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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
Dropped Biscuits.

At night make up the dough in the
usual way for light bread and let 1t
rise over night. In the morning, be-
fore kneading 1t, break of a piece of
the dough which you think would be
sufficiently large to supply the neces.
sary wants and roll it out the same as
you would for the regular yeast pow.
der biscuit, about a quarter of an inch
thick. Take skillet and fill it two.
thirds full of good lard, let it get boil
ing hot, then cut your biscuits out and
drop them in. They will puff up and
turn brown, leaving a hollow inside.
Serve while hot and break open, put
ting the butter on the inside. Do not
cut open.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
For Salty SOUP,

If your soup is found too salty, add
a few slices of raw potatoes and cook
a little longer. The potato will absorb
the surplus salt.
It will save time If a frying pan or
griddle is wiped with piece of old
newspaper to remove the surplus
grease before 1t is washed.
Some people like the unsweetened
juice of pineapple added to mayor.
naise, especially when the mayor
naise is used on a fruit salad.
Boil dried beef a few minutes in
water to remove the salt and to make
1t tender Put the beef into hot but.
ter, fry brown, make gravy with flour
and milk, boil for minute and serve
with small pieces of toast.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
To Iron Woolens.

Instead of ironing underwear d.
rectly with the iron on them (Which
disintegrates the fiber and puts them
in an early gravel, put a common
sheet Of newspaper between the
clothes and the iron, and note the re-
suit. The came applies to woolens
and any other fabric. If goods of deli
cate shades are being ironed, use pa
per withou: printing on it. The fur
Their advantage of the process is this:
The iron runs smoothly over the pa
per without sticking, and it does not
pull the clothes out of shape, as is
the case when a cloth Is interposed,
as the paper surface is fiat, stiff and
smooth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
MAKING OF CAKES
ART REQUIRES CARE AND JUDO
MENT ON PART OF COOK.
Very Best ingredients Are Essential
-order in Which They Go To-
Qether and Exact Care In
Measuring important.

The old-fashioned mother taught her
daughter cake making as the climax
of the art of cookery, especially If she
was thrifty. Nowadays a girl often
starts in with cake making, perhaps
because the materials for cake do not
seem as expensive as formerly, when
the teacher was so loathe to see them
wasted on experiments that were more
than likely to be failures.
It requires great care and judgment
to mix and bake cake, greater perhaps
than is needed for preparing any other
one thing that goes upon the table.
The very best ingredients are essen
tial and the order in which they gc
together as we'll as the most exact
care in measuring them is important.
And there is more precision needed
in the baking. Though the making be
right all may ga aglee in the baking.
Sodden centers, pale, sticky surfaces,
are results not uncommon when the
inexperienced make cake.
Some cooks classify cakes as those
with and those without butter, and do
not include in either class ginger
bread, waters and cookies or dough-
nuts. There are yet other things that
seem to be neither cake nor pastry,
but are called either, according to To-
cality. Those cakes which have but
ter as an ingredient are perhaps the
more difficult to make, though sponge
cakes are not at all the easiest of
things to have turn out right to T.
Sponge Cake BEAT lightly two
eggs, add three-fourths cup Of sugar,
two tablespoonful of water, three
fourths cup of flour, with one-third tea.
spoonful of soda. Bake quickly in a
hot oven and serve while fresh.
Sponge Cake II.-Four eggs, one cup
of sugar, two cups of flour, two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder, rind OF
one-half a lemon, two-thirds cup of
boiling water. Beat eggs light, add
and stir with the egg mixture, then
add boiling water and flavoring, beat
we'll and bake in a cake pan in a
moderate oven.
Molasses Sponge Cake.-One egg
beaten light with one-fourth teaspoon
full of salt, one cupful molasses, one
half tablespoonful of melted lard, one
and one-half teaspoonfuls of soda dis
solved in one-half cup of boiling wa
ter, one pint sifted flour. Beat until
1ioht holo in a noOdarata Ovon Serve
warm.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
Mexican Kisses.

Put into a saucepan two cupfuls
grated maple sugar or maple syrup
and one-half cupful milk. Cook gently
until little dropped in cold water
will ball if rubbed between the fingers.
It will take ten minutes or little
less to reach this stage. Stir constant
ly while boiling, as it scorches easily.
Add a heaping teaspoonful of butter,
and as soon as melted remove from
the fire and beat steadily until the
mixture looks creamy and slightly
granulated Stir in at once pound
of English walnuts, broken mot
chopped) into small pieces. Beat
hard and turn into buttered tins to
harden.
You can use brown sugar il you
have no genuine maple, but add tea
spoonful of the maple flavor that can
be purchased at any of the large gro
ceries.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
Waste Of Money.

The telephone bell rang loudly in
the silent watches of the night in one
of the larger hospitals of New York
recently and one of the young in
ternes, who was doing duty in the
office at the time, answered.
'1s dis der hospittle?' came a fe-
male voice in a strong German &C.
cent
YES said the doctor.
Il wand to speag to der DOCTOR"
came the voice.
"This is one of the DOCTORS" said
the inferno. what is it you want?"
II wishes to inkvire," said the voice,
"how ISIS Rosa SCHNEIDER"
It happened that this was the name
of one of his recent patients. Rosa
Schmidt" he said. ''Why, Rosa
Schmidt was discharged four days ago
as cured. She is not here any long
er."
"Ach, Gott!" came the voice in a
tone of profound vexation. "A nickel
gone:"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
A TONGUE-TWlSTER.

Il beg your pardon; I thought this
was Mr.. DINGHY"
Il am DINGHY"
Then I am glad to find that l was
mistaken In thinking that I was mis-
taken"
Hey"
Il say when l thought was mis-
taken l was mistaken in thinking
was mistaken, and, being mistaken in
thinking was mistaken when wasn't
mistaken, was glad to find I was
mistaken when l thought I was mis-.
taken, because l wasn't mistaken; or
rather, l was mistaken when l thought
l was mistaken, and so couldn't
have been mistaken. Well, at any
rate, am glad. Looks as il we were
going to have rain, doesn't it,"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
A Stroke Of Luck.

A rich old farmer who had moved
into Michigan village had a ne'er-do-
we'll son who would not work, but in
sisted on loafng around the village
and living on his father, meantime
waiting for the happy moment when
the father might die.
One morning the news came from
the rich old farmers house that he
had a stroke of apoplexy and was dy-
ing. The good women of the village
rushed over to see if they could do
anything They found the son sitting
on the porch in rocking-chair rock
ing slowly and rubbing his hands.
John" one lady said, "is this
terrible news true? How is your
father?"
"Well," replied John, continuing the
rocking, ":all l can say is that l ex-
pect to be a rich man In a few min
utes. ''-Saturday Evening Post.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
ITO MAKE DELICIOUS ICE
Cooling Than Creams in
Summer.

Six oranges, a pint Of orange Juice.
a pound of sugar and a quart of wa
ter-these are the materials needed to
make delicious ice. Ices are more
cooling than creams in the summer,
because the water and sugar and fruit
juices digest far more easily and
quickly than cream and milk. To make
the granite, boil the water and sugar
together for five minutes. Peel the
oranges, separate the sections, remove
seeds, white skin, and every bit of
connecting tissue. Throw the pieces
Of fruit into the hot syrup, stand aside
for an hour to cool, and then drain
the syrup into the ice cream freezer,
add the orange juice and freeze.
When frozen stiff mix in the pieces
of orange, and serve in glasses.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09

entirely different from houses of the
same size as they are usually planned.
The living room, 10 feet by "a feet
six inches, extends across the entire
front of the house. while the dining
room occupying the alcove extending
both back and one side is separated
from the living room by cased open
ing set cornerwise, or at an angle of
As degrees, between the two rooms.
This is an arrangement rarely seen,
yet it is one which affords maximum
of roominess down stairs, at the same
time separating the dining room space
to certain extent from the living
room. An open stairway going up
along the rear wall of the living room
also adds to the apparent space. This
arrangement affords wonderful posi-
bilities for attractive interior decora-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09

able, went without demur, though she
had been bred to the strictest social
observances
It's a. risk-1 am truly frightfully
hungry" she warned him, with a
smile that was piteously brave.
1t was memory of the smile that
emboldened him, as they sat over
their coffee in a quiet place, yet
still far from cheap, to say, lightly
touching her free hand: why don't
you get out of all this? You don't
in the least belong"
How do you know could get out
of it," Natalie parted
Winboro smiled softly and flicked
the ash from his cigar. Finding him
silent the girl went on: Il haven't
run away from adoring parents-only
from a stepuncle and-well, Aunt
Maryland john"
Il see," Winboro interrupted John
now, tell me all about him.
81 cant. There's nothing to tell
if there we're" Natalie cried, STOP
ping short with vivid blush that
made WinbOro smile again and shake
his head.
You'll never in the world make an
actress" he said. Those eyes of
yours can tell only the truth. John
is hasty-foolishly hasty. He wants
to marry you out of hand. When
you want to find the great adven-
ture?"
How do you know" Natalie again
demanded.
Winboro looked straight into her
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09

did not hear. The alarm was set for
four o'clock. That was 20 minutes
past the time the passenger had count
ed on arriving at the given address.
but he was so DESTROYS to find out
what the cabman would do when the
alarm went of that he called up in
structions to take him many blocks
out of his way so he would be in at
the finish.
At four o'clock the alarm sounded
The cabman alighted, set the alarm
for five o'clock, and hung the clock
back in the corner. Then the passen-
gers curiosity could be restrained no
longer.
whats the meaning of this?" he
said. Il have ridden 20 minutes
longer than 1 ought to and have run
up a dollar extra on my bill just to
find out the secret of that alarm"
Yes, SIR" said the :abman, that
it."
What Is it,"
THE 20 minutes and the dollar ex-
ira They all does it. just as you did,
out of curiosity."-New York Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
School SAVINGS Bank.

The system of school savings banks
started Is years ago by J. H. Thirty of
Long Island City, N. Y, has prospered
amazingly. In 1,16S schools in 118
cities of this country over $4,000, 900
has been deposited. The New York
city school children have saved fully
$1,5O0,OO0. The system has spread to
% states and also to Porto Rico, Ha-
vail and the Philippines. It has also
been adopted in other lands, having
been cordially welcomed in Canada.
In nine years $270,000 has been depos.
tied in the schools of Toronto alone.
In France there are banks in 1000
schools, with more than $500, 900 de-
posted. Algeria has also taken up
the plan. In South and West Aus
tralia 1t has been made a part of the
postal savings system. More than
100000 children have participated
in the good work.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
Rescued a Bridal Couple.

Attorney General Wickersham had
chance to offer first aid to the in
jured" the other day. He was riding
in his automobile when he came upon
a bridal couple who had just been
tumbled out of carriage drawn by
a runaway horse. They were on their
way to the Union station for their
wedding tour, and while neither of
them was injured, the bride was pretty
badly shaken up. Attorney General
Wickersham helped the young lady
into his automobile. and her husband
climbed in, and he carried them to
the Union station, where they con-
tinued their bridal trip.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
A Macaronj Sauce

The following rule for sauce to
be served with macaroni or the Italian
polenta is given by the wife of a we'll
known Italian grocer: Cook a round.
ing tablespoonful of finely minced
onion and half Glove of garlic brown
in rounding tablespoonful of butter
Moisten with three tablespoonfuls of
the water drained from boiled maca.
roni and half tablespoonful of beef
extract. When the sauce boils add
four dried mushrooms that have
soaked until they are soft and cook for
five minutes. Turn it over the maca.
roni or polenta.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
|MAKESA DISCOVERY
PIPPlN GETS WISE TO CAUSE OF
BUTTONING TROUBLES.
Finds That His Wife's Dresses Button
the Wrong Way and Attributes
His Awl<wardness to
This Fact.

Il suppose you'll be late as usual, !"
observed Mrs. Pippin, when she noted
that Pippin was still cooked back in
the big chair with his newspapers.
Yes, it looks as if you would wait
until I'm all dressed before you start,
just as you always do when we're 60
ing to the theater." She talked as she
stood preening herself in front OF
the mirror.
After those observations of hers
Pippin started in and got busy at the
Qulck-change work. Even after giving
Mrs. Pippin a half hours handicap,
| ned have overtaken her-except for
one thing. Mrs. Pippin asked him to
! button her dress up the back. 1t al
! ways upsets Pippin. a job like that.
This time it was particularly tech
meal task, because there was layer
OF stuff that had to be hooked, then
/ a row of something like 81 buttons no
larger than cross section of a pea to
be jabbed into as many buttonh6les
that were even smaller
Pippin always trembles at the pos
, slbility, that when he thinks he's all
through the buttons and buttonholes
may not come out even, and he will
have to go through the entire French
maid job again from the beginning.
| This time he was careful enough to
i overcome that danger, but Mrs. Pip.
pin made several disparaging remarks
about the clumsiness of masculine fin
gers, and Pippin felt deep mortifica.
was truth in what the good wife said
He was awkward. He wondered why
It was that he could button his own
| shirts, and other garments, so dex.
terously, and that his present work
| seemed so battling.
Then he noticed something. Turn
around minute" he told Mrs. Pip
pin suddenly. Nov back again." He
walked around her two or three times
sizing her up, as if she were some
thing he was thinking of buying Then
he'd look at his own clothes and back
at his wife's.
! Sure they're wrong!" he exclaimed
elated by the JOY of discovery. They re
been wrong for years. All women's
clothes button wrong. That's why it's
been matter of common jest for all
, these years that mans awkward
when it comes to fastening up female
garb. Look at the buttons on my
coat. Do they button up on the left
hand side? OF course they don't
They button up on the right side just
as the Almighty intended things tc
button. Now look at yours. Look at
any outfit you've got in the house and
you'll find it buttons up on the left
hand side-and wrong side. No won
der you call men awkward. And
what's more, the buttonholes run uE
and down instead of crosswise. Well
I'm glad I happened to notice it at
| last"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
Lancaster Pickles.

Two quarts onions, two quarts Gu.
cumbers. two quarts cauliflower or
cabbage, two or three green peppers
(take seeds out). Chop all fine, or put
through food chopper, and let stand in
brine over night. Drain and scald in
weak vinegar, with a lump Of alum in
it. When cold pour off vinegar and
add dressing: Ten cents worth Of
mustard, one-half ounce celery seed.
one cupful of flour, one gallon of vine
gar, two cupfuls of sugar. Add all
the ingredients. Bring to boil and
seal tight. This is fine with meat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09

Peter Winboro, actor and gentle
man, tapped rather hesitantly upon
the door of his next neighbor, Natalie
Peyton. For three months they had
been harbored in Mrs Jones' severely
respectable lodging house, Natalie in
the ballroom front, Winboro in the big.
ger chamber adjoining. Since their
first meeting he had given the girl
q respectful salutation at each en-
counter. She had answered with a
nod, smile and murmured word;
nothing more. But somehow his days
had been the brighter for them. 1t
had hardly gone beyond that. Once
he had ventured to lay magazine
at her door; once, also, she had sewed
up deftly an untimely and annoying
rent for him. He had got it careless
ly just as he was starting out, and al
ready late, SO the kindness had been
as real as it was trivial
He had meant to return it in the
shape of matinee ticket. But he
had found out that Miss Peyton was
at work every day-their encounter
ings had been as she came in from
the shop, and he went out to dine
before the theater. The shop was a
bedizened place on the avenue-Peter
did not know it-where fine hand
sewn custom lingerie was made. But
wages were not at all proportionate
to prices, SO when the slack season
came and there was work only for
the regulars, Natalie. new to the city
last autumn, found herself idle, with
no friends, faint prospects and scant
hoard of money.
Winboro had somehow sensed the
situation-helped, perhaps, by hear
ing her move about her room in day.
light. Her face, too, had a subtly
terrified look, though she held her
self straighter than ever, and smiled
as brightly at him. "Shes game-as
game as she's good" he told himself
upon a certain bright Sunday after
noon. Hanged if 1 don't chuck the
Blenton crush, and take her for a
walk-and to dinner afterward."
Youth loves company the same as
misery. Natalie. young and miser-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09

much desired. but in the ordinary
house plan of this size it seems to be
a difficult matter to arrange
The kitchen is the proper size and
shape for convenience and is we'll
supplied with cases and the sink is
we'll located by window where the
light is good. A small entry way &C
commodities the ice box
On the second floor there are two
very nice bedrooms besides one large
store room and three closets One
Of the bedrooms has small alcove or
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
Need for Alarm.

Before climbing up to his seat the
colored cabman set the alarm on q
small clock that hung in one corner
of the cab.
What Is that for?" asked the pas
senger, but the driver had already
mounted to his seat and was telling
MS horse to "Giddap," and apparently
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
Spiced Grape Jelly.

Eight quarts of grapes picked from
stem, one quart of vinegar (if strong,
dilute), two ounces of cinnamon bark,
one ounce of whole cloves. Cook we'll,
strain, let stand over night, strain
again. To one pint of juice use one
pint of sugar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
Burberry Sherbet.

To make this summer time concoc-
ton let a quart of blueberries and
three cups of boiling water cook to-
gether in a covered vessel for six or
eight minutes. When the berries are
soft, strain them through fine wire
sieve or a square OF cheesecloth, press
ing out all the juice-there should be
just about a quart of the liquid. Add
a scant cup of sugar and the juice of
a large lemon and freeze as usual
within water ices, until the the mix
ture is stiff enough to eat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
Granefruit Hint.

The grape fruit for breakfast should
be cut in half the night before, the
seeds all carefully removed, and sugar
sprinkled over the fruit, which should
then be placed in the refrigerator
over night. The result is a delicious
fruit for breakfast, sans all bitter
ness
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
A Noveitv in JeIlies

Delicious jellies may be made by
substituting milk for water. Take a
packet of Chiver's jelly, cut it in small
pieces, put it in basin and stand
over saucepan of boiling water until
it melts. When lukewarm, add a pint
of cold milk, stir it we'll, pour into a
mold and let it stand until set. Great
care must be taken not to add the
milk until the jelly is nearly cold or
it will curdle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
Brown Bread Mullins.

Break into bits sufficient stale bread
to fill a quart measure. Cover with a
pint of cold milk and soak till soft.
Beat to smooth paste, add the we'll
beaten yolks of three eggs, a table
spoonful of melted butter, and three
fourths of cupful of graham flour
sifted with a heaping teaspoonful of
baking powder. Fold in the we'll beat
en- whites of the eggs. Bake in muffin
pan twenty minutes in a quick oven.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09

dressing room, which is d good fea-
ture.
The exterior of this house is very
attractive. Narrow siding is used
from the water table up to the Sec
ond story window sill course. Above
this cement plaster is used 1t is
suggested that both clapboards and
plaster work should be painted dark
brown, while the trimming should be
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
The Vaudevjliains.

Comedian-Since my sister Rose
has been autumning in Florida she
writes that she is one of the sweetest
girls in the world.
Soubrette- modest assertion.
| am sure. What gave her that idea?
Comedian-Why, she says she
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
Veal Loaf.

For every cupful of meat add a cup
full Of ground or grated bread crumbs
when making veal loaf. The loaf will
not be so solid and heavy, it will be
less expensive, more wholesome, and
more delicious.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
To Clean Bedfieke

To clean bedticks, apply Poland
starch by rubbing it on thick with a
cloth, place in the sun; when dry,
rub it If necessary. The soiled parts
will be clean as new.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
Asnaraous Shortcake.

Make a white sauce and add sms-N
pieces of cooked asparagus, pour this
over some large baking powder bfs-
cults split hot, serve with hard Boiled
eggs cut up.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09
ORANGE Eillino.

One orange. Crate the rind and
squeeze the juice, one egg, one table.
spoon corn starch. pinch of salt, two.
thirds cup sugar, two-thirds cup of wa.
ter. Cook until thick. THIS is deli.
ciouR
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-09

The last years bathing suit will shrink.
And shrink both day and night:
Until at last it shrinks SO much
The bather shsinks from sight