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About Gresham outlook. (Gresham, Multnomah County, Or.) 1911-1991 | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1914)
ITOAÍE A N D F A R M M A G A Z IN E S E C T IO N I 11 the H °me "" Fashions — Household Hints — Recipe HE best way to prepare a new iron kettle for use is to fill it with T clean potato peelings, boil them for roast took less than three-feurths of a kilowatt hour of energy, costing a trifle an hour more, then wash the kettle over 2 cents. with hot water, wipe it dry and rub A 4-1 b. roast and six large potatoes it with a little lard; repeat the rub UTTERMILK is an old beautifier, in addition to massaging, you will be were baked together at a cost of 3vv. bing for half a dozen times after us A 5|-lb. chicken and twelve medium but it is just as good for us as it working in a bleach for that dark look ing 111 this way you will prevent rust sized potatoes and toasted bread were was for our grandmothers. They that so often appears about the eyes. and all annoyances liable to occur with used buttermilk before many of the It is an ideal warm weather drink. also thoroughly cooked for 3c. By us the use of a new kettle. preparations wo rely on wero thought If you will discard tea and coffee, and ing air-tight cookers with compart of. drink buttermilk instead, your complex ments a 4 lb. roast and six large po To Wash W hite China Silk. If your skin feels tired after a ride ion will soon become several shades tatoes together with a quart of tea were When washing China silk never hang or walk in the sun, try bathing your lighter and you will feel better and eooked for a cent and a half, and a 3- it up to dry, but instead wring it out face with buttermilk iustead of water. sleep 1b. ham with twelve potatoes and a better. dry and wrap it in a piece of white I* irst wipe the dust and perspiration small head of cabbage cost a little more Still another use for buttermilk which material, leaving it this way for about from your skin with a dry towel. Then is not a beauty hint, but makes for to render fit for human consumption. one hour. Then iron it. A 3-lb. pork roast, six large sweet po apply the buttermilk and dry your face daintiness: If your lingerie is stained By doing this you get much better ro immediately. You will feel refreshed tatoes and a can of corn and a 1-lb. ■ultd and the silk does not turn yellow. and you will have taken a step toward or darkened by perspiration, soak the fruit pudding were thoroughly cooked stains in buttermilk for an hour before • • • preventing tan and freckles. washing and they will then easily yield for a trifle over 2Jc. In one ease a Books of Needles. family of three did a week *s cooking Buttermilk will bleach out light to soap anil water. with electricity at a cost of 73c. The varieties of needle bonks on sale freckles aud sun tan. It will soothe When using buttermilk on the face, are legion. There is one that is espe sunburn. do not let it get into the eves, nor into cially convenient, says the 8L Louis It will make your skin smooth a > l tho brows, as it will bleach the latter Star. It has a neat little pressed pa white if used instead of water during and will make the eves ache. per cover. There are a dozen sheets, the hot weather. It doesn’t contain the Buttermilk is about the cheapest perhaps, inside the cover, and each is grease that fresh milk does and will, beautifier that you can get, yet if you labeled at the bottom with the sort of therefore, not build flesh. HE smaller the cut of meat to bo cave some of it within reach during needles it contains. One sheet reads Iu massaging out the tiny wrinkles tne Summer days you will have no roasted, the hotter the oven must ‘‘Embroidery,” another “ Chenille and about the eyes, if you dip your fingers be. Y am ,” and others declare by their lit into buttermilk iustead of cold cream. need to slowly and painfully bleach off To preserve the whiteness of arti tan when Fall arrives. tie labels that they hold straw needles, chokes add a lump of sugar to the water darning needles, upholstery needles and while cooking. sharps for ordinary sewing. One sheet A tablcspoonful of vinegar put into holds a little bodkin—-which in nothing tho water when poaching eggs will keep more than a ribbon needle, after all. them from breaking. • • » When making a rolypolv pudding To Savo Time. after spreading the paste with the jam Once in every two or three years mark sprinkle with a layer of fine bread a stock of linen tapo to its entire crumbs before rolling and tying. This length with your name iu indelible ink. prevents the jam from boiling out. When a new garment is to be marked, No matter how much dripping is cut off the tape and sew ou. used, fish, when being fried, is apt to • • • stick to the p a n ’s bottom. If a table Better Than Tacks. spoonful of dry salt is put into the pan Widths of matting that are sewed to and rubbed over it it will be found sat isfactory. gether with a loose carpet thread stitch look neater and wear better than when staples or tacks are used to fasten the Old Fashioned Souse matting down. Take pigs’ feet and head, thoroughly clean and place in salt water to soak Bloomers From Raincoats. for twenty-four hours. Then boil until Wide bloomers made out of old rain the bones slip easily from tho m eat coats will prove a boon to many moth Take up and when cool enough to ers, if used to tuck in the children *e handle, carefully remove all bones. clothes when they are cut uoors play Mince or grind through a meat chopper, ing in the snow. season with salt, pepper and sage to • • • suit the taste and press in a mold. This Cleaning Windows. is very nice sliced and placed in vine gar, or for breakfast sliced and dipped A rag dipped in p a raffin e will clean in batter aud fried. W.nduws p irie c ils and g ive a Lriglit • • • Hess impossible to obtain w ith water. Golden Betty. Tissue or any soft paper makes a good polisher. To make a brown betty with cheese * • • arrange in a deep earthenware dish al To Avoid Spots ternate layers of breadcrumbs and thin- ly sliced apples. Season with cinna P u t a ru ttle on the bottom of all mon, a little clovo and brown sugar. kit-'h en aprons. You wall be su rp rised Scatter some finely shaved mild full how m au y drops s n d s|Mits i t c atch e s cream cheese over each layer of apples w h .h w ould o th e rw ise laud ou vour and when the dish is full scatter bread sk irt below the ham it y o u r apron. crumbs over the top and bake thirty- 8298 Surplice Blouse, 34 to 42 Bust. five to forty minutes, placing the dish Omelet Will Not Fall. 8293 Kimono Coat, 34 to 42 Bust. With Long or Three Quarter Sleeves. M ny a housewife lias seen her beau in a pan of water so that the pudding O SUMMER coat could bo better HIS is a season of bordered materi will not burn. tifili omelet shrink visibly when a meal adapted to its use than this one. als, for they are shown in marvel • • • has >een unexpectedly delayed; yet it it is short and jaunty and, at the ous beauty and marvelous variety; is ca i,v to make an omelet that will i ot Popcorn ’Sails. same time, loose enough to allow a free fall, Inst ad ot a tablespoonful of consequently, this blouse must find a circulation of air while it is the smart Pop corn in popper, put in pan. Take milk or water to each egg, use a table I ready welcome. It consists of just two est possible. Incidentally, it can be teacupful molasses, butter size of walnut I pieces lap|>ed at the front and back in sp w nful of whit« sauce. The made by the veriest amateur without and one teaspoonful vinegar. Cook all will '>• much impro ed, both in flavor •”,rPl«ee 8t.v |P- A‘ whichever length the difficulty because there is nothing to together until it will harden when sleeves are finished, there are pretty sn d ib:li;v. and becoming frills. As a matter of fit. All fashionable wraps are loose dropped in cold water, then pour over course, plain material can be trimmed and these sleeves that extend to the corn and make in balls. • • • How to Clean. to suggest the bordered idea but flounc neck dispense entirely with the sleeves Thick Soup. dll KN cleaning polished or parquet mg seems especially adapted to the that sometimes are a little difficult. flooring or linoleum which has style, and flouncing« this year.include The flaring collar in Normandy stylo Thick soups are often served with been be-swaxed, a good idea is to the regulation embroideries and a great gives a becoming and attractive finish. croutons or toasted triangles, which The little strap across the back will be certainly add something to them. Crou tie a large. •» ift duster around a broosn. many voiles, crepes and chiffons. liked by most wearers, but it is not going over the floor carefully with it the medium site, the blouse will necessary and can be omitted if a still tons are half inch dicelike pieces of —taking up th l ist w ithout causing i For ,rc 2 | j , of , bread fried in fst until brown, while looser effect is wanted. any to fly abou B does when us 1 wide, ............. - « yd. - of - plain - ’ the triangles are small three cornered with material 36 in. in g a h air broom and sw eeping in the For the medium size, the coat will bits of stale bread toasted or crisped ia wide, or JJ yds. of plain material 27, asu al way. the oven. lj-yda or 36 or 44 inches wide, with require 31 yds. of material 27, 2J yds. This done, remove duster and in its 2 yds of ruffling. 36, l i yds. 44 in. wide, with } yd. 27 place cover the broom with a bag made for collar and cuffs. Table Protected. I he pattern 6298 is cut in sizes from of f. innelet or any material you may The pattern 8293 is cut in sizes from A piece of wax paper placed under have iiy you, sewing several thicknesses 34 to 42 inches bust measure. Ask your 34 to 42 inches bust tneasur'. Ask the centerpiece on a polished table will over tho part to come iu contact with merchant for these patterrg. your merchant for this pattern. prevent the linen from adhering to ths the floor. table in hot weather, as well as pre The legs of old stockings will do for vent a stain from cold water or aa the pa bling, or better still, an old piece overfilled vase or rose bowl. of velvet or plush. Then hold the broom slantwise, rubbing backward and for ward i> over the I.cor, thus polishing Removing Rank Flavor«. HE municipal plant at Kansas City, No attempt was made th place the the Surface without the trouble of stop To dispose of the objectionable swell Kan., placed at the disposal of ping apparatus in the hands of ex|>erienced snd taste in cooking utensils, in which eight representative families vari Occasionally the floor will need a ous electrical cooking devices with the operators and the only instructions giv fi»h. onions, turnips, cabbage, sauer eoat ,.f floor polish, but the method de request that the women doing the cook en were that for eeoi omical operation kraut or other rankly Favored food has sentii-d above is easy, and one is able ing make records of the food cooked the cooking devices should be discon been cooked, wash the utensil with soap nectee from the line as soon as any op and warm water, and wipe dry; then to get over the work in a few nunut arid the Lem required for each opera oration was completed. ta a perfectly satisfactory manuer wash n a h string viuegar. No trscq USS. Recording to the reports a two pound of the objectionable odor vidi be le f t Buttermilk Old Beautifier But Good B T Fashion Talks By May Manton T N W Electric Cooking Tried Out Here ¡T |
