Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-01-30
Problems In the Kitchen
Advice Given for Those Who Wish to Overcome
Various Troubles Cake Making, Better Pies,
Jams, Preserves and Incidental Matters.

be improved by keeping for a few
days. The quantity given will make
three pies, with top and bottom
crusts, or five shells for one-crust pies.
To prevent pie crust rising from the
plate while baking, first be sure that
the pastry is fitted smoothly into the
pie plate, and without air bubbles,
and do not have the heat at the bot
tom too great at first. If you have a
liquid and poury filing for the pie,
either bake the crust first or else jab
II all over with a fork before pouring
in the filling. Do not be afraid to do
this, and the filling will not then run
out.
DO you use milk in your pumpkin
pies? This helps to brown them bet
ter than water on account of its
sugar-of- milk content. Molasses, in
stead of sugar, will produce much
better brown. One or two spoonfuls
of butter. added to the sifted pulp of
the pumpkin or squash. real butter,
not a substitute, will also help to
brown the top, but you had better not
use this unless you put eggs in your
pie II these methods fail to brown
your pie, then sift over the top OF
the pie q little very fine graduated
sugar. and YOU will be sure to have
"A we'll Drowned top. If sifted over
the pie the last thing and placed I'M
der the gas-f1ame. it will make a
crispy crust. Put on before going
into the oven and allowed to cook
with the pie. the sugar will dissolve
before browning and will be softer.
Jams and Preserves.
If your jam has fermented, but not
badly, all you need to do is to re-
boil the jam for quarter of an hour,
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sugar than you used in the beginning,
and continue to boil for 80 minutes
longer. The jam ought then to keep
as long as you wish. Not enough
sugar and not enough boiling are
often the causes OF fermentation.
To keep mold from preserves, place
over each jar a round of tissue paper
that has been soaked in vinegar. Put
ii down over the fruit, which it must
cover completely without leaving a
chink for germs to enter. Then put
on the cover and you will not be
troubled by mold.
Purchase a small coffee pot TO use
exclusively for holding paraffin The
paraffin from marmalades and jellies
can be washed and put into the pot
ready at a minutes notice to be heat
ed over again and poured this way
without splitting
Beef nd Potatoes.
Place your beef for roasting in
very hot oven and let 1t gradually be-
come moderate. Add a tablespoon
full of vinegar to the water with
which you haste your meat, and when
done you will find your roast juicy
and tender. After roasting a piece of
meat that is to be served cold, wrap
1t in cheesecloth while 1t is still hot
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and losing flavor.
If raw potatoes are cut into sec
tions for a French fry and put into a
hot oven instead of into hot lard
you can bake them just as quickly as
you can cook a steak or chop. They
can be put in dripping pan on the
bottom of the oven, or on the racks
and they will be crisp and delicious
They should Immediately be folded In
napkin to be served hot
For New Cocktails.
Cocktails are somewhat like French
pastries. There are no set rules for
making them. but one may use origi-
nality and judgment in combining in
gradients. For instance. large olives
either ripe or green, stoned, stuffed
with anchovies or anchovy paste, may
be mixed with buttered crumbs and a
few placed IN each cocktail glass. and
the sauce used for oyster cocktail
poured over them. This sauce is made
OF sifted tomato, favored with tabasco
and other seasonings.
Another good cocktail is made of
small, round, ripe-red tomatoes. One
is allowed to each flaring glass and
is peeled, the center scooped out and
filled with any kind of goody or mix
ture of goodies, such as cold broiled
mushrooms, caviar, cream cheese
mixed with chopped pickles, or hard
cooked egg yolks made into a paste
with cream and vinegar and seasoned
with cayenne. Bits of dressing, celery
cut in half-inch pieces, small radishes,
pickles, and even candied ginger
treated to a sauce of sifted tomato
mixed with horseradish, will make a
new cocktail; so will all sorts of odd
ments too small in amount to do any
thing else with.
The former Queen Marie OF Naples,
whose death is reported from Munich,
could boast of being the only woman
ever to receive the cross of ST. George.
a Russian order conferred exclusively
upon those who have displayed extraor-
binary bravery under fire. The
decoration was bestowed upon tho
Queen by the Gar Alexander II in