The National tribune., 1907-11-07
By SENORA SARA.

the icebox when tho weather Is warm
and in the cellar a. other seasons of
the year. 1t will easily keep two
months
measure when they are washed. Meas
ure out a half-pint cupful each of salt,
sugar and flour and a cupful of hops.
Do not press down the measure of hops,
but let them lie lightly in the cup. The
pressed hops sold in drug stores may
be used, but they must be thoroly sep
aIaIed and measured lightly, for there
is nearly pint of hop flowers in one Of
these tiny cakes. 1t is better, all in all,
to buy supply of hops from the fresh
crop that comes into the market in the
FAN, and keep them hanging in a bag
in the store room. The odor. tho pun
gen, is not disagreeable. Ten cents
worth will be sufficient for a years sup
ply.
Put the cup of hops in a quart of
boiling water and let it boil steadily for
half an hour. Mash the potatoes free
from all Jumps and measure out a full
pint, not pressed down in the measure
Mix a full cup of salt with the potatoes
and then cup of sugar and one of
flour. Strain the water off the hops
over them, squeezing all the liquid from
the hop flowers. Beat the batter thus
formed thoroly, adding the hot water
so gradually that there will be no Jumps.
Then add three quarts and a pin OF
boiling water. Let the mixture stand
until it is just lukewarm. Melt a cake
vi compressed yeast in little tepij
water. Stir the mixture thoroly ard add
the yeast, beating 1t well In. A. two
gallon stone jar Is the best to set it in.
Cover 1t closely and put 1t In a place
that is warm, but where IT will not be
heated. If it is kept at about the tenn
perature OF 20 degrees 1t will rise In "a
hours, when 1t will be a thick mass Of
white bubbles, without a sediment. Few
things are more uncertain, however,
than the time taken for the growth of
ditions, "a hours is sufficient; yet some
times, owing to a lowering Of tempera-
ture during the night, the yeast will re-
quire six or seven hours longer. It is q
good plan to beat the yeast several
times while it is rising. When 1t has
thoroIy risen thick foam. covers 1t,
and when beaten it Is q mass Of bub-
once in one or two stone jugs, filing
each about three-quarters full. Cork
them tightly and tie down the corks,
otherwise you may have the pleasure
of hearing the popping of corks in your
refrigerator, and learning something
practically Of the power that lies latent
in this white foam. In the Winter, Of
SouiSS, liic yeast may UG kSpC IN the
cellar OF in any cool place where 1t will
not freeze
The large quantity of salt In this
recipe assists in keeping the yeast sweet,
and renders it necessary to use q small
er quantity than is otherwise usual in
the bread. Do not cook hops in an
iron kettle. but in one of granitew2re or
pungent that 1t is liable to infect any
food cooked after 1t, and 1t Is a good
plan to have a small kettle for the pur-
pose of cooking hops.
While we have an almost incessant
complaint of the servant girl, of her
shortcomings in general and in particu-
lar, We hear little about the housekeep-
er'S obligation to at least provide her
with few more comforts and attrac-
tions than she has enjoyed.
While the scientists are contending
over tile problem of whether man is
greater than his environment, we would
do well to assume that woman is not.
and that room so arranged and
equipped that it will give most i'm
pressive Object-lesson in neatness and
order is a surer method of instruction
than all the reprimands and lectures
which We are wont to bestow upon the
very fallible maid Of Erin or other i'm
migrant servitors
1t is an unaccountable phase Of the
vaunted 'sisterhood of woman" that in
many homes of plenty, or even moder-
ate luxury, the servants quarters are
no more attractive or comfortable than
bare white walls and small iron cots
can make them.
There is a better way than this, for
one woman at least, who has tried it.
keeps her servants so long-tho Of mod
crate means-that her neighbors be-
lieve she has some occult power over
them. This hidden power is, however,
nothing greater nor less than mere kind
for the primary
needs of those dependent felIow-crea-
lures who, if subseFvient, are also hu-
man.
Believing it sanitary to have the walls
OF the servants room whitewashed
every Spring, she overcomes the chill
ing effect by stirring a small portion of
aniline dyeing powder in the mixed
lime to color 1t, for the maid dearly
loves color. Sometimes she puts In red
powder till the wash is brilliant pink.
or ochre. making 1t pale yellow, or their
favorite- apple green.
Large Autographs of country scenes
were framed in oak frames. A small
outlay included a splasher, cretonne
covering for cushions in the large rock
er and scrim curtains inside the green
roller shades. There were washable
mats and pin cushion on the bureau,
and bright carpet rug beside each
single bed and a cupboard put in for
clothes.
Tho a Protestant, she recognized
needs other than her own, and hung
up a simple cruciffx over an engraved
Madonna. and these thoughtful, tho in
expensive, evidences of her care for her
servants have always been rewarded by
faithful service and personal attach
ment.
Don't let soap lie in the water.
Don't leave dish towels for mice tol
destroy.
Don't throw out water In which you
have cooked meat without skimming off
the grease for soap. |
Don't throw out nice bits Of meat that
could be minced or fried with bread |
crumbs and an onion.
Don't leave the bread pan with the |
bread sticking to it.
Don't let the pie crust you have left !
over sour before you use 1t. Instead of |
that, make some little tarts for tea.
Don't throw away any food that could!
be warmed over. Some things are bet
ter for their second cooking.
Is it mistake for mothers to assumed
all responsibility and labor in their nat
Iiral desire to shield the daughter FROM
the trials and vexations that they have
passed thru, gaining practical lessons inl
he hard school of experience, the teach
ngs of which they wish to pass over for
he child's benefit at second hand after
the rough edges have all been smoothedt
away?
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