The Detroit times., 1911-01-19
CYNTHIA GREY'S
CORRESPONDENTS

Dear Miss Grey: "a Is there a
story about Jim Fiske? III so where
can ! get 1t? CD Please give me
titles OF some books for boys of l3
'to,read.-H. w. w.
A.-O Inquire at book store. (2)
"The Gold Bug" by Edgar Allen Poe;
"Oiiver Twist" and Nicholas Nickel
by" by Charles Dickens; "Crayon
Papers and 'Alhambra" by Irving;
Treasure Island" and Master of
Ballantrae," by Stevenson; The Tax
lyman" and "Ivanhoe," by Scott:
Conan Doyles detective stories and
"Huckleherry Finn" tom Sawyer"
and Tom Sawyer Abroad" by Mark
Twain.
Dear Miss Grey: % Please give
me recipe for au gratin potatoes.
Also for lemon pie. CD have man
trend IL another city whom I have
known long while. He calls on me
frequently and sometimes he sends
me ticket to come to see him. Is
this all right
A.-Q) Au gratin potatoes Mako
q white sauce with a tablespoon but
ter, a tablespoon -four and sufficient
milk to thin II. Add cold boiled pota-
toes diced, season, pour into buttered
bake dish, cover with buttered bread
crumbs and bake until crumbs are
brown. Cheese is sometimes added.
Lemon pie: Mix Tablespoons corn
Starch with same amount -four ard
S-4 cup sugar. Add l cup boiling
water. stirring constantly. Cook for
a minute, then add teaspoon butter.
grated rind and juice of lemon, and
the beaten jolks Of two eggs. Bake
Ia | crust until pastry is well done.
Cool and cover with meringue made
with whites of eggs, tablespoons
powdered sugar and little fiavoring.
Bake minutes In moderate oven.
(2) n he entertains you at his
mothers home, yes.
Dear Miss Grey: % What will
polish gunmetal calf shoes? (2)
Please give two good candy recipes.
Nancy.
A.: az Gunmetal shoes are not
supposed to have polish. Brush
them thoroughly then rub them with
sweet oil. This will keep them in
good condition. (2) Turkish Delight.
Soak one box of graduated gelatin In
one-fourth cupful OF water, pour over
this one-half cupful OF hot water and
stir until dissolved. Now stir into this
four cupfuls Of sugar, put the sauce
pan on the back of the range, and
heat and stir until the sugar Is all
dissolved. Push the saucepan to the
front of the range and let the con.
tents boil ten minutes. Add the
strained juice of / orange and lem
on and boil ten minutes longer. Have
ready cut into small pieces one cup
full each of walnut meats and almonds,
stir these into the candy with grated
peel OF / orange. Butter long, shall
low pan and pour the candy into this,
having IL about one-half inch thick,
= land put In cool, dry place for two
days. Cut In squares, dust with
powdered sugar and pack in boxes.
Seafoam. Boil cupfuls OF sugar
with cupful of corn strip until lit
tie OF 1t dropped in cold water will
form a crisp ball Have the whites OF
boiling candy on IL and beat five min
,utes. then flavor with | teaspoonful
of vanilla. add cupful OF filbert
meats minced fine, and beat until the
candy begins to get thick. Drop by
spoonfuls on oiled paper.
Dear Miss Gray: VIII you kindly
answer in tomorrow's paper, Mr.. John
ID. Rockefeller's address. street and
number.--A Reader.
A.: Tarrytown, N. Y.
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Dear Miss Grey: I am boy six
teen years old. admire two school
girls of about thirteen. We 60 to
school in a schoolwagon and have
pleasant times together. Would 1t be
oil right for me to sit between them
In the school-wagon?-G. p.
A.-By all means sit between them.
Otherwise they might quarrel about
you.
To save the yolks OF eggs. whom
the whites only are used, drop the
yolks into tumbler OF cold water,