Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-09-02
Dear <funt Nadoe:

I'm housekeeper now, and I'm beginning
70 think it is not bed of roses. If one could
just drop day once in while and not stop
to eat three times ii might break mp the mo-
notopy. II had it TO do the year round,
! think should plan something to rest my
mind il not my body.
The past few days have been so lovely that
/ want to roam around outside and forget to
eat; really. do. But roaming around makes
me hungry, so in l 20 and prepare the next
meal with astonishing vigor. l made rice
pudding recently, and think you will find IL
8 bit different than the usual rice pudding.
I'm going to send il along, and want Aunt
Maria to try it next Saturday while she is
baking beans, and see how she likes it,
Put one-half cup rice into one quart of
milk, one teaspoon salt, one-hsi cup sugar;
prepare at o'clock; let it stand two hours
stir several times, bake from 10 until IL in an
oven hot enough for common cooking. Put a
cover over it, stir gently several times.
About Ii-so take the cover off and let pudding
brown over. Watch it lest it burn. Serve
with the following sauce; One egg, one half
cup sugar beaten with an egg-beater very
quickly until foamy, one half teaspoon van
lila. Just before serving, add one tablespoon
boiling water.
As my reign as housekeeper will soon be
over, hi add bit of information in regard to
our fall apparel. The skirts have three plaits
inserted in the side seam like accordion
plating, 50 that one does not notice the
piaits only when you walk. This makes the
skirts q bit wider and more convenient TO wall
in The tunic still RACES in several degrees
Of length-the halfway length is the most
becoming. II should be cut like a three
gored skirt with gathers in the back, also
across the side and front, bat not so many.
Fasten either in the front side. When you
try to make a girdle, don't put it Oh founda
ton. make il to set. Put it around your
waist loosely and tack in a very few places.
Trim the end OF your sash now with lace or
velvet. The waists are very full and loose,
but be sure and have foundation belt made
of white cotton cloth. Bone 1t and put on
hooks and eyes You viii then have some
thing to sew your waist and skirt to, besides
feeling as If you belonged to your dress.
l wanted to say that read "The Promised
Land" last winter. and enjoyed 1t so much.
And not long ago read in our column the
whole of the poem, "a Friend to Man" was
so glad to read 1t ali. as I call that one Of my
favorite poems, and surely we can all be glad
| to know that ''we can live in a house by the
side of the road and be a friend to man.
| want much to see you all at the reunion
and If am home. will try and come.
| With kindest thoughts for all. ANON
| Under the cedar trees at North Sedgwick
Me-. Aug. 20, 1914.
| A request is entered for recipes fol
making pickles. One is called for put
| ting up small cucumbers in vinegar.
Another for ripe cucumbers with sweet
pickle.
Berries have been unusually good the
selves of the chance to lay in good store
| for winter.
| The advance in prices of food stuffs ha.
rather alarmed some, but Aunt Madge':
idea Though it may not be correct) is
that it is not necessary to lay in larg,
supply of the articles most used. House
keepers are adapting themselves to cir
cumstances and giving more thought te
economical methods. As one remarked tc
me, 'with cream of-tartar fifty or sixty
cents pounds, shall make more yeast
bread"
Perhaps, "a. M. g." this time of higi
prices-extra high as they are-wiu brinl
about study Of nutrition and how to ge
the best for the money expended. Yo,
see, do not say the most for money ex
pended. That was not your idea. Thos
suggestions are not forgotten, although
possibly you did not get the results re
ported, as we hoped, when the subject wa
introduced.
Mutuals, be generous with your preserv
and pickle recipes and experiments.
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