Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-07
A Few Food Facts.

A delicious way OF serving Lima
beans is to fry them golden brown
tint after they have been boiled tender.
A New York woman has fancy fol-
serving gluten griddle cakes with
maple syrup for dinner dessert. The
syrup is passed each guest in pretty
individual pitcher, and the innovation
| finds favor
Quick cooking and very little water
are the secrets of good cranberry sauce
A small cupful of water to a quart of
the berries is sufficient, and ten min
utes should cook the fruit enough. Be-
yond that its bitter flavor is developed.
Add the sugar just as the sauce is
taken from the stove.
A delicate. delicious flavor is i'm
parted to cranberry jelly by adding
one-half cup of raisins to four times
the quantity of cranberries. Put the
raisins over the fire to stew in about
two cups of cold water, and when the
water is reduced about one half add
the cranberries and sugar and cook in
the ordinary way.
Too little cooking is at the bottom
of many difficulties. In cereals, for
example, all need thorough cooking,
Notwithstanding the fact that those
which come in packages contain direc-
tions for only short boiling, All need
to boil at least half hour, and oat
meal requires at least an hour Three
hours, indeed, for the natural oatmeal
which has not had a steam treatment
is not too much.
insufficient cooking of cocoa ac-
counts for the fact that as drink it
fails to agree with some people. In all
cases, whatever the directions of the
box prescribe. cocoa should be cooked
at least ten minutes before the milk is
put in. After that it should be al
lowed to scald, never to boil. A drop
of vanilla in each cupful will improve
the flavor for most persons, and some
like with it a tablespoonful of strong
coffee.
When the children get tired of
cereals cooked alone vary them by the
addition of fruit. Try, for instance,
cream of wheat of germea with dates
Or figs. To one quart of boiling water
add one teaspoonful of salt and sift in
the cereal, stirring all the time. Let I
it boil rapidly for five minutes, then |
steam for half an hour in double boil
er. Have ready half pound of dates
,r figs cut into pieces and steamed Ga +
good plan is to put them in small /
over the tea kettlel, and stir
nto the cereal when nearly done
Serve with cream.
Ginger and figs or plain figs have a
lew rival Bananas dried in slices are
appearing in the markets and promise
o afford a new and palatable article of
God. They are said to compare favor
.bly with figs, and, like the latter, are
,aten as bought, or else may be cooked
q variety of ways. Dried bananas
laye the advantage over figs of free
lom from seeds; they are all clear
God, without skin or stone. One of
he latest uses for thom is as filler
or layer cake, in which form they are
tightly recommended.
This is certainly season for fancy
otton fabrics, judging by the large
Gale of batistes, dimities, zephyr
GODS, Indian muslins, etc. These
eautiful fabrics actually rival the
ilks in dainty colorings and patterns,
nd are used in fashioning some of the
lost charming and appropriate gowns
or the summers social functions.
However, no summer outfit is complete
-ithout black silk gown. Some of
be silks shown for this gown are de-
ghtfully old-fashioned in appearance,
lst such black silk as was worn in
ines, when to possess one meant a
adge of gentility. These gowns in APP =
earance are rather simple, yet very
laborate when you take the amount of
ork into consideration. One of these
licked black taffeta silk skirts is GER d
ainly desirable possession to wear Q
18th fancy waists, or with the little = =
licked JACKET in addition is most
seful garment, for this jacket can be ?
orn with different skirts. q