The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-29
Timely Hints for the Housewife
Cream Of Corn Soup.

Cream Of Corn Soup.
 This requires a can of corn. one quart of boiling milk. a tablespoons ful of butter. salt and pepper to taste. Press the corn through d sieve and add it to the boiling milk with the seasoning Thicken with little flour mixed with cold water and serve with croutons. If sliced onion Is added to the milk while it is heating it will improve the flavor
 Potato Soup.
 Boil quart of potatoes. and when done smooth with a little wa ter until thin batter. Stir two tablespoonfuls of butter, salt and pepper 10 taste into quart of milk and bring to boil Beat four eggs and stir them into the potatoes. then mix the milk with them and serve
 Black Bean Soup.
 One large beef bone. a medium sized bunch of parsley, four cloves small bunch of celery tops. one large carrot, one quart of black navy beans and gallon of water Boil all the cloves. bone, celery and parsley the day before using for banrS ban day skim all the fat off and run through sieve. Boil the beans in this until soft and mash through colander. If necessary, thicken with little flour mixed with water. and when serving put in each plate a thin slice of lemon and a slice of hard boiled egg.
 Sour Mix Grlddle Cakes
 Two cupfuls of flour. one tea spoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of sugar. one teaspoonful of soda, two cupfuls of sour milk and two eggs Mix in the order given. beat we'll Heat the griddle; when hiss ing hot, grease with a piece of salt pork on the end of fork. Drop a tablespoonful of batter from tip to end of spoon on hot griddle When full of bubbles turn, when cooked on both sides serve on hot plate. If sour milk is very rich, the eggs may be omitted
 Rhubarb Shortcake.
 Rub into one heaping cupful of pastry flour that has been sifted with a teaspoonful Of baking powder a pinch each Of salt and sugar. one teaspoonful of lard and a small but ter ball Moisten this to the con sistency of biscuit dough with sweet milk and arrange in two flat cakes. spreading well with butter and after placing one on top of the other bake for 20 minutes in quick oven. When the cake is done, break 1t apart and again butter it. spreading il thickly with a rhubarb sauce and sweetened whipped cream between and on top, dusted with finely chop ped nut meats.
 Spoonful Pudding.
 One egg, l tablespoonful of but ter, ? tablespoonfuls of sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls of flour. tablespoon ful of cornstarch, 1 tablespoonful of milk. l teaspoonful of baking pow der, pinch of salt, raspberries. This is both good and delicate, and if properly cooked will be very light. Chopped pineapple and pitted cher ries may be used in place of rasp- berries if you happen to lack a supply of that fruit In measuring the butter have your measurement level; but the spoonfuls of sugar, flour and cornstarch must all be heaped up.
 Cream the butter; then cream the butter and sugar together. Mix the salt. cornstarch and flour, reserving q IltAic ol tHc IlouI lo uiiA "llll the baking powder little later. Sift these dry ingredients and mix with the butter and sugar; then add the milk and the yolk of the egg, beat ing the batter thoroughly. Now put in the baking powder, mixed with the small quantity of flour that was left,
 
 and finally fold in the white of the egg. Butter three earthenware cof- fee cups, and into each put two gen. erous tablespoonfuls of red raspber- ries, and over the fruit two table spoonfuls of batter This recipe