Middletown transcript., 1911-08-12
USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW

For dainty silk dress or chiffon aists
use instead Of ordinary hRttnn rings
Of the proper size over in
silk Of coEOFo fabric or the
trimmings. In white thread this is very
nice for lingerie blouse also and easier
to make than crocheted buttons. If you
wish you may darn across the rings, or
CROSS threads and buttonhole over them
but really the plain buttonholed rings are
just as pretty. Where you have crocheted
loops instead Of buttonholes the soft bat
tenberg rings will do as well, and can be
bought ready made at any embroidery
supply or notion store.
Four eggs, beaten separately; one and a
fourth cups sugar; half cup of butter:
half cup Of sweet milk; two and a half
cups Of flour; one teaspoon cream of tar
tar; scant half teaspoon soda; flavor to
taste. Sift -four, then measure; add soda
and sift three times. Cream butter and
sugar lightly. Beat yolks to stiff froth and
stir in. Whip whites to foam; add cream
Of tartar and whip stiff. Add milk, whites
Of eggs and -four. Stir hard. Bake in a
moderate oven about 80 minutes.
Cut the cabbage in fine shreds and put
it dripping wet, in kettle with one table
spoonful OF butter or oil. Season with salt
and cayenne pepper to taste. Cover close
ly and let it cook in its own steam. Cut
one large onion in small cubes and fry in
one tablespoonful Of butter or oil. When
slightly Drowned, add the cabbage and
fry both together fine golden brown.
Yolks of two eggs one tablespoonful
each of salt, sugar, celery, salt and mus.
tard, pinch of cayenne pepper, and a
small piece of butter. Mix it smooth and
add one half cup of cream, either sweet
or sour, and one cup Of vinegar. Thicken
in double boiler and stir until removed
from the fire. This will keep in q cool
place for several weeks.
Waists of challis, foulsrd, pongee or
messaline matching the suit in color are
very good looking, and are more practical
in many ways than washing shirt waists
and in the end hardly more expensive.
They can be made very simple and worn
with lingerie collar and cuff sets.
The proper way to clean sewing ma.
chine is with plenty of coal oil of kerosene
which are one and the same thing. Fill
your oil can with it and oil carefully every
working part that you can reach; then
sew rapidly on some useless piece of goods
to distribute the oil. Then take chamois
skin or sponge, or soft piece of cloth
that will not leave lint, and wipe up all
the surplus oil. It works like magic. OF
course this strenuous treatment is only
for once in awhile: in general, oil only
with the finest sewing machine oil, or you
will injure your machine, But once in
several months this method is excellent.
Cod or any firm feshed fish will answer
and middle or tail piece is best. After
scraping and washing arrange on q fat
pan, pour over and round it Cupful of
thin tomato SAUCE which has been well
seasoned with onions and green peppers.
Bake until the flesh draws away from the
bones, basting every ten minutes with
more Of the sauce, which is kept hot at
the side Of the FIRE. eerye with the re-
mainder Of the sauce.
Il is no longer fashionable not to know
on which side the bread 10 buttered or
how to cook a potato. The intelligent
woman OF today is scientifically domesti.
Gated. She can meet her own cook with
out AinchiDg and can, moreover, give
that antocrat "points" on culinary mat!
ters.
These are made In the same way as or
dinary eclairs, only the inside filing is Of
some small fruit, with a spoonful of whip
ped cream on top, added before placing
the top on. This is convenient mode Of
serving fruit for parties when ease Of serv
ing is q consideration. They are very
dainty.
One-hslf cup butter tunsaltsdis best.)
Cream this into one and one.halI cups