Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-08-11
THE HOUSEHOLD.
THE NUTRITIOUS BAyANA-How
TO WASH SILK WITHOUT
FADiNG-sOME NEW AND
WELL TRIED RE
CIPES - OTHER
USEFUL HINTS.

Cook: THE irish stew has burned"
Restaurant Proprietor: Well, put
some spice in ii, and add A la Fran
eaise' to its name on the menu"
The vegetarian may not eat meat,
but be will play poker for stakes.
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Bananas, probably the first fruit ever
cultivated, possess ali tine essentials TO
the sustenance OF life. More people live
on bananas than live on wheat. When
taken as a steady diet, they are cooked,
either baked, boiled or fried. The fruit
Is very nourishing, as it contains SO
much starch and sugar.
Banana -four is highly nutritious and
very valuable.
Colored silk should never be seeped,
but washed and ironed as expedlously
as possible, to prevent the color going.
Squeeze it into warm soap lather mot
hot) until clean, rinse in warm and
then in cold water. 10 the latter add
one tablespoonful of salt and the same
Of vinegar This is done to preserve the
color. Squeeze out tightly, fold evenly
and roll In clean cloth; beat well be-
tween the hands. Iron at once with
moderately hot iron under muslin until
nearly dry. Finish without the mus
lin.
White silk must be stepped in borax
water and then washed in the same way
as coiored silk, except That in the last
rinsing water a large tablespoonful Of
metyhylated spirit is put to each pint
of water instead of salt and vinegar
The methylated spirit imparts a gloss
to the six, and, should 1t be liked
slightly stiff, put one tablespoonful of
prepared gum water to each half pint
of rinsing water.
To make gum water, allow one ounce
OF best gum arabic, pour over half
pint of boiling water; stir over fire until
thoroughly dissolved. strain through
muslin, bottle and use.
Iwo things must be noted: First, Il
any soap is left in the fabric, 1t will be
hard instead OF soft. like new. There
fore, careful rinsing is imperative
Secondly, II too hot an iron is used,
the silk will become shriveled and stick
to the iron.
Hominy Is from Auhuminea. the
North American Indian word for parch-
ed corn.
Sally Lunn was a pastry cook who,
at the close of the eighteenth century,
used to cry the tea bread which bears
her name about me streets Of Bath,
England.
Gooseberry fool is corruption
of gooseberry fouls, milled or pressed
g1oseberries.
Gumbo is simply okra soup, gumbo
being the name by which okra is often
known in the South. Chicken gumbo
is soup of okra and chicken.
Coffee Frappe-Mix together the
white of one ctyg, one-half cupful of cold
water and five rounding tablespoonfuls
OF ground coffee; stir the mixture into
one quart Of boiling water, boil gently
for five minutes, strain, add one cupful
OF sugar, stir until dissolved, then cool.
Freeze to mush and serve in glasses
with whipped cream.
Cucumber Sandwiches-Pare and slice
the cucumbers, put them into unsalted
iced water for one hour, then dry on a
napkin, dip IN mayonnaise dressing and
pace between thinly buttered slices OF
read.
VANILLA ICE CREAM-Put pinch
of baking soda in quart of rich milk.
Turn the milk into double boiler and
bring to the scalding point. Have
ready six eggs. whipped light, with
three cupfuls of granulated sugar, and
slowly stir the scalding milk into
these Return to the double boiler and
cook, stirring constantly, until the GUS
tard coats the spoon. Now remove
from the fire, add three teaspconfuls OF
vanilla extract, and set away to cool.
When cold, stir in quart of cream,
mix thoroughly, and turn into freezer.
Grind until so stiff that the crank re-
fuses to turn; carefully wipe off the