Evening star., 1947-04-21
Readers Clearing House
COFFEE CAKE;
BEDSPREADS;
POPCORN STITCH

COFFEE CAKE; /
BEDSPREADS;
POPCORN STITCH
(Front Mrs. B. M. H., Lexington
Park, Md
have a coffee cake recipe which
answers the description Of the one
by Mrs. P. j. D. 1t is
called rolled oats coffee cake,
2la cups rolled oats, quick
or regular. u teaspoon salt. 3 tea
spoons baking powder, u cup short
ening, "a cup corn sirup. 2 eggs, "a
cup milk, spicy topping. Grind
rolled oats, two spoonfuls at a
time, using fine blade of food chop
per. Measure Q cups of the ground
oats. Mix well with salt and baking
powder. Thoroughly cream short
ening and sugar, gradually beat in
corn sirup. Add eggs one at time,
beating yell after each addition:
Add dry ingredients to creamed
mixture alternately with milk.
Spread half of batter in creased g.
inch square pan. Sprinkle with
one-haf of spicy topping. Cover
with remaining batter, sprinkle
with remaining topping. Bake in
moderate oven 375 degrees IS min
utes. Spicy topping: Combine u
cup brown sugar, 2 tablespoons cin-
namon, 2 tablespoons melted short
ening, and 4 cup chopped Cali
fornia walnut meats. Mix thor
oughly.
For Mrs. p. o. W.: /, too, had two
bingham bedspreads, twin size
which / made into very attractive
double-bed size Mine had ruff1ed
sides, so I removed one ruff1e from
each spread fitted to two spreads
(minus one ruff1e each) to the
double bed and cut away the excess
material from the centers, leaving
q four-inch opening the entire
length of the spread. From the
leftover ruffies. I cut strip twice
as long as the spread itself, gath
cred it on each side and inserted
1t into the two spreads. On a
tailored spread, banding may be
used to hide seams, by making
bands In both directions to form a
pattern. Blanket binding may be
used in this method.
For Mrs. B. T. S.: The popcorn
stitch rarely begins row. 1t is
usually preceded by at least d C.
A popcorn stitch is made up OF a
ch / and d in one stitch. Re-
move the hook from the last loop
of the last d C. Insert the hook in
the ch / made just preceding the
group of d C. Catch the dropped
loop with the hook and draw it
through the ch on the hook and pull
tight.
VEGETARIAN MENUS?
From Mrs. J. T. v, P1turent Riuer J
wonder if some of the readers
would help me to entertain a very
dear friend of mine who plans to
visit me in May from California.
She and her husband are vege-
tarians and never eat meat of any
kind so I want to plan my meals to
be strictly vegetarian while they
are here.
My husband doesn't mind at all
although We ourselves are meat
eaters and I am accustomed to
planning my main meals around a
meat dish.
I will appreciate and try out any
neatless dishes suggested that will
take the place of meat in the menu.
X X X
BATHTUB FEAR.
from Mrs. j. r. A., Washington. J
My son when about the age of
your child didn't want to bathe. He
loved to dabble in water when I
washed out his socks, etc, so put
his wash in the tub and he got In
willingly. Hope this works with
your child.
X y x
TEACHING CHILD TO READ.
fFror1 Mrs. E. S. H., Falls Church,
For Mrs. A. e. W.. Washington:
Many years ago I had to teach
my little girl because she was out
of school due to sickness. Since
your little boy presumably has a
first reader I would take that book
and write down all the words found
on the first page There will not
be so many because some are used
many times. Let the little son write
the words, learn to spell the words
and you will soon see he will know
how to read the page. Let him mas
ter writing and spelling each word.
Do not give too many at time
You will be the best Judge, Let
him do what he does we'll. Skip
around with the words.
When YOU come across simple
words such as is," "it." AN" "at."
form word families. I am taking it
for granted he knows all of his let
tiers and the sounds of the letters.
II not, teach them to him. He will
soon be forming like, ban" "can," +"
Dan" fan" etc: "it," bit" eft, ="
'hit." ETC.: all" ball" call" etc.
He will be delighted to increase his
vocabulary. Let it be a game. You
be the teacher. he the little boy
coming to learn to read. 1t will take
time and lots of patience but it will
be wc"th it. The thorough ground
wo' s1elling and reading will
he l al through life If not
too hard, maybe you can show him
what syllables are. You may find
that he will spell words that are
suggested to him such as into, upon,
being, etc.
You could write the words In large
letters and flash before him If that
is what they do in school. You could
flash phrases before him. You could
combine the old with the new
They tell me the method of teach
ing by sight" is to help child to
read more at a time and not the
slow way of word for word but get
the thought as a whole. That may
be fine if the teacher had about
ten children but when she has 40
or more 1t works a hardship on
many little ones. I have seen so
many children labelled poor read
ers" when in fact, their minds were
slower and they could not grasp 1t
as quickly yet with coaching. they
became flrst-rate readers. I talked
with a teacher on q bus one morn
ing who did nothing in summer but
coach the children who could not