The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-18
HOUSEHOLD HINTS


The Table.
Feather Dumplings. which are in
exnensive can be used in many ways
two cups of flour serves TOUR persons.
To two cups -four add one-quarter
teaspoon salt (scanD, pepper 10 taste,
Scald with little water as possiple anu
drop by spoonful in boiling proth OF
stock. Cover and boil fifteen min
utes. This makes a fine dessert py
adding cinnamon instead of pepper,
and drop dumplings on top OF any
kind of fruit after it begins 10 DOLL
Use plenty of water on fruit.
Strawberry Cream Cake-CreaIn
one-quarter cup butter with one cup
sugar, add beaten yolks of two eggs
and one half-cup sweet milk, then
two scant cups Of flour that mas been
sifted twice with two heaping tea
spoons baking powder; last of all, add
one beaten white of an egg. Beat
thoroly and bake in three layer TINS
For filing, beat one cup cream UNI
til stiff, then add three tablespoons
powdered sugar. stifffy beaten white
of one egg ami three-quarters cup
strawberries mashed smooth. Spread
this between layers of cake. Slit
powdered sugar over top.
Apricot Marmalade-Soak one
pound dried apricots in water to
thoroly cover. over night; in the
morning add one pound of sugar, one
can grated or shredded pineapple, one
orange sliced very thin (using only a
part of the rind). Stir well and sim
mer about an hour and half, stirring
often. When cool turn into jelly
glasses.
Turtle Soup (the genuine kind)-
One turtle tcanned will do), one large
chicken, one calf's head and tongue,
one and.one-half pounds beef, one and
one-half pounds veal Boil all sep
arately and strain the liquor. Add
soup greens while boiling; chop all
very fine. Chop three hard-boiled
eggs, three large onions. one lemon:
boil brains of calfs head and chop
all fine. Add one teaspoon allspice,
one teaspoon cloves. one-quarter tea
spoon red pepper. one quart light
brown flour, (sifted), two quarts tart
fruit juice tunsweetened), one and
one-ha1f quarts catsup; salt and pep
per to taste. Boil all for half an
hour.
Put up in pint or quart sealers.
This recipe will make three gallons
Vegetarian Roast.
Mash one pound of beans, either
canned cooked; one-half pound
grated cheese and enough bread
| crumbs to shape, season with salt,
make roll and bake, basting with
| drawn butter.
Serve with a sauce made of one
salt and pepper, onion juice; also
| thicken with a tablespoon flour.
| Saves Sugar.
| Mix thoroly oIie-t third or one-half
| level teaspoon of baking soda, accord
ing to size of pie, one-half heaping
tablespoon of flour and a teaspoonfuI
of sugar. Use one-half in the bottom
of the pie and the rest on top of the
rhubarb, then sweeten with one-half
| cup of sugar, instead of the whole
| cup usually allowed to a pie.
To Fix Spaghetti.
A small box of spaghetti, boil TWEEN
/ ty minutes in salt water, drain in cold
water. add a small can tomatoes Take
four slices of bacon and one onion,
| cut in small pieces, fry until brown,
add to spaghetti and tomatoes; drop
| in four or five cloves to flavor, and
sweeten to taste. Then boil fifteen
minutes; serve hot.
Italian Rice.
Two cupfuls of boiled rice.
One cupful of diced cheese.
One tablespoonful of butter.
salt, pepper, milk.
! In buttered baking dish place a lay
er of rice, then a thin layer of diced
cheese, salt, paper and bits of but
ter; repeat with another layer of rice
and cheese. Have the top layer of
rice. then add milk to cover and bake
! for about forty minutes.
TIC Expert Who Blundcrs.
The accident by which Edwin Go aid.
/ jr.. killed himself came not from the
blunder Of an inexperienced hunter,
but rather from the negligence that
! skill AMI much experience so often
breed. 1t it regrettably old story of
every hunting ground.
! Very much the same story runs thru
| all life. 1t is not the beginner, the
| novice. who has the most accidents.
] For him. q lert ness and excessixe