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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20
MARION HARLAND'S HELPING HAND.

her to plan to take several gallons of them
away with her In the form of preserves is
alluring and | am glad to do all in my
power to enable you to carry out your de-
sign. l give below recipes for orange mar
malade, orange preserves, and guava Jelly.
May you have the best of luck with all OF
them.
ORANGE L MARMALADE.--Slice thin two
dozen oranges, removing the seeds but not
the peel, Shred and seed two lemons and
put with Them Measure the juice fl ON them
and put with it enough water 10 make
three quarts of liquid and put this. With the
sliced fruit. into stone crock. cover this
and let 1t stand all night. In the morn
ing empty the contents Of the jar into a
preserving kettle bring slowly 10 a simmer
and keep the fruit at this until II is ten-
der. Allow pound Of sugar to each pint
of juice and cook all together until the peel
of the fruit IS clean and translucent. then
take from the fire, and When 1t is cool turn
1t into jars or jelly glasses and seal
You can make grapefruit marmalade in
the same way. but IL the grapefruit is very
tart you may need more sugar. DO not
put lemons in. but use oranges in their
place
ber of small, medium sized oranges anil
weigh them. Take their weight in sugar.
CRATE the peel Of the oranges slightly and
score them around with knife, taking
pains not to let the knife pierce the skin
Put them in cold water for three days.
changing the water on them three times
each day. At the end OF the time tie them
loosely in a CLOTH put them over the fire IN
. cf,, a
cook gently until the skin is tender enough
for pin to penetrate it easily While they
cook put the sugar over the fire with a half
pint of water for each pound and boil for
five minutes. Strain through cloth, re-
turn to the fire. put the oranges in tho
syrup, and cook slowly until the syrup IS
yellow and begins to stiffen. Take little
of it out TO cool when you think the right
point is reached and see if II jellies. Don't
let It be too stin. II there Is not syrup
enough to cover the oranges completely.
turn them often. that all sides may be
cooked evenly. Put into wide mouthed jars
and seal while boiling hot.
GUAVA JELLY.-Peel ripe guavas. cut
them into quarters. dropping them into cold
water as you do this When all are ready
lay them in enough cold water almost TO
cover thtin ana COOK gently Until tney are
tender. Transfer them to bags in when
they Will drip without pressure and hang
up the bags over night that all the liquid
may drip from them. Next morning put
the juice over the fire again and boil for an
hour. leaving IL uncovered. Allow pound
of sugar for each pint OF juice, simmer all
together until the jelly is clear, skimming
1t from time TO time Add lemon or lime
simmer for half an hour continuing to re-
move the scum which rises to the top, pour
into jars, and when cold cover closely.
may say that even housekeepers who are
not in the land of sunshine. fruit and fow-
ers'' will do well 10 take advantage of small
cheap oranges, that are too sour to eat raw
and to convert them into marmalade. When
well made il is good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20
Bread Without Yeast.

." 1 send you my recipe for making bread
without yeast l have used the same
starter for two years and it never runs
out:
Take a cup of your sponge of a morn
ing before mixing your bread and put 1t In
a glass jar with half cup of sugar on
top. Keep it in cool place and add some
of this in the place of yeast the next
time. Make a batter Of lukewarm water
and flour, add the starter. and take some
out each morning before putting in the
salt The addition of this kills the start
er. l would like a recipe for making rose
beads. Mrs. j. f. c.
l am glad to give this recipe for the
benefit of those who live too far from the
grocery or the baker to get yeast when
they wish it. AS to the rose beads, I
have published 1t so often that dislike
to take space by printing 1t again. If
you will write to me sending stamped
envelope for reply I will give you the name
OF one OF our correspondents who is good
enough to send the directions on appli-
cation. One word more about the starter.
Will Mrs. ]. F. c. kindly tell how much Of
it must go into the ordinary batch of
bread?
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contributions of one writer who is appar-
emily an authority in the preparation of
goulashes of several kinds:
Il: HUNGARIAN GOULASH.-Two
pounds of veal, cut into two inch cubes;
two medium sized onions; three carrots,
Weighing about half pound or more; salt
to taste; an even teaspoonful Hungarian
paprika. Fry the meat a light brown in
two tablespoons of fat half drippings, half
lutter; add the coarsely sliced onion and
the carrots, cut into cubes, salt and pepper.
and fry a light color. Add one cup boiling
water, cover tightly, and simmer for an
hour and a half You can use beef but
if you do, don't call 1t Hungarian goulash
III. SOLDIERS GOULASH ESQ called
in Germany)-One pound and half lean
beef; half pound pork shoulder: flye pota-
toes the size of your fist; one bunch of
green onions or in winter two medium sized
dry onions. salt to taste, and half tea
spoon paprika. Cut the meat into one inch
cubes, put 1t over the fire with pint of
boiling water, salt and pepper, let boil
slowly half an hour. add onions cut fine,
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Minced Ham NTH Eggs.

Will you please give me recipe for
spoon bread without rice? Here is recipe
for minced ham with eggs which hope
may be of use to readers Of the Corner:
Mix half pound of cracker crumbs with
an equal quantity or finely minced boiled
ham La leftoverl. Moisten the mixture
with little hot water in which a small
piece of butter has been melted. Put the
mixture in a baking dish, make depressions
in the surface, and place In each the yolk
and white of an egg. Bake to delicate
brown. Any other meat may be used in
the same way. B. c. r."
Thank you for the recipe. have weak
ness for directions that give appetiztng
methods of using leftovsrs. as you may
suspect by now! The recipe you ask for
yourself is as follows:
Beat two eggs light. put with table,
spoonful of melted lard or butter and pint
of milk, stir in two cupfuls southern water
ground cornmea with which you have
sifted teaspoonful Of salt turn into but
tered deep pie plate or pudding dish, and
bake quickly.
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before putting 1t into the cake.
MRS f. S. T."
A number Of recipes for tutti-frutti cake
have come in which 1 will give in this col
umn and elsewhere. Thank you for youfs.
The recipe you ask is as follows:
Line patty pans with good pie crust and
bake In a quick oven, taking care 1t does
not get too brown. Cook together table,
spoon each Of butter and flour until they
bubble. pour upon this a cup of milk. stir
until you have smooth thick sauce, put
into this your cold chicken, cut into dice,
season to taste with pepper, salt, and celery
salt. fill your patty shells with these, set
in the oven for couple of minutes, and take
them out before they become too dry or
brown
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TutG Fruit Cake Recipe.

In reply to the plea for a recipe for
tutti-frutti cake l send mine. can rec
ommend 1t as all right. for have used the
recipe many times and always with success
In return will you kindly give me a recipe
for chicken pattics?
"One cup each of butter, sugar, and sweet
milk; two and half cups of flour sifted sew
eral times with two heapirg teaspoons of
baking powder, one pound each OF rails ins,
figs. almonds. and dates; a quarter pound OF
citron and the whites of seven eggs beaten
stiff. Blanch the almonds and cut in thin
strips. stone the dates. seed the raisIns,
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not been sent yet, and If no one has received
the magazines would like to call for them
at any time after 6 clock, as work during
the day. G. G."
The friend who offered the magazines has
not yet sent any address, so.that we cannot
even say If his or her residence is in Chi
cago where the applicant, G. G., lives, or
elsewhere. I hope that In any case this
note may be seen and may bring a reply
with the desired address.
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Some Coulash Recipes.

A while ago there was a request sent to
me for goulash. / printed 1t, stating that
as recipe for goulash had appeared in
these columns short time before and was
evidently not the one desired by the corre-
spondent I hoped some one would send
directions which might better meet her
needs. The request has received an abun-
dant answer and 1t would be a difficult cook
who could not find among them one which
would suit her fancy. Some of the recipes
will appear elsewhere. but give below the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20

ONE time ago sent an appeal 10
bbN the Helping Hand for books for a
little Sunday school away out In
- the piney woods of Florida. In a
short time good people began to
respond to my plea In quantities ranging all
the way from one or two books by mail to
boxes by freight and express, all prepaid
Before long we had nice library Of one
hundred or more fine books and were will
ing for the inflow to cease. but 1t continued
until had a good1y number Of extra books
on hand.
"As am the president Of the Sunday
school association OF the district, in which
there are fifteen or more Sunday schools.
we decided that we would broaden out the
great work SO gloriously begun and supply
every school in the association with a
library. have already been able to send
out four boxes of books. but the other
schools are eagerly awaiting the time when
/ shall have enough on hand to supply
them, too.
Il am out of books now and the need for
them is even greater than 1t was for my
own school, for most of the schools are
farther out in the woods and hence more
needy, If that is possible. So l appeal
second time to the same source 20 which
turned before in the hope that those who
have already given may be able to interest
others in this work. In any case, pelieve
you viii be interested to know what has
been done by the former appeal. The dear
Lord bless you for what you have given
us! l.. l.. T.
This is one of the incidents which renuer
dear to me the men and women VINO make
up the personnel of .ur constituency
III person is a benefactor who makes Two
blades of grass grow where only one grew
before, what name shall we apply to those
generous souls who have not only sent
the books but prepaid them? Did you
mark that? All prepaid! Can you think
what breath Of life and what light books
must bring to those dwellers In the pine
woods?
am sure I need only give the appeal
Nof the Florida Sunday school worker to
pave applications pour in for his address
{ md plentiful Offers of books to help him
carry out his plan of supplying all the
cluster of Sunday schools under his care
with libraries worth having. Look over
Your shelves. you who have more books
/ than you have place for. Don't send only
the battered and the stupid volumes, but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20

In that delightful story. q The History of
Mr.. Polly" the hero resorts to an expedlent
for getting out of an inconvenient situation
by exclaiming at a critical period Little
dog!" and making bolt from the room as
if in pursuit of this imaginary canine Many
and many a time have ! envied him and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20
Neanhetan dlR0o7zs 5Oav again

may include the business women who are
plentiful now, but 1t is certainly never
applied to the woman who keeps house. Ap-
parently none of her duties is sufficiently
important to call for consideration from
other women. Yet we all know the delicacy
OF certain operations in the culinary line.
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Such disasters as l have already referred
to have been frequent enough with us to
implant In us an appreciation Of the need
for thougntrulness for other housekeepers
in similar circumstances.
Suppose we make direct personal ap-
plication of the situation I have spoken
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20

A- z each of US have all the time
~ Al there is. Our mental and
Wv moral status is determined by
what we do with it,
A great many years have
passed since I cut this quotation from a
book and pasted It where my eyes could see
1t whenever l raised my head from my
work. believed 1t then. The second sem
tence may still be true. but the first is Bit
terly disprovsd every day OF my life.
OF course, the time Is there-all Of it-but
don't have It 1t Is snatched, seized,
begged cajoled. and stolen from mo BY the
minute. by the hour, by the day. What
and conscienttouslys but there are so many
conflicting uses for II that sometimes I am
puzzled how to apportion 1t.
Many calls upon my time are legitimate
and natural and 1 grant them willingly.
Whom unexpected business comes up. when
sudden Illness smttes . member of the
household or a friend. when my round Of
duties u broken by the need to give help or
comfort. when an unlocked for domestic
contretemps interferes with my plans. can
bring philosophy and religion to my aid and
take the demands upon me as part OF the
days work or as a means of learning pa
tence and kindness. It Is not so easy to do
this when the Interruptions are unwar-
rantsd.
When have taken the trouble to go down
town ana choose for. myself the articles
which the dressmainer needs to finish a
piece Of work and the goods are missent or
overlooked. 30 that have to spend fifteen
or twenty minutes of my precious time
calling up the department etore, getting the
section where the goods were selected, and
finding the salesman who took my order, 1
confess I feel myself III used
II irks me when the marketman fails to
send home tho materials for my luncheon
30 that I have to resort again to the tele-
phone and perhaps put back my midday
meal half an hour and wear myself out
hurrying to keep an afternoon engagement.
/ am annoyed when a business man is
behind time with an appointment and
throws me out in my calculations concern
ing my own plans.
Perhaps most of all am tried when some
one who has apparently no fixed occupa-
tions settles upon my busiest morning as
the period to make long call or gets me
on the telephone and keeps me there while
she indulges In unimportant conversation
which might be entertaining enough at an
other time. but is decidedly malapropos
when every fifteen minutes of the morning
has decided duty of its own.
X \.
The Inopportune Caller.
One of the minor tragedies of life is the
inability Of the unoccupied TO appreciate
L
Have you not seen this illustrated again
and again?
Mary Ekins is nice woman, but owe
Ger a grudge for having done me out of a
nights Sleep" friend complained to me.
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midst of call and announce that his time
is up and follow the remark by an imme-
date departure. Every one understands
this his plea is valid and no one except a
very stupid person would be inclined to re-
sent his action.
Perhaps tile indulgence extended to him
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

BECAUSE Of The enormous number Of
- letters sentto the department. I must ask
contributors 10 limit their communications 10
100 Uords. except In cases Of formulas or
recipes uhich require greater space. I wdnt
all my correspondents TO hdoe shouting In
The Corner. and i my request in this respect
Is complied with II wiA be possible to print
many more letters.
Attention Is called 10 the fact that Marion
Harland cannot reeeiue money for patterns.
as she has no connection pih any department
that sells them. Marion Hmland.
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something interests us deeply do we choose
the opportunity Tor dropping in to talk
about it when we believe she will be at
leisure, or do we simply go when it is easiest
for ourselves?
Further than this, do we take offense
when the friend on whom We call excuses
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woman again!" declared an irate friend
the other day. After / had taken all tho
trouble to get dressed and call on her the
servant met me with. Mrs. Smith is en-
gagged with a dressmalSer and begs to be
excused The next time l go to see her
she'll know IT,
Did the servant take up your name?"
asked
&" No! She just turned me away on the
doorstep!"
" Then it was general order and not
meant for you in particular
suppose SO, put that doesn't make -
any better I call 1t bad manners to refuse
to see your friends when they take the
trouble to come"
Charity 10 Our Sisters.
1t would have been waste Of breath to
try to point out that a dressmaker whose
time is paid for cannot be neglected without
actual money loss. or to suggest that Mrs.
Smith might have been engaged in bsing
fitted and would have had to keep her caller
waiting while she got into her clothes
again. or to inquire II the caller herself
would not object to receiving visitors while
she was in the thick of dressmaking.
Yet any or all of these reasons might have
been pleaded in excuse for Mrs. Smith and
for many other women who are as busily
occupied In some other province of work
was she with her seamstress. Do we grant
charity to oalr sisters who attempt to pro-
tect themselves against the inroads which
we In our turn find hard to bear?
Probably our grandmothers and great
grandmothers made their moan over hav-
ing more on hand than they could find
chance TO do. our complaint along tho
same lines is nothing new. Still since there
are so many duties waiting for women on
every side, since the housekeeper feels that
in addition to devoting herself to a round of
home tolls she should fit hersef to be a COM
panlon to her husband and children. that
she should also help to raise the standard Of
living for other women and to better the
condition of workers In every kind OF en-
ployment within her reach. since her labor
and her influence are needed in philan-
thropy and cnarity and welfare work and
public effort as we'll as in her own house
hold she has more uses than ever before
for s. all the time there is"
Doesn't 1t seem pretty hard that we
should help to deprive one another of
chance for usefulness by any lack Of
thoughtfuness and consideration? And yet
are we not constantly doing just that?
This is matter on which would like tho
opinion of our constituency. Most OF you
are busy women, with regular duties either
in your home or outside--or both. Are you
robbed of your time? Have you found any
method by which you can protect yourself
without giving offense? II so, will you not
take pity on others less fortunate and en-
tighten them as to how you do it2 On the
other hand do you practice the considera-
tion for others you would like 10 have
granted to you? Let me hear your expert
ence and print it for the benefit of all our
Cornertes.
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address Still Missing.

'I saw in your Corner the offer made by
some one of magazines You said in con-
nection with the offer that the person who
made it gave no address. Now, IL this has
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of how you and | are robbed of our time.
Reverse the positions for moment. How
much do we ourselves do in the robong
line? Do we think much of the value OF rhe
other womai's time when it suits our con-
venience to call in what we know to be the
busiest hours of the housekeeper's day. If
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bring on yourself the blessing Of the giver
by bestowing the books you have learned
to value for yourselves and which will be
of service to Others
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20
Small Flies in Refrigerator.
Orange Preserves

" am spending Six months in the land
of sunshine. fruit. and flowers Oranges.
grape fruit. tangerines, and lemons are
plentiful, and / am desirous Of making
some orange marmalade and later some
gusva Jelly Can you supply me with
reliable recipes? I would like to make
several gallons and ship up home. so that
when / return 1 can distribute it among
my friends. Mrs. p. T."
Only short while ago recipes for orange
and grape fruit marmalade appeared in
these columns. but ! cannot resist your
request end so reprint direction for the
orange marmalade. The thought of any
one being in region where oranges and
similar fruits are sufficiently plentiful for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20

:" "A nights sleep?' l said. What was
she doing at your house at night?"
" She wasn't" said my friend. She
came IN the morning as soon as she got
into town. and stayed until after luncheon.
Said she'd been pining for good talk with
me and she Just made up her mind she'd
come on the chance Of finding me. she
did It, too, and talked a straight streak all
the while I'm fond of Mary. and she's
clever and amusing, but do wish she could
choose some time to call when I'm not SO
full of ordered work that I have to sit up
ustil midnight to finish it!
Not every woman has employment which
renders It necessary for her to turn her task
in on schedule time. But every woman who
10 worth anything has work Of some sort
to do. and there are as many opportunities
for filchdng time from the housekeeper as
from any other member Of society.
Think It over for moment. Have you
forgotten the occasion when the currant
Jelly burned to the bottom Of the pot while
you were held in the parlor by caller you
could not dismiss abruptly? How many
loaves Of bread have been spoiled by over
rising because a persistent visitor kept you
in chat when you were burning with impa-
tience to get back to the kitchen? How
or food been cooked to death " by the
delay of some friend in taking her depart
ure?
Even when none of these catastrophes
has occurred you have been hindered in
your duties by the apparent lack Of en-
ployment of other women.
There is the friend who drops in /" on
her way home from market. becomes alb
tS. rfo ahs rku
you, too-so that a precious hour is gone
before you appreciate its flight.
There is the other friend who always
comes to you with her worries. regardless
of the fact that you may have something
to do besides listen to her. How many
golden half hours has she stolen from you
when your fingers were itching to get at
the work which had to be finished? You
do not feel that you can excuse yourself
il you did. her feelings might be hurt or
she might take offense-and so you listen
with what polite attention you can muster
girding secretly against the convention
which permits your husband to excuse him.
self on the plea of business and forbids you
to make use of the same means of escape
Listen in Silent Rebellion.
Even the members of our own households
are sometimes stumbling blocks in this way.
When one of them waylays you on your
path to your work with the recital OF some
experience in which she desires your SYM
pa thy you know that you would seem guilty
OF lack Of interest il you tried to postpone
the story TO more convenient season. You
sacrifice yourself to the fear of wounding
her. You are detained by the tale of an
event in which you would be absorbed at
some other time, but to which you listen
with silent rebellion against the necessity
for showing civility and kindliness to your
own familyl
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wished that by my apostrophe of any mem
Der of the animal kingdom could escape
from the tolls flung about me by devoted
friend or relativel
have said that a man can always plead
the excuse of business to get away. You
have seen him again and again rise in the
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