Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-19

with the cream. It Is used on apple
puddings, and also on plain batter pud-
ding. A half cupful of maple sugar
broken into small dice and mixed into
the dough Of a painful of small baking
powder biscuit offers change. Maple
sugar dice in about the same proportion
may be added to a batch of waffies or
of ordinary flannel cakes or wheat pan
cakes. The maple sugar should be cut
into fine sugar, so it will mix in evenly
with the dough. Add it quickly the last
moment to the batter or dough, and
bake either the biscuit or the waffies or
flannel cakes as quickly as you can
have them well done. Maple sugar
shortcake is delicious: Take one quart
of -four, lnree cups of buttermilk, two
tablespoons of sour cream, one and one
half teaspoons of soda. If the milk is
not very sour, one teaspoon of soda is
enough, dissolved in spoon of water;
half-teaspoon of salt, three eggs, beaten
very light. Mix the water and beat
well. Have round pan or skillet very
hot and well creased. Pour on enough
batter to cover. When brown, lift
carefully and turn over. Make five or
six of them. Butter well and shave
maple sugar over each layer. Pile and
cut in triangles, as you do pie. Serve
hot and if you have cream to pour over
it is all the better, but not necessary.
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The decorations at an exceedingly
pretty spring luncheon were pansies,
the yellow and purple varieties mixed.
A large low circular mound of them oc-
cupied the center Of the round table,
and following the circle in wider sweep
were odd vases in silver and glass. all
about of equal height, filed with more
of the lovely bloom. At each cover
was a cluster arranged with the foliage
as a eors2ge, and two or three stemless
pansies floated in the fnger-Dowls. The
ices were served in cups embellished
with pansies, and the candle shades and
center cloth continued the same decora-
tive scheme.
A Russian chemist is responsible, ae-
cording to scientific journal, for the
discovery OF an easy and not disagreea-
bic way to get rid of mice. This is by
use of oil of peppermint. Wads of cot
ton saturated with the oil are used to
plug up the holes by which they appear,
a process that will at ance drive the
vermin away, their dislike to the smell
Of peppermint being strong. II they
should return later, repetition Of the
treatment will Danish them again. Ii
is not stated whether the remedy acts
equally upon rats, but the experiment
could be made, although, as has already
been told, chloride lime put plentifuliy
in rat-holes is usually successful in
driving them from the premises
A housekeeper impressed with the
difference IN tenderness of the corned
beef prepared in her own kitchen and
that which she occasionally bought at
! store, the latter being much to be pre-
ferred. investigated the matter. TO find
that the better result was entirely due
to the method OF cooking. Corned beef
should be put on in enough warm. not
hot. water to cover it and simmer slow
ly all day long at the back Of the range.
AT night it should be set away in the
water in which it was cooked and al
lowed to stand until morning, when ii
win be found to be juicy and tender,
without being cooked to pieces on the