The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-08-23
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Home and
Household.

Put oat meal through the God grinder
when using II for cookies or rocks, meas,
uring it before grindIng. 1t is much
nicer than when used whole.
A handy little dish washer for the
milk bottle etc, too narrow for the
hand and cloth, is made from the wire
handle of grape basket; which il
Strengthened out, with the hook left on
one end, and easily works the dishcloth
about within the bottle.
be made with any dry, fragrant leaves
of flowers, geranium leaves, rose petals,
heliotrope, lemon verbenas. Tie in bags
of gauze, or make pillows of gauze.--
Chicago Journal
To rid canaries of the parasites which
affect them, place clean white cloth
over the cage at night In the morning
il will be covered with very minute red
spots, almost invisible without a mi
croscope, which are the vermin so annoy
ing and fatal to birds. Burn the cloth
and repeat if necessary.
Lemon Syrup--Juice of six lemons,
CRATE rind of three lemons, three pounds
of white sugar make thick syrup.
When COOL strain the juice into ii and
squeeze as much oil from the grated
rind as possible. A tablespoonful in
glass of water will make delicious
drink on hot day.
Scotch Recipes.
Dat Cake.--One breakfast cupful of
Scotch oatmeal one breakfast cupful of
white -four. Mix together into thick
paste with buttermilk, adding pinch
Of baking soda and pinch of salt. Sprin-
lle the baking board and work the mix
.ure with dry oatmeal, then roll it out
% about one-quarter of an inch thick |
lefs; cut into small rounds with tum
,ler, roll each round separately as thin
Is possible to lift. Fire on griddle and |
inally toast before the fire on gridiron.
Eat with salt butter.
Shortbread-One half pound -four, u |
lound butter, two ounces caster sugar.
sieve the -four into a basin. Rub in the
outter smoothly and add the sugar.
<nead well until stiff enough to hold
ogether. Cut in two with knife and
lace the cut side on the board, then
ress with the palm of the hand until
ALI an inch thick. Level the top with
rolling pin, place on a CREASED baking
beet and decorate the edges with the
myers. Bake in very slow oven until
rm and pale brown.
Scotch Currant Bun-Crust: One
alf pound -four, three ounces butter,
ne-fourth teaspoonful of baking pow
er. water. Mixture: 0ne-half pound
our, half pound sugar, three-fourths
ound raisins, one pound currants, two
unces almonds, two ounces peel, one ;
sg, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one half {
nnce ground cloves, one-half nutmeg, {
ne teaspoonful baking powder, one-half ]
tsrtaric acid, one teaspoon 7
IL milk. Put -four, butter and powder !
basin; rub all together. Make i
iff paste with water. roll thin and line /
Ike tin, leaving part to cover top. Wash
lrrants, stone raisins, blanch almonds; v
1T into basin; add sugar, peel, -four, 1
ices, soda and acid. Beat egg, add
ilk. Stir in among other ingredients.
sck tightly, cover with paste, make c
lies in top with fork, brush with egg
Id milk and bake in hot even for
20 hours.
Fruit Cake-Six ounces -four, three 7,
noes butter. three ounces sugar, sui y
mas and peel, two eggs, one teaspoon .
| baking powder; milk If necessary. =
at butter and sugar 10 a cream. Add
aten eggs alternately with the flour, 7
en- fruit; beat all together and lastly y
d the baking powder. Mix and bake ~
a moderate oven for about three p
arters OF an hour. a.
Orange Cake-Three eggs, their weight -
butter, sugar and -four; a small tea %
oonful baking powder. Beat butter u
a sugar 10 a cream; add two eggs and
II the -four, beating well; then add OF
. grated rind of one orange and half az
; juice: then put in the remainder of "
: -four and powder and third egg. u
Ike half an hour. Icing IL desired. Six va
noes icing sugar, and mix with orange W
&c. az
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To Sleep Well in Hot Weather. "a
Nowadays we are growing beyond the
tcf that health IL 20 he louud in ean.