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Recipes
Fashion Talks By May Manton
Household Hints
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Meat and Rice Croquettes.
ONE CUPFUL of cold boiled rice,
one cupful of finely chopped
meat of any kind, one-half tea
spoonful of Bait, a saltspoonful of
pepper, two table spoonfuls of but
ter, half a cupful of milk and one
egg. Put the milk on to boil and add
the meat, rice and seasoning. When
this boils add the egg well beaten,
and stir one minute. When cool
form into rolls, dip in beaten egg and
fry in hot lard.
Sweot Potuto Puff.
Bake or boil the potatoes, remove
skins, and mash the potatoes well
seasoning with salt, pepper and a lit
tle sugar. Add butter, i little thick
cream, the beaten yolks of two eggs
(to a pint of potuto and last, the
whites, beaten very light. Put into a
buttered baking dish and bake in a
moderate oven till puffy and light
brown.
Green Tomato Pickles.
Gather full-grown green tomatoes;
make a strong ginger tea (root is
strongest), into which drop your
fruit, scald well; to each pound to
matoes take one-half pound sugar,
one-half pint vinegar, make a sin
of this and put tomatoes in, cook un
til perfectly clear, add cinnamon,
mace and white ginger, cover well
with sirup and tie up closely. Cut
Hems out so juice will ponetrate.
Apple Goodie.
Cut apples In balls with a vegetable
scoop and cook until tender In a lit
tle syrup, to which a little lemon
juice has been added. Toast slices of
bread or stale cake; dip in milk, to
which a little salt and butter has
been added. Pile apple balls on slices
of bread or cake, with five or six
blanched almonds, add bits of any
kind of Jelly or marmalude. Serve
with plain cream. "
Tomato Jam.
Select sound, ripe fruit and peel
and quarter them. Then put them
Into the preserving kettle with an
equal wolght of loaf sugar, the
strained juice and rind of a lemon
for every four pounds of fruit, and
a little powdered ginger. Cook the
mixture slowly until it Jollies when
. tried on a spoon. Turn Into Jnra and
cover.
Wnrined-Ovor Veal.
One tablespoonful butter, one-half
pint veal stock or gravy, cold veal,
two tablenpoonfuls catsup or chill
Bance.
Heat the butter, tomato catsup or
chill Banco and veal stock or gravy
In the chafing-dish. When smoking
hot, warm In It slices of cold veal cut
rather thin. Salt and pepper before
serving. This recipe may be used to
successfully warm over Iamb.
Meat Substitute.
One cup rice, tlx bananas, one-half
op sugar, one-hnlt teaspoon salt,
on tablespoon bntter, one table
spoon currant Jolly, one teaspoon
cornstarch.
Wash, boll and blanch the rice ai
usual, place on warm platter and
dost with one teaspoon salt. Scrape
and split the bananas, brush shallow
pan with butter, put the bananas cut
tide down, sprinkle with one table
spoon sugar and one teaspoon sail,
place In hot ovon 20 minutes or bake
until light brown; remove with cake
turner and place evenly on the boiled
rice, pour over the currant sauce.
Put one cup water on to boll, mix
one teaspoon cornstarch with cold
water, add the boiling water, add
three tablespoons sugar and the cur
rant Jelly, or any othor Jolly, boil
thrco minutes and pour over the
dish. This makes a good meat substitute,
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wear while It Is also
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aB troupers of IrlinUl or
peine. Willi blouoj or
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For the C year slz
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A GREAT saving In laundry wart
can be achieved by using paper
napkins on all except the most
Important occasions.
To remove paint from clothing
saturate the spots with ammonia and
turpentine, mixed, and then wash out
in soap suds. i
The best egg beater Is a glasB jat
and a firm wire whip. Not only egg
and cream, but mashed potatoes cai)
be beaten In It.
Oatmeal Is excellent for softening
and whitening the bonds. Mix som
finely-powdered oatmeal with watci
and spread on the skin in a paste.
As it dries rub it off in flakes, re
moving the last traces with lukei
warm water. An oatmeal bag maJJ
serve the purpose if one does not
You may like your beefsteak rare,
but there Is danger In eating anx
meat not well cooked. Measles in
cows leave boxed-up parasites In th
bovine flesh. You do not notice them
with the nuked eye, but they or
there, and If they are not killed by,
thorough cooking they will cause
tape-worms in the digestive organ
Ization of the human system, and
then follow associated diseases and
discomforts.
Cornstarch Is the best for starch
Ing cuffs and collars wheat BtarclJ
for delicate dresses, rice starch tot
fine French lingerie.
Keep a long nail near the laundrf,
tubs and use It to remove the rub
ber stoppers Instead of chains. Tht
nail serves as a lever.
When gasoline Is used to remove
a spot from clothing a ring Is often
left mound where the spot has boon
A little salt in the gasoline will oven
come this, leaving no trace of the
soiled spot.
ON MOST farms the produce Is
sold by the man of the farm.
The woman has no part in the
business transaction and often feels
that it Is not her business any way.
as the master usually has the pro
ceeds from tho Bales. She knows,
too, that articles are often sold for a
poor price, which, I ' lightly present
ed on the markot would hnvt
brought much more. It Is true that
the wife does not always got her
share of the profits, but it Is also
true that sho doesn't always do what
she might toward Increasing the
profits.
Butter, cream, milk, eggs, poultry,
vegetables and fruit are purchased
and used by women; and the woman
who prepares them for market
should be able to understand and
meet the needs of the woman who
will be tho ultimate user of them,
A man may know, in a general way,
that his produce is "good"; but he
often foils to recognize the fine
points and so is unuhln to present
the different articles in a mannei
that will uttract housewives. Hero
is where the woman on the farm
can be of real assistance. It she will
carefully consider the morlts of each
article and impress them upon her
husband's mind, be, In turn, will bo
ready to relate them to customers,
who will buy more readily If they
are sure of tho quality of the goods.
Eggs and Kgg.
Eggs are an all-year product and
always In demand, yet there are eggs
and eggs. The furm woman can see
to It that the eggs are gathered
carefully and regularly, that the
nests are kept clean and the fowls
healthy. Then lot nil eggs sold be
strictly fresh and clean. It you find
A neut In any wujr doubtful, keep
those egg at home. If they prove
good, uco them; If not, you can
throw them away with bettor grac
than If you had paid 2 tt or S cents
each tor them. Lcoldoi you wiii not
I have lost the trade of the customer
J who might have bought them. Then
when the eggs are all packed rail
the man's attention to how nice Ihey
hook. Tell him that they are all
! strictly fresh and clean and that h3
can recommend them an such.
Hull. Tin. iking.
In butter making men are apt to
bo more careless than women, be
cause they do not so readily recog
nize Ihn Importance of little things.
!A llttlo dirt or odor of cream kept a
trifle too long may seem nnlmpor
itont to them; while most women
! recognize Instinctively tlint milk,
croam, and butter require strict
cleanliness and prompt attention. If
necessary, help him clean up about
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the barn nnd milk house and remove
everything that can In any way af
fect tho quality of your dairy pro
duels. Then keep all tho dairy
utensils absolutely clean and sterile;
see that the products are taken tu
market In clean receptacles. Again,
toll tho market man tho good points
of tho butter; It Is sweet, fresh,
solid. All points which the house
wife will appreciate and which will
appeal to her more readily than the
overworked adjective "good,"
Selling Hints,
The sain of buttermilk enn bo
mado quite profitable In some towns.
Learn all tbe ways you can In which
It Is used. Then toll "Adniu," when
ho starts out with a few quarts, that
ha can recommend It ns fresh, clean
and pure fine to drink either as a
beverage or medicine; oxcellent for
making fried cakes and brown bread;
and generally understood to bo bene
ficial for tho complexion.
When thoro aro fruits or vegeta
bles to sell coach him as to their
good points, Do not lot blm sell
canning fruit for table fruit nor vice
vorsa. Oftentimes a hint as to how
certain vegetables should bo pro
pared will persuade an Inexperienced
woman to buy when sho Is lu doubt.
for liuiUinco, out ghould know that
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turnips require a rather long tiro
for cooking. You may have old pa
lutoos tu sell and someone complain!
that they turn dark when cooked.
Teach "Adam" that old potato
should be peeled and covered wlUf
cold water, with a little suit added
some time beforo they are to b
cooked, ,
Reputation.
There are beginners In housekonp
Ing who would like to buy certain
fruits for canning, but heBltato be
cause they don't know just how tOJ
put them up. Oh, no doubt they have;
cook bookH; but a few words klndlj;
spoken make more impression than,
a wholo page of printed Instructions,
It tho ninrkutman Is able to say "MI
wife does thus nnd so," the young
lady will usually buy his fruit an 4
thank him for the Information,
rtemember, always, that on satis
fled customer Is worth a down dlsw
satisfied ones, and that a good repu
tatlon Is moro to bo desired than
little extra profit, Thus the woman
on tho faun can turn her knowledge
of the farm's produce Into profit for
her family and beuoflt for their cut
touiorw,