Evening star., 1943-09-15
and process IS to 30 minutes in hot
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Spiced Vine Peaches.
quart vine peaches.
2 cups brown sugar.
Il cup white vinegar.
2 tablespoons cloves.
| Peel vine peaches. cut in halves
and remove seeds. Pack halves in
jars, Make Sirup OF sugar. vinegar
and cloves and simmer until thick
Pour over vine peaches and seal jars
Vine Peach Preserves.
4 quarts vine peaches.
/ 4 cups sugar
liz cups water.
/ lemons.
Peel. halve and remove seeds OF
vine peaches. Cut in pieces, add to
Sirup made of sugar and water Add
juice OF one lemon and the other
lemons, sliced. Boil rapidly until
fruit is tender and clear. Let stand
overnight. In the morning. bring to
! boiling point and pack into hot
sterilized jars. Seal Immediately.
Meringue.
Beat until frothy, 2 egg whites
Add gradually, 4 tablespoons sugar
Continue beating, but only until egg
holds its shape in peaks. Fold in
teaspoon lemon juice. Cover pie.
| Remove Starch.
To remove starch that has burned
and stuck to an electric iron, place
a small piece of paraffin between
thin white cloth. Heat your iron
and rub it over this until the starch
is removed. A beeswax bag will also
take burned starch from an iron
without soaring the surface.
Cod Liver Oil Stains.
These stains must be removed i'm
mediately or they will oxidize to a
stubborn brown. Mothers of small
children should keep supply of
banana oil on hand so that the fol-
lowing solution may be prepared
Dissolve one tablespoon soap flakes
in three tablespoons boiling water.
Cool until mixture begins to thick
en-, then stir In two tablespoons
banana oil. Cover the spot with this
mixture and rub between the hands
lightly until the cod-liver oil is re-
moved Launder the garment in
warm suds.
Cherry Sunshine.
Here is a recipe called Cherry
Sunshine" One of the readers
asked for recipe; this may be the
one she had in mind:
quart seeded sour cherries
4 cups sugar
y cup light corn sirup.
In a 3-quart saucepan or kettle
| place alternate cups Of cherries and
sugar, mixing after each addition
Then add corn sirup, bring to boil
cook Is minutes, shaking the pan
occasionally, pour INTO a scalded
earthen or enamelware crock, let
stand for day. stirring occasional
ly. If hot sunshine is available
cover the crock with glass and set
out for a day, stirring once or twice
to turn the cherries over. However
the cherries do very nicely when
left outdoors. Can without further
heating. Yield: Three pints.
Peach Preserves.
Cook / pound sliced under-ripe
peaches with a cup water. covered
for about S minutes, until barely
tender. Keep heat low and watch
so that peaches do not stick. Drain
off juice, add enough water to make
/ cup; and to this add 2 cups sugar
Boil until the sirup spins thread
Now add peaches and cook very
rapidly to minutes. Remove
from stove, skim If necessary, let
stand for day. preferably in g
shallow dish. Yield: Two l2-pini
jars or slightly more. Split almonds
may be added; 2s cup just before re-
moving from the stove.
Milk Formula Stains.
For the lady who asked about re.
moving stains made from milk for.
mula After the clothes are washed
put in pan or tub and pour boiling
hot water over them. Let stane
until cool, rinse. This will remove
milk stains on baby's garments anc
keeps them white as snow. Fol
white only.
Elderberry Preserves.
Here is a recipe for elderberry pre-.
serves. 1t may help the lady WHIT
asked for elderberry jelly recipe.
have a recipe for jelly, but canno
find it now Combine gallons ber.
ries picked from stem, 5 pound.
sugar, and l pint good vinegar O.
the well-scalded juice of wild grapes
Cook until thick, stirring frequently
and can in sterilized jars. Elderberry
and apple juice makes very gooc
jelly.
Remove Crayon.
The lady who asked for way tt
remove crayon from bedspread
This may help her if the crayon il
wax crayon. Press stain. with no
iron, between two blotters. The colo