The Alaska citizen., 1912-02-05
Timely I limits for the Housewife

edge of the dish with cold water
and put narrow band of paste
around; wet the band and place
on it the remainder of the paste.
cut to the size of the dish Then
notch the edges very neatly and
brush over with the leftover half
egg. Make a large hole in the
top. and into this put the ends of
some leaf shaped pieces of paste.
with an ornament in the center:
egg the leaves and bake. After the
crust begins to brown. cover it
with a buttered paper and bake for
an hour and half.
Caramel Rice Pudding.
Three tablespoonfuls OF rice, four
! tablespoonfuls of sugar. one table
spoonful of butter half teaspoon
full of lemon extract. three eggs.
one cupful Cf milk three table
spoonfuls of cleaned currants. and
! just a little grated nutmeg.
Wash rice, parboil, drain and cook
in the milk for half an hour; turn
into basin, add two TABLESPOONS
fuls OF the sugar, grated nutmeg.
currants, butter, lemon extract and
the egg well beaten Put the
remaining sugar into a small sauce
pan over the fire and cook until
brown, being careful not to let it
burn
Pour it while hot into buttered
pudding mold and spread it all
over the inside. Fill the mould with
the rice mixture. set it into a
saucepan with boiling water to half
/ its height, and bake it in the oven
until quite set. Turn out and
serve hot or cold.
Heidelberg Salad
Equal quantities of herrings or
picked behring's, cold veal and
cold beets. Two hard-cooked eggs
to a cupful of each of these. Chop
up all the ingredients together, leay-
ing a small portion of the egg;
add OIL vinegar, pepper, salt, mus
tard CT salad dressing. Place in a
dish and mark off the top in sec
tons with small strips of cardboard.
In one put finely chopped parsley
! (green), in another white of egg
(white), in another white of egg
tinted with beet juice (pink), in
another yellow egg (yellow), and in
the last capers dark green). Place
hardboiled yolk of egg in the
center The cardboard should be
removed before serving
Pie Crust.
When making pie crust. if you
have any left over, put il in
bowl or cup and press it down;
spread the top of the dough over
generously with lard or butter and
keep in cool place. 1t will keep
WV VI tHiCe udyS IL weather is not
too warm, and will not form a
crust on top.
To Etone Raisins Easily
To stone raisins without having
them stick to the fingers, soak
them for several minutes in hot
water, then plunge them into ice
water and drain.
For Rusty Irons.
Clean rusty flat-irons by washing
in soapy water, then rubbing with
beeswax and salt; after this. each
time they are taken from the heat
err rub with a piece of glazed pa
per.
Relief for ScaIds and Burns.
For burns or scalds mix equal
parts of lime water and olive oil,
saturate cotton wadding with it and
apply to the injured parts When
the latter are not convenient turn
the white of a raw egg over the
burn; it is soothing and cooling.
and if quickly applied will relieve
the pain and prevent inflammation
To Distribute Fruit in Cake.
1t is often disappointing when cut
ting a fruit cake to find that most
of the fruit has settled to the bot
tom. To remedy this, put half
Of the batter in the pan before the
fruit is added then put the fruit
into the remainder of the batter in
the bowl Stir well and add to
that in the pan. The fruit is
Tins evenly distributed