Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21
In a Dilemma.


liquor and set aside. Remove the tough
strings. wash and drain and set aside.
Have three cups of flour prepared with
baking powder we'll ~sifted in. Beat two
eggs together, add one tablespoon of warm
eo putter, and beat again; add the clam
juice, drained, warmed and seasoned and
cup or good milk. Then add flour to
make consistent batter. Warm and chop
the CLAIMS slightly and stir in well. Fry in
enough butter or dripping to turn nicely
They should be light as feathers Keep
I on hot plate and serve hot One advan-
tage of these pancakes. II the rule is strict
iy followed, Is that if any are left-which is
doubtfui-they will fry again and be as light
as at the first baking
Scottlsh Bread.-For an agreeable change
make oatmeal bread. Make as any
good yeast bread. with one-third whole
wheat flour and two-thirds oatmeal mot
breakfast food, ground fine. Add two ia
brown sugar and salt to taste This for
Two ioaVes. Mold into oval shapes let rise
again and bake one and one-fourth hours
or a little more, as to have a well-baked
crust. Do not cut it for twelve hours or
even more. 1t keeps well
Little Scones.-Prepare pie crust as for
nursery crust, good but not toe rich with
butter, adding one-fourth teaspoon of soda
n!elted IN warm water. Roll out to the
thickness of one-third inch cut into rounds
the size OF dollar, and bake at the top of
the stove on griddle, light brown on both
sides. They should taste like the crust bis
cult of the top baking When ready to
serve, open these hot, butter we'll and
spread with raspberry jam. This tea cake
makes dainty relish. Always add the
soda melted in warm water the last thing
to the flour.
Apple cider jelly is piquant and appe-
tiZing relish. Boil best sweet apple cider
down till it becomes g firm jelly Put in
an enameled saucepan. Do not use metal
PAN as 1t will spoil the color. 1t is easy
and excellent, and the best sweet cider
must be used.
County Fair Cake-This cake always
takes the prize at the fair. Take three
cups or sugar, one and one-half cups of
butter, six eggs, one and one-half cups of
cream, one-half pound currants. one-fourth
pound citron, one nutmeg, sufficient -four,
two teaspoons of soda. Beat eggs together
well, add sugar and butter and beat
smooth. Add fruit. Dissolve soda in warm
water and add to one-fourth cup of sour
cream and make the cake quite thick to
prevent the fruit from settling at the bot
tom Seed raisins, halve but do not chop,
wash in hot water, dredge with -four Cut
citron in thin slices, put dough in pan, then
layer of citron and again until it is evenly
distributed through the whole. It is
great favorite.
The Kitchen.
Fully one-third the years kitchen labor
may be saved by providing one tall cabi-
net, closed, in this room. By having this
divided in the middle. making two tall COM
partments, there are provided two recesses
for divisions Of daily and weekly labor. In
one there Is place for all the laundry
tools, space for the ironing board, In which
1t may be kept clean attractively, instead
of the unsightly object it so often is,
quickly to be hidden from view. The try
Ing cloths, wax, clothes lines sprinkler etc
all the accessories that call for shelter and
which are indispensable to get results in
white and dainty clothing-a thing too diff
cult when the objects are scattered about
left to gather the dust in any chance cor
ner they may be tucked away. The small
side shelves of the laundry half may hold
the extra dish towels.
In the other place the brooms, dust
brushes, cleaning cloths, boxes of polish,
lamp cleaning and box of handy tools. al
ways blessing If near, an evaporation If
n:islatd- Stop to calculate for just & week
what this cabinet will save. and if there
must be choice you will take this end let
not touch the floor Hang them up. Have
the light fall on your left shoulder when
working whenever possible.
The kitchen rule Is to study the values
of food, often wrongly treated-vegeta-
bles for instance. Don't drown them.
They often are soaked to death before they
are cooked and served. For instance car
rots Do not prepare these till just before
using. Then scrape, wash. and, If old, cut
IN four, II young COOK whole Put in a
shallow saucepan and pour boiling water
over their level cover tightly. cook rapidly.
When done add little salt and white pep
per. Cook them SO that little if any liquid
is in the pan. Put carrots in bowl, chop
fine to mash, and the liquid may be add
ed if 1t does not make them moist as to
be dripping. Stir an ounce of butter well
in, taste for seasoning. and put aside TO
keep hot You will have carrots at their
best. This is not only the style of the best
tables, but it is the scientific way of con-
serving all the good Of the edible.
Caulifower, on the other hand, requires
soaking half an hour in sailed water to
bring out any larvae that may become set
tied among the 1orets. 1t must be cooked
in hot water. whatever mode of dressing is
to follow.
Sunshine.
Nothing can supply the lack of sunshine
to peaches nor to human beings. A room
may be made lighter by yellow wall paper
and yellow objects prevailing in the apart
ment for work or study. A good use for a
worn set of lace curtains is to lay them
upon yellow cheese cloth and mend the rents
and holes by means of yellow yarn upon
the yellow lining If outlined In a splashy
flower at regular intervals It produces a
sort OF decoration. The lace should be
hung at the outside These filter the light
beautifully and make a room genial Loop
back with ribbon or sateen bows. The re-
suit pays for the trouble.
Sunshine Cake.-Is American with long
pedigree. Take four eggs, one cup of sugar,
two ounces of butter, one-half juice of
fresh lemon. the same peel grated fine. one
half gill OF rose water one cup OF cream.
Beat the eggs. sugar. butter, lemon rind
and juice all WE'LL not separating the eggs.
Then add the -four and beat twenty min
utes. Lastly one scant teaspoon of soda
dissolved in warm water and one-quarter
cup of sour cream. Beat for ten minutes
more and put In a square pan, warmed,
lined with buttered paper. Let it bake in
brisk oven thirty forty minutes an
oven golden brown at the top--a square
cake. When cold enough to cut split In two
and spread with stiff lemon jelly. Put on
the top and let the cake stand in the ice
box till needed. Do not use till at least
twelve hours after baking. Do not Ice the
top with filling or caramel. If made well
the lemon jelly is great Improvement on
other filings and 1t does not clog. 1t Is
delicate and sunshiny.
Frozen Salad.-Make the body of stiff
lemon jelly as for moldfng Cut an orange
in as thin slices as possible also a few
half slices of lemon, the rinds of both being
fresh and yellow, banana equally thin,
and few yellow rose petals. Mold layer
os jelly in a glass serving dish; when this
roDgaals distribute the other fruit Metals