The National tribune., 1907-10-31
By SEN0RA SARA. :.

nuts half cup of cream or two round
| ed tablespoonfuls creamed butter. a
cup and a half milk. two well-beaten
eggs, quarter of a cup of sugar and
salt to season. Beat well, turn into lit
tie patty tins filled with rich paste and
bake quickly.
| Lard well rubbed into tar spots will
make clean work of them. Let the lard
soak well in, then wash in the usual
way
Plaster of paris will not stiffen too
fast to be used within an hour if mixed
with vinegar instead of water.
When you are cooking doughnuts or
| croquets or frying potatoes and the
overheated fat takes fire, you should
| pour milk in the pan instead of water.
Rice wafffes are very nice. Soften a
cup of boiled rice with the yolks of
three eggs and two tablespoonfuls of
melted butter. Alternately add two
cupfuis of milk and one and one half
| of flour. into which a heaping teaspoon
full OF baking powder has been mixed,
and lastly the beaten whites. The waf-
fies are baked quickly over a good fire
in an iron thoroly heated. Dust with
powdered sugar, and serve at once with
maple sugar or with jelly.
Here are some good breakfast breads:
Quickmeal pats.-Take one pint of
cornmeal and one teaspoonful of salt,
ed, then drop spoonfuls into a skillet
containing hot lard. Fry brown on both
sides. They should be pressed lightly
down with a knife to make them lie
fiat
Poor mans gems-One cupfuI of
graham flour, one cupful of cornmeal,
one teaspoonful Of salt, one egg, one
heaping teaspoonful of baking powder
and cold water to mix like other gems.
Heat and grease gem pans, drop in and
place in n hot oven. They will bake in
10 minutes. t..l- -
Graham aoppers.-Two cupfuIs Of
graham flour, one teaspoonfui of salt,
one teaspoonful of baking powder and
water to make it Just right to stir
thickly Drop spoonfuls into hot
creased skillet and cook brown on both
sides. These may sound very plain and
cheap, but they are good
Quick bscuits.-One quart of flour
and one tablespoonful each of salt,
baking powder and lard. add milk till
it can just be stirred with spoon.
Gently place one spoonful at a time in
a fioured tin. SO they will touch. Bake
in hot oven, and they will rise and be
found splendid and very quickly made.
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Mice can be4kept away by gum cam
phor -sprinkled around their -haunts;
water or Croton bugs, by borax and
camphor or red pepper
To know if an egg is fresh place it in
basin of cold water. If it remains at
the bottom, it is all right: if 1t floats at
all, it is of doubtful freshness, and if it
floats gayly on the surface, you may be
sure it is quite bad
The right way to hang pictures on
the walls of brick house is first to
pierce the wall with a darring needle.
in order to find the crevice between the
bricks before driving the nail Nails
driven in indiscriminately only injure
the wall to no purpose, as they bend
against the bricks, and are hence USE
less for the purpose for which they were
intended. -
sweet. pleasant cordial is made from
the juice of the sour orange. The. usual
formula is to add three gallons of water
to one of the sour orange juice, and
then three pounds of white sugar to
each gallon of the liquid After fer
-
few months before using. For the, un-
fermented juice allow to each quart of
juice pint of sugar and cup of wa
ter. If very sour, a little more sugar
may be required. Bring to a good
scald, bottle hot and seal.
Sienna eggs as served at restaurants |
are prepared in this way: Slice a half
dozen hard boiled eggs and put layer
of them in a buttered dish. Sprinkle |
with grated cheese, add another layer
of eggs and more cheese, and so con-
tinue until all are used Pour, enough |
white sauce in the dish to thoroly mois- |
ten, cover with buttered crumbs and |
bake 10 minutes, Serve in the dish in |
which they Were baked.
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Don't contradict people rudely, even
II you are sure you are right.
Don't be inquisitive about the affairs |
of even your most intimate friend
Don't underrate anything because you
don't happen to possess it.
Don't believe that everybody else in
The world is happier than you are.
y veal nut roll is much liked if made
right. Take large, thin, evenly-cut
veal cutlet free from fat and bnpa ap1