Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-05-25
FACT, FASHION AND FANCY
Paragraphs Calculated to Interest
York County Women.

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The following receipt is an excel
lent one for making rose pudding
Pour one pint Of raspberry juice int
saucepan and add one cupful o
sugar. Add half-cupful Of corn
starch, mixed with little cold waite
to the boiling fruit Juice, cook wei
and when partly cooled add a tea
spoonful of rose water and almon'
extract, half Of each. Fold in tn
stiffily beaten white Of two eggs
Dip a melon mold into cold water
drain and sprinkle with chopped al
monds. Fill the mold and sprinkle
with the almonds. Serve, unmolded
with whipped cream heaped arount
the mold.
White silk need never be cleaned
but should be washed. 1t Is true tina
unless you are careful it will turn vel
low, but If the silk is washed as i
should be, it will stay quite white
and new in color. In the first place
silk should never be allowed to be.
come much soiled, for it will turr
yellow if too much soiled. 1t should
be washed in warm (not hot) watel
and CASTLE soap. The silk should Ds
we'll rinsed and dipped in blue wat.
er at the last. Care should be taker
not to have the water too blue, but
just enough to have the silk keep thai
new white shade. Hang it up until II
is not quite dry, but dry enough te
press nicely with a warm iron.
Did you know that:
II a garment becomes soiled with
perspiration, put 1t in soft, lukeworn
water and wash with Indian meal in.
stead Of soap. This will remove
stains of long standing If the mea
is we'll rubbed into the soiled places
with your hands.
To clean gold chains, put them In
a small glass bottle with warm soap
suds and a little prepared chalk
shake until clean. Then rinse In
clean water.
The housewife will find it admir-
able to put the silverware into tail
pitcher standing in the dishpan. In
this way the silver may be washed In
much hotter water than could be man
aged otherwise, as it Is not neces-
sary to put the hands into the water
at ALL
II strong alum water Is quickly ap.
piled to a burn it will never blister;
lard and white Of egg is also good.
Lace curtains can be washed with.
out stretching by basting a piece o,
muslin around the edges.
To prepare kindling wood, take g
tight pail with cover, put cobs or any
soft bits Of wood and pour some kero.
sene oil over 1t; let stand until alb
sorbed. One piece makes good
starter.
Salt added to whitewash will make
it stick better.
To brighten glassware add bluins
to the wash water.
Here is the receipt they are using ir
Boston in cooking Boston baked beans
It is the only original receipt for the
preparation Of the dish which is known
the world over: Beans. two cupfuls;
one small onion; pork, one-half pound;
dry mustard, one-half teaspoonful;
molasses, one teaspoonful; sugar, one
tablespoonful; a little salt. Prepare
kidney beans, which are a little more
expensive than yellow eyes," or pea
beans but the flavor Is so much better
that they are worth the difference ir
price. Soak overnight in a quart OF
warm water. In the morning put the
beans in a kettle, pour a little boiling
water over them and set them on the
stove where they will parboil; cook
until soft, but not so long that the
skins come off-by blowing on beans
If skins crack, time to take them UP
by skimming beans right from water
on to bean pot; put layer in bottom
Of latter, then one small onion, peeled
next cover up onion with beans, then
on top Of this layer put one-hali
pound Of sweet salt pork with a
streak Of lean in it and scored In
slices, but not cut all the way through
Now put remainder Of beans on top OF
pork, which should bring the pork
level with the top layer Of beans; add
one-half level teaspoonful Of dry
mustard, one teaspoonful each Of mo-
lasses and sugar and a small quanti-
ty of salt; pour over boiling water to
cover and set bean pot in coolest
part Of your oven and let them just
peter along until supper, of course
adding water every hour or so. as 1t
cooks away. Cook uncovered, as it i'm
proves the flavor When done there
should be plenty Of brown, crispy ones
on top or they would not be genuine
Boston baked beans.
In the May Womans Home Com
panion appears an interesting article
about the young princess who will be
empress Of Austria when the present
emperor dies. The emperor, Franz
Joseph, is, as every one knows, Sc
years old-a worn and aged monarch
Following is an extract giving some
facts about the young princess: Arch
duchess Zita will be % years old on
the 9Th day of May, and will, in con-
sequence, be the youngest empress
recorded in many a decade. The
Austrians, and in particular the Vien-
nese. greet this fact with delight
Only the very old recall Empress
Elizabeth in her fresh beauty when
she came to them as Franz Josephs
bride. The saddened story Of her
later life, her complete withdrawal
from the Austrian capital many years
ago on the tragic death Of her only
son, Crown Prince Rudolf, and to
take up her residence at the palace
in Corfu, which later became the
holiday home Of the German emper-
or, left the imperial city without an
empress. Advancing years have
brought frightful SORROWS TO Franz