Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-12-11

are required for wrapping up or cover
ing some article or other, and cannot
be made serviceable by reason of their
being few inches short of the size re-
|quired.
Nice Molasses Candy.-Take 3 cups
of yellow coffee sugar, add l cup of
molasses, l cup of water, half tea
spoonful of cream tartar, and butter
half size of teaspoon bowl. Boil until
brittle when dropped into cold water.
Pull until white and cut in cubes.
Honey Candy.-Add together l pint
of white sugar and 1-3 cup cold water,
put in tablespoonfuls of honey. Put
over the fire and boil slowly until it
becomes brittle when dropped into
waite. You may add any kind of nuts
crystalizing them with the candy.
This is delicious.
To Clean Sponges.-If the soap is
not removed daily from sponges, they
are apt to become Shiny. To make
them clean again dissolve one-quarter
ounce of borax in tepid water, and let
the sponge soak in it for over an hour.
Then squeeze out in clean water, and
they will be soft and pleasant to use
again.
To Remove Stains on Silk.-Where
silk or other glazed fabric has been
" stained" with water or mildew, rub
the surface with q clean, soft, silk
handkerchief, and then with some
well-polished hard surface, such as
glass paperweight or heavy sad-iron
Should the damage resist these mild
remedial measures, dip a piece OF
flannel in pure alcohol, dilute with
water, and rub the stain. Then
quickly turn over the silk, protect it
with damp cloth, and iron.
Dreamed Walnuts.-Take two cups
Of sugar formulated is best), add (
cup of water. Do not stir, but boil
until it will thread" Then add the
extract you prefer. Set off into dish
that has little cold water in it. Stir
the mixture until it looks creamy.
Shell your walnuts. Then take tea
spoonful of the cream mixture, make
into little cake and press into the
center of it a walnut, and then drop it
into sifted powdered sugar. Proceed
in this way until all the nuts arc dis.
posed Of.
Candied Popcorn.-Put one table,
spoonful of butter into an iron kettle,
add three tablespoonfuls of water, l
teacupful of white pulverized sugar.
Boil together until it grows thick and
candies, then add 3 quarts of nicely
popped corn. Keep stirring briskly
until the corn is covered. Remove
the kettle from the fire; butter
large tin; taking spoon, dip out two
spoonfuls into the tin, let cool until it
can be rolled evenly into balls. This
is very nice indeed.
Real New England Pudding.-It is
not enough to have the ingredients
for this real old New England dish.
You must know exactly how to put it
together, and this is "just how"
Heat 3 pints of milk to boiling and
pour it over half pint of yellow In
dian meal sailed with teaspoonful of
salt. Stir this very carefully, wetting
it gradually so that there will be no
Jumps. Return it to the double boiler
and cook slowly for 40 minutes with
frequent STRINGS. Stir in this butter
the size of an egg, cupful of molasses,
1 teaspoonful of ginger and one of
mixed cinnamon and mace; remove
from the fire, beat hard and add
slowly 4 well-whipped eggs and cup
full of seeded raisins. Butter pudding
dish, turn in the mixture and bake
half an hour, stir it up from the bot
tom and finish the baking by brown
ing nicely. Make a sauce with cup
full of powdered sugar, l tablespoonful
of butter and l beaten egg; flavor