Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-02

pick over half cup of rice; put in a but.
| tered pudding dish with a pint and half
of milk. half cup of sugar, pinch OF
salt and a grated lemon rind. Bake two
hours, stirring frequently for the first hour
and half. then finish the baking to form
a light crust over the top. Serve with
cream.
Another good and inexpensive pudding Is
Katies Graham Pudd!ng.-Mix together
two and one-half cups Of graham flour.
one cup Of milk. one cup OF mofasses. one
cup of raisins, seeded two small teaspoon
fuls of soda dissolved In a little OF tha
milk, then beaten in with the rest of milk
and molasses. pinch of salt and half
teaspoonful Of ginger. Steam two hours
and serve with hard sauce, lemon sauce
or foam sauce.
Foam sauce.-Dissolve a tablespoonful of
cornstarch in two tablespoonful of cold
water, pour over 1t a cup of boiling water
and cook until clear. Cream together
half cup of butter and one of sugar and
pour 1t over the boiling starch, stirring rap
idly. which causes 1t to foam. Flavor with
a teaspoonful of vanilla and two of vinegar.
which gives it something the flavor OF
wine.
While the various rich cakes-layer. fruit
and pound-are appreciated on festive oc-
casions the economical housekeeper is care
full to keep on her list a number of mex
pensive ones-that never go begging. Among
these is
Devils Food-Cook together until well
thickened a quarter cake of chocolate. the
yolk of one egg and half cup or water:
set to cool. Make into batter one-halt
cup of water or milk, cup and half or
-four sifted with one teaspoonful of baking
powder one cup of sugar, one-half tea
spoonful of soda dissolved in boiling water,
and a half teaspoonful of vanilla. Add the
thickened chocolate. egg and water, and
lastly the beaten white of the egg. Bake in
a shallow bread tin or in layers. in which
latter case the layers may be put together
with boiled icing and chopped nuts or choco-
late icing.
Still cheaper, and quick to make, are what
are known as Bob the sea cooks molasseS
hunks. In giving this recipe Bob was wont
to say: Its wonderful when you get lot
Of fellows cruise how they get hank
ering for sweet things. You can't take time
to make angels cake or jumbles. but here's
something filling and sure to please-and
SO it seems. Put two coffee cupfuls of mo-
lasses in a pan and warm it. Beat into it
one teaspoonful of ground cloves, two tea
spoonfuls of ginger and pinch of salt
Then add one cupful of good "drippings''
and butter mixed and melted, two tea
spoonfuls of soda dissolved in tablespoon
full of boiling water and sifted -four to
make a very soft dough. Make into round
cakes and bake in quick oven.
Pure Homemade Baking Powder.-Ths 10
another wrinkle" for the woman with
frugal midland the beauty of 1t is that It
is not adulterated with anything harmful.
Mix together two ounces of tartaFic acid,
one pound of cream of tarter. ten ounces OF
bi-carbonate of soda and sixteen ounces Of
flour or twelve ounces of rice flour. Sift all
the ingredients together five times and put
in light cans Or bottles. For daily use. take
out a small quantity in quarter pound can,
SO that the bulk of the powder does not lose
it's strength. Sixty cents, worth of this
preparation lis estimated to last year even
in good sized family-a saving of two or
more dollars at the least calculation.