The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-15
Timely Hints for the Housewife

or be eaten with griddle cakes like maple syrup.
 Orange Pudding.
 TO make an orange marmalade brcad-pudding. butter some slices of bread and spread them thick with oran@e marmalade. Place in lay CTS in a baking dish and pour over the whole a hot eustard made of one pint of milk thickened with a tablespoonful of cornstarch rubbed smooth with cold water. and the yoiks of two eggs; add a pinch of salt and a tablespoonful of sugar Let stand l5 minutes; then, on the top layer place the whites of two eggs, whipped stiff and later beat en with tablespoonful each of sug- ar and grated orange peel Bake just long enough to brown the mer- ingue. Serve with an orange sauce
 Cornstarch Pudding.
 Directions for cooking cornstarch buildings will be found on every package, but a longer time for cook ing usually gives better result. Of ten a smaller proportion of the cornstarch may be used
 Bread pudding may find more favor if called by some other name. | as that of the principal flavor choc- olate or lemon or spice. The old brown betty was another name for
 Scalloped Apple
 Fill dish with alternate layers of buttered bread or bread crumbs | and sliced apples or other raw or stewed fruit. Spice and sugar may be sprinkled over each layer This may be done in a casserole or any dish with a close cover. Bake gen tly until the steam from the fruit penetrates the bread; then it may be uncovered and Drowned on top. q poured over the bread. etc, just enough to fill the chinks between. Somerset Salad.
 | Cut into tiny rings a bunch of crisp white celery, adding in the l order mentioned two chopped hard 1 boiled eggs. six minced olives, a squeeze of onion juice, and a pint of small oysters that have been cooked in their liquor until plump and allowed to cool; toss the in gradients lightly together with a silver fork, blending in, little at a time, pint of mayonnaise dressing, and serve heaped on a mound of heart lettuce leaves in crystal salad bowl garnished with capers and lem on quarters.
 A Quick Way to Clean Beans. Take an old tin pan, punch full of holes, put in as many beans as you wish to cook at one time, set over d pail, pour water on the beans and stir them at the same time for two or three minutes and you will find that the little pieces of dirt have all dissolved and washed away. Then pick out the colored one, and | they are ready for the kettle. Learn the Recipe. ;,t1 of food learn the recipe. It is easily done and save, much time and trou- ble on future occasions, aside from it's educational value.
 Soften in Oven.
 If fruit, such as raisins or citron, says an exchange, become hard and dried from standing, placing it for a time in a warm oven will soften it.
 Drying Curtains.
 The rather trying task of stretch ing wet lace curtains is much more easily accomplished if the frames are stood up on edge in the position in which they are usually put to dry, instead of on the floors or in a flat position balanced on chairs. Gather the long edge of the curtain in the left hand and adjust the up- per row of pins with the right, allow ing the width of the curtain to hang toward the floor The curtain will not catch the pins, nor will there be