The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1912-03-01
HOUSEHOLD HELPS
ROYAL COOKIES.

powder, cup milk. MIN putter, SUI
gar, and eggs smooth; add flour sif-
ted with powder, and milk; mix into
dough, soft enough to handle conven-
iently; flour the board, roll out dough
thin; cut out with biscuit-cutter; lay
on creased baking-tin, bake in hot
oven or 6 minutes.
SOFT COOKIES.
cup butter, / 1-2 cup sugar, .
eggs, tablespoons milk. 1 teaspoon
baking powder, just enough flour to
roll out to a soft dough. Sprinkle
with sugar before rolling, cut into
rounds, bake in quick oven.
CoCoANUT COOKIES.
1 cup butter, cups sugar, eggs,
] cup grated cocoanut, teaspoon va
nilla, 2 teaspoons baking powder, flour
to roll out. Bake pale brown.
PLAIN COOKIES.
1-2 cup butter, 1-2 cups sugar,
beaten eggs, / cup water, i teaspoon
grated nutmeg, / cup flour sifted with
] teaspoon baking powder. sufficient
flour added to make a soft dough. Roll
out, cut into cookies and bake pale
brown in moderate oven.
JUMBLES.
cup butter, ! cup sugar, eggs,
2 cups flour, 1-2 teaspoon baking pow
der. Rub together the butter and
sugar; add the beaten eggs, and flour
sifted with the powder; flour the
board, roll out the dough rather thin,
cut with jumble-cutter, or any you may
have; roll in sugar, lay out on creased
utes.
LITTLE CHOCOLATE CAKES.
tablespoons butter, / cup sugar.
L. cup water, / 1-2 cups flour pinch
salt, teaspoon baking powder, eggs,
tablespoons grated chocolate melted
over hot water, l teaspoon extract
vanilla Put together as for cake
with butter; bake in patty-pans in
moderate oven.
SCOTCH CAKES.
pound flour, 1-2 pound butter, IL
teaspoon baking powder, 2-3 cup gran
ulated sugar, l teaspoon extract va
nilla. Mix flour and baking powder.
Rub in butter as for biscuits. Work
a.. ,;s
gives rather crumbly dough. Work
with hands to make it adhere, pat out
in cakes, sprinkle with caraway-seed.
Bake in moderate oven. Very rich.
DIVISION OF LABOR.
Proper and systematic methods of
doing housework would eliminate near
ly one half the labor from the home;
but it is too often tie case thhat the
work is done whenever most conven-
tent, and in some cases only when it
is impossible to leave the task longer
undone. By planning carefully all
may be kept in good order. each day
having its appointed labors instead
Of leaving the bulk of the cleaning
for one day at the end of the week.
No one can plan exactly for another,
although general outline can be ar
ranged. and the following. which has
proved satisfactory in at least one
house for some years, may be of some
service to inexperienced housekecpers.
MONDAY.
Although it is the habit of many TO
wash on Monday, and while this meth
cd has much to recommend it, it has
also some disadvantages, the princi-
pal one being that it necessitates
either soaking the clothes on Sun
Saturday night. neither of which
seems advisable.
ONE FREE DAY.
1t is a good plan to have one COM
paratively free day in the week, and
Monday seems the best day. Then,
too. the average homes will be found
to need rather more thorough atten-
ton on Monday than on other days
and 1t will be we'll to have the wash
ing day as free as possible from other
work.
On Monday Have the house put
In good order, sort the linen and
mend such as can be done before
washing, as holes and thin places be-
come longer by the rubbing they are
subjected to.
Keep Monday as day for all needle
work. repairing, etc, and also try to
arrange the meals so that there will
be a minimum of cooking to be done
on Tuesday, not only as a time saver
but also because clothes will absorb
the adors of cooking.
On Tuesday morning an early
start is imperative. for there is al
ways some work 10 be done before
the washing begins. and it is most