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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
PAPA'S BOYS LEMoNLESs LEMON
PIE. -

Dear Social Corner Sisters and
Brothers: l haven't written since
Aunty No. is picnic, so think 1 wilr
get busy.
Tidy AddIy: Think it was your
salad, as it was the light colored one.
I thought it was nice.
Rural Delivery: Did You get my let
ter Haven't heard from you, so
thought I might have written some
Cheer up! told the truth.
Lucinda: 1 am in hopes to see you
the 18th. l certainly can't cave the
little bundle" home. Were you doing
your Christmas shopping last Friday !?
Kumseeme: Passed your place Fri
day of last week. 1t was during the
dinner hour so probably you were eat
ing.
Ready: Sorry I couldn't have cap
tured the cup and saucer. Better offer
another one and Twill try. 80
Aunty, No. j: Hope our "!lEbbys'
can get together for that skunk time
before it gets 100 cold.
Remember Me: How IS the last
grandson? Shall we see you the 18th?
Dorinda: When arr you going TO stop
for that call you promised? Winter is
coming, SO you better hurry up.
l will close by asking how many
Sisters ever made lemon pie with no
lemons?
Lemon Pie-One cup sugar, yo:ks of
two eggs, small lump of butter, two
heaping tablespoons of flour, one tea
spoon of cream tartar, one teaspoon of
lemon extract one and one-half cups Of
cold water. Use whites Of eggs for
meringue. If cooked in 4 double boiler
will thieken better
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
nuts than those made with baking

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nuts than those made with baking
powder.
Farmers Doushnuts: To one cup
sugar add one well beaten egg, and
one cup buttermilk or sour milk, to
which add two teaspoons of thick sour
cream. one level teaspoon soda, salt
and nutmeg to taste. Mix with flour
to a. soft dough.
Fried Cakes (No Eggsl:-Dissolve
one level teaspoon of soda in one cup
of sour milk, add one cup sugar, one
tablespoon lard, salt, one-halfs tea
spoon each cinnamon ana nutmeg and
-four enough to roll.
Molasses Doushnuts mo Eggsl:-
To one-half cup of Inolasses add one
half cup sugar, one cup sour milk or
buttermilk in which dissolve one tea
spoon soda, one tablespoon melted
lard. a little sale. one-fourth teaspoon
ginger, add -four to make dough of
the proper consistency.
Potato Fried Cakes, No. 4: To one
cup milk add one cup sugar. one cup
mashed potato. one-fourth cup thick
sweet cream, yoiks Of three eggs, salt
and three teaspoons of baking pow
der sifted with -four enough to make
q dough of the proper consistency. Add
the beaten whites Of the eggs just be-
fore adding the -four. Mix with the
hands until smooth and velvety, roll
out about one-half inch thick and six
inches wide, then with a sharp knife
begin at one end and cut strfps one
half inch wide. Bring the ends to-
gether and pinch. Fry In hot deep fat
and drain on brown paper.
Potato Fried Cakes No. 2: To six
boiled potatoes. mashed while hot. add
two cups sugar. one tablespoon but
ter, three well beaten eggs, salt, CHINA
mon and nutmeg to taste, one cup
milk and about six cups of sifted flour
rr71f n r4~ fNf hal I'M yIev-
Cocoa Doughnuts: To one cup of
sugar add one tablespoon butter, one
well beaten egg. salt. one cup sour
milk in which dissolve one-half tea
spoon soda, one, two or three table
spoons OF cocoa. and flour enough to
make a soft dough.
Old Fashioned Twisters: To one cup
butternillS add one cup sugar, two or
three beaten eggs, one level teaspoon
soda dissolved in warm water four
tablespoons melted lard, nutmeg to
taste, and flour to make a dough
which can be rolled out thin. Cut in
inch wide strips, twist and pinch ends
together and fry in hot lard.
Puff Balls: Beat three eggs light,
add one cup sugar. one pint milk, salt,
and nutmeg to taste, flour sifted with
two tablespoons baking powder,
and make a dough in which a spoon
will stand up. Drop by spoonfuls in
hot fat. Dip the spoon into the hot
fat every time.
Potato Puffs: To one-half cup of
cold, mashed potato add one-half cup
of whole milk, one beaten egg, and
one teaspoon baking powder sifted
with flour enough to make a soft
dough. Roll about one-half inch
thick and cut in strips. twist and fry
in hot fat. These are good served
with maple syrup, jelly or sugar.
L. H. K.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09

your plants, set them in ungiazcd pots.
not tin cans, as tin holds moisture,
and too much water at the ROOFS causes
them to rot The pots will net need
to De over the four or six inch size.
and the soil should be d mixture of
plain garden soil, leaf mold or chip
dirt and sharp sand, -cne-third of each,
with a little fine dried COW manure
scattered in. Never 5Hater unless the
with COO. water very OFTEN, AMI keep
them away from direct stove heat In
the winter keep Inine in a sunny
hall window, where warmth has to
come up a flight of stairs. Toe much
hear develops the red spider aad causes
the leaves TO turn yellow. Also keep
a sharp lookout for green lice. A
sfloweI1ng with tobacco tea viii dis
pose OF these, ind plenty of cool water
Is death to the red spider.
In May or June You can set your
plants in the open ground, having the
soil light, rich and sandy, and in a
spot wnere they will not set too much
screening SIN; an eastern exposure is
best Either let them bloom or pinch
out the buds, which will cause them to
th-2W out new branches and be line
bushy plants by September, when they
should be carefully lifted and potted
and kept out OF doors in q cool, shady
place till we'll established and then
brought IN the house.
Keep the soil loose n the pots and
give them an occasional dose of liquid
manure about the color of weak tea
1t does not pay to keep the plants
after they get too old and woody. Bet
ter throw them away and start with
new ones.
MApGE.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
A FEW MEAT SUBSTITUTES

Dear Social Corner Sisters: Here
are few meat substitutes:
Baked Beanse One pint dried beans,
one-quarter pound salt pork, one cup
of water, one-half teaspoon salt. dash
of pepper, one tablespoon molasses.
little soda to the water. In the morn
ing cook them gently until the skins
begin to break; then drain off the wa
ter, saving one cup. Empty the beans
into a baking dish; bury the pork in
them, Sind side up, and pour over
them the cup of water saved, into
which has been stirred the salt, pepper
and Tnolasses. If desired, little
mustard or onion or more molasses
may be added. Cover the beans and
let them bake in a slow oven for four
or five hours. Serve with Boston
brown bread.
PURGE of Dried Beans: One pint of
beans, one tablespoon butter or drip
pings. one-half teaspoon sugar; one
half teaspoon salt one-half saltspoon
pepper, one cup hot milk. Cook the
beans until very soft; drain well, saw
ing the water. and rub through a
PURGE sieve. Put one pint of the
strained beans in a saucepan with the
butter or savory drippings and sea-
soning and add the hot milk gradual
ly until a thick mush is formed. Heap
the puree in the center of a hot plat
ter and garnlsh with fried bacon,
sausa ges or mutton chops. A soup
may be made with the water in which
the beans were cooked and the re-
mainder of the strained beans.
Dried peas may be prepared in the
same way.
Corn and Cheese SouffIe: One ta-
blespoon butter, one tablespoon chop
ped green pepper, one-quarter cup of
-four, two cups milk, one cup grated
cheese, one cup corn, three eggs, one
half teaspoon salt. Melt the butter
and cook the pepper thoroughly in it;
make a sauce by adding the -four,
milk and cheese; add the corn, yolks
of eggs and seasoning, fold in the stiff
fly battered whites; turn into a but
tered baking dish and bake in a mod
crate oven for thirty minutes.
Cheese Rolls: A large variety of
rolls may be made by combining cook
ed beans, lentils or peas with cheese
and adding bread crumbs to make the
mixture thick enough to form into a
roll. Beans are usually mashed, but
peas or lima beans may be combined
whole with bread crumbs and grated
cheese and enough Of the water in
which the vegetables have been cooked
to insure the right consistency.
Chopped spinach. beet green's or let
tuce may be used instead of the le-
gumes If desired
Best wishes to all
EASTER LILY.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
HOT CAKES FOR COLD MORNING

Dear Social Corner Sisters: We
hardly realize that hot cakes for cold
morning arc natioRil dish.
1t is the concensus Of opirion among
Americans that nothing is more
wholesome or sustaining On cold
morning than the New England fan
mel cake or hapjacfz
Batters OF all kinds are extremely
simple if Important points in stirring
and making tfem are noted. Con-
traTy to the usual custom, i. is better
to sift the fcur into the liquid than
to pour the liquid into the flour. Add
the two very slowly to avoid Jumps.
Beat over and over with a large per-
forated spoon or whip Allow the mix
turc to stand long enough that the
fioGr may swell and the mixture not
be unexpectedly too thick. If We no
tice the deft hot cake expert in vari-
Gus restaurants we will see that he
pours the batter ana does not spoon
it. Yet few women have followed this
common sense plan and stick to the
DID,. inefficient method Of ladling the
batter instead OF pouring it
The important thing about the mix :
turc is the gTiddle. Custom has de-
creed that II should be soapstone, but
there are both aluminium and cast iron
and iron griddleS which give excellent
results. The important thing is to
have the griddIe the right temperature
before the batter is laid on it. The
griddle should never ne washed, but
wired with paper or towel. Securing
with salt will sometimes prevent stick
ing.
The sour milk mixtures made with
souG milk ind soda are lighter than
those made with ordinary milk because
in sour milk part of the protein is
already digested. Put bat.ers with
either sour or sweet milk arc whole
some and easy to make if thought and
common sense are used.
RITTH
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
OATMEAL BREAD AND POTATO
RECIPES.

Dear Social Corner Friends: / wish
to thank the Sisters Dom Perdo and
Kitty-~Lou, for the samples of crochet
necklace. ] have succeeded in doing
all of them Will write you soon.
These are busy days. Christmas will
soon be here and then the rush with
the crochet hook will be over
Sister Wrinkle wishes Il reeipe for
making
Oatmeal Hread-One cup rolled oats;
pour over this two CUPS boiling water
and let stand until lukewarn: add
one-half cup nIolasses, a tablespoon of
shortening, half a yeast cake. salt and
stiff as you can stir it. Let rise over
night and in the morning mould into
tins and bake when light.
Will send you some recipes of cook
ing potatoes in casserole.
Potatoes in Crear1-Pare four or five
potatoes, cut into inch dices, and boil
in salted water five minutes, drain and
place in casserole, pour over this two
tablespoons melted butter, d tablespoon
of eE%$ssd cheese and two cups of. rich
milk or half milk and half cream
cook three-quarters; of an hour, re-
move the liz the last quarter, so the
top will slightly brown. Possibly the
milk may dry out; if so, add a half cup
more
ScaIIoped Potatoes-This recipe is
nice. when one has cold potatoes; these
can easily be mashed by putting them
through a food chopper Into three
cups of mashed potatoes beat half cup
of milk, two tablespoons butter, one egg
pepper and salt to taste; put into but
tered casserole, spread bread crumbs
over the tor, or the bread may be
omitted. Bake twenty minutes and
brown
Potato Puffs-To eight medium sized
potatoes, boiled in sailed water, put
through a vegetable ricer, add one egg,
one teaspoon salt, one-half cup hot
mix, butter the size Of an egg Form
into shapes TO be served; place in the
oven to puff and brown.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
SHE HEARD BILLY SUNDAY TALK
TO MOTHERS

Dear Sisters of the Social Corner:
This is my first attempt Us a writer
to your Social Corner. I have been
thinking of our good time at Mrs.
RoCkwelPs last summer. 1t seemed to
be a social of mothers.
1 attended Billy Sundays sermon to
mothers Sunday at the tabernacle in
Boston and how 1 wish the mothers of
the Social Corner could have been
with me. AS the mother of six, to
me it was an inspiration; and 1 re-
solved to uphold motherhood in every
way l can.
Mr. Sunday did not say all mothers
were angels. but upheld the good ones
and denounced the poor ones.
Emerson says: Men are what their
mothers make Them" and can we re-
alize our responsibility TO God for
what our children become.
He impressed me so with the power
Of mothers hand. a mothers kiss,
mothers smile, a mothers love, a
mothers trust. and a mothers song.
Let us all as mothers of the Social
Corner endeavor to be happy, con-
tented, faithful mothers, forgetting the
daily crosses of life, and be "charac-
ter builders" for God and humanity.
BAKED BEAMS,
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
THE CARD INDEX FOR CHRIST
MAS SHOPPERS

The index card to be bought of the
statloners is handy little convenience
in the household rs we'll as in the Ii
brary and office.
Have \ card for every relative and
friend on the Christmas list and make
OF them memory cards. Every card
contains the facts YOU must remember.
Here is one for father and it informs
you of his shoe size, glove size, neck
size; colors, blue or maroon; wants
pair OF comics, does not want any
more smoking sets, etc. Would like
subscriptions to a magazine.
Similarly with other members, each
should have separate card ana the
requirements or suggestions pertain
ing to each Then. instead Of a bulky
list or worse, a book, all that is
necessary, is to take the required few
cards, slip a. rubber band on them
and slip into shopping bag or purse.
The reverse of the cards might con-
tain phone numbers, address of sne-
cialty or gift shops and similar in
formation. The whole advantage Is
that only as many cards as are
needed are taken; or that a number
of new cards can be added as de-
sired. The system is flexible, mex
peEsive and most efficient.
When the present need for The
cards is over they may be slipped
back into their box, along with the
other cards, which should keep track
of the household accounts. They take
up little space cannot SO easily be
mislaid and can expand as the needs
of the family grow. The cards can
be arranged, headed and carried as
you choose. Both cards and boxes
can be bought of all dealers m office
supplies at Il mall sum per hundred
cards. Plan your Christmas shopping
in business manneri
STFNOGRAPHER.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
HOW TO MAKE OATMEAL BREAD
AND COOKIES.

b Editor of the Social Corner: AS re-
quested by "W rinkles'' 1 am sending
in an
Oatmeal bread Reeipe:- One cup
scalded milk, level teaspoon butter or
LARD 1 level teaspoon salt, z level tea
spoons sugar 1-2 cake compressed
yeast, 1 1-2 cups white flour, l Ia
cups Graham or rye flour, or cup
cooked oatmeal.
Method: Melt the butter in the hot
milk, mash and cream the yeast. sugar
and salt and moisteE with two talfe-
spoons warm water When the milk
is cool add the yeast and white flour,
uSi1g enough to make a drop batter
after beating well. Let This sponge
rise. surrounded with warm water, and
when foamy, stir ir either of the
coarse meals using enough to make "a
dough that will keep it's shape and
could be handled If necessary. If it
settles to a level when YOU stop stir
ring, ad more flour till It will keep up
round. Let the dough rise, covered,
in a warm place; when double! in bulk
shape into small loaues and let them
lise again till double, or, if the dough
should be too soft to handle, roll it
in a little flour on tho board, and then
roll it off into a creased pan held an
der the edge of the board. Bake in a
hot oven about an hour and when
done let it cool uncovered, standing it
on the edge.
In making oatmeal bread, use enc
cup of freshly made. warm rolled oat
mush; or, lacking this. scald one cup
of rolled oats with enough boiling
water to swell and moisten all the
grains and let it stand half All hour.
Then proceed as for Graham bread.
Oatmeal Cookies:-T;yo cups sugar,
I cup shortening, , eggs, 2-j 'Ep milk,
teaspoon soda sifted N cups -four.
1 cap chopped raisins and a speck of
sail. Mix all ingredients well, then
add 2 cups rolled oats dry.
ENNOENH AEnEN.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
GREETINGS From CRIMSON
RAMBLER

Dear Corner Folks: Once more l add
my mite to The Corner. Am very glad
to lear Eliza Jane No. / is going to
get the ball rolling. Hope others will
follow suit.
What has become of the Doctor of
Club No. 2? We were all willing to
excuse her while the great scare of the
infanti1e. paral.s sis was in progress, Fl
knowing she was likely to be called at
any hour of the day or night, causing ner
to remain at home constantly: but now
that it has subsidized she will again be
welcomed in our midst with her after
dinner remedies such as pink pills for
pale people, etc.
Lucinda:, How are you getting on
with the work you showed me when L
was at your house, DO you rosress
slowly or not? VIII show you mine
some time IN the rear future when
we meet.
Gala Lily: Have oeen looking for
you lately, but don't seem to sec you.
Wiz tell you when see You what you
wanted to know.
Aunty No. l: Received your postal.
Thanks for the same. Shall do as you
ask about our club.
Biddy: Hope you will excuse me for
not complying with the wish in your
last letter. I started for w but got
stalled on the way. ] could not make
good connectio ms, so landed in Nor
witch Town, but hope &c see you before
long.
Great Grandma: Was pleased to read
the account of your dream. Think our
friend Rural Delivery must have
started a new fad in giving such an
accurate account of his dream. Hope
others will follow suit and give us the
privilege Of sharing the pleasure of
reading of their dreams.
Aunt ABBY: 1 had = nice letter from
Aunt Eliza. 1 did think 1 could see
you before this, but L was detained
with other business. How are you
coming on with your fancy work? L
Ihink you are an expert with your
needle;. wish 1 was, b1t will have to be
content with Wishing.
Blanche: I was glad 20 see you were
a winner of a yellow paper. Now you
must be very good to your little birds.
Thanks for the pretty Halloween card.
VIII return one soon.
Paula: Where art t1ou2 Have look
ed and looked in va in for yOu.
CRIMSON RAMBLER.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
FINE TESTED RECIPES.

Dear Sisters of The Social Corner:
Corn Meal Mullins: One and one
half pints Of -four. one-haf pint of In
dian meal, one tablespoon sugar, one
spoons baking powder, one teaspoon
butter (heaping). one egg 1.-TWO is bet
teri. two cups milk. one-half teaspoon
cinnamon.
Method: Sift together -four corn
meal, sugar, salt and powder, rub in
butter, add egg beaten thoroughly,
milk and cinnamon last. Mix into
a batter a little sitter than ordinary
corn griddle cake batter. Heat the
griddle hot. then lay on muffin rings,
turn with .griddle cake; turnover. fry
q golden brown. These will fry
through in about eight minutes.
Breakfast Mullins: One and one-half
tablespoons of butter, one egg, beaten
thoroughly, one and oneIhalf cups of
mean, two teaspoons baking powder,
| one-quarter teaspoon salt, one and
one-half cups of milk.
Method: Mix Baking powder, meal
and salt thoroughly: then melt butter
and add this with the egg and milk to
| the ingredients; bake twenty minutes.
GriddIe Cakes: One-half cup corn
| meal, one and two thirds cups of
wheat flour, one teaspoon salt. two ia
blespoons granulated sugar, four level
| tablespoons baking powder; add
enough milk. to make rather a thin
| batter; beat until smooth ana then
add tablespoon melted butter Drop on
griddle (ungreased) and bake until
| cakes are full of holes. turn and
| brown. If you omit the butter in the
| gridd1es then it is necessary to grea sc
| the griddle.
| This recipe for bread won a gold
! prize several years ago. A number
| have asked me for this recipe and /
will send it in to you.
| Gold Prize Bread: One pint. wetting
equal parts of water and milk, one
yeast cake, two teaspoons salt. flour
| three pints, one teaspoon lard Cheap
ing), one tablespoon sugar.
1 hope Hattie, Jr.. of Providence will
/ see this.
Brown Bread: Two cups Indian
| meal. one cup rye, two cups sour milk.
| one cup sweet milk. one cup molasses,
| and one teaspoon soda; mix; steam
| four hours, or until red.
Indian Pudding: One quart milk,
one cup Indian meal one cup
| molasses, one teaspoon ginger, one
teaspoon salt; one teaspoon cinnamon.
| and one-half cup of butter
| Method: Scald milk, sift the meal
| in the milk slowly; cook about twelve
minutes. Remove from the fire and
| add other ingredients and pour over
milk. Do not stir this in; place in
| oven and bake from three to six hours
BEGONIA.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
are few recipes you may like tc

are a few recipes you may like to
try:
Delicate Cake: Butter size of egg,
beat to cream with one cup sugar;
add one-half cup milk, mix thorough
~, then add one and one-haf cups or
ing powder. lastly the whites of three
eggs beaten very light; flavor with
lemon. Use yolks for frosting.
Caramel Cake: Two squares choco-.
late. yolk of one egg, one-half cup or
milk; put together and boil until
thick; one tablespoon butter, one cup
sugar, one-half cup milk, one and one
half teaspoons soda, .sifted in flour;
flavor with vanilla.
Excellent Sponge Cake: Three eggs
beaten very light; add one cup sugar,
continue beating: sift one heaping cup
flour and one teaspoon baking pow
der, stir into egg and sugar. and last
" add one-half cup boiling milk. The
more you beat this cake the lighter it
gets.
Kumseme: Have been onder-
ing why you haven't called lately.
Hope you haven't forgotten the adj
dress
Aunty No. /: Thanks for the pretty
card; also for the kind invitation
which shall accept in the near flu
ture.
Delight: Hope you haven't got
frost-bitten fingers SO soon.
Merry Andrew: Was glad to see a
did hum when you stirred up the meet.
| Hoosic: I suppose you are getting
ready for that jitney ride.
Plain Nancy: Those letters re-
ceived from you do one good. Ask
p. and Mrs. H if they have fogotten
me.
Best wishes from
| MERRY WIDOW.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-12-09
SOCIAL CORNER POEM.
The Two Mysteries.

We know not what it is. dear. this
sleep so deep and still;
The folded hands, the awful calm, the
cheek so pale and chill;
The lids that will not lift again,
though we may call and call;
The strange, white solitude of peace
that settles over all
We know not what it means, dear
49,. this desolate heart pain;
This dread to take our daily way, and
walk in it again;
We know not to what other sphere
the loved who leave us go,
Nor why we're left to wonder STILL
nor why we do not know.
But this we know; Our loved and
dead, if they should come this
day
Should come and ask US. What is
life NOT one Of US could say,
Life is a mystery as deep as ever
Yet oh. how dear it is to US, this life
we live and see!
Then might they say-these vanished
ones-and blessed is the thought
so death is sweet to US. beloved!
though we may show you
We may not to the quick reveal the
mystery of death
Ye cannot tell us. If We would. the
mystery OF breath
The child who enters life comes not
with knowledge or intent,
So those who enter death must go as
little children sent.
Nothing is known. But I believe that
God is overhead;
And as life is to the living, so death
.s Is to the dead.
Mary Mapes Dodge,
Sent in by Hattie.