so in
teresting, but it is necessary to good
housekeeping. The sink should bs
made very clean and the dispan, towels
and dish cloths washed well and bung
in their places. As1 soon as you hav
finished your work, while everything is
fresh in your mind, you should get
your notebook and record all impozn
tanf points including the following:
A short account of just how yon
prepared each dish, the time it took yon
and the success you had in results. If
you are puzzled over any part of the
work it would be very proper for you
to ask some older person or your club
lender about it.
Later in the season there are to be
contests in baking and canning fat
which prizes that are worth working
for are to be offered and only thoae
whose records show that they have done
all the first work will be qualified to
enter.
You are sure to reap much joy and
profit long before the time for the. real
contest arrives, and in the work itself
you should find real success and plea
uro that enthusiasm and honest toil
must bring.
Recipes
Designed by May Manton.
8361 Dress With Long Tunic for Misses and Small
Women, 16 and 18 Tears,
Tomato Cakes.
ONE CUP canned or cooked tomsi
toes, two eggs, one dozen soda
crackers rolled fine. Season the
tomatoes and mash with half the crack
ers, add the eggs and beat smooth, add
the rest of the crackers and form into
small cakes. Drop on a hot buttered
griddle and fry a nice brown.
. Cantaloupe Salad. N
Cut well chilled cantaloupes in halves
lengthwise, take out the seeds and re
move the pulp in nice even pieces,
sprinkle lightly with salt and paprika,
and add an equal quantity of crisp let
tuce cut in strips. Garnish with boiled
salad dressing made without oil or mus
tard. Place shells of cantaloupes on
salad plates, garnish with large leaves
of lettuce and fill with the salad. Servs
at once while cool and crisp.
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How to Cook Beets. '
Fill a pail as large as will hold as
many as you want to cook. Don't eul
them, as that makes them bleed. CoTr
er with cold water, cover np tight, put
in hot oven and let bake, This tim
of the year I put them in early so at
to have them done for dinner.
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Cooked Radishes.
Did any reader ever eat eookeS
radishes! Clara E. Bush in Missouri
Euralist says that they are better than .
young turnips. Her recipe is to sliea
thinly and boil for an hour in freeH
water and drain. Cover with hot water
salted to taste and cook until tender
Mash and season with butter ancj
cream.
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