nOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
In the Home-Household Hints-Fashion Notes-Recipes
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The Editor will bp pleased
receive and publish hints f In
terest to onr readers.
Dishwashing.
IP there Is one tiling more than
another that shou'.d be thoroughly
and conscientiously done, it is the
dishwashing. Dishwashing is often
looked upon as menial work or
drudgery. But any work poorly and
improperly done whether it be teach
ing school,, painting a picture or
washing the breakfast dishes Is
drudgery. Success in each case
means proper equipment, thorough
knowledge of the work and right at
titude toward the work.
Collect, sort and scrape all dishes
to be washed. Fill sticky dishes
which have been used for milk, eggs
and starchy foods with cold water.
( Use hot water for sugary substances.
Wipe the greasy dishes with paper
and burn the paper or use a rubber
food scraper made for that purpose.
Fill one dishpan one-third full of
hot, soapy water and another with
clear hot water.- Wash the dishes
thoroughly in soapy water and rinse
in clear water. Have an ample sup
ply of clean, dry dish towels.
Wash the glassware first, then the
silverware, cups and saucers, plates,
platters and vegetable dishes. Fol
low with the cooking utensils if they
were not washed as soon as used.
Dishes that feel rough and sticky
are unfit for use. Clean dishes can
only come from a clean dishpan,
clean water, a clean dishcloth and
clean, dry dish towels.
For the Housewife.
Many housekeepers do not know
that there is a simple way to pre
vent potatoes from burning and
sticking to the bottom of the pot. An
inverted pie pan placed in the bottom
of the pot avoids scorching potatoes.
The water and empty space beneath
the pan save the potatoes. This also
makes the work of cleaning pots
easier, as no adhering parts of pota
toes are left to be scoured out.
If you have a door in your house
that will swing shut when It Is de
sired to stay open or ajar, make a
small bag as ornamental as you
please, though the color of the floor
or wall paper is recommended. Fill
this with sand. Attach it to a rib
bon or cord long enough to slip over
the doorknob and let the weight drag
on the floor. This makes a door
stop that Is always at hand and can
be lifted out of the way without
stooping. .
Household Hints.
Try cooking the sausage in the
oven'instead of frying it.
A tiny bit of butter is often an Im
provement to cake frostings, espe
cially chocolate or caramel.
The milk added to potatoes while
mashing them should be hot to keep
them from becoming soggy.
Mice object to camphor, which if
put in places frequented by them,
will drive the'm away completely.
Kerosene will soften boots and
that liavp heen hardened bv
water and makes them as pliable as
new.
Most people Bprinkle fried apples
with sugar just before serving. Try
using salt instead and see what an
entirely different flavor is given the
disll.
A tablespoonful of olive oil and
another of molasses added to the
griddle cake batter is worth while
trying. This keeps the cakes from
sticking and also aids in browning.
If vinegar is added instead of
water to moisten stove polish, two
good results will be obtained. First
the work of polishing will not be as
hard, and secondly, the polish will
last much longer.
Before turning oyster soup into
the tureen t it Into the dish a heap
ing tablespoonful of finely minced
celery and half as much chopped
parsley. The flavor of the soup will
be much enhanced.
If there is not electricity in .the
house and it becomes necessary to
have a little light all night in a sick
room, use a candle heaped with salt
to the black part of the wick. The
light will be mild and steady and it
will not contaminate the air like
kerosene or gas.
May Manton Weekly Fashion Talk
A NEW BLOUSE WITH OPEN COLLAR
jsS Blouse with Vest, 36 to 46
Making Use of
BY MRS. W. C. I'ALMEK.
(Concluded From Last Week.)
WHEKE there are bits of boiled
or roast meats left over, cut
the meat into ' cubes. Stew
gently, flavor with a tiny bit of onion
and thicken. Instead of making the
usual crust tnat is used for the meat
pie, make small biscuits and ulace
on top of the meat and gravy aud
oahe a goiueu brown. Do not make
too many, but just enough to make
everyone wish there were more. An
other time, cold mashed potatoes can
be used instead of the biscuits, The
potatoes should be mashed again
with a little warm milk and if egus
are plentiful, whip in one. Spread
over the meat pie and bake a golden
brown or until hot clear through.
One must remember to add salt and
a little pepper also to the cold pota
toes so they will not taste flat and
warmed over.
Cold meals of all kinds can be
sliced, dipped iu egg and bread
crumbs and fried a goldeu brown.
Any left-over vegetables as a few
beets or carrots or peas can be made
into a salad and then with potatoes
and an extra vegetable one can get
up a good meal in a hurry. Cold
boiled or baked potatoes can be scal
loped to good advantage. They re
quire only about half an hour to
bake, while if the raw ones are used
it often requires over an hour.
Do not always mix left-over vege
tables that are to be used in making
a salad together. If potatoes or cel
ery are used as the foundation, ar
range the small bits around the
foundation to make the dish attract
ive. Often a left-over cold boiled
egg or two can be used to good ad
vantage in a salad of this kind. Cut
the whites into half circles and rub
the yolks fine. Arrange the whites
around the yolks, which should be
piled in the center of the salad. If
a few slices of pickled beets are left
over, cut into tiny cubes and place
on the salad. This will not ouly add
a pleasant flavor, but the red, white
and yellow look very pretty together,
and who would guess it was made of
left-overs?
Often there are bits of gravy left
over from a ntew or roast. The3c
make mott excellent soups and can
ALL the newest
blouses show high
collars of some
sort. This one, which is
open at the front, is
thoroughly comfortable
as well as exceedingly
smart. It includes also
a little vest that is pretty
aud has the advantage of
allowing the use of con
trasting materials. Here
the blouse Itself is made
of Bilk crepe while the
collar, vest and cuffs are
of bengaline silk, and
that combination Is a
new one which is much
liked. The fronts of the
basque show au unusual
shaping at the lower
edge which is effective
and the ends of the
shaped belt disappear
under the extensions.
The sleeves may be long
er or shorter as desired,
but the long, plain
sleeves with roll-over
cuffs are new and fash
ionable. Blouses of this
kind are liked for wear
with coat suits and also
are utilized for entire
gowns of simple mate
rial. For the trimming
any pretty contrasting
material may he used,
but the heavy silk in
contrast with the crepe
is effective.
For -the medium size
will be needed 3Vi' yds.
of material 27, 'M yds.
36, 'VA Jds. wlth
yd. 27 for vest, col
lar and cuffs.
The May Manton pat
tern S528 is cut in sizes
from 36 to 46 bust meas
ure. It will be mailed to
any address by the Fash
ion Department of this
paper, on receipt of 10
cents.
bust.
the Left-Overs
he.made very nourishing. If there Is
a hit of rice left over, It can be added
or a little barley can be boiled and
then added to the soup. If a few
lima beans are left over, rub them
through a sieve and add to the gravy.
If a dish or two of tomatoes are
left over, they can be made iuto. a
cream of tomato soup, while a few
beans or peas can be rubbed through
a sieve and made into a good puree.
Meat salad from left-overs Two
cups cold chicken or veal, cut into
cubes; ono cup of cold peas or car
rots left over; three slices of pickled
beets left over. Add to this some
chopped celery and a few walnuts.
Add the dressing and seasoning and
serve on a cabbage leaf.
Croquettes from left-overs Re
heat the rice in a little milk. To each
cupful of the rice add a little white
sauce or the yolk of one egg. Sea
son with salt and mix thoroughly.
Form into balls or cones or any
shape desired. Roll lu fine bread
crumbs, then in beaten egg that, has
been diluted with one tablespoon of
milk, clip in the crumbs again nnd
fry in deep smoking hot fat until a
golden brown. Half-ground meat
and rice can be used. Potato cro
quettes are made In the same way.
Very often broken slices of bread
will cut small squares or triangles
the size of an Inch. IX these arc
placed in the oven and toasted a
golden brown they are delicious with
soup. These are" often called crou
tons. Chinese Pudding.
Cover half box of gelatine with a
half cup of cold water, soak 10 mln
utea, whip one pint of cream, set it
In a pan of cracked Ice, add half a
cup of chopped ginger, half a cup
of powdered sugar, half a cup of
cold boiled dry rice, dissolve the gela
tine, add the cream and stir until a
little thick. Turn into mold, stand
away to harden, serve cold with gin
ger sauce. Sauce: Chop fine a
quarter "cap of ginger, odd one enp
of water, quarter cup of sugar, boil
five minutes, pour over the well
beaten white of two eggs, add two
lablespoonfuls of sherry and turn
out to cool. Turn pudding out and
serve with sauce poured over.
The Kdltor will be pleased
rwrlH sail publish favorite
rctlpcs.
Cooos Cake.
ONE-HALF cupful of butter, one
cupful of sugar, three eggs,
three-fourths of a cupful of milk
(sweet), one teaspoonhil of vanilla,
six level tablespoonfuls of cocoa, two
level tacspoonfuls of baking powder
and ouo cupful aud one-half of flour.
linked Eggs.
Butter as many muffin rings as
will be needed, break into each an
egg, salt Bllgtuly, pour over each a
spoonful of cream and bake until
the whites are set.
Iteet JMI.hIi.
Cook beets the same as for the
table, ono quart of beets chopped
fine, one quart of raw cabbage,
chopped fine, one cup grated horse
radish us prepared for the table, one
cup granulated sugar, one tablespoon
of salt, one teaspoonful black pep
per. Vinegar enough to mix well.
.Wcllesley Sulud.
Cut apples into discs, chop celery
rather fine, cut white grapes iuto
halves, take out seeds, break Eng
lish walnuts or pecans in small
pieces, marinate with French dress
lug and put on ice till chilled. Serve
on hearts of lettuce leaves. Whip
heavy cream and add lemon juice to
taste; put a large spoonful ou salad.
Pumpkin I'ie.
Mix two-thirds cupful of brown
sugar, one teaspoonful cinnamon,
one-half teaspoonful ginger and one-
half teaspoouful of salt, and add one
and one-half cupfuls of steamed and
strained pumpkin, two eggs, slightly
beaten, one and one-half cupfuls of
milk and one-half cupful of cream.
Hake In one crust, cool andsevve.
Apple Fritters.
One cup flour, one-fourth teaspoon
salt, two-thirds cup milk, yolks of
two eggs, whites of two eggs, one
tablespoon melted butter, two me
dium-steed apples. Mix salt and
flour, add mult gradually, yolks of
eggs beaten until thick aud butler.
Stir In two medium-sized apples
thin and lastly fold in the stiffly
beaten whites of eggs.
Coffee Custard.
Two cups milk, two tablespoons
ground coffee, threo eggs, one
fourth cup siar, one-eighth salt,
one-fourth teaspoon vanilla. Scald
milk with coffee and strain. Beat
eggs slightly, add sugar, salt, vanilla
and milk. Stialu iuto buttered indi
vidual moulds, set in pan of hot
water and bake until firm. Serve
with cream.
Orange Cuke.
Oue-fo:irth cup butter, one cup
sugar, two eggs, one-half cup milk,
one and two-thirds cups flour, two
and one-half teaspoons baking pow
der. Cream the butter, add sugar
gradually, yolks of eggs well beaten,
and milk. Then add flour mixed aud
sifted with baking powder. (Do not
pack flour in cup or the mixture will
bo too stiff.) Lastly fold in stiffly
beaten whites of eggs. Put together
with orange filling and ice with
orange frosting.
Irish Stew.
Cut two pounds of lean mutton
Inlo inch cubes, put thein in a cas
serolo, cover with oue quart of boil
ing water and cook one-half hour.
Add one dozen button onions aud
one-half cup of diced carrots and
cook one hour; then add one dozen
small potato bnlls, season with pep
per and salt and cook until tender.
Brown two tablespoons of butter, stir
In two and one-half tablespoons of
browned flour, add slowly one cup of
brown stock, stir until smooth and
thick, pour the sauce into the cas
serole and cook ten minutes longer.
Poison Oak? Ivy?
An application of Santlseptlc
Lotion affords instant relief, Is
soothing and cooling In Its action
on the affected part. It relieve
the Itching and irritation at once,
rapidly reduces tho Inflammation
and fever, and speedily effects a
cure Druggists refund if it falls.
Hantlseptlc Is also an efficient
preventive of Oak and Ivy poi
soning. Keep a supply conven
iently nt hand. It is equally ef
fective for all other skin troubles.
At all drugstores or by mall, f0c.
Ksbenrott Chemical Laboratories,