Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-10
FRUIT SQUARES.
SPONGE DROPS.
RECIPES?

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Two eggs, l cup brown sugar, 2 tea
spoons vanilla, / cup cake flour Il
use regular four, u teaspoon salt,
! teaspoon baking powder, 70 cup
chopped nuts, / cup candied fruits,
chopped; cup dried fruits dates,
citron, raisins, f1gs), chopped.
Beat the whole eggs until they
start to stiffen and beat in the
sugar gradually. Add vanilla and
the flour which has been sifted with
the baking powder and salt. Fold in
the chopped nuts and the candied
and dried fruits which has been cut
into small bits. Bake in 7x11-inch
pan, which has been lined with wax
paper, in a moderate oven $3.50 to
S75 degrees) for 80 minutes, or nutil
firm and slightly brown. Cool and
cut into bars.
Sponge Drops: Three eggs, q cup
sugar, u cup milk, u teaspoon
lemon extract, 8 cups cake flour, 3
teaspoons baking powder, u tea
spoon salt.
Beat the whole eggs until thick
and light. Add the milk and lemon
extract and beat in the sugar. Add
the flour which has been sifted with
the baking powder and salt. Drop
or shape about the size of a quarter
with q pastry tube on buttered
cookie sheets. Bake in moderate
oven $3.50 degrees. Makes six doz-
ems.
hope some one helps me on
few recipes. I would like a sweet
sour cooked cabbage, picked beets,
candied pineapple that can be used
In fruit cake or candy.
FRIED OYSTERS;
SUGAR SUCCESS STORY
Thanks to Mrs. w. F. s.,
Washington.)
Recently I saw that lady would
Hike to know the way to fry small
oysters In a batter. They are fried
this way very often in Delaware.
Drain the liquor and add enough
Hour to hold together, add salt and
pepper and drop by spoonfuls IN
enough hot fat to fry doesn't have
to be deep. A little baking powder
and an egg can be added to the
batter, but the first given is just as
good and not quite SO puffy.
I am grateful to somebody for
their suggestion to soften bags OF
hard sugar; that is, to put IN the
bread box. I have pounded myself
to death, broken the bag and had
sugar all over the kitchen. In five
hours today five-pound paper bag
Of real hard sugar softened enough
TO pour. :,
SOUR CREAM DRESSING.
(Thdnks to Mrs. M. Nice,
Washington
In answer to request Tor sour
cream salad dressing. The follow
ing Is very good but I will have to
give you measurements by guess as
that is the way I always made 1t
when fortunate enough to have the
cream.
One egg, well beaten, cup thick
sour cream, / tablespoon sugar, l
rounding tablespoon flour, pinch OF
salt, 2 or 3 tablespoons vinegar (ac-
cording to strength, mustard II you
like.
Cook until thick; when cool thin
with cream, sweet or sour.
The above can be used, using
water instead of cream, adding more
-four for thickness and vinegar for
tartness, and thin with sour cream.
CORRECTION.
In the recipe for orange sponge
cake that appeared in the Clear
fna House on Tuesday, April q,
there Uds a typographical error
In the quantity of -four to be
used. This should haze read
Fold in ~ cups -four"
X X X
EVAPORATED MILK CANS.
THANKS to Mrs. M. A. G.,
Washington
IN answer to Mrs. E. M. LIS re-
quest: 1 don't think evaporated
milk cans are any good for salvage.
BLEACHING FLOORS.
RAYON SHARKSKIN?
(ThanEs to Mrs. G. r. v,
Chevy Chase.J
To the person asking about the
use of oxalic acid in bleaching floor,
My Home Owners Handbook" says,
g. cleans by scrubbing with hot
soap suds or other cleanser, rinse
with clear water. Stains may be
bleached out with a solution of one
teaspoon of oxalic acid in one cup
of hot water. Care must be used as
the acid is very POISONOUS. Before
any other application is made, the
floor must be freed of all trace of
the acid. Deep stains may have to
be sandpapered." have never used
the acid and believe that sandpaper
would be best, remembering to rub
only with the grain of the wood.
Can someone please tell me if
white rayon sharkskin can be put in
the commercial bleaches for laun-
dry?
LOVERS KNOT SHAWL.
Thanks to Miss r. A., Washington. J
Materials: J. g. P. Goats Knit
Cro-Sheen, balls of any color
Steel crochet hook No. 20 double
Zero). Use double thread through
out. Shetland yarn may also be
used)
Make a chain 40 inches long
LIST ROW: Pull loop on hook out
to measure "a inch, thread over
hook and draw through loop or
hook; insert hook between the dou-
bic loop and single strand and draw
o loop through; thread over anc
draw through 2 loops "a knot st
made). Make another knot stitch
skip 4 ch.. &C. in next ch.. make