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The San Francisco call., 1908-09-27

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In at For the best ideas published each
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Recipe for Bread
Miss Annie F.. Dundon. r.. f. ID. 8, Box
122, PetaIuma, Cal.

Three quarts of -four, one cupful of
yeast in one quart of lukewarm water,
one tablespoonful of salt. Knead and
let it rise over night. In the morning
knead and make into loaves; let rise
again to twice the size of the loaves,
then bake one hour.
For yeast: Boil a handful of hops In
a quart of water. Have in a pan a
pint of flour and three mashed potatoes;
pour the boiling hot water over these
and stir until smooth. When lukewarm
add cupful of yeast, let rise II hours,
then add a small handful of salt and
stir it down. In three hours put in a
stone jar and keep in cool. dark place.
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ST PRIZE
Fruit DumpIings

Mrs. l.. e. Higgins, Santa Maria, Cal.
Put fruit on-to stew in stewpan with
there may be plenty of Juice. When
cooked done. sweeten.
To one cup of -four add a pinch Of
salt and one rounded teaspoon OF balx-
ing powder. Mix well and wet with
water or milk until little sitter than
biscuit dough. Drop by spoonfuIs on
and keep boiling for 20 minutes.
Serve with sweetened cream.
A saucer placed in bottom Of stew
pan will help hold dumplings above
Juice. Apples, berries. or any fruit that
does not cook with thick tufce NAV
be used for these. If apples are used
flavor sauce with cinnamon, and the
cream does net need to be SO thick or
rich; milk may be used. %
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ere Are the Prize Winning
nurnonTh sPagon nTheDnb

Owing to the large number of rec
ipes and household ideas and sugges-
tons that are being received, and the
consequent inpossibility of their all
appearing in The Sunday Call owing
70 lack of space, several recipes are
now being published each day in the
Saily edition, under the heading, "A
few Words With the Lady of the
House"
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81 PRIZE
How to Wash Wool Shawls
Mrs. c. {. Richter, SOSk Lincoln Ave
nue., Alameda. Cal.

Mrs. c. {. Richter, sOS1k Lincoln Ave-
nue., Alameda. Cal.
Make a warm suds with pure soap:
INTO this press the shawl down firmly
and leave it TO soak for Is minutes
then, putting your hand under the
water. squeeze and squeeze the shawl.
never lifting il out of the water. When
the suds look dirty. squeeze into ball.
still under water; lift 1t out and wash
again in another clean suds. Rinse
Wen in water Of the same temperature,
being careful not TO lift shawl. which
would stretch wool apart. Take the
bali OF shawl and spread il carefully
on sheet on the grass in summer. or
oefore the stove in winter. AS IL dries,
shake occasionally: If frfnged. null each
Unread OF fringe apart. The shawl will
be as soft and fluffy as when new.
Woolen sweaters can be treated in
this way satisfactorily. Never hang on
line to dry.
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on damp cloth; the cake will then
come out without sticking.
when boiling CANDY or icing add a
plncn or cream of tartar: 1t prevents it
turning TO sugar or graining
When wishing to use salt fish quick
ly. freshen by soaking in sour milk.
10 prevent jelly from molding, before
putting covers on the glasses cover the
TOP or the jelly with white sugar.
save all your salt bags: they not
only make nice Jelly bags, but several
put together and stitched on the ma
cnine make good dish cloths or wash
cloths.
OIL the sewing machine with kero-
sene when 1T gets clogged and runs
hard; let it stand a while, then run IT
Driskly 70 loosen the old grease; wipe
of and oil with machine oil.
When bitten by any kind of insect
try an application of dampened salt.
pound over the spot; it Will usually re-
lieve at once
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Helps Along the Way

Annie v. Rogers, 154S Steiner street
San Francisco
In filing gem pans with batter of
any kind for cakes, mullins, etc, I do
not put it in with a spoon, which is apt
to leave drops on table and pan, but
pour from a small pitcher; 1t Is more
easily and quickly done.
Candles used for lighting dinner
tables will not drip il placed on the
ice for two or three hours before using
They will easily last throughout the
meal.
When cleaning a spot with gasoline
If a piece of blotting paper is placed
under the material the gasoline Will not
leave a ring.
When pouring hot jelly or jam into
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ence only on things that are moist or
sticky. OdOrOus substances are most at
tractive to him Food and filth are
impartially sought. Can any one who
has eyes doubt this fact?
Every fly you catch by fly paper or
poison is one less TO breed in your
vicinity. But the cleanest house is not
safe from invasion and contagion so
long as there is a fly waiting TO come
in. The best screening is only par
tial protection
The only cheerful thing about the
fly is that there is no use in having
them at all. Some towns are no longer
screened. They have adequate sewer
age disposal They take care of all
garbage. No stable refuse is allowed
to pile up. 1t is spread on the land.
where il is valuable. Remove their
breeding places and flies disappear
The war of determination is easy and
practicable. Ii requires little cOnscl-
entious work and intelligent co-opera-
tiOn.
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per and celery salt: mix with cream or
salad dressing
eggs; season with cayenne, salt, mus
tard, celery salt; add cooked salad
dressing; If liked, some chopped Ger
man pickle
Ham and Egg Sandwiches-Chop ham
and hard boiled eggs very fine; spread
on bread with mustard.
Dressing-This dressing makes deli
clous sandwiches, just spread on lettuce.
Keep a bottle on hand for them: Three
eggs beaten stiff, tablespoonfuls
sugar, l cup sour or sweet cream, Y
teaspoonfuls salt dash cayenne, table
spoonful mustard dissolved in II cup
vinegar. Boil all together In double
boiler till nearly as thick as custard
Remove from fire, add lump of butter
size of egg
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SIS PRIZE
Let Us Be Proud of Our Stoves
Marie MerkeI. 3s3OA Eighteenth street,
san Francisco

Marie MerkeI. 3S3OA Eighteenth street.
san Francisco
The stove should be the monarch Of
The kitchen" There is nothing in the
kitchen more worthy of appreciat tive
comment than a bright shining stove.
First roll up your sleeves, put on your
blue apron and do not fear to soil your
hands DO not hesitate at a little
Ia Dor. as nothing can be accomplished.
40 matter how easy, without some
labor on our part.
Mix half cake of stove backing
with an equal quantity Of alcohol,
t1rpenune and benzine-Say a small
lQuorglassful Of each. Rub every
part well and evenly with a
woolen rag, not forgetting the pipe.
When dry use the brush freely all over
the stove; then, TO give a finishing
touch. polish with an old piece Of velvet
or, II not at hand, a good wooden rag.
This method viii not only produce a
good shine. but one that will last q
long time and cause you 10 be proud
OF your stove and OF your work, as
many viii undoubtedly ask for your
recipe. Use the same mixture for your
gas stove. only instead Of using a rag
10 DO the rubbing have a small paint
brush which is handy for that pur-
pose.
Keep a box covered with black OIL
cloth under the stove containing tthe
articles that you use in polishing, in
cluding an old feather duster, which
you can use occasionally on the stove.
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Delicious Marrow Dumping
Soup
Mrs. c. A. ScbnabeI, 12S Scott street,
San Francisco


Select nice shin bone and extract the
firm marrow found in the bones; place
Put soup bones over slow fire In cold
water. When scum rises to the surface
as 1t begins to boil skim off carefully
then add salt. pepper, soup green's and
one bay leaf and simmer closely COW
cred, three hours. Meanwhile add a lit
tie cold water ta marrow in bowl and
begin pressing the blood out with a
tablespoonful. Drain water when
bloody and add fresh. Repeat this un-
til the water remains clear; work it
all out and drain. At first marrow will
crumble and become mushy, but grad
ually 1t will form smooth, creamy
paste. Break an egg over 1t. season
with salt. pepper and grated nutmeg
and mix with enough finely rolled
cracker crumbs to form a very stifr
mass. Roll into little balls between
palms of hands. Skim fat from soup,
strain through cloth. bring to a boil
and cook dumplings In it gently Ave
minutes or until we'll swollen.
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celery seed, half pound mustard seed.
one tablespoonful ground pepper, one
tablespoonful of cinnamon, four pounds
brown sugar, one tablespoonful of tur-
meric. Boil in one and a half gallons
of vinegar. When boiled sufficiently
add one pound of mustard and half
pint of salad oil, mixed together. Pour
all over the chopped vegetables and
bottle. Chop the cucumbers and green
tomatoes together first, salt and let
drain over night. Salt all vegetables
before mixing This recipe will make
II quarts. If one and a half gallons
of vinegar is too much. use l quart less.
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Delicious Bread Pudding

Mrs. w. c. Peteren, Petaluma, Cal.
Take one pint of nice bread crumbs,
one quart of milk, one cupful of sugar
and the well beaten yolks of four eggs
the grated rind OF one lemon and a
piece of butter the size of small egg.
Bake until done. Whip the whites of
four eggs and beat in one cupful of
sugar to which has been added the
juice OF the lemon. Spread over the
pudding a layer OF jelly or raspberry
jam or any sweettneat preferred; then
pour, over it the white of the eggs. Set
in the oven to brown slightly Serve
cold with whipped cream.
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Cheese Cake
Miss H. VI. Burke. san Mateo. Cal.

Take what sour milk you have and
put IL Into a bag made of cheese
cloth. hang Ii up and let 1t drain over
night. In the morning take the solid
substance that is left in the bag and
put it in a mixing bowl and to "A
coffeecupfuls of sour milk add thick
slice of butter and mix till IL creams
Then in another dish beat two eggs
with a cupful of sugar and add i've
tablespoOnfuls. of sweet milk. into this
put a ablesmpnful OF cornstarch dis
solved in sweN milk and mix we'll Add
little vanilla and pour into piecrust
placed in shallow pan as for Gus
tard pie. Sprinkle top thickly with
currants and cinnamon and let bake
until brown There is no upper crust.
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Home Cure for Cuts and Wounds
Marie Meerkel. 3S30A Eighteenth street,
san FranciScO.

First wash the sore with very light
solution of carbolic acid, few drops in
a cupful of water. Dissolve a table
spoonful of fine sugar in two tablespoon
fuls of good red wine and the same
quantity of olive oil Mix thoroughly
and apply freely with an old piece of
linen. Keep wound bandaged In the
ordinary way. On account of the heal
ing qualities of the oil. the fortifying
qualities of the wine and the cleaning
qualities of the sugar this mixture is
particularly efficient and leaves no evil
effects of any kind.
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Shirtwaist in Place
Adele
Adele Anthony, 1929 Twenty-fifth
street, San Francisco

street, San Francfsco
A good plan to keep the shirtwaist
in place is to take a piece of waist
material about two and a half inches
by one inch. Turn in raw edges and
sew 1t at center back of shirtwaist at
waist line. If waist buttons in back
use two smaller bands and sew one
on each side of center back. Sew one
eye at each upper end of band and two
hooks on the inside of skirt belt, at
center back the same distance apart as
eyes are on the waistband. BY hooking
the waist is sure to stay in place and
does not get torn. Bands should be
put on every waist, but be sure to
put the eyes the same distance apart
that the hooks on the skirt may At
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Sour Cream Waffles
Mrs. ". Stone, 2O04 EncinaI avenue,
Alameda, Cal.

Beat three-fourths of quart of sour
thick cream until frothy; add yolks of
10 eggs, then gradually a few gratings
of nutmeg and cinnamon and three
fourths of a pound of sffted flour with
a little salt Beat this mixture thor
oughly then add the whites of the eggs.
beaten stiff7y Beat a little and bake
on hot waffle irons.
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Sweet and Sour Salmon
Mrs. Millfe Reinke, 1926 Clement street,
Richmond district, San Francfxco

Boil the fish I'm granite pot, with
three cups of water, one carrot one
onion cut in small pieces. a few seedless
raisins, cloves bay leaves. whole black
pepper. six ginger snaps and little salt
and pepper. The fish should be cut in
pieces about an inch thick. The gin
ger snaps form the sauce. hour or
Dressing for striped bass: Crate
half loaf of old milk Bread add
Glove of garlic and an onion minced; salt
and pepper to suit. and with this mix
ture stuff a good sized bass. Grease
baking pan with butter and bake until
brown. Serve on hot platter and gar
nish with minced parsley.
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Swiss Spaghetti
Mrs. III. 5. Keller. Larkspur,

Mrs. III. ;. Keller. Larkspur, CRL
Cook spaghetti imported preferred.
in boiling water, well salted. three
quarters of an hour. Cut a large onion
rather fine and let simmer in pan on
back of stove with large piece of but
ter but do not brown; add more but
ter as the onion dries. Drain spaghetti
In colander and spread on large plat
ter. Mix Well with the onion and
melted butter. sprinkling literally
with grated Parmesan cheese. Put in
oven minute before serving.
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To Clean Woodwork
Mrs. Z. II. Hanson. 312 Third street,
Petaluma. Cal.

Save the tea leaves for a few days.
Steep them in a tin pan for half an hour,
strain and use the tea to wash all var
ntshed WOODWORK The tea acts as
strong detergent. cleansing the paint
from all Impurities and making the
varnish equal to new. 1t cleans win
dow sashes and oilcloths- It washes
window panes and mirrors much better
than water and is excellent for cleans
ing black walnut 1t will not do to
wash unvarnished paint with II.
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ST PRIZE

A SeasonabIe Appetizer (Orig-
inaID
Mrs. r. G. Spencer, p. o. Box NJ, Wood
land, Cal.
Wash four large. firm ripe tomatoes.
Cut across horizontally and SCOOP out
contents. carefully preserving shape of
cups. Put cups on ice. also the pieces
scooped out. cut very small. till near
serving time. Put through the chopper
two crisp green peppers Of good size,
minus stems and seeds. also half a
medium sized onion. Just before serv-
ing mix with the cut tomatoes, adding
salt TO taste, a very little vinegar and
one-fourth teaspoonfui Of sugar Serve
in the tomato cups with garnish Of
parsley or nasturtium leaves or curled
mustard. Some times I cut the whole
tomato IN small pieces and serve in
small glass dishes II have not enough
tomatoes, a small cucumber crisped in
ice water and cut IN little bits is an
addition and to some palates an Vim
provement
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Mashed Potato Doughnuts
Mrs. Charles GOlvin, Is Bay View
street. San Rafael. Cal.

Two cupfuls sugar. one large table,
spoonful shortening. three eggs. two
and half cupfuls milk. one cupful
hot mashed potatoes. a pinch of salt
and cinnamon or nutmeg TO suit taste.
three rounding teaspOOnfuls of baking
powder and sufficient -four to roll out
nicely. This makes seven dozen dough
nuts These are excellent and do not
take up grease at all or dry out
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Nut Cake
Mrs. r. Fredericks, 1864 Fulton street,
San Francisco

One cupful of butter creamed with
two cupfuls Of sugar; three cupfuls Of
-four sifted twice with two teaspoon
fuls of baking powder; one cupful of
cold water. four eggs, one-half tea
spoonful of mace: two cupfuls of nut
nately with the sifted flour and stiff
fened whites.
Mode: Cream butter and sugar. add
the beaten yolks, the water and spice,
in loaf tins.
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Mrs. III. A. s., 479 Clipper street, San
Francisco
Mocha Cream-Cream 10 cents worth
of sweet butter and cents worth of
powdered sugar. = Add slowly three
tablespoonfuls Of strong black coffee.
cream. one cupful OF sugar one table
spoonful of butter. Boil five minutes
after 1T begins boiling. Whip till cool;
flavor.
Peach Cream-One scant cupfui of
peaches, peeled and mashed; one cupful
OF sugar and the white of one egg.
Beat about half an hour or until thick
enough to spread. Apricots strawber-
ries and red raspberries can be used
in the same way.
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Swiss Roast
Mrs. H. Schroeder, 655 Fifth avenue,
r.. d.. San Francisco

Take round steak about two or
two and a half inches thick; pound into
It as much -four as 1t will take, using
the edge Of heavy plate for that pur-
pose When the -four has been pounded
into both sides put the meat into a
skillet with some lard and brown 1t on
both sides, or use oil instead of lard
Then cover with water, adding onions
enough to flavor and a whole ripe to-
mato or an equal quantity OF canned
tomatoes when the fresh vegetables
are not in season. Cover tightly and
as necessary during this time Just
before the meat is done, salt and pepper
to taste. A little of "Grandma's Span
ish Pepper" is nice. Delicious as this
dish is when served hot. it is also
very nice cold.
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Spanish Pickle
Mrs. William f. kaIch, 522 Forty-sec-
ond avenue. near Point Lobus.
San Francisco.

Slice one and a half dozen large GU
cumbers in large pieces without par
ing. Chop fine two large heads of cab
bage, two dozen very small onions and
eight green bell peppers; sprinkle with
salt and let stand IL hours; then press
out dry with the hands. and put in a
porcelain kettle in alternate layers of
vegetables and the following spices:
Two ounces white mustard seed, one
ounce turmeric, one ounce celery seed,
quarters of a pound of white
mustard and two pounds OF sugar.
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Custard Soume
Miss Hattie Gordon. 1888 Sanchez street,
san Francisco.

Put one cupful of sweet milk in a
double saucepan Let it come to a hoil
Rub two tablespoOnfuIs of butter and
the same of flour to a smooth paste.
Add the hot milk gradually to the flour
and butter; then put on the fire and
cook for five minutes, stirring all the
time. Beat the yolkS Of four eggs with
two tablespoonfuls of sugar and add
them to the mixture; then add the
beaten whites of the eggs and bake in a
creased baking dish in slow oven for
20 minutes.
Serve Immediately with a vanilla or
wine sauce.
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Recipe for Jam
Mrs. C. A. Morgan, 108 De MontfOrt
Avenue. Snn EranciscO

Boil the fruit, berries. grapes or cher
ries. in an open kettle; let cool and
press through colander. Then boil
slowly and add half as much sugar as
there is juice. Let simmer until it
thickens and then add a gill of good
brandy. If desired. although the jam
will keep as well without Pour into
Jars or glasses without sealing. This
jam will keep for years, retaining the
Aruit flavor without being too sweet.
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Lobster OmeIet

sara MnyO Bunker, box 592, MiII VAL
ley, Cal.
Remove the meat from small lob
ster and chop it very fine. Place in
the saucepan with half an ounce of
butter and just enough milk to mois-
ten it we'll Season with salt and
pepper and keep it hot. Make an ONE
let in the usual way with four eggs.
When ready to fold put in the lobster
mixture. Shape well. then turn the
omelet into hot dish and serve.
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A Nice Way to Prepare Sweet
breads
Miss A. Hill, 1913 Sanchez street, sar
Francisco.

Soak sweetbreads in cold water for
two hours. then parboil in salted water
for half an hour. Then take off skin
with towel. cut in halves and fry in
butter till tender. Have some toast
nicely Drowned and shaped the same as
the sweetbreads and arrange on nice
dish to put in the oven. Have aspara-
gus tips already cooked and make a
cream sauce nicely seasoned; mix to-
gether and pour over the sweetbreads.
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Sprinkle with grated cheese and bread
crumbs and put small piece of butter
on each Sweetbread- Then put in the
oven and bake TO nice brown color.
Lambs or calves brains can be pre-
pared in the same way.
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ST PRIZE
Hints for Cold Luncheons

Mrs. A. B. Lane, 1899 High Street. AIa-
media, Cal.
There Is nothing more monotonous
than cold luncheons; therefore tbey
should be very dainty and of a variety
These ideas may prove helpful to the
woman whose hardest task is putting
uD cold luncheon daily
First cut the bread for the sand
wiches.
Always put lettuce in them. for n Is
refreshing, and keeps the bread moist.
as we'll =
Pepper sandwiches-Chop bell pen-
pers and a little onion very fine. add
salI and mix with mayoHnaise
Nut SandWfches-One-tll cun Apal,.
chopped walnuts; season with salt. pen
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Five Hour Bread
b. Timm. 1880 Hayes Street. San Fran
cisco

This recipe requires one pint of
scalded milk. two tablespoonfulS of
butter, two of sugar, one of salt, one
cake of compressed yeast half a cup
full of lukewarm liquid and sufficient
fuII Add the shortening, sugar and
salt to the hot milk. When luke
warm add the yeast, softened in
the half cupful of liquid. and -four
to knead The dough will be light
in about three hours. Then shape into
loaves. which will become light in an
other hour; bake at the fifth hour.
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Potato Noodles
Mrs. f. MendIer. 93e Plymouth Avenue.
San FrancfscO

Take an equal amount of cold mashed
potato and -four and one teaspoonfuI
of baking powder Mix into a dough
with beaten egg Roll with the hand
on a Toured baking board into a roll
about the thickness of a finger Cut
into pieces two inches long and fry in
hot lard. Serve with meat gravy.
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Pineapple a la Creole
Mrs. III. Lipman. 1873 Post street, Sa

Francisco
Take one large sized pineapple; cut
OFF the top. Also cut off a piece of the
bottom, so that it can stand. Scoop
out the inside of the pineapple and
fill the cavity with chopped hazelnuts
and Strawberries and sweeten with
sugar. When ready to serve put
whipped cream and whites of eggs that
have been beaten TO snow on top of
the pineapple, and last replace piece
cut off with the green on the top.
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Dainty Dessert

Mrs. 8. l.. W.. 1925 Twenty-flrst street.
San Francisco
Take cream puff shells. split in
halves and fill. First a slice of peach
sprinkled with powdered sugar, next a
macaroon, then a spoonful of rasp-
berries: sprinkle with powdered sugar.
then spread with whipped cream that
has been sweetened and favored with
sherry wine and nutmeg. Cover with
chopped walnuts. If obtainable a leaf
of spearmint adds to its beauty in
serving.
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81 PRIZE
Practical Hints

Mrs. J. r. Andrews. 1927 Fffty-sec0nd
Avenue, Fruftvale, Cal.
When cutting hot bread, first dip the
knife in hot water.
When you take your cake pans from
the oven stand them for a few moments
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Strawberry Tapioca Pudding
VI. e. W., 100 jefferson street. Wat
sOnville, Cal.

Wash a cup of tapioca in several
waters and soak over night. In the
morning put over the fire with a pint
of boiling water and simmer in double
boiler until perfectly clear. Add lit
tie salt, sweeten to taste. and stir in
one quart of Strawberries and set away
to harden.
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Things Worth Knowing
Mrs. f. b. Simpson, 381 Claiming ave.
nue., PaIo Alto, Cal

When making apple or berry pie, try
putting strip Of muslin an inch wide
The juice will all be in the pie instead
of in the oven
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Frozen Pudding a la Cora Ahpel
Mrs. L. Wilke, 1873 Lyon street, San
Francisco

cents worth Of stale macaroons rolled
fine, the beaten yolks of two eggs.
sugar to sweeten. flavor with vanilla
and pack in form. Let freeze three to
four hours