Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-06-06

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later you will have to get it at the
drug store. 1t costs more there and is
not so fresh. The farmers sell it at
5 cents Il bunch. Make Il tea of this
bark n drink a cupiul each night.
If your bowels need a regulator, just
add a few senna leaves to the tea. If
You wish you can make the tea strong
enough to last for Il week. then take
only three or four tablespoonful. each
night.
THE TABLE.
Real Italian Spaghetti-First make
the tomato sauce, as 1t takes much
longer to cook than the spaghetti.
Tomato sauce Take Il small onion
and cut in thin slices. then add n ta-
%blespoon OF olive oil or one teaspoon
of lard. let cool until the onion is a
rich brown color. Then add the con-
cents of a can of tomatoes that have
passed through "A cOlander. then add one
teaspoon of sugar, one teaspoon of salt
Rnd a pinch of pepper. Let cook until
quite thick.
Spaghetti: Fill a pot with water n
when the water starts boiling add n
pound of spaghetti and one tablespoon
of salt. Let cook about 10 minutes.
then remove from fire and add some
cold water. drain. d some tomato
sauce and put into dishes. add some
grated cheese and three tablespoons OF
tomato sauce to each dish.
This is enough for six.
German Coffee Bread-Pour one cup
scalded milk over one-tfird cup butter,
One-third cup sugar. and One-half tea
spoon salt. When lukewarm add one
fourth lukewarm water with one yeast
cake dissolved in it, two eggs Beaten
slightly. and enough Hour t0 make a
stiff batter. Cover with clean cloth and
let rise in q warm place unit it has
more than doubled in bulk; beat thor
oughly and divide into two equal parts,
place in two shallow pie pans and COW
er with the following.
One cup stale bread crumbs. two and
one-half tablespoons sugar. three
fourths teaspoon cinnamon, pinch of
salt. two tablespoons butter and three
tablespoons blanched almonds finely
chopped. Let rise Is minutes then bake
so minutes in moderate heat.
Prize Sponge Cake-Reat four eggs
very light, add two ups granulated
g and beat again thoroughly. then
add three fourths cup warm water
pinch of salt, two cups flour sifted with
two teaspoons baking powder. and a
teaspoon of vanilla extract. Bake in
good sized dripping pan in slow oven.
Ice. when cool. with any preferred icing.
This is especially good for the Riddles.
TO CLEAN WHITE STRAW.
Get 5 cents worth OF salts of enon
in a drug store. put on teaspoon in
half cup of boiling water.
Wash hat we'll with this by using
small brush to do IL: repeat. hen wipe
we'll with clean cloth and put in sun
to dry. Will look just like new.
Five cents worth will clean. -four
hats.
The men folks will find this just the
thing for their straw hats.
SCREEN SUGGESTIONS.
I keep on hand a small can of black
rtntr ~ xr,Itl n 1911 ,,,EGi-.0~< <~N 10,
line to thin, n apply to the screens
with cloth. l use a large kid glove. to
protect my hand. In this way I keep
my screens looking like new. and make
them sanitary as we'll.
l find 1T a decided benefit in my
kitchen to put the window screen in
the upper half of the window instead
of the lower. Having that half open
makes the kitchen much cooler. the
sash curtains can always be kept in
place and much cleaner when the
lower half of the window is stationary.
We prefer to keep our screen doors
locked. but We're troul.led 80 much with
being locked out and having to call
some member of the family to let us
In. that we invented the following little
device: We tied one end of a piece of
green string to the top of the hook.
n passed the other end through the
screen. a little higher up. and tied a
knot to keep it from slipping back.
When we find the door locked we
merely find the knot, which is never
noticed by strangers. n pull the
string, which lifts the hook and UNI
locks the door.
COOKIES.
Plain Cookies without Eggs-Two
cups sugar. one cup butter or salt
pork d%rippings, one cup sweet milk.
two teaspoons cream of tartar. one
TEASPOON soda. -four to make dough
Roll thin. bake in quick oven. but do
not scorch. If o AVE no milk. cold
water will do quite well.
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LILAC BUSHES.
Set your lilac pushes. white or
purple on the east or north side of
buildings. about a foot from the wall.
them, which makes them a pest on the
lawn Or among other shrubs.
Yes. they bloom well and this is from
an experience of 20 years.
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.
To Clean Eggs-Many people want To-
known how to clean and take stains
from eggs. This is nay way: Take a
damp cloth, dip in baking soda. rub on
egg then wipe with dry cloth. viii
remove stain ana egg Will loolk nice and
fresh.
er, II possible. use a round bottle full
Of ice water for rolling out the crust.
n pies will he nice and naky.
Black Currant Ice Cream-This de-
lictcas cream is little known here. but
Is considered the banner cream for
state occasions in England.
Stew one cup fine black currants over
the fire five minutes, then nash and
put through a sieve. Mix half pint syr-
up made rich with sugar. and water and