The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-19

II pour over all small glassful of melted currant jelly. Serve ice cold. with cake
 ORANGE SHORTCAkE.
 Sift one pint of flour with a pinch of salt and two teaspoonfuls of bak ing powder. rub in two tablespoon fuls of butter. add one well-beaten egg. and sweet milk to make soft dough Roll cut into two thin cakes. butter the top of one, lay the other upon it. and bake in a quick oven. When done separate the layers and butter them generously, Spread thickly with filling made of the pulp of three seedless oranges. cut fine. we'll sweetened and folded lightly into whipped cream. Pile one layer on the other. and serve at once.
 ORANGE PIE
 Line plate with nice pastry. peel and slice two or three oranges (ac cording to size) and fill the crust, eprinkling one small cupful of sugar through and over the slices. dust on q small pinch of salt. and cover with a top crust The top crust may be omitted. if preferred. and the pie covered with meringue of stiffly whipped white of egg and sugar or with whipped cream just as it is served
 ORANGE PUDDING.
 Peel four oranges, removing all the white skin and seeds. chop them
 in small pieces (after squeezing out and reserving the juice of one) and mix with one cupful of sugar and the well-beaten yolks of four eggs and the whites of two Add one and one-half cupfuls of cracker crumbs. some yellow rind of the oranges grated off before peeling. and one quart of milk Stir all together. and bake in a moderate oven for three quarters of an hour Spread with whites of the two eggs, two table spoonfuls of sugar and the juice Of the orange. and return to the oven to slightly brown.
 ORANGE TAPlOCA.
 Soak one-half cupful of minute tap ioca for half an hour in three cupfuls of water. add the grated rind of one orange. and cook until the tapioca is clear Then add one cupful of sugar. and remove from the fire. Stir in the strained juice of three oranges and the finely cut pulp of one. Pour into glass dish and serve cold
 ORANGE RoLY-PoLY.
 Make a nice pastry as for apple dumplinss roll it out in an oblong sheet. spread thickly with oranges peeled and sliced and seeded, sift over sugar according to the tartness ot the oranges, and sprinkle with spoonful of the grated rind. Roll up and fold over the ends to prevent escape of juice, and steam for one and a half hours or bake in the oven. Serve with lemon sauce LITTLE HELPS.
 cupful of liquid yeast is equival ent to half a compressed yeast cake or a whole dry yeast cake.
 Pocket handkerchiefs and faces will whten if soaked over night in a bath of toilet carbolic soap.
 When frying mush it improves the crispness if the mush is dipped in white of an egg before frying.
 A few minced dates added to fudge as it comes from the stove will make a novel and dainty confec- ton.
 The tops of bureaus will keep in good condition longer if a piece of plotting paper is placed under the cover.
 An old-fashioned way of cleaning brass is to mix wood ashes with lemon juice. Apply the paste with a soft rag and polish with another.
 Nuts when bought ready shelled should be scalded, dried in the oven and put away in glass jars.
 Women's heavily-trimmed hats may be best dusted by using a cheap shaving brush, for it is both stiff and small enough to reach every crevice.
 Use ordinary adhesive plaster for mending a rent in an umbrella. If the umbrella is colored, dye the ad- hesive tape.