Evening star., 1947-06-05
Readers Clearing House

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water to the sugar and mayonnaise
mixture. Add 1A teaspoons vanilla.
Bake in moderate oven $50 degrees
until toothpick when inserted will
come out clean (about 80 minutes).
I have noticed with interest and
concern that there are requests for
moist cake recipes. Could 1t be
that some of you ladies overbake
your cakes while in some instances
the oven is not regulated properly?
After the gas conversion my cakes
were dry and I had the gas COM
pany regulate the temperature Of
my oven and found that my oven
was SO degrees off (too hot.)
The following may be of some
help to you in determining how hot
your oven is and the information is
taken from the Household, Search
light cook book.
Temperatures for oven cookery
may be determined with an oven
thermometer, automatic oven tenn
perature control, or by noting the
time required for browning to a
golden brown teaspoon of flour
which has been lightly busted over
the bottom of a pie pan.
yoy ysgy sSW dSsn oven 5S3eS s5S$eS minutes minutes
Moderate oven 35e-4O0 F. 3h minutes
Hot Hot, oven SeI ,u,n 4oo-45o eo F. "a minutes
Failure to sift flour then measure
for cake recipes will produce dry
cake also.
NON-STICKING OATMEAL.
(Fron, Mrs. II. c. H., Chevy Chase.
Oatmeal will not stick to pan and
may be cooked directly over flame,
if eyaporated milk Is added after
starting in water. Makes the oat-
meal white and creamy.
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MOTORING WITH CHILDREN.
From Mrs. r. w. D., -Arltngton.J
To Mrs. H. K, Silver Spring. We
have made several trips with our
two boys, now and 5, and before
leaving always pack one box for
them. Small toys, such as the small
cars and airplanes. I always take
a box of good colors and several new
color books. There is an exception
ally good box of colors available for
so cents which have fiat backs and
prevents rolling. Even the 2-year-
old would enjoy these. T always
avoid taking pencil.
For the girl 13, a good game to
play while driving is Alphabet s.
Our boy. 8, had lots of fun playing
it on our last cross-country ride
and even the 5-year-old learned lots
of letters playing with us. To play
the game one must find the letters of
the alphabet in order by finding
words on the signs beginning with
the letters. Any word on sign can
be used, it does not have to be the
first word. Simply the first letter
of a word, such as apple, best, can,
etc. One can ride many miles be-
fore finding or an x. We always
count the DIX sign or double x
signs. It's also fun to see how far
one can count by using the first
number on car tags as they pass. We
also keep track of the States as
the cars pass. For the 7 and 5 year
old, counting the windmills on a 10
mile stretch or seeing who can count
the most black crows.
We never lack for entertainment.
Once we took an old Farmers Union
song book along and when We were
too tired to count we had fun sing
ing.
Don't clutter up your car with ex-
cess clothing. If three rice in the
front seat, elevate the one in the
middle and give him an extra back
support He won't wriggle half so
much. A couple of firm pillows does
the job.
I have found it most satisfactory
to keep one bag handy with at least
one change of clothing for each
child Eliminates unpacking the
whole car every night. On our last
trip I carried a waterproof bag