Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-03-29
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.
by Laura A. Klrkman.
ANSWERED LETTERS.

l.. BIS cretonne used with silk in
the living room? i have silk window
drapes,"
Answer-Tapestry and silk look better
together, or velour and silk.
Beatrice-"Can you give me recipe
for white, feathery finger rolls-long
and not very high in shape such as are
served hot, at dinner parties? | would
also like recipe for a good white cake
that is fiac-grained, moist and light
Just ready to melt III ones mouth.
Answer Finger Rolls-fIeat 3 cups
of sweet milk until tepid. Take cup oi
this tepid milk and dissolve in it | COM
pressed yeast cake. Then add tho dis
solved Yeast to the remainder of the
milk, in a mixing bowl. Add also "a cup
sugar, | teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons
butter and, when it cools slightly, 2 we'll
beaten eggs. Stir well, then add 2 cups
of flour, TO make light dough, let this
rise till spongy, thea beat in more cups
of flour, knead well, and let rise again
but this time until double In bulk
(about three and one-quarter hours).
Now cut down the dough and shape into
finger rolls, place these rolls In pans to
rise again, then, when not quite double In
bulk, bake for about tweaty minutes In
hot oven.
Delicate White Cake-Cream together
? cups sugar and = cup butter; add
alternately 3 cups of -four which have beeh
sifted with 3 small teaspoons baking pow
der and cup sweet milk (begln with the
flour in alternating these two ingredients
And beat we'll after each addition, for
the more a cake is beaten at this stage the
iincr-grained il will be-. Last fold in the
- nf a
teaspoon lemon extract Pour into a
creased loaf-cake pan and bake in a
moderate oven for 40 minutes.
A Young Housekeeper-'I recently
bought &. rug like linoleum) and
in irving to wash il | seemed TO have
ruinCd il. | used ammonia and water,
and it has become blotchy and stroaked.
What shall do?'
Answer have not answered your
letter sooner because wrote to the com
panv that manufactured your rug and
asked them why the surface of the rug
had acted in this way. have just received
their reply, which states that you should
not have used ammonia-slmply clear
watcr-but offering TO give you new
rug in place of the ruined one. The gloss
has been irreparably removed from yours
Write to me, giving your name and adj
dress, and will send you this letter from
the company's manager, then you can co
close it when you write to the company
accepting their generous offer.
Kirk 'Wili YOU kindly tell me Of some
way to prevent cured meat from mould
ing
Answer 1t could not have been prop
crlv cured.
Miss ID. Ii would like to know
whether ! could use glass butter churi
( for freezing ice cream, and how Als'
could YOU give me the directions for play
1 ing the game Of Backgammon hav
an old set without directions.
! Answer--Do not try TO freeze ice cream
I in your glass churn. have known then
4 TO break when this was tired.
| am sorry but ! haven't the rules 70
playing backgammon. Perhaps som
reader. who secs this, Will send them {
\ me. to pass on to YOU OR you might go Z
/ store which sells the game and ask tn
4 saleswoman TO let YOU read the direction
even though you did not wish to buy tn
game. You could purchase some othc
small thing at the same counter bcfor
asking this favor.
Tomorrow Buy Appropriate Furnish
ings.
All inquiries addressed 70 Miss Kirkma
/ in care OF the Efficient Housekeeping dc
partmeut VIII he answered in these col