Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-27
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

Before Working In the Garden or
doing other rough work, rub your
fingernails over piece of soap. This
will prevent the earth from getting
in under the nails. and when you
wash your hands the soap will come
out easily. This is recommended to
people who find it hard to do garden
work with gloves on the hands.
Scrapbook made from the Pictures
in Seed Catalogs-This will not only
amuse children, but also teach them
the names Of common vegetables and
flowers. After lists are made up,
catalogs are often discarded. The pic
lures of vegetables may be carefully
cut out and arranged in groups either
on cards or in blank book and fiow-
ers treated in the same way
THE TABLE.
Date Pudding cup dates cut
in small pieces. one cup English wal
nuts cut in small pieces, one tea
spoon baking powder, two eggs beaten
separately, three-fourths cup granu-
lated sugar, three tablespoons -four
(heaping), one-eighth teaspoon salt,
one teaspoon vanilla, one teaspoon
melted butter. Mix sugar, butter,
yolks of eggs, add -four, baking pow
der, then vanilla, then whites of eggs
beaten stiff, then add dates and nuts.
Bake in loaf or square pan 80 to 40
minutes. Serve with whipped cream.
Peanut Rolls-Mix and sift to-
gether two cups white -four, two
cups graham -four, four teaspoons
baking powder, IL teaspoons salt.
Dissolve one-half cup peanut butter
in 11s cups of cold water; stir into
dry ingredients, add one cup chopped
peanuts and roll three-fourths inch
thick. Cut out and bake Is or 20
minutes in hot oven.
Horseradish Sauce-One cup graf
ed horseradish, one and one-half
Ncups milk, one teaspoon butter, one
half teaspoon salt, one tablespoon
sugar Qess as you like it, Place on
fire and when brought to boiling
point thicken with a little paste made
Of flour and water, let cook for a few
minutes Serve hot.
half cups graham -four, one teaspoon
baking soda, one cup sour milk, halt
cup sour cream, one-fourth teaspoon
salt, two eggs, and half cup sugar
Beat eggs with sugar, add salt, souI
cream, soda mixed with the milk
and the graham flour. Bake in slow
oven and serve warm.
Spinach Groom of the stomach
In cooking spinach never put water
in the pot. Wash the vegetable thor.
ouhgly and put over a low fire. Il
will create sufficient water to cool
itself and its virtues will not be
thrown down the sink Less salt
should be put in when boiled in this
way. Spinach is particularly valuable
for women all run down. 1t is rich If
iron. To eat the vegetable once OF
twice a day means taking iron in q
natural way instead of in the form Of
a drug
Strawberry Fluff-One box straw
berries, two eggs whites, one an
one-quarter cups sugar, few grains
salt, three tablespoons cornstarch
Hull berries, crush and combine witt
| one cup of the sugar; let stand a
! least an hour. Then strain off one anC
one-half cupfuls of juice and bring t.
boiling point. Meantime, mix togeth
er the cOrnstarch, sugar and salt, ad.
little of the hot juice, combine tn,
two mixtures, and let boil till thicl
paste. 1t should cook at least Is min
utes. Beat egg whites and pour il
! cornstarch mixture, beating constant
| ly. Turn into a mold wet with COLI
water and let stiffen. Serve with tn,
crushed fruit at the base.
Orange Granite-To the juice an
pulp of six oranges free from al
skin and membrane) add the juice o
one lemon, one cup sugar and a pin
of water. Freeze as sherbet and serv,
after or with the meat course.
Sponge Cake Lemon Pie-One Gu,
sugar, one tablespoon flour; stir to
gether; juice and grated rind of on,
lemon, yolks of two eggs, one cuI
milk. Stir the whites (beaten stiff il
! lightly. Place in an uncooked crus
and bake slowly three-fourths hour
The upper half will be like spong
cake, the remainder like lemon pie.
Corn Breakfast Muffins-Three eggs
IL cups white cornmeal, two cup