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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
Homemade Cream Puffs.

cream puffs are dessert that can
be served in many different ways.
That is to say, the cook who masters
the making of cream puffs can. with
the same mixture. make many diff
recipe for the puff:
Put half cup of butter in cup of
cold water over the fire, and when it
reaches the boiling point add a cup of
sifted flour and cook. stirring until a
smooth mass that leaves the sides of
the saucepan results. Cool little and
then add two or three eggs. unbeaten,
one at time. beating the mixture well
after each addition. Add teaspoonful
Of sugar and pinch Of salt, IL desired
Drop the mixture in spoonfuls on a
buttered tin for small cream pufYs. or
bake in buttered muffin tins IL desired
Tor large puffs.
For chocolate eclairs, bake the above
mixture in pans sold for eclairs Fill
the pans only slightly.
The filling for cream puffs and choco-
late eclairs is a thick custard One
way to make it is to mix together two
heaping tablespoonfuls Of flour and a
scant cup of sugar, and add to 1t, with
beaten egg, pint OF hot milk. Cook
until thick and smooth. add fiavoring,
cool. and then fill the puffs or eclairs.
either through a hole in the side, or
by breaking them half open.
For eclairs. cover the tops with icing
of some sort Chocolate and coffee are
the two kinds most used. Cream puff
shells can be filled with preserved fruit
and served with a little whipped cream.
Sweetened whipped cream makes an
admirable filling for the puffs instead
of custard.
A fruit whip can be used for filling
puff shells. Beat the whites of eggs
until dry, add sugar and beat in fruit
pulp and juice. Oranges. prunes or
grape juice can be used in this way
with especially good results.
Either cream puff shells or eclair
shells can be filled Just at the moment
Of serving with vanilla ice cream and
then served with a hot chocolate sauce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09

The delightful and expensive foreign
dishes one finds so enjoyable at the
finest hotels are very often quite SIM
nile EVERYDAY dishes, made new by a
splendid sauce.
The Italian chef makes TINS splendid
sauce for the economical cod Fish IS
very cheap in Italy, and the least eX-
pensive of fish is cod. We Americans
are fond of creamed Goldfish. This dish
is improved in flavor and reduced In
cost if the white sauce is made with
bacon fat.
one italian chef cuts the salted cod
into inch cubes, removing bones ana
skin. He then freshens 1t by putting
cod over the fire, covered with colo wa
ter and allowing it to come to Doll
After draining he dredges hsh with
-four and sautes it in pure lear lard
until a light brown. 1t is then READY
to add to the sauce.
Tomato Sauce-BroWn a small onion,
sliced thin, in two tablespoons OF pure
leaf lard; add four tablespoons tomato
PURGE, a shredded green pepper ana
salt and pepper to taste Add water as
the sauce thickens Then add chopped
parsley and the Goldfish. cover ana let
simmer ten minutes.
Cheese for Variety-Baked Maddox
is improved in taste, according 10 lldi ,
ian cookery, by the addition OF grated
cheese just before serving. Try IT! 1t
may be just the touch your family Will
like.
Use the Leftoyers-Some day when
the larder shows leftover of cooked
whitefish and some cold boiled rice,
try combining it in this fashion: Free
the fish from skin and bones and make
it. Put tablespoon of pure leaf lard
in a saucepan, when melted add the
rice and then the fish. Pour over this
white sauce containing chopped-up
white OF two hard-hoiled eggs. When
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
ONE DOLLAR AWARDED FOR EACH
OF FOLLOWING SUGGESTIONS

der thoroughly while dry. and add to
the molasses and milk. Pour this thin
batter into a five-pound lard bucket
with tight-fitting cover. Set this into
a ten-pound bucket and fill the latter
nearly full of hot water. Cover this
larger bucket closely also and set In
the oven to steam for three hours. Do
not uncover inside bucket while cook
ing.
Boston Baked Beans.
Pick over and wash thoroughly one
quart of dry navy beans. Soak in a
gallon of cold water over night. In
the morning pour off this water and
parboil the beans until soft. but not
mushy. A deep earthen bean pot is
best for the baking.
In the bean pot put one small onion.
one tablespoonful of dry mustard. two
tablespoonfuls molasses, one teaspoon
full salt. a dash of black and a bit OF
red pepper. On this pour the softened
beans, rejecting the water in which
they were parboiled.
Wash and score the rind of one pound
BEANS pressing it down as far as pos
sible. Fill the pot with hot water.
cover and place in the oven, which
must be hot until the water in the pot
begins to boil. Then reduce the heat
one-half and bake slowly at least six
hours. Add hot water as it boils away
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
Seafoam Pudding Sauce.

One cupful water, Juice of one lem
on, one-half cupful sugar. one table,
spoonful butter, one egg, four table,
spoonfuls cornstarch. Dissolve corn
starch in a small portion Of water: su-
gar. lemon juice and butter to the
boiling point in a double boiler, then
stir in the cornstarch: beat yolk light
and add a little of the boiling sauce;
stir well; then pour back into boiler
and stir until thick.
Remove from fire. Whip egg white
stiff; beat in and continue beating I'M
til foamy. Cool beating from time to
time to keep skin from forming on
top. Vanilla flavoring may be used;
omit lemon juice and use one spoonful
less cornstarch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09

sequently. they would become marred.
The plan we are now using is to var
nish at time only every other step.
leaving the others to be used in gong
up and down.
OF course, this means a rather long
step. taking two steps at a time. but
it saves using the newly vanished
ones until they are thoroughly dry
When these are perfectly dry, the re-
mainder of the steps are vanished;
using the dry ones in going up ana
down.
SO as to be sure of stepping on the
right step at both the head ard foot
of the stairs, tie a white string on
the banister at the end of the step
that Is to be used. By this plan the
with very little inconvenience.
Mrs. r. E. B.
To Mend Kid Gloves.
In reading The Star Of January Is
I saw where Mrs. r. NJ. G. told how to
mend cloth gloves. and in these days
when good kid gloves are so expen-
sive and hard to get I thought some
one who reads The Star might like to
know how to mend kid glove neatly.
So I am sending my suggestion. hop
ing It may be of use to some one.
along the edge Of a seam may be neat
ly mended by making a buttonhole
stitch all along the torn edges with
rather fine sewing cotton (not silk).
matching in color that used in making
the glove. Then overcast the edges to-
, gether, just catching up the button
hole stitches. and not taking up the
glove. If neatly done with well match
ed material the repaired place will be
hardly perceptible. NJ. F.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
Apple Salad.

Wash, pare and cut into cubes six
large Jonathan apples. To them add
one cup chopped celery and two cups
English walnut meats. Save some half
kernels of nuts to place on top when
salad is mixed. Make a dressing as fol-
lows: Two eggs. one-half cup sugar,
one fourth cup vinegar. two tablespoon
fuls butter. one tablespoonful flour.
Cook all together in a double boiler.
stirring constantly to prevent Jumping,
When the mixture thickens remove
from stove and beat five minutes. Whe "A
cold stir It into apple mixture. Serve
in salad dish. using half kernels OF
nuts to decorate. Garnish with tender
celery leaves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
When Serving Oysters.

OF course. six oysters have always
been the conventional number to
serve on each plate for dinner. and no
one knows how hard it is for the Eng
lish cook or housewife to deviate so far
from the accepted tradition as to divide
this number by two and serve but
three oysters. But the necessities of
war are far reaching in effect and SO
now the diner has but three oysters.
To make up for this frugality, the
English housekeeper sees to it that
they are served on profusion of
crac..ed ice-for apparently that COM
modify has not gone up in price. and
can be used lavishly with perfect i'm
punity. And there always seems to be
enough watercress in England. so the
three oysters are further extended with
an ample garnishing of this yerdant
herb.
But still there is loneliness in the
three oysters served on a plate where
formerly there were six, and SO the
oyster cocktail has come into popu-
larity. for by serving the cocktail in
a smaller glass than usual. one does
not see SO distinctly the diminution of
the bivalves.
Here is the English way of making
oyster cocktail. The oysters are opened
and three with the juice that comes
from them are thrown into each small
wine glass. Then a good dosing of
lemon juice is added with three drops
no more and no less-of tabasco
sauce for each glass. Next goes in a
tablespoonful of table sauce and one
dessertspoonful of tomato ketchup. OF
course. the cocktails should be served
with the usual oyster fork. and. if you
wish, horseradish should be passed or.
as they would say in England. handed"
by the servant.
1t would seem that even in extrava
CANT America three oysters are to be
called on to do the work of five or six.
For some one engaged in experimental
diet work recently called attention to
the fact that raw oysters are extremely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
Emergency Biscuit.

Make a good baking powder biscuit
dough and drop 1t, by spoonfuls. into
well creased muffin pans. A good rule
for the dough is this: Mix six even
teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one
of salt with three cupfuls of flour. Sift
all together three times and then chop
in with silver knife, six tablespoonfuls
of butter. lard or some other shortening
agent Mix together quickly with a
knife and add a cup of cold water. Mix
lightly and then put in the creased
mans from a SnOon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
Helps for Housewives.

The Evening Star Information
bureau l. anxious to help the
home-managers Of Washington
solve Household problems in the
most economical way possible.
The bureau has much valuable
Information to ofYer along this
line.
A great standby for the busy
housekeeper are the thousand and
one things that come in cans.
Canned goods nre likely to be ex-
pensive II they are not properly
selected and prepared; but II you
know how to use them you can
make them economical as we'll as
convenient.
The information bureau will
send you on request booklet
dealing with the economical use
of canned fOods, containing more
than n hundred recipes for their
preparations.
Address any inquiries on this
subject. or ON any other house,
hold question. to The Evening
Star Information bureau. Fred
eric j. Haskin, director, WASH
tngton, ID. c. Please fncIose a
twO-cent stamp for return postage
with each query.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
HEALTH AND HYGIENE
BY SAMUEL G. DIXON. NJ. b.
Some Everyday Causes 'of In
digestion.

The teeth are the first factor in the
process of digestion. They represent
the millstones that cut and grind the
are given out by glands in the mouth
and mix with the food to make the
first change it undergoes in the process
Of being absorbed by the system.
Good teeth are essential to normal
digestion. Teeth which are diseased, or
artificial teeth held in place by set
tings which retain foodstuffs. are in
furious to health because they provide
places in which disease producing
germs grow, and multiply.
IF you have diseased teeth. or false
teeth not easy to keep clean. have them
attended to. The germs they foster are
producing poisonous substances that
interfere with the normal functions of
vital organs, such as the heart and kid
neys
If you put your teeth in order, pro-
vided the organs have not become
chronically effected by long subsection
to improper conditions in the mouth,
! the discontinuance of the poisons will
| permit Nature to reassert herself and
| the organs whose functions have been
| effected will resume their normal
course in sustaining the scheme of life.
Concerning Mouth Washes.
| Care of the teeth should begin with
| the advent of the child's first ones.
They should be kept clean by means
that will insure no wounding of the
gums. They are usually destroyed by
| acid. therefore no mouth washes con-
tanning acids should be used. Consult
your dentist before using mouth washes
n =
| ders, creams, etc.
If you are interested in your diges-
! ton you will avoid homogeneous mix
lures of foodstuffs made up solely to
American style is a good example. The
potato is composed chiefly of starch.
| That is digested in the second stomach.
| where the secretions are alkaline. If
you soak the potato in vinegar you
| have something whose nature is strict
| ly opposite to the alkaline, which 1t
| fights. Therefore. you are materially
| delaying the digestive process.
| Poor cooking often makes proper
| food either difficult or impossible to
| digest. The hard-earned money Of the
| household goes to the purchase of good
food which is often ruined by the
housewife ignorant in the art of cook
| ing. Good cooking is not matter of
whim or fiattering the palate. 1t is an
absolute essential to health.
| If you eat too fast when the body
is overtired. heated or chilled you will
often suffer distressing indigestion.
Eating in impure or stale air will in
terfere with digestion. If you are COM
| PEELED to take meal under such cir
| cumstances the quantity Of the food
should be reduced to a minimum
Outside of some of these things
which have been mentioned. all OF
which can be controlled to a greater
i or less extent, it win be found that
certain foods do not in themselves
agree with certain persons If you are
| eating sensible food in a sensible man.
ner and you find that some particular
| thing does not agree with you the
only thing to do is to cut it off your
list.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
Vegetable Outlets.

Soak one cup dried peas over night
in cold water to cover. Drain, put in
saucepan, cover with cold water and
bring to boiling point. Again drain,
cover with cold water and add two
slices of onion, soX cloves, thirteen
peppercorns, a bit of bay leaf, two
teaspoons salt and one-quarter tea
spoon soda. Cook until soft, drain and
rub through a sieve.
Add two-thirds cup finely chopped
peanuts, one cup dried bread crumbs,
one-half teaspoon salt, one-eighth tea
spoon pepper and eight tablespoons
cream. Shape in form of outlets and
saute in butter. Garnish with paper
frillS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
School Children

The standing of each
school, showing the total
number of pounds of old
newspapers and magazines
collected for the PLAY
GROUND FUND, will be
printed in Sundays Star.
Each school will gets its
share of the 100000 that
has already been collected
for the school Fairgrounds
in proportion to the amount
OF papers the children bring
to their own school.
See how your school
stands in the list and then
work hard to put it nearer
the top.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
INEXPENSIVE FISH DISHES.

this is thoroughly heated sprinkle over
1t finely chopped picked beets. Serve
hot.
For the Epicure - Canned salmon.
when packed with a rich, red oil. is
very high in food value. This scarcely
needs any dressing up" and is deli
cious served just as it comes from the
can with a garnsh of sliced lemon. The
sauce given for cod may be used with
salmon for variety. Any leftover bits
may be used en- casserole with rice,
macaroni or bread crumbs for a lunch
con or dinner dish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09

expensive. Their actual price Is not
what he was interested in. naturally.
Rather. he called attention to the fact
that they give an astonishingly small
amount Of food value compared to
oysters served in most cooked forms
in pies, fried, or scalloped. OF course,
In these cooked forms the oysters are
diluted. as it were, with other cheaper
food substances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
Vanishing Stairs.

If the stairs are to be kept looking
well, it is necessary to varnish them
frequently. Formerly. my husband
would varnish them in the evening as
early as it was convenient for US to
go upstairs for the night. In the morn
ing, however. when they had to be used,
they would not be thoroughly dry; con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
Good Mattress Worth It's Cost.

In the long run it pays to get a mat
tress of good quality for your bed.
From the viewpoint of appearance the
satisfaction is more than doubled, since
the mattress looks better in the begin
ming, and wears 90 very much longer;
and in comfort, there is often the great
difference of arising in the morning
refreshed from the nights rest. or the
reverse. depending on the quality OF
the mattress.
1t might almost be regarded in the
light of a luxury TO have walls COW
cred with plain paper. since there Will
be no bothersome patterns and figures
to count i'll early morning hours before
arising,
While it is highly proper to consider
the problem of night ventilation in the
planning of the window hangings for
the bedroom, it is absolutely unneces-
sary to abstain from all adornment in
the matter of overdraperies and inner
curtains: the former may be hung far
enough back on the wall SO that the
window Is not obstructed, and the glass
curtains may be of the thinnest wolfe,
and may be pulled back at night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
Chocolate Rice Pudding.

Scald two cups of milk and add one
fourth cup of rice and one-third tea
spoonful OF salt, and cook until rice is
soft: then add one tablespoonful of but
ter. one-third cup of sugar. one square
melted unsweetened chocolate, one-halt
teaspoonful of vanilla and one-half CUP
of raisins seeded and cut in pieces. Cut
and fold in the white of two eggs
beaten until stiff, and one-half cup OF
heavy cream, beaten until stiff. Turn
into a buttered baking dish and bake
in a moderate oven twenty minutes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
CornmeaI SouffIe.

Heat one pint of milk. stir in three
quarters cup white cornmeal, one tea
spoonful of salt and scald in double
boiler. Remove from fire and stir in
yolks of three eggs. one at a time; then
fold in the beaten whites, bake twenty
minutes in creased baking dish in a
hot oven. Serve hot with butter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09

and blue in cool tones of both; and
there was a buff counterpart on the
bed with a couvre pied of blue.
Altogether the room, though cheap
yet none would have believed IT'D was
much prettier than the vacuum
cleaner would have been-or the furs-
that the Certain Little Lady daily gave
thanks to a buff heaven that she had
been so favored by the gods that be.
And they do say there are little gods
waiting to help us all.
In the bedroom it is desirable to have
all the essentials of comfort. and l be-
lieve this can be done without over
developing the luxurious sides of our
characters. The world has become a
buster place since the day of the bed
room stove stuffed with kindling the
night before, not to speak of the day
even longer ago when there was no
stove to be seen. the world being sto-
ically inclined to dress in zero wealth
er. without any heat at all!
But because the world has become
buster. and we with it. we feel that we
may allow ourselves more luxuries in
our homes since the right kind of lux
uries rest the mind, the eyes and the
tired and overstrained body; in fact,
ANYTHING which fits us for the accom-
plishment of the business of life is
not only acceptable, but may be looked
at in the light of necessity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
Rice Mullins.

Rice mullins are made of one cup Z
boiled rice. two eggs. two cups of flour.
a tablespoonful of melted butter. tire.
cups of milk and salt to taste. NIX
the eggs. butter and milk. sift -four and
salt and add 1t and the rice to the wet
ingredients. Bake the mullins quickly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
Boston Brown Bread and Beans.

I want to give a recipe for genuine
Boston brown bread and for Boston
baked beans, on which favorite New
England combination the average rules
given at random by those who don't
know are a travesty.
Boston brown bread--One and half
cups yellow meal, one and half cups
graham meal. one-half cup molasses.
one cup sweet milk, two cups thick
sour milk. three scant teaspoonfuls
baking soda, one-half teaspoonful bak-
ing powder. salt to ones taste.
Mix meals, salt, saleratus and pow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
BY ETHEL DAVIS SEAL.

Though not being overwhelmed with
this worlds goods. A Certain Little
Lady wished to furnish herself bed
room, which was ambitious. to say the
least of it. Being poor, what had she
to do with dainty bedrooms? But YOU
just couldn't snub her, and she kept
right on thinking bedrooms till you'd
not have been in the least surprised if
one had popped up over night to sur
prise her and to prove that even the
slim of pocketbook may be favored of
the gods-though, of curse, it must be
understood that the Little Lady did not
expect to be provided with furniture
from above-and for nothing-she real
ly had the price of a very slim suite
tucked away in her slim little pocket
book.
The thing that troubled her was that
she felt morally certain that she would
detest the kind of a suite she could
afford to buy. Aren't there a lot of us
like that? And sometimes she almost
thought she'd buy herself furs and a
vacuum cleaner instead. And then the
Little Lady happened to read Il book
on color schemes q believe she must
have been favored of the godsD and
things began to get rather exciting
for she found that even inexpensive
furniture could be made to fit not only
tremendously but artistically into the
proper background and setting. Some
how things began to assume another
aspect. And she began to think in
terms of ivory and buff instead of dol
lars and cents, What matters lack of
money, indeed, There was just simply
no snubbing her,
Buff and Ivory.
1t was d happy little bedroom that
the Lady pulled down from the skies
it almost looked as though a piece of
the sun had strayed in and stayed-so
buff it was The walls were buff, cheap
enough, to be sure, but buff; and the
furniture, though not expensive, was Il
very presentable ivory, with the least
little speck of soft colored decoration
on it. The curtains at the window
were of so deep buff that some called
them yellow. and they had tiny blue
dots on them-and there were no glass
curtains. The rug of rag was brown
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09

While shocking is still used on chill
dren's frocks, it is less fashionable
than trimming of a contrasting ma
terial or colored embroidery,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
The ad H1R?y Way " ast

to Health is not
through mountains of pills
or rivers of dope. 1t is
through proper selection OF
food, pure air and rational
exercise. Ifyou have health
you can keep it by eating
Shredded Wheat, the food
that supplies all the nurlhve
material needed for work or
play and in a digestible form:
Keepyourstomachc lenand
your bowels active by'eating
Shredded Wheat, the food
that supplies strength and
builds healthy tissue with
out overtaxing the digestive
organs. Always the same
price, always the same high
quality. "A delicious, nour-
ishing meal for a few cents.
Made at Niagara Falls, NY.