The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
Chicken Aspic Salad

| ice. In the bottom of each mold place half stoned olive and arrange around | it in ring of capers, then pour in about an inch of aspic jelly prepared according | to the foregoing recipe. Now put in a | layer of minced roast chicken beaten up | with little thick cream. Fill the mold with more aspic and set aside until cold and firm, Leaving the molds in the ice until that point Is reached. Turn out pon a leaf of lettuce and send to the table with mayonnaise dressing. Blindness of Miss O
 Meal Casserole Cook one-half cup of fice with two cups of water until we'll done. Drain, season with salt and pepper. and add to 1t a bsaten egg. Line the sides and bottom of a casserole with this mixture and set aside to cool, saving d few tablespoonfuls of rice to spread over the top. While this is cooling melt tablespoonful of butter in saucepan, add a tablespoonful of flour and a little finely chopped onion. Mix well and brown slightly. To this add a cup of cleared soup stock. or cupful of canned soup, and any leftover meats that you happen to have, cutting these l1lO SIIldll plectS. TOUT lillS fulxtuI6 lntu the rice mold, spread the remaining rice over the top, and bake for 20 minutes in hot oven. or long enough to brown. Blindness of E. A. M)
 
 Clean Rubber Rainc0at
 Please inform me how I can clean a rubber raincoat.
 e. l.. W. (Kansas City, Mo.)" Spread 1t out smoothly upon table and go all over it with clean cloth dipped in soapsuds. Wiring out a cloth and wash it after each application or you will smear the dirt over the coat instead Of cleaning it. Exchange the suds several times for clean, and wipe dry as you go on.
 This should take all the dirt off. Should the process leave the surface dull, add a very little heats foot oil to the last water; wiring out flannel rag hard in this and wipe the rubber with it. Toe much oil will injure it. There should be lust enough to impart shine to the coat.
 
 To Keep Irons Clean
 Please lit me know how to keep my irons clean. Every time I use them the starch sticks to them. and I have to stop ironing and shine them.
 If there is any one in your Corner who has a doll cart for which she has no further use will she please let my little girl have it? She would appreciate 1t very much.
 MRS. s. Youngstown, O" If you will put bit of paraffin or tea spoonful of lard in the starch while it is bot the irons will not stick to the clothes. Some add pinch of salt, but the lard should be sufficient. piece of beeswax tied in cloth and rubbed quickly upon the hot iron tends to polish starched ar- ticles.
 We will try to get the baby a dolls car riage that may keep her from under your feet while you are ironing. Cake Recipe l T will explain the cake recipe I sent in to the Corner, with my request for old cast off willow plumes. There is nothing missing in the recipe I shall write it | again and explain it as l go: | Fruit Cake-One cup sugar, three cups fcur one and one-half cups raisins (they should be cooked and the water they are | boiled in used also, measuring one anc one-half cups, juice and alb, and one cut | of fruit apple sauce, or strawberries. oi any kind of sour. juicy fruit may be used one half cup of butter, one teaspoonful of baking soda; mix with the sugar one tea | spoonful of cinnamon and one-quarter tea spoonful each of nutmeg, ginger, cloves and allspice. This cake may be made very successfully by using lard instead ol butter. hope 1 have explained so all car understand.
 MRS. J. N. P. (School, Mol" It is kind of you to go to the trouble of supplying the details for which inquiry was made. When one knows recipe ''b, heart' and has often used it successfully she is prone to take too much for granted in expecting another person to follow he directions. Assume, in writing recipe that you are dealing with novices, ant not with experts. The king of the stor' who wanted to know 'how they got thu apples into the dumpling' was not so un reasonable as we generally think.
 To Rainproof Cravenette
 'Is there any solution in which crave nette may be dipped to 'rainproof II after it has become old?'
 "R M. (Erie, Kas)'
 doubt it, Still, I put the question t those who may know of something l hay never heard of, when the matter Is tn renewal of youth to raincoat. We hay talked upon sundry occasions of pater proof preparations. Is there one read for this exigency?
 To Clean Straw Hat
 Please infcrm me of process 10 cleaning a mans straw hat
 s'F B. (New York City.)"
 Go all over it with stiff brush dippe in damp, fine white corn meal, and ru this in thoroughly. It Is wonderfu cltanser. This done, throw away soile peal and set a fresh supply. Apply thi