Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-03
Cooking

Cooking
Should be taught to girls when they are
twelve or fourteen years old. and under
the rudimentary principles may be instilled
in them when they are at the mud pie
stage of life.
to cater to the housekeeping instincts as
they develop in the child. The baby sees
mamma making pie and wants to help II
the mother would give little time ana
patience to directing the childs desires
right then later she would not have dlfh-
Guilty in getting the child to take an inter
est In household duties but she tells IL 70
run away and play and not bother her, anu
SO gradually the child's thought is directed
elsewhere and 1t grows up unwilling to
work.
When there are two children in a family
and neither knows how to prepare meal
or manage the house and mother awakes
some morning TO find she Is Ill and unable
to attend to the daily duties, great CON
fusion regns. If in the emergency the
girls endeaVor to prepare the meals and the
weary mother gets from the kitchen the
smell of burned toast and burned bacon and
vile-smelling coffee, she Is likely 70 be
angry with the girls and with herself and
fate.
Yet why should she when she has not
taught her girls to cook2 They cannot
learn the science and art OF cooking IN one
meal and with no assistance, and so II
becomes necessary to send out for a COOK,
when had the children of the house Deen
educated properly in the homely arts, the
household regulations would have proceeded
undisturbed during the unforeseen changes.
Apple Recipes.
Apple Float-Peel and slice six large APP
pies and stew them in just enough water to
cover them. When we'll done press through
a sieve and sweeten well with powdered
sugar Add the grated rind and juice OF
half a lemon and a little grated nutmeg.
I, Of
eggs and stir in the apples till quite smooth
Serve with sweet cream, either pam OF
whipped and serve dainty little sponge
cakes with 1t.
Deep Apple Pie.-Pare and slice tart.
Juicy apples, put them on In just enough
water to cover them to which ada some
slices Of white ginger and some brokeh
sticks Of cinnamon. When about half done
take off the fire and remove ginger ana
cinnamon. The slices must be unproKen,
and should there be too much syrup, pour II
off Line q deep baking dish with pun
paste and put the apples in layers. sprln-
king between each layer powdered susa gar
and bits of butter. Crate nutmeg over the
top layer, add four tablespoonruls or the
syrup from apples. or four tablespoonful OF
water. Cover with paste. Beat the Whlte
crust and sprinkle over it powdered sugar
Cut three long gashes through the top
crust SO that all steam may escape.
Fried Enthusiastically remove cores
(without paring) from firm apples and cut
In slices about a quarter of an inch thick.
Sprinkle thick with sugar unless the apples
are sweet Fry thick slices of pork and
bacon, remove these, and drop the apples In
the boiling gravy. When done take out
the slices of apples carefully and serve hot.
Sunday Dinner.
Cold fruit soup
Stuffed roast fillet of veal.
Mashed Potatoes Beets.
Lettuce French dressing.
Waters. Cheese
Pineapple Ice cream.
Coffee.
Stuffed Roast Filet of Veal.-Take out
the central bone and skewer the fillet into
a neat round. Make a forcemeat of crumbs,
minced pork, onion juice, parsley and half
a can of mushrooms, minced. Wet with
few spoonfuls of stock or gravy; I'LL the
bone hole and ram the stuffing into the
folds Of the meat from both sides. Lay on
your covered roaster cover with thin slices
of fat salt pork, and dash cupful of boil
ing water over top and sides. Roast, COW
cred, twelve minutes to the pound. Fifteen
minutes before you draw 1t from the oven
remove the pork, wash with butter. and
dredge with Drowned -four. Then brown,
uncovered
Summer Dinners
Are developed on "a lighter plan than those
served, the first course, II not omitted.
should be something dainty and light.
A cold fruit soup is desirable. When no
soup Is desired chilled fruit Is nice for the
first course. The following recipe for cold