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again and pour the batter into small
pans. very well creased. II you pre-
fer. you may bake Il all I'm one good
sized paa. TIE smaH cakes will re-
quire about twenty minutes baking.
This cake IS especially good eaten hot.
HONEY GINGERBREAD.
Beat two tablespooufuls OF strained
honey into half a cupful Of butter, FIRST
warning the butter slightly. Whip the
two to q cFegm and then beat in a
teaspOonful Of cinnamon and table
spoonful each Of powdered sugar and
Of ground sir ger. Have ready four
eggs. whipped light, the goIks and
whites separately, and add these alter
uately 70 the o'her ingredients. Last
Of all beat In three cupfuls OF -four
sifted with a heaping teaspOOnful OF
baking powder. Give a nnal vigorous
beating Of about one minute and turn
into shallow baking tins or small mul-
I'm or patty pans. Bake, covered. for
half an hour: uncover and brown. The
oven should be steady and not too fierce
in heat.
HONEY GINGER WATERS.
Mix together a cupfu of sugar and
TWO CYPRUS or nDuI ana Alb INTO tilClll
half a cUpful OF butter. and stir In a
half tablespoonful OF ground ginger.
Add to this the juice OF a lemon and
half the grated peel and enough strained
honey TO make a bate. Grease a shall
low tin very thoroughly and pour in the
batter In a thin layer. Bake in a mod
crate oven watching carefully TO pre-
vent burning. When done, cut the cake
into strips three inches IN width, and
while stil warm roll around a creased
stick about the size % your finger. Keep
IN a tin after they are cola, as they
soften when exposed TO the air. II too
moist when you wish TO use them, put
them into the oven for a few minutes
to become crisp.
ENGLISH HONEY CAKES.
Mix a quarter-pOund Of sugar with a
light two pounds of flour and a table
spoonful OF ground ginger and work tc
smooth dough. with a quarter pound
Of butter beaten to a cream. three-quar-
tiers of & pound Of strained honey, hall
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Economy In Cutting
Bread

France and italy have the reputation
Of being the least expensive countries
N which to live, and this is owing NOT
only to the price Of foodstuns. but also
10 the extreme care with which every
thing is used.
An example OF this studied economy
which in time, becomes second nature,
IS their use Of bread. In both countries
mentioned only enough bread ia cut 70
provide the family with one piece each.
Should any one else wish for bread.
two pieces are cut, and this process is
repeated until the meal is over.
By this method there is no bread LETT
cut from the loaf 10 dry IN the box,
and one baking lasts four fun days,
not two days anc half.
Perhaps It sounds too ecOnOmical5 per
haps the generous hostess might think
hat Il was not true American hospital
ity. Indeed, IL is the best treatment for
guests and family alike, for bread that
stands but a short time in the dish is
sure to be just little dry. while bread
Just cut is sweet and fresh.
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Wants Books for Boys.

I am the mother OF four little boys.
the oldest Is ten and the youngest is
three. 1 have 10 work hard all the time
finishing coats. and the children have
nothing 10 read They love story books,
and I cannot afford TO buy them.
Neither have they any playthings. If
some boy has old playthings he doesn'
care for any more, / should be very
thankful IL he would send them TO the
youngest boy. When the rest 90 to
school he is very lonesome, as 1 am at
my sewing. / could not afford TO pay
high express charges.
In part payment for putting this into
the Exchange viii you accept a good
recipe for sauer Rraut2
Boil the saueT kTaut tender-a OInt of
t. Drain and put back over The fire.
Fry an onion in lard when you have
sliced II, CRATE two raw potatoes of
medium size. Put the grated potatoes
into the sauer lzraut. Boil ten minutes
Add the fried onion. Cook for q minute.
and il Is ready for eating.
/ know this is very little for what /
ask, but poor people have not much to
give away. Is. r. (Chicago).
We keep no balance sheet for our
members. II is enough TO know that an
opportunity 10 DO good and 10 eOInmuui-
cate is laid to our hand, and we are the
Obliged party in the transaction
! submit the case without further
summing ND. I hold the mothers adj
dress.
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How to Use Kindling
Wood

In all tie great United states there
Is a cry for lLndling wood No house
keeper seems 10 think that fire can
he started without burning up all the
wood in siEht and buying still some
more "just - keep It going" In reality,
kindHng is rot absolutely necessary in
lighting q ire. ana when il is used.
only three small pieces are required,
which should be arranged like the
rails Of a fence, leaving plenty OF space
for air TO create a draught.
Extravaganza in kindling wood is a
rather serious matter nowadays, for
wood is growing scarcer and scarceF.
FiFe-lighting IS an art, and the only
needful thing TO know Is that a full
draught must be created. which means
that the wood should be quite small
and that IL should not be placed closely.
By economizing in kindiing, an item
OF no mean Importance in the house
hold. the fuel account may be reduced
by half. and surely that is worth try
ing.
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:: :: THE HOUSEMOTHERS' EXCHANGE ::

~ He housewife who spilled ink
upon the carpet OF a fastidious
'.in-law" may remove it without
injury 10 the texture.
Get 10 cents worth of cit-ic acid. dis
solve il in warm water, and apply 10 the
ink spots with a sponge or cloth land
lots OF eIbow-grease)! Lastly. rinse
with warm water. into which has been
stirred a little household ammonia Rub
it as dry as you can with several clean
cloths.
had a similar experience three years
ago. I discovered dried ink IN the green
border Of my new library rug. The
citrie acid removed 1t so thoroughly that
7 could not tell just where the spot had
been I have never used It to take ink
spots lrom books. but am told by those
who have that il may be thus used. It
does not injure printers ink, into the
composition Of which iron does not
enter.
In ret..rn FOR the foregoing will you
give me a recipe for cinnamon buns2
BETTY" (Norristown. Pa.
You have earned your recipe and we
are still deep in your debt. To extract
ink from a colored fabric without in
turing the ground color is q problem
few have learned.
CINNAMON BUNS
Set as'Ie for these a cupful Of dough
after il has mad the second rinsing on
baking day. Cream 81 half cupful Of
butter with the like quantity OF sugar
stir IN a weIl-beaten egg. and work
these into the dough. Ada q half tea
spoonful Of cinnamon. a teaspOOnfaf
(scanO of soda dissolved in lot water
and a half oupful Of cleaned curFaats.
dredged with Sour
Enead diligently for Eve minutes,
make out into buns. and let them rise
Tor half an hour, or until they have
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towels for a Casual
Guest

Most attractive little towels are shown
IT. the shops measuring only about
twelve inches wide and sixteen inches
long. They are very useful in the bath
room for the use Of guests and they
are far less trouble TO have washed than
the larger and handsOmsr ones.
In using towels of this sort IL is not
necessary to have the coarse affairs
commonly placed in club rooms, but
these diminutive towels could be OF
damask, as the best Of the larger va
riety, and when they are embroidered
with the initials Of the owner they are
not only useful, but in the best OF
taste.
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What mistress Of a house or coy
apartment does not delight in having
three congeuiaI women friends in for
an "all-day' affair? BE the amusement
cards or intimate talk over the fancy
work, the hostess wishes TO enjoy ev-
cry minute Of her guests stay and can
well wish 10 plan her simple luncheon
menu with that end I'm view. Little
recipes that can be prepared beforehand
are, therefore. Of value TO her. and
the salad course offers many oppOT-
tunities for display Of hOusewifely skill
One easy and simple salad is made by
cutting into squares a small cake OF
Neufchatel cheese. These are laid IN
cups o. crisp lettuce leaves and about
a teaspoonful of chopped English wal
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linseed oil TO the consistency OF putty
Allow 1t 70 dry a week before using"
Another waterproof cement is made
BY dry-mixing ten parts. each, OF fine,
dry, white sand, plaster of paris and
litharge, with one part powdered resin.
Work, az it is required. TO a stim paste
with boiled liAseed oil. The oil must be
free from any adulteration with fish oil,
II IS sometimes necessary 10 boil pure
raw Hnseed oil Tor q few minutes TO
eZpel che water.
Mrs. G. CTroy. Pa.
I hope the two correspondents who
have asked for aquarium cement will
see and Keep these formulas. Both are
excellent.
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a nutmeg grated and a Tablespoonful OF
baking soda dissolved in a little boiling
water. Roll out a quarter OF an inch
thick. cut into small cakes with a bis
cult cutter and bake twenty-five min
utes In a moderate oven
DUTCH HONEY CAKE.
From your breadbovI take a piece Of
your raised bread dough weighing about
pound AID work into II a pound Of
strained honey. a quarter cupfuI OF but
ter. a half teaspoon Of cinnamon, and a
pinch each OF ground cloves and nut
meg, the grated rind Of a lemon, GUAR
ter pound OF CitTOu and an ounce OF can
died ginger. both shredded; the ycke OF
four eggs, beaten, and the whites or
two, whipped light; a half teaspoo1ful
OF soda dissolved in hOJ water and one
cupful OF -four. Make into loaf and
bake covered for three-quarters or an
In some respects this resembles the old
fashioned New England bread cake, al
though much more eiabOrate-and tndl-
gestfble.
HONEY AND NUT CORDIAL
Blanch and pound four ounces Of bit
ter almonds and two ounces OF sweet
almonds and mix them with two pounds
OF graduated sugar. Boil a pint of milk.
let It get sold and put with it the nuts
and sugar. the juice and grated rind OF
three lemons. two large tablespOonfuls
Of strained honey and two quarts OF
good brandy. Let all stand together for
ten days shaking them up every day
At the end Of the time strain the mix
ture through a fine cloth, bottle and
seal.
An excellent tonic cordial TO be taken.
a little at a time, for the exhaustion
accompanying and following severe
Gods.
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ach than the strained honey. Even II
the cells are those made by the bees
themselves, instead Of the artificial
combs Of parafne now manufactured
as a labor-saving means for the insects.
& stands 20 reason that the wax cannot
be easily assimiliated- Let me counsel
those who have suffered from eating
honey in the comb 70 make d cautious
trial of the strained honey before con-
demEing the sweet entirely as an article
Of diet.
There is no question as TO the value
Of honey in treatment Of colds Of tina
throat or chest. Its presence is take
for granted in many Of the preparations
manufactured for use N coughs and
colds. and it is most soothing to the ir-
Fitated throat membrane The house
mother who wishes TO prepare a remedy
Of this sort OF which she can be sure.
ana who objects 20 unCOvenanted drugs
in her cough syrup, may beat up lit
tie honey and cream together, as 1t is
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To Wash Fine Laces

Sheerest fabrics and fine laces may
be easily washed at home by slicing
good white soap into little pieces and
putting them IN cold water together
with the lace. Then IL Is all put on
the fire and brought 10 a boil. Thus
the washing may be done with no rub
bing whatsoever, for when the lace IS
taken out IL is found. after being rinsed,
TO be as good as new.
To dry IL should be pinned on a towel
stretched on a smooth surface and left
there az least a day. If the material
is white It may be placed in the sun
il colored, the towel should be left IN
q dim light.
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Novel Dishes for Afternoon Affairs

nuts placed on each. If desired this
can be further garnished with haIved
wslnuts and seeded Malaga grapes.
Just before serving mayonnaise dress
ing is added.
Delicious sandwiches can also be made
with soft cream cheese by mixing
with a small quantity Of olive oil and
stirring in,o the paste. This done, add
chopped stuffed olives. This filing can
be made and put away, and at the las
mom=nt spread between thin slices OF
bread.
where betWeen-meals refreshments are
served, q novelty is made by mixing
the cheese with ground walnuts, and,
after rolling II into tiny balls. place
between the two halves OF a seeded
date.
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Chatting Dish Aprons

For one who wishes something espe-
cfally dainty in aprons for chafng disk
suppeTs or coy little fancy work par
ties. there could be nothing prettieI
than one made OF sheerest handker
chief linen Cut about the size of tho
average centerpieee, Il had an elaborate
scallop, but the upper part is hollow
ed out 10 ut the waist Of the vyearer
and long sash ends held IL In place.
The tiny pockets are embroidered with
spray Of rasged-robins with a touch
Of dainty green. while several large
designs Of the same were strewn alon,
the lower edge.
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A Help IN the Kitchen

A new utensu to make cooking easy
is shown. Of a peculiar shape. something
like an apple cOreT. which it is, and ft-
ted at the other end. not the COrer end.
with horizontal blade like a knife. The
round end cores apples, cuts vegetables
into dice-like forms and takes the heart
out OF fruit while the knife peels pOta-
toes, makes Saratoga chips. cuts cold
SlaW, and presumably chops meat. 1t
is certainly a very wonderful discovery,
and If IL can do indefinitely all that IL
seems 10 do when it is shown. it can
take the place OF every utensil in the
kitchen.
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A LENTEN
BILL OF FARE

IN PLACE OF the weekly family
meals 1 offer today a Llenteu bin
Of fare contributed by CORE
spondent. with recipes for the prep
aration Of the same:
BREAKFAST.
Cereal. with sugar ana cream.
Baked eggs. Cream toast
Southern mullins. Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
scalloped homiay, with cheese.
Graham bread Salmon salad
Chocolate tartlets. Tea.
DINNER
Cream Of tomato soup.
Baked bass, with dressing.
Mashed and Drowned potato.
ScallODsd onions.
Celery salad. Orange pudding
Black coffee.
81 B., Geneseo, III.
SOUTHERN CoRN BREAD
sift a quart OF white cornmeaI with
two aspOOufuIs OF baking powder Add
three tablespoonfuls Of melted lard, sal.
to taste, three beaten eggs and a pint
OF milk, OF enough TO make a thin bat
ter. Beat all very nard for a few min
utes. Bake a weti-greaSed muffin tins.
BAKED EGGS
Break into a buttered dish seven or
eight eggs, taking care 10 keep each
whole and placing them so that the
yOlks do not touch one another. Add
small bits o. butter. a little salt and
pepper Bake in the oven until the
whites are firm Serve IN the bakedish.
sCALLOPED ONIONS.
Boil white onions until tender. Put
them then into q deep dish and pour
over them sauce made by rubbing a
tablespoonful Of butter into one of -four
and adding a pint OF hot milk Cook as
you would Custard. and when IL has
been poured over the onions bake for
half an hour
CHOCOLATE TARTLETS.
Four eggs, oDe-half cake Of chocolate.
grated; one Tablespoonful Of cornstarch
dissolved Ia milk: three tablssp ooufuls
OF milk aud four of sugar. vanilla fla
voring; one-half teaspoonfUl Of CHINA
mon, salt, heaping teaspoonful OF
butter.
Rub the chocolate smooth in the milk.
neat IL over the fire and stir I'm the
cornstarch wet with milk. Stir until Dc
tEsckens. and turn into a bowl Beat ia
the yciks OF the eggs. the sugar and
tiavOring- Bake IN open shells OF paste
/ lining patty pans. Cover with z me
rinsue. Eat cold,
CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP.
One quart Of tomatoes. If they are
fresh, peel and cut into small pieces.
Put into the soup kettle with half a
small onion and pint OF water. Cook
until done. Strain through a c0lander
and return 70 the kettle. Have ready
q quart CT rich, unskimmed milk heated
10 boiling point Stir into it a table
spoonful Of -four rubbed smooth in
little milk. Add an even ueaspOOnfuI Of
soda 10 the tomato. then the hot milk.
Let il Just come 70 the boil and pour
out Season 10 taste with pepper ana
salt Serve Immediately
ORANGE PUDDING.
Peel and cut up six oranges. Put into
a dish and pour over them a custgrd
made from the yoIks of four eggs and
a quart Of milk with one cup OF sugar.
Spread over the oranges, bake until
slightly Drowned. Serve ice cold.
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Wants Recipe for cOulash.

I have watched the exchange from
week TO week in the hope that some
body would send in recipe for Hun
garlan gOulash. viii you try 10 get it
for me? What are the proper meats to
be used in 1T
I have 4 restaurant in which are
served l0-cent meals, I have been max
ing The goulash Of beef. My patrons
insist that il should be made of other
meat. AS some of them are constantly
plaising a rival restaurant, where the
&C ok Is famous for her goulash. you
can readily see that mine is not an idle
request. II means my bread and but
teri
Any recipe for other cheap dishes
for example. cooking liver in any other
way than. by .fryiEg-would be grateful
NJ e. b OnnneapoIis).
While Hungarian goulash IS usually
made of beef. I see no reason why veal
should not be substituted, VIII CORE
spondents, who can enlighten US on this
head, let US hear from them, and sup
ply cur querist with the coveted cheap
(and good recipes?
LIVER EN- CASSEROLE.
Put a lambs liver (slieed) into deep
water to draw out the blood. Mean
while fry fat salt PORK until II begins
TO crisp. Strain Oft the fat; set the
pork aside and fry a sliced onion in the
same fat Next. lay the liVer-carefully
wiped dry-in the pan and cook fast for
Eve minutes, turning once that both
sizes may be scared. Now lay liver
pork, and onion in balIe1ish that has
a close top. Have ready about dozen
potato balls, cut with a gougc, which
have been parboiled Lay them about
the liver. sprinkle with parsley. pepper
and a few drops Of lemon juice put in
enough weak stock to fill the dish half
way up to the top; Mt on the cover and
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Cement for Glass.

clip from your column a request for
a cement for glass for an aquarium.
The formula for aquarium cement rec
commended by the United States Fist
Commission is as follows:
STIR together by weight eight parts
OF pulverized putty dry whiHng), one
pert red lead and one part litharge
Mig. as it is needed for use, with pure
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Wants DC for Horsehair Braid.

Wants Dye for Horsehair Braid.
Do you know of any way to dye horse
hair braid? I have a white hat Of that
braid which, although in good condition,
has become very Srimy with use. I
should Ike to dye IL black
Here is "A recipe fer chocolate icing
without eggs:
One cup of graduated sugar, half a
cup Of water. 4 small piece OF butter
and chocolate to taste. Boil until it
forms a soft ball when dropped into
water. Beat hard and spread.
Here are two suggestions:
Crackers, ground or rolled fine and
kept IN a covered jar. ready for use
save much time to the busy housewife
A band about two inches wide, set in
the back of a corset cover. will make
Il last twice as long for the wearer who
has been in the habit Of tearing il with
pins. Make the bard two inches long
in the middle and slope 10 the usual
width.
Mrs. G. II. z. dicks Run, Pa.
Your query as to dyes is passed on 20
those better versed than myself i'm col
oFing fabrics at home.
Let us hear from YOU again.
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" ONEY is one OF tho earliest
II sweets Of which we have any
knowledge. In Bible records
honey is frequently referred TO,
not only as an article of food, but as
a synonym for sweetness. Samson and
the honeycoub, the honey put among
the provisions bestowed by Joseph upon
Benjamin. and included among other
gifts sent as friendly offerings on sun
dry occasions; the lOcusts and wild
honey Of John the Baptist-these ana
other references 10 honey are familiar
20 all Scripture students, For some un-
explained reason. honey was. in certain
circumstances. supposed to confer wis
dom upon the one who ate il. Butter
and honey shall be eat that he may
know 10 refuse the ovil and to choose
the good, said Isaiah; and there is
the story tolc of Jonathan eating the
forbidden hOneycomb. and thereby hav-
ing his eyes enlightened. Leaving sa-
cred history. we recall that the honey
Of HymettUs has been famous ever
since the days when Greece was a Eow-
er. and there are mentions OF honey in
many classical writings.
II seems a little odd that honey Is
uot more of an article OF diet IN this
country-not because of Endorsement Of
it in Eacred and prof5ne writings but
because in other countries It is held in
high esteem as a food. The traveller in
Switzerland would feel that his break
last was at fault II there were not a
dish OF clear. strained honey provided
FOR him. The jewellers in the Black For
est and in other parts Gf Germany
make honey an important part OF their
regular dietary, and other European
nations hold honey in good repute.
What It Is Composed Of.
In the United States I do not think It
generally has a good reputation. have
found a prevailing impression that it is
not digsstibls, BE careful how you
eat honey" I have been warned by
those who seemed to understand their
subject Yet an excellent authority on
matters relating TO dietetics speaks of
honey as "a wholesome food, and Iat-
tening when eaten with bread" He
also supplies a definition OF the sweet
under consideration.
Honey is a form Of sugar prepared
from the nectar Of various Towering
plants. gathered by bees. and stored by
tnem in cells. II is really a vegetable
product, although manufactured by an
insect IN addition to sugar. # holds
several other ingredients, principally
wax, gum, pigment. and odorous mate
rails. The sugar exists In two forms
crystallizable and non-crystallizable.
The former g somewhat similar TO glu-
cose." Then follows an analysis, from
which we learn that honey contains
more than rs per cent. Of fruit sugar
and over 1e per cent of water, as we'll
as a negligible quantity OF other ingre-
dents
Nothing in this sounds especially
threatening TO the digestion, and yet
the fact remains that honey disagrees
with some persons seriously, and when
il dIsagFees with them at all, IL is likely
10 De in a very unpleasant fashion.
There can be no doubt that honey in
the comb is more of a tax to the stom-
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which found men and women away
from home without galoshes, have
wrought their evil work in hundreds OF
homes. The remedy you propose is
simple, cheap and within the reach Of
all
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doubled TIE original bulk, before baking.
Cover for the first half hour they spend
in the oven; then brown.
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needed. and give IL 20 her invalid by the
teaspoonful 20 check cough or irrita-
tion.
Honey bears its part in various aTti-
eles Of food as well as in the phar-
macy Of the household. and il will be
worth while for the woman who seeks
a change in cookery 20 try some Of the
dishes in which honey IS an ingredient.
! append recipes for few OF them;
HONEY CAKES.
Sift two cups OF flour and stir into
them a cupful OF sour cream, two table
sDoonfuls OF strained honey and an
equal quantity OF graduated sugar.
quarter teaspoonful OF powdered CHINA
mon and q half teaspoonful OF ground
ginger, Beat all together thoroughly
and at the last add an even teaspoonful
Of soda dissolved in a couple Of table
spoonfuls Of boiling water. Beat hard