The Washington times., 1919-08-24
The Home Soda Fountain
By Mrs. Christine Frederick,
The DISTINGUISHED Authority on Household Efficiency


candies and icing not turn her art
TO the making of attractive bever-
ages?
There are the familiar vegetable
pastes i'm yallow, pink, green, so
well known in colored icings.
These same pastes may be used TO
add a glow to any Summer drink
Similarly. the kitchen flavor shelf
can be extended to include rasp-
berry. pineapple, banana and other
uavors, particularly useful in Sum
mer drink beverages. Let any
child who wishes to spend his pen
nies for ''por" be given the chance
to make a pitcher of pink pop" at
home and he will unquestiOnably
prefer it to what he could have
bought
In the dog days the appetite often
declines solid food, yet the body's
strength must be kept up. This
can be done eXCellently by the
choice of egg and milk beverages
served cool, but not iced.
Egg-nog, egg matted milk choco-
late. matted milk, milk shake, ETC.,
are all drinks which can be dupli-
Gated at home and at far less cost,
An egg matted milk which costs 25
or 80 cents in a drug store to-day
can be made with zen cents worth
OF materials at home. Children
who are fretty and refuse food in
Summer may we'll be offered the
cool matted milk.
In the authors family the word
soda" is applied to all beverages
drunk in a tall glass. By the
camouhage of whipping egg whites
or beating the eggs the resem-
blance TO typical sO6a water is borne
out. Also, if a package of "straws'
such as used at a drug store is pur-
chased, and children allowed to
drink through the straw, the illu-
sion will be complete. One deli
cate child who never took eggs in
any other form was delighted with
this homemade soda.
A convenient little utensil for
preparing various drinks is
mixer" This consists of metal
or glass jar holding a half pint and
fitted with a strainer at the top. BY
shaking this back and forth good
mixing is provided, and then the
drink can be nicely strained into
its glass. Some mixers have a
lemon squPezer in the top.
All kinds of fruit cutters which
slice or cut fruit into fancy shapes,
a good lemon sgueezer and an ice
clipper are also indispensable. This
last is a small tool with saw-like
teeth which rapidly shaves the ice
into fine particles particularly suit
able for beverage use.
There is on the market a unique
syphOn fed with bullets" contain
ing carboaic acid gas under
pressure. The syphon is so made
that this bullet may be inserted in
the top and opened by turning a
handle. This releases the gas into
the DefeEhkE COuJdlutu III the
syphon, making the exact counter.
part Of drug store soda water
The syphOn costs about 81 and
the bullets are renewable. Each
syphOn holds two Quarts, and thus
Il Is an easy matter 10 prepare de.
llcious carbonated beverages.
AS many Summer drinks contain
fruit It is convenient TO have a set
of special fruit spoons, made either
Of glass or silver. These have long.
slender straw-like handles like a
straw, and also like a straw they
are hollow. The tip is tiny spoon
which assists in lifting the ever
escaping marasch.uo cherry from
the bottom e the glass. A pretty
set of these spoons in white glass
with yellow tips is charming for
any Summer service.
One clever hOusekeeDer puts up
what she calls soda fruits" AZ
she does her preserving she makes
EaIf-pint jars of different cOmbina
tons of fruit and syrup, such as
cherry red raspberry and currant,
etc. In all her canning she pre-