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JUST FOR TWO
A COLLECTION OF RECIPES
DESIGNED FOR TWO
PERSONS

Compiled by
AMELIE LANGDON

Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged

MINNEAPOLIS
The H. W. WILSON COMPANY
1909
 Copyright 1906
By AMELIE LANGDON
 PREFACE
Recipes designed for small families are rare, and
yet there are thousands of wives in our cities who
cook for only two. It follows that they must either
cut down large recipes found in the ordinary cook
book, which can rarely be done successfully, or they
must cook the full amount with resulting waste.
During my experience of keeping house in a flat for
my husband and myself, I have tried to cook with
economy with the help of my
large cook Look, and
I have both wasted and experimented much and have
gradually compiled for my own use a book of proved
recipes, many of which have been given me by friends
who have compounded and proved them. I shall make
no effort whatever to frame a scale of prices, because
the cost of provisions varies so widely with cities
and seasons that it would be impossible to attempt such
a task with any certainty of giving real aid. I now

publish the book believing that it will fill a long felt

need. It has been my aim in preparing the book to
have it contain rules for making many dainty and de-
licious dishes not often found in cook books. I have

also left out many things that other cook books con-
tain, in order to keep "Just For Two" from being the
big clumsy cook book that confuses the young house-
keeper.
Amelie Langdon.
 CONTENTS

Soups i

Fish Dinner 9
Fish 10

Steak Dinner 20

Meats and Sauces 21

Chicken Dinner 35
Game and Poultry 36
Duck Dinner 45
Vegetables 46
Macaroni 62

Christmas Dinner 64
Eggs 65

Bread, Biscuit, etc. 70

Luncheon for Two 81

Puddings and Sauces 82

Cheese Dainties 96

Nut Dainties 99
Salads 103

Sandwiches 120

Garnishes 126

Beverages 128

For the Chafing Dish 135

Breakfast Foods 141

Pies 143
viii Contents

Thanksgiving Dinner ... ... 150

Cakes 151

Frozen Desserts 166

Fruits, Jellies, Preserves 170

Relishes 183

Candies and Confections 186

Invalid Cooking . . .... 192

Things Worth Knowing 202

Household Uses for Refined Paraffine

Household Weights and Measures
Time Table for Cooking
Time Table for Baking
Meals as Remedies
Choosing Oranges
Dainty Ways of Using Rose Leaves
Wedding Anniversaries
Birth Month Gems
Suggestive Menus 220
 ;

Where is the man that can live without Dining?

We may live without conscience, and live without heart;

We may live without poetry, music, and art;

We may live without friends ; we may live without books

But civilized man cannot live without cooks.

He may live without books, —what is knowledge but

grieving?

He may live without hope, —what is hope but deceiving?

He may live without love, —what is passion but pining?

But where is the man that can live without dining?

Owen Meredith.
What shall I have for dinner?
What shall I have for tea?
An omelet, a chop or two,
Or a savory fricassee?
Dear! how I wish that Nature
When she made her mighty plan
Hadn't given the task to woman
To care for hungry man.
-Anon.
 SOUPS

Soup will be as good the second day as the first if

heated to the boiling point. It should never be left in
the pot, but should be turned into a dish or shallow
pan, and set aside to get cold. Never cover it up, as
that will cause it to turn sour very quickly.
Before heating a second time, remove all the fat
from the top. If this be melted in, the flavor of the
soup will certainly be spoiled.
Thickened soups require nearly double the seasoning
used for thin soups or broth.
The meat from which soup has been made is good
to serve cold thus: Take out all the bones, season
with pepper and salt, and catsup, if liked, then chop it
small, tie it in a cloth, and lay it between two plates,
with a weight on the upper one; slice it thin for lunch-
eon or supper; or make sandwiches of it; or make
a hash for breakfast; or make it into balls, with the
addition of a little wheat flour and an egg, and serve
them fried in fat, or boil in the soup.
An agreeable flavor is sometimes imparted to soup
by stickingsome cloves into the meat used for making
stock; a few slices of onions fried very brown in but-
ter are nice; also flour browned by simply putting it
into a saucepan over the fire and stirring it constantly
until it is a dark brown.
Clear soups must be perfectly transparent, and thick-
ened soups about the consistency of cream. When
soups and gravies are kept from day to day in hot
weather, they should be warmed up every day, and
put into fresh-scalded pans or tureens, and placed
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in a cool cellar. In temperate weather, every other

day may be sufficient.

STOCK
Get a five cent beef bone, and boil two hours with
plenty of water. This will make a pint of soup stock.
Boil this stock with chopped carrots, parsnips, potatoes
and onions, if vegetable soup is wanted, or flavor with
strained, canned tomatoes if tomato soup is wanted, or
use clear as bouillon. A half teaspoonful of extract
of beef improves the color and adds richness to the
flavor of the bouillon.

CHICKEN BROTH
Put into a kettle the neck, lower parts of the legs,
and the wing tips of a large fat fowl. Dredge with
flour, and add a pint of cold water. After letting it
soak three-quarters of an hour, simmer slowly, keep-
ing the kettle closely covered and let the meat drop
from the bones. Strain and put the broth back on the
stove, adding a cupful more of water to the bones and
cook a good half hour longer. Add this liquor to the
broth. (There should be a pint of the broth.) Season
with salt and pepper, and a little minced parsley, ac-
cording to taste. Serve with tiny squares of toasted
bread browned in the oven. The remainder of the
chicken can be used for fricassee.

SHRIMP BISQUE
Stir one heaping tablespoonful of flour with enough
milk or cream to make a paste; put into the sauce pan
—
one-half pint of milk good measure; the yolk of one
egg well beaten; tablespoonful of butter, salt and
pepper to taste; add one-half cup chopped shrimps the
last thing. Serve hot.
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OYSTER SOUP
One pint of oysters, one-half pint of milk, one heap-
ing teaspoonful of butter, one-half teacupful of boil-
ing water; salt and pepper. Strain all the liquor from
the oysters; add the water and heat. When near the
boil, add the seasoning, then the oysters. Cook about
five minutes from the time they begin to simmer, until
they ruffle. Stir in the butter, cook one minute, and
pour into the tureen. Stir in boiling milk and send to
table hot.

CLAM SOUP
One dozen clams chopped fine. Put over the fire the
liquor that was drained from them, one cupful of wa-
ter, add the clams and boil twenty-five minutes. Then
season to taste with salt and pepper and a teaspoonful
of butter; boil up again and pour in one pint of boil-
ing milk. Stir in a teaspoonful of flour made to a
cream with a little cold milk, or one cracker rolled fine.
Serve hot in a heated tureen.

CLAM-CELERY SOUP
Ten clams chopped, one pint water, one pint milk,
one tablespoonful butter, yolks of two eggs beaten,
one-half single head of celery, chopped fine, and one
very small onion, chopped fine, salt and pepper to taste.
Rub butter and flour together, thickening the hot wa-
ter with it. When cooked smooth, add celery and on-
ion, cooking twenty minutes. If clams are fresh, add
them, too, but if canned, only heat through. Just be-
fore serving, add milk, which has been heating in an-
other dish, the yolks of eggs and seasoning, not allow-
ing to cook.

CREAM OF CELERY
Cut the outside stalks of a bunch of celery in small
pieces; boil until tender, keeping covered with water;
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when boiled tender rub through a gravy strainer; add

one pint and one-quarter of milk, teaspoonful of but-
ter, salt, and stir in slowly a little flour paste; let boil
a little and serve hot.

CREAM OF FISH SOUP

Rid cold cooked fish (fresh), of any kind of bones,
fat and skin, and mince fine; season to taste. For each
cupful of this allow two cupfuls of boiling water, in
which a sliced onion has been boiled, and set over the
fire to cook. Heat in another saucepan a cup of milk
(not forgetting the pinch of soda). When boiling stir
into it a tablespoonful of butter, rubbed smooth with
a teaspoonful of flour. Add half a cupful of bread
dust, already soaked soft in the same quantity of cold
milk. Beat well together over the fire with a raw egg
whipped light, pour into a tureen, turn in upon it,
stirring all the while, the boiling fish and water. As
soon as it is thoroughly mixed send to the table.

CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP

One-half pint of canned tomatoes, one-half pint of
milk, one heaping teaspoonful of butter, quarter tea-
spoonful of soda. Cook tomatoes a few minutes and
then strain them, put on the stove again, adding the
butter, salt and pepper, and a little of the soda, and
thicken with flour until quite thick; heat the milk sep-
arately in a double boiler until boiling hot; when time
to serve, add the remainder of the soda to the tomatoes
and a little minced parsley. Lastly add the boiling
milk. Serve in heated soup bowls.

TOMATO PUREE
Get a bone cut from a mutton shank weighing one
pound and a half, cover with one quart of cold water
and leave soaking one hour, then heat gradually, boil
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slowly two hours until meat and bone separate. Then

add three tablespoonfuls of tomatoes, one teaspoonful
of washed rice, half an onion grated, and boil until
there is one pint of broth. Strain, skim off fat, add
salt to taste, a tiny pinch of red pepper. Serve hot
with toasted bread browned in the oven.

RICE CONSOMME
Get a shank of mutton weighing one pound and a
half. Wipe clean with a damp cloth, cut off any dried
outer skin, dredge with flour, pour on one quart of cold
water, soak one or two hours, let come to a boil slowly
and simmer for two hours, cover kettle closely. Strain
off the liquor, pour over the bones and meat enough
cold water to cover, cook again for an hour. Strain,
and add to the first quantity of liquor and throw away
the bones and meat. Salt to taste, add one small on-
ion, one carrot and one small turnip chopped fine,
cook until the vegetables are tender; then strain. When
the broth is cold take off the fat cakes; there should
be one quart of solid jelly. From this take one pint,
and add one tablespoonful of washed rice, cook gently
until the rice is tender, then add one teaspoonful of
minced parsley at the last moment.

BEAN SOUP
One cupful of beans, one quart of water, ham bone,
one pint of milk, one-half teaspoonful of butter. Boil
the beans fifteen minutes. Boil with the ham bone
three hours. Rub through a gravy strainer, add hot
milk until it is of the proper consistency, and add
the butter. Serve at once.

CORN SOUP
Half a can of cornlet, one teaspoonful of chopped
onion, half a pint of water, one heaping tablespoonful
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of flour, one pint of milk, one teaspoonful of salt, one

tablespoonful of butter, one pinch of white pepper, yolk
of one egg. Cook the cornlet with cold water fifteen
minutes; cook the onion in the melted butter until a
light brown, add flour, seasoning, and the milk gradu-
ally, then add the cornlet. Strain and repeat. Beat
the yolk of one egg, and put it in the soup tureen,
pour the soup slowly over the egg, mix well, and serve
immediately. The egg may be omitted. Corn may be
chopped fine and used instead of cornlet.

GREEN PEA SOUP

Half a pint or half a can of peas, one pint of water,
one tablespoonful of butter, one tablespoonful of flour,
a pinch of salt, a pinch of white pepper, half a tea-
spoomful of sugar, half a pint of milk or cream. Wash
the peas and cook them in one pint of boiling water
until soft, mash them with the water in which they
were cooked, strain, and add the remainder of the
liquid. Make a white sauce and cook until it is like
thick cream. If the peas are fresh some of the pods
may be cooked with them.

SPLIT PEA SOUP

Half a cupful of split peas, one and one-half quarts
of water, one tablespoonful of chopped onion, one
heaping tablespoonful of butter, one tablespoonful of
flour, half a teaspoonful of salt, a pinch of pepper,
one and one-half cupfuls of milk. Wash the peas
and soak them over night in one pint of cold water.
In the morning drain and rinse thoroughly, add quart
and a half of cold water and the chopped onion. Cook
slowly until soft, rub through a strainer. Make a
white sauce, add this liquid to it and cook until it is
of the proper consistency. Cooking a small ham bone
with the peas improves the flavor.
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WINTER VEGETABLE SOUP

Scrape and slice one small turnip, and one carrot, and
peel one small onion and fry all with a little butter
until a light yellow; add three stalks of celery, two of
leeks, cut into small pieces; stir and fry all for five
minutes; when add two stalks of parsley minced,
fried,
one clove, salt and pepper and a little grated nutmeg;
cover with three pints of boiling water, and simmer
for one hour. Take off the scum, strain and serve.

EGG DUMPLINGS FOR SOUP

To half a pint add two well-beaten eggs; and
of milk
as much wheat make a smooth, rather
flour as will
thick batter free from lumps; drop this batter, a table-
spoonful at a time, into boiling soup.

NOODLES
To make freshnoodles, put a cupful of flour on a
platter. Make a hollow in the center, drop in two
well beaten eggs, two tablespoonfuls of cold water, a
pinch of salt and a half teaspoonful of soft butter.
With the fingers gradually work the ingredients into
a rather stiff paste, adding more flour if necessary.
When done, it should not adhere to the hands. Divide
into quarters and roll each lump out into a large sheet;
let it stand for a moment or two, then roll thinner un-
til the sheet shows signs of breaking. Spread cloths
on the bars of the clothes horse and on these hang
sheet of dough, leaving them for half an hour or more
until the surface is somewhat dried. Now cut the
sheet into long strips two inches wide, lay several
strips on top of one another, and with a sharp knif«
cut as fine as possible. Shake the pieces apart and
spread out on a board to dry. As the quantity given
is sufficient for several meals put aside enough for the
day and let the remainder dry on the warming shelf,
8 Just for Two
then put away for future use. Sprinkle the quantity
required in a kettle of rapidly boiling salted water and
boil for fifteen minutes. Drain, return to the fire and
stir through them two tablespoonfuls of butter, pinch
of salt and pepper, three tablespoonfuls of grated
cheese, serve as soon as cheese is melted.

RICE BALLS.
Rice balls make a pretty company garnish for soup
to be used instead of plain rice. Mash or stir down
with a fork a cupful of cold boiled rice, and mix with
a batter made of one whole egg beaten, a tablespoonful
of flour, with a seasoning of salt and a pinch of cay-
enne pepper. Stir smooth and make into balls not
larger than a small marble. These are dropped into
the soup just before it is sent to the table.
Compliments of Donaldson's Tea Room, Minneapolis,
Minn.
Oyster Cocktail.

Olives. Wafers. Celery.

Planked White Fish.

Mashed Potatoes. French Peas.

Mint Sherbet.

Coffee.
 FISH

In selecting fish, choose those only in which the eye

is full and prominent, the flesh firm and thick, the
scales bright and stiff. Fish should be cleaned thor-
oughly before cooking.

COOKING IN DEEP FAT

GENERAL RULES
The fat used for cooking may be olive oil, cottonseed
oil, cottolene, beef drippings, lard, or a mixture of sev-
eral fats.
The food must be covered with crumbs and egg, or
a batter, to keep it from absorbing fat.

Place the articles to be cooked in a bath of fat, deep

enough to float them. The kettle should be of iron;
a frying basket may be used.
Foods already cooked or needing little cooking, re-
quire a higher temperature than batters. The tempera-
ture of the fat for oysters, croquettes, fish-balls, etc.,
may be tested by browning a cube of bread while
counting forty. Counting sixty while the bread browns
gives the right temperature for all batters.
All the articles cooked must be drained on unglazed
brown paper.
When one quantity of food has been taken from
the fat, it must be reheated and tested before adding
a second set.
In the absence of a frying basket, a wire spoon may
be used to remove the food from the fat.
Fat which has been used for frying, should be cooled
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Fish 1

and clarified by cooking a few slices of raw potato in

it for ten minutes; strain through muslin, and when
cold cover.Fat may be used several times for frying
and then may be made into soap.

CLARIFIED FAT
Remove the tough outside skin and lean parts from
beef fat (cod fat or suet), or pork fat, and cut the fat
into small pieces. Put it into a saucepan and cover it
with cold water. Place it on the stove uncovered, so
that the steam may carry off the impurities. When the
water has nearly all evaporated set the kettle back
and let the fat slowly try out. When the fat is still
and the scraps of skin are shriveled at the bottom of
the kettle, strain the fat through a cloth and set it
away to cool.

FISH COOKED IN FAT

Season with salt and pepper and cover with equal
amounts of corn meal and flour, or crumbs and egg.
Cook in deep fat or saute. Drain on paper.

FISH COOKED IN WATER

Steam over gently boiling water, or place it in a
fish
piece of muslin, sew or tie the edges together and put
the fish into boiling water, boil five minutes, then add
one tablespoonful of salt and cook at a lower tempera-
ture until done. Serve with a sauce.

TO FRY FISH
Clean the fish, wipe dry, rub a little salt inside and
sprinkle with a little pepper after putting them in the
pan, but never roll them in flour; it is not neces-
sary and does not improve them. Never allow fish to
soak in the fat. The fat should be perfectly hot when
the fish is put in and kept at the same temperature
12 Just for Two

throughout the cooking. Fish may be fried in lard,

butter or clarified dripping, but prefer the latter, or,
I

what is better, the fat obtained by frying thin slices of

salt pork, the quantity required depending upon the
size and number of the fish, but a generous quantity is
desirable. If a piece of bread dropped into the fat will
instantly brown, it will be hot enough to put the fish
in. All small fish are better fried.

TO BROIL MACKEREL
Grease a broiler well; place the fish over a good fire;
brown on both sides; place on platter and season with a
little butter and pepper; or place the fish in a buttered
dripping pan, skin side down, baking a nice brown;
this may be best in the above manner and add a few
spoonfuls of rich cream.

BROILED FRESH MACKEREL

Remove head and the dark skin from inside the fish,
wash thoroughly and wipe Butter the bars of the
dry.
gridiron and broil the fish over a clear fire. When
done, dip quickly into hot water, and serve with a
dressing made as for broiled salt mackerel. Slit the
fish before broiling, so that when laid flat the back-
bone will be in the middle.

BROILED SPANISH MACKEREL

Open the fish down the back and remove back bone;
dry the fish well with a towel after washing it; salt it,
and put on a gridiron over a clear fire, turning the flesh
side down until it is brown, then turn it over; serve
with melted butter and sliced lemon.

FINNAN HADDIE BROILED

Wash well,soak half an hour in cold water; then for
five minutes in very hot water. Wipe, rub with but-
ter, and broil for fifteen minutes on brisk coals.
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Fish 1

SALMON IN A MOULD
One small can of salmon, two eggs, two tablespoon-
fuls of melted butter, one-quarter cupful of bread
crumbs, and pepper, and one sprig of minced pars-
salt
ley. Rubthe butter in the salmon, put the crumbs in
the beaten eggs. Mix all thoroughly and add season-
ing. Put into a buttered mould and steam one hour.
—
Sauce. One-half cupful of hot milk thickened with
one teaspoonful of corn starch; add one heaping tea-
spoonful of butter, liquor from the salmon, one egg,
one tablespoonful of tomato catsup. Put the egg in
last and very carefully.

BAKED SALMON
Open a can of salmon, add two well beaten eggs, one-
broken in small pieces,
half cup milk, four soda crackers
pepper and salt. Pour into buttered granite pan and
bake a light brown.
TURBOT
One pint of milk, three tablespoonfuls of butter, two
tablespoonfuls of flour, cooked together; season with
salt and pepper, one teaspoonful of onion juice, and one
sprig of minced parsley. Place in a baking dish a layer
of shredded fish and the sauce alternately; sprinkle
with bread crumbs and brown in a moderate oven.
SHRED CODFISH
Flake very fine a half pound of very white, sweet
codfish. Wash in two waters and squeeze as tight as
possible. Put into a saucepan with a piece of butter
as large as an egg, and two heaping spoonfuls sifted
flour. Mix the butter, flour and fish thoroughly to-
gether, add very slowly two or three cupfuls boiling
water, let come to a boil and serve. Add, if you choose,
just before removing from the stove, an egg well beaten.
A garnish of hard-boiled eggs is considered an im-
provement by some.
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GRANDMOTHER'S CODFISH BALLS

Place a half cupful of the fish in cold water on the
back of the stove; when the water is hot pour off, and
add more cold water until fish is fresh enough. Then
pick it up. Boil and mash a few potatoes, mix fish and
potatoes together while potatoes are hot, taking two-
thirds potatoes and one-third fish. Use plenty of but-
ter. Make into balls and fry in plenty of hot lard. Be
sure to have the lard hot before putting in the balls.

FISH BALLS
One-half cupful salt codfish, one and one-quarter
cups of potatoes, one egg, one-half tablespoonful but-
ter, one-eighth teaspoonful pepper. Wash the fish in
cold water and break into small pieces; wash and pare
the potatoes and cut in pieces. Cook the fish and po-
tatoes together in boiling water until the potatoes are
soft, drain and shake over the fire until dry; mash with
a wire potato masher, add the beaten egg, butter and
pepper, add more salt if needed and beat until light.
Take up the mixture by spoonfuls, mould slightly,
and slip them into the fat. Fry one minute, or until
brown.
FRIED FISH CHOPS
Select chops of any good fish, such as Lake Superior
and salmon; salt and pepper; dredge with
trout, halibut,
flour and fry in one heaping tablespoonful of the very
best butter. Serve with chops over-lapping each other,
on one side of a chop dish, on the other side of the
dish putting a little heap of Swiss fried potatoes, or
potato balls. Garnish with parsley or water cress and
slices of lemon.

BAKED SHAD
Get a small shad, stuff it with bread crumbs, salt,
pepper, butter and parsley minced, and mix well with
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Fish 1

yolk of one small egg, beaten. Fill the fish with this
dressing and sew it up or fasten a string around. Pour
over it a little boiling water and some butter, or lay
strips of bacon on the fish, and bake as you would a
fowl. Garnish with parsley and lemon.
Boil up some of the gravy in which the shad was
baked; put in a teaspoonful of catsup, a teaspoonful of
browned flour which has been wet with cold water,
juice of half a lemon, and half a wineglassful of sherry
wine. Serve in a gravy boat.

SHAD ROE
Place roe in salt water for a day; wipe it with a cloth
until dry; rub over it olive oil or melted butter. Boil

five minutes until well cooked. Cut it open; dip in

flour and fry in hot pork fat.

BAKED WHITE FISH

Thoroughly clean the fish; cut off the head or not, as
preferred. Cut out the backbone from the head to with-
in two inches of the tail, and stuff with the following:
Soak stale bread in water, squeeze dry; cut in pieces
a large onion, fry in butter, chop fine. Add the bread,
two ounces of butter, salt, pepper and a little parsley
or sage. Heat through, and when taken off the fire,
add the yolks of two well-beaten eggs; stuff the fish
rather full, sew up with fine twine, and wrap with sev-
eral coils of white tape. Rub the fish over slightly with
butter, just cover the bottom of a baking pan with hot
water, and place the fish in it, standing back upward,
and bent in the form of an S. Serve with the following
dressing: Reduce the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs
to a smooth paste with tv/o tablespoonfuls of good salad
oil; stir in half a teaspoonful of English mustard, and
add pepper and vinegar to taste.
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FRESH STURGEON STEAK

Take one slice of sturgeon two inches thick, let it

stand in hot water five minutes. Drain, put in a bowl
and add a gill of vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of melted
butter, half a teaspoonful of salt, a saltspoonful of
black
half a lemon. Let it stand six
pepper and the juice of
hours, turning it occasionally. Drain and dry on a
napkin, dip in egg, roll in bread crumbs and fry, or
rather boil, in very hot fat. Beat up the yolks of two
raw eggs, add a teaspoonful of French mustard, and,
by degrees, half of the marinade, to make a smooth
sauce, which serve with the fish.

OYSTER COCKTAILS

Toa glass, six small blue points, two teaspoonfuls

of lemon juice, one teaspoonful of Worcestershire
sauce, two tablespoonfuls of catsup, a tiny pinch of
salt, and a pinch of sugar. Serve cold in a sherbet cup
or cocktail glass.

OYSTERS AND MUSHROOMS

Parboil one-half pint of oysters, strain and save the

liquor. Cut the oysters fine and mix with half a can
of chopped mushrooms. Mix the oyster liquor with
mushroom juice with cream enough to make one pint;
thicken with one tablespoonful of butter and three
tablespoonfuls of flour. Season with salt, cayenne, and
lemon juice. Add the oysters and the mushrooms and
serve on toast.
To make icecups for oysters, fill baking powder cans
half full of water and let them freeze. When you wish
to use them, turn the frozen mould out on a plate,
make a depression with a warm poker large enough to
hold four or five oysters.
 Fish 17

OYSTER PIES
For each pie an individual tin pie-plate; butter and
cover the bottom with a puff paste, as for pies. Lay on
it six select oysters, or enough to cover the bottom;

drop in bits of butter and season with a pinch of salt

and plenty of pepper; spread over this an egg batter
and cover with a crust of the paste, making small open-
ings in it with a fork. Bake in a hot oven until the
top is nicely browned.

OYSTERS STEAMED
Wash and drain half a pint of counts; put them in
a shallow pan and place in a steamer over boiling wa-
ter. Steam
until they are plump with the edges ruf-
fled.Place in a heated dish, season with butter, salt
and pepper and serve.

CREAMED OYSTERS
From one pint of oysters drain the liquor; boil and
skim, and thicken with one heaping tablespoonful of
flour, and half a tablespoonful of butter, rubbed smooth;
put one-half pint of cream in a double boiler, and when
hot, add the thickened liquor, season with salt, pepper,
and a dash of nutmeg. Have ready the yolks of two
eggs well beaten; add half a cupful of cream; now add
the oysters to the cooking mixture, and lastly the eggs
and cream; stirring constantly, cook three minutes.
Serve in pastry shells. Use the whites of the two eggs
for frosting on a dessert, or coffee.

GRANDMOTHER'S SCALLOPED OYSTERS

A layer of rolled crackers in the bottom of a well-
buttered pudding dish, and a layer of oysters drained;
season with salt, and pepper and bits of butter. Con-
tinue this way until the dish is full. Then pour over
one large cupful of milk. Bake three-quarters of an
hour.
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1 Just for Two

LITTLE PIGS IN BLANKETS

Roll each nice plump oyster in a very thin slice of
bacon; pin with a toothpick; fry until bacon is brown;
serve on very hot dish.

FRIED OYSTERS
Select large oysters, wash and wipe them, remove
pieces of shell, season with salt and pepper, roll in fine
bread crumbs which have been dried, sifted, and sea-
soned, dip in beaten egg and again in crumbs. The egg
should have one tablespoonful of water or oyster juice
added to it. Fry one minute, drain, garnish and serve.

ROAST OYSTERS ON TOAST

Cut bread round with sharp cookie cutter,
slices of
toast lightly and butter. Wash and wipe some fine
large oysters, spread as many as possible on each
slice of toast, season with salt, pepper and plenty of
bits of butter; put in hot oven till edges of the oysters
curl; serve at once.

SAUCE FOR BROILED FISH

Put a heaping tablespoonful of butter into a half
cupful of cream, keep it hot, stir often, and when the
fish is dished, turn the sauce over the fish and serve.

SAUCE TO SERVE WITH BAKED FISH

Put into a double boiler one teaspoonful of butter.
Beat into it the yolk of one egg, a pinch of salt and
cayenne pepper, two tablespoonfuls of boiling water,
and one teaspoonful of cider vinegar. Cook and stir
until it is a little thick and add three drops of lemon
juice. Keep very hot and closely covered. Serve a
small portion with each plate of fish.
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HOLLANDAISE SAUCE
(Good' with Boiled Fish.)

Beat one-half teacupful of butter to a cream; add the

yolks of two eggs, juice of half a lemon, salt and a
very little cayenne pepper. Put into vessel or a sauce-
pan boiling water. Beat with an egg beater until it
begins to thicken, then add a half cup of boiling water,
heating continually. When of consistency of thick cus-
tard it is done. It will require five or seven minutes
to cook, if water boils hard.

SAUCE TO SERVE WITH RAW OYSTERS

One-half teaspoonful of pepper and one-half tea-
spoonful of salt, half of one onion grated, one dessert-
spoonful of Farragon vinegar, one tablespoonful of
olive oil, one^-half teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce,
juice of half a lemon.

EGG SAUCE
One cup cream sauce or drawn butter, three hard
boiled eggs; chop whites fine and add to sauce; grate
yolks over sauce, or the yolks may be chopped by them-
selves, or rubbed through a sieve.

STUFFING FOR FISH

Two cupfuls of bread crumbs, one-half teaspoonful
of salt, one-eighth teaspoonful of white pepper, cay-
enne, one teaspoonful onion juice, one teaspoonful
chopped parsley, one teaspoonful capers or chopped
pickle, one-fourth cupful melted butter. Mix in the
order given.
 Steak Dinner

Broiled Porterhouse Steak.

Mashed Potatoes. Mushrooms.

Gravy. Bread and Butter.

Coffee.

Tomato Salad.

Wafers.

Banana Ice Cream.

Cake.
 MEATS AND SAUCES
In the selection of meat one should make it a point
to understand how to buy meat. Beef should be smooth,
fine grained, and a clear bright red, and should feel
tender when pinched. The best pieces for roasting
are the middle ribs and sirloin.
Veal should be firm and dry, fine grained and a pale
pink color.
Pork should be young and break on being pinched.
If the rind is tough and hard it is old.
In roasting meat allow fifteen minutes to the pound,
and above all things have the oven hot before putting
roast in.
matter to get roasts small enough for
It is a difficult
two people. An ordinary roast lasts quite too long to be
enjoyable even though it can be used in various ways;
as sliced cold meat; cut up in squares and warmed
in the gravy and called "fricassee"; meat pie, cro-
quettes, hash or hash on toast.

ROAST BEEF
Get a rib piece or loin roast of four or five pounds,
wipe it clean with a clean wet towel, baste it well with
suet fat and sprinkle with flour; lay it in pan, set in
oven, baste often with its own drippings; when partly
done sprinkle with salt and pepper; let it roast an
hour and a quarter in a hot oven. Be sure that your
oven is good and hot when you set the roast in. When
done remove the roast to a heated dish, set in warm
place; skim all fat from the drippings with a spoon
or brown paper; add two teaspoonfuls of sifted flour,
 22 Just for Two
pepper and salt, and a half teacup of boiling water;
boilup once and serve in gravy boat.

POT ROAST OF BEEF

Get a small pot roast from the rump and brown in
an iron kettle before pouring water in and cooking.
Boil very slowly till quite tender. Do not salt it till
it is nearly done.

ROUND STEAK FRENCH ROASTED

Get two pounds of choice round steak cut thick. Cut
it into pieces about five inches square, put into an iron
kettle and brown, being careful not to scorch it. Then
pour in a little water and an onion cut in small pieces
and let all stew slowly, renewing water when it boils
away, until it is tender enough to cut with a fork.
Brown flour by scorching it in a tin plate on top of
the stove and mix with a little cold water till free from
lumps and use to thicken the gravy.

MOCK DUCK
Cut a thick slice of round steak, remove fatty rim
and bone, rub the steak well on both sides with flour
mixed with salt and pepper, prepare a bread dressing
as for turkey stuffing, cover the steak with a thick
layer of dressing; roll up, tie with string; boil slowly
an hour and a half in a tightly covered kettle, with
just enough water so the meat will roast down, the
last twenty minutes; remove the meat and take off
string carefully; add butter size of small egg to gravy;
thicken and pour over meat; this can be baked, but
is dryer if so cooked.

BEEF TENDERLOIN BROILED

Get one beef tenderloin. Wash and dry with a clean
towel. Rub lightly with salt and pepper and broil very
 Meats and Sauces 23

tender. Alittle before the meat is done, lay on each

tenderloin two thin slices of bacon; broil to a nice
brown. Serve on a heated platter garnished with let-
tuce or parsley.

BEEF TENDERLOIN BAKED

Wash well one tenderloin, lay in a dripping pan; add
one pint of water. Chop up one-half cupful of each of
the following vegetables into small dice squares: po-
tatoes, turnips, carrots, and half a bunch of celery.
Wash and add to the meat and let the whole simmer
half an hour. When nearly done, add one-half tea-
spoonful of pounded allspice and one tablespoonful of
butter. When done, lay the meat on a heated platter,
pour over the sauce and serve.

PORTERHOUSE STEAK
Get a pound and a half of porterhouse three-quarters
of an inch in thickness, lay on four thin slices of
bacon. Put into the broiler to broil. When done
season with salt and pepper, if served without the
mushroom sauce. Remove steak to a heated platter,
salt and pepper on both sides and spread a liberal lump
of butter over it. Serve at once.

BROILED PORTERHOUSE STEAK WITH

MUSHROOM SAUCE
Take one-half can of mushrooms, drain off every drop
of liquor; then put them in a sauce pan with one cup
of sweet cream and one tablespoonful of butter, salt
and pepper to taste. Let them simmer gently for ten
minutes, and when the steak is ready to be served pour
the mushrooms over it.

HOT TONGUE WITH TARTARE SAUCE

Note —This meat is nice for company dinner, as it

requires no special attention at the last moment.

24 Just for Two

Simmer a pickled beefs tongue five and one-half

hours, changing the water once. One-half hour before
serving, take the tongue out and peel it Return to
the hot liquid until ready to serve.
—
Sauce Tartare. Add capers or cucumber pickles and
olives, chopped, to salad dressing No. I. Add no cream.

BREADED TONGUE
Slice the cold cooked tongue thin, dip in beaten
egg, then in bread crumbs and fry brown. Make a
tomato sauce according to directions given elsewnere.
Pour the sauce into a deep platter, lay the slices of
fried tongue upon it, garnish with parsley and serve
at once.

BEEF STEW
Half a pound of beef from leg, half an onion cut in
slices, tablespoonfuls of carrots cut in dice, a
six
quarter of a cup of turnips cut in dice, two potatoes
cut in one-half inch slices, half a teaspoonful of salt,
a pinch of pepper, a quarter of a cup of flour, and one
quart of water. Remove fat and cut the meat into
one-inch pieces; put aside one-half cupful of the best
pieces of meat. Put the rest of the meat and the bone
into cold water and soak for one hour, then heat
until it bubbles. Season the one-half cup of meat and
roll it in flour. Melt the fat in a frying-pan, re-
move the scraps. Brown the sliced onion and then
the floured meat in the hot fat, add both to the stew
and cook for one hour and a half at a low tempera-
ture. Add the vegetables and the flour, which has
been mixed with half a cupful of cold water, and cook
for one hour, or until the meat and vegetables are
tender. Remove the bone, season and serve.
POT ROAST
Get a three pound pot roast. Trim the meat care-
fully. Put one tablespoonful of lard into the kettle
 Meats and Sauces 25

and when boiling hot, put in the meat. Brown on all

sides, then cover the meat with boiling water. Boil
rapidly, skimming when necessary. Half an hour be-
fore the meat is done, cut a medium sized onion into
slices and add it to the water in which the meat is
boiling, together with a bay leaf, four cloves, six
pepper corns, a half stick of celery, and a half inch
of stick cinnamon. Place the meat in a deep platter
when it is done, and spread it thinly with grated horse-
radish. Strain the liquor remaining in the kettle and
make a brown sauce to pour over the meat. Dump-
lings are very nice served with a pot roast.

HAMBURGER STEAK
Take half a pound of round steak without any fat
or bones or stringy pieces; mince it very fine. Mince
one small onion and mix well with the meat. Season
with salt and pepper, and make into cakes the size of
a biscuit and quite flat. Have ready a frying pan with
a teaspoonful of lard and one tablespoonful of butter
and let it get boiling hot, then put in the steak and fry
a nice brown on both sides. Garnish with parsley
around the edge of the platter and slices of lemon on
top of the meat.

DRIED BEEF A LA CREME

Make a cream sauce and add to it the dried beef,
cut fine.Season with pepper but not salt. When hot,
add a well-beaten egg, stir till it thickens and serve
at once on toast. A very nice breakfast dish.

BEEF A LA BARCELONA
Cut a pound of tender beef into small bits. Fry in
butter, with a minced onion, a little celery or celery
seed, some chopped parsley and a pinch of thyme. When
brown, add enough stock to cover, using beef extract
26 Just for Two

and water if the stock is not at hand. Simmer slowly

till the meat is cooked through, then add a spoonful

of white wine. Make a mound of boiled rice in the

center of the platter, arrange the meat around it, strain
the sauce, thicken, and pour over it.

CORNED BEEF HASH

Cut cold, cooked, corned beef very fine, and mix with
twice the bulk of mashed potato. Add a shredded
green pepper to every quart, season with salt and
pepper. Serve on buttered toast with poached egg on
each portion and serve very hot.

COTTAGE PIE
Mince two cupfuls of cold meat (any kind will an-
swer), add to it one minced onion, one teaspoonful
powdered sage and salt and pepper to taste. Turn all
into a pie dish, add a little hot water and cover
with a deep layer of mashed potatoes beaten light,
with cream and seasoning added. Alittle sweet
cream added to the meat is an improvement. Spread
a little soft butter over the potatoes, and bake half
an hour.

GERMAN MOCK RABBIT

Mix apound of raw chopped beef with an equal quan-
tity raw chopped veal. Season with salt, pepper,
of
nutmeg, onion, thyme and chopped parsley. Add a cup-
ful of dry bread crumbs and bind with four raw eggs,
unbeaten. Shape into a loaf, cover with egg and
crumbs, put into a baking pan lined with slices of
fat salt pork, and baste frequently. Serve in slices,
either hot or cold.

TRIPE LYONNAISE
Cut up half a pound of cold boiled tripe into squares.
Put two tablespoonfuls of butter and one tablespoonful
 Meats and Sauces 27

of chopped onion in a frying pan and fry brown; add

and cay-
to this a tablespoonful of strong vinegar, salt
enne. Cover the bottom of a
Stir to prevent burning.
heated platter with tomato sauce, add the contents and
serve hot.

LIVER A LA CREME
Wash half a pound of calf's liver and boil until
very tender in salted water. Drain and chop fine.
Make a cream sauce, add the chopped liver, bring to a
boil and pour over buttered toast arranged in trian-
gles on a hot platter. Fry thin slices of bacon and
place a slice on top of each piece of toast.

LIVER PATTIES
Take one-half pound of calf liver, steamed or boiled
and chopped fine, season with salt, pepper, catsup and
Worcestershire sauce to taste, adding a little thick
brown sauce. Serve in hot patty shells.

ROAST VEAL
A small roast of veal from the loin is choicest, but
a shoulder roast with a pocket for stuffing is also good.
A two-pound roast can be bought but from three to
three and a half pounds is the best size. Bake till

tender, basting when necessary.

ROAST LAMB
A leg of lamb is too large for a small family unless
it is milk lamb, when it should be carefully roasted
real
as it cooks quickly. Get a two-pound piece of the
shoulder of a young lamb and ask the butcher to fix
a pocket for stuffing. This is a very delicious roast.

STUFFED ROAST VEAL

Get a pound and a half of veal cutlets, cut the edges
to prevent curling. Pepper lightly and sprinkle over
28 Just for Two

it a quarter of a teaspoonful of thyme. Dredge with

flour,put a bread and butter stuffing on one-half, fold
the other half over it, lay the veal on a thin slice of
fresh fat pork, on a deep earthen dish, cover lightly,
bake in a moderate oven two hours. Remove the veal
to another dish. Sprinkle with salt and browned bread
crumbs, return to the oven for five minutes. Add one
tablespoonful of flour and half a cupful of boiling wa-
ter to the sediment in the baking dish, salt and pepper
to taste, boil up and pour around the veal.

CROWN ROAST OF MUTTON

No one but a first-class butcher can put up such a
roast as this, let the roast weigh about three and one-
half pounds or four. This roast is made from a full
loin, the bone split between the chops and the ribs
trimmed as for French chops and cut of uniform length
and the whole then rolled in circular form. Wrap the
ends of the ribs with strips of cloth and roast till well
done. Fill the center with French peas. Serve on a
hot platter, garnished with parsley.

LAMB CHOPS
Wipe three or four lamb chops with a wet cloth; re-
move the skin and extra fat; have a frying pan hissing
hot without any fat; put in the chops and cook two
minutes, turn, and sear the other side; cook more
slowly until done, stand them up on the fat edge to
brown the fat, without over-cooking the meat. When
nearly done, sprinkle a little salt on each side. Drain
on paper, and serve hot, with tomato sauce if desired.
Mutton chops are cooked the same way.

VEAL BIRDS
Slice off the veal from the very thin. Wipe,
loin, cut
remove the bones, skin,and and pound until one-
fat,
fourth of an inch thick. Trim into pieces two and a
 Meats and Sauces 29

half by four inches. Chop the trimmings fine with one

square inch of fat salt pork for each bird. Add half
as much fine cracker crumbs as you have meat; season
highly with salt, pepper, thyme, lemon, cayenne, and
onion. Moisten with one egg and a little hot water,
spread the mixture on each slice nearly to the edge,
roll up lightly, and tie or fasten with skewers. Dust
with salt, pepper and flour; fry them slowly in hot but-
ter till a golden brown, but not dark or burned. Then
half cover with cream and simmer fifteen minutes or
till tender. Remove the strings, and serve on toast.
Pour the cream over them, garnish with points of
toast and lemon.

VEAL CROQUETTES
Chop up fine, enough veal
to fill one cupful; season
highly with pepper, cayenne, onion juice, celery
salt,
salt and parsley. Moisten with one beaten egg and
white sauce and shape into molds, roll in fine bread
crumbs, egg and crumbs again and fry in hot fat.

VEAL LOAF SPICED

Chop two pounds of veal and a quarter of a pound of
fat pork as fine as sausage meat; add to it two large
soda crackers rolled very fine, two well-beaten eggs,
quarter of a teacup of tomato catsup, quarter of a tea-
spoonful of table salt, half a teaspoonful of pepper,
half a teaspoonful of grated lemon rind; taste before
molding to be sure it is rightly seasoned. Mold into a
loaf; put in a bread pan, cover with one cracker rolled
fine and baste once in twenty minutes with one-half
cupful of boiling water to which add half a tablespoon-
ful of the best table butter. Serve on a long platter
garnished with parsley and slices of lemon.

MINCED MUTTON AND EGGS'

Chop remnants of cold mutton, season well and add
a good cupful of warmed gravy. Strew crumbs on
30 Just for Two

the bottom of a buttered baking dish, pour in the mut-

ton and cover with crumbs, and bake till bubbling hot;
then break eggs enough over the top to cover the mince
well, scatter bits of butter on the eggs, salt, pepper, and
sift cracker crumbs over the top, and bake till the

eggs are set.

ROAST PORK
The loin or chine, also the spareribs, are the best
pieces for roasting. Rub surface well with salt, sprinkle
lightly with sage and pepper, dredge with flour, and
bake in a hot oven for the first twenty minutes, or
until delicately browned, after which reduce the heat,
allowing twenty minutes to each pound of meat. Baste
often. Roast pork should be thoroughly cooked, not
at so high a temperature as other meats, and is con-
sidered more wholesome when served cold. Serve with
onion sauce, when served hot, and with baked, fried
or stewed apples.

ROAST SPARE RIB

Select carefully the loin and ribs of a "beastie" both
fresh and young. Plunge it into scalding water, dry
thoroughly and rub with a mixture made from salt, pep-
per, sage, minced parsley and onion juice. Bake in a
hot oven, twenty minutes to the pound, basting fre-
quently with a quantity of cider in the pan. It should
be roasted the day before, as it is much more whole-
some when cold and is intended as a relish to turkey.

ROAST SPARE RIB WITH DRESSING

Have pork cut with long ribs; season and put
loin of
to roast; half anhour before it is done turn so the ribs
will hold the dressing made as for turkey stuffing; fill
with the dressing and finish baking; serve with apple
sauce.
 Meats and Sauces 31

PORK TENDERLOIN
Two tenderloins are enough for the family of two.
Tenderloin should be cut in pieces of uniform size, and
one-quarter of a pound of fresh fat pork should be al-
lowed for each one. Cover and fry rapidly for a min-
ute in a spider smoking hot, turn and fry the other
side, turn burner down very low and cook slowly
ten minutes. Always cook pork slowly and thoroughly.
When cooked, put one level teaspoonful of salt, dust-
ing of pepper, stir the grease and brown sediment well
into the flour, cook a few minutes, add half a cupful
of rich milk; stir till a smooth creamy gravy, pour
over the tenderloins, sprinkle over all one tablespoonful
of minced parsley.

SAUSAGE WITH APPLE GARNISH

Always buy the best sausages, as pork which is not
of the best quality is not desirable or healthful. Two
grades of seasoning are sometimes offered at the same
price, one mild and the other highly spiced. Try bak-
ing instead of frying sausage and you will never go
back to the top of the stove method. Arrange the
sausages on a baking sheet, pierce each a half dozen
times with a steel fork and set in the oven; turn once
to brown and when they are done they will be cooked
evenly and unbroken. While any kind of pork should
be well done, it should not be cooked until dry as a
chip, as it is sometimes served. Pile the sausages on
a platter in log cabin style and garnish with apples
which have been cut in round slices, cored and pared
and cooked in a weak syrup until tender but not brok-
en. The sausage needs the acid of the apple to coun-
teract itsown richness in fat and spices, and if more
convenient, serve stewed apple with it. Do not
choke the sausage in a frying pan and then turn the
apple in to absorb the grease as it cooks, unless the
family have digestions of wood choppers in midwin-
ter.
 32 Just for Two

PORK AND BEANS

Pick over and wash carefully two cupiuls of beans,
and let them soak in water all night. Wash and drain
in another water, boil in cold water twenty minutes;
stir in a half teaspoonful of baking soda and skim
off the froth. Drain and pour beans in an earthen
covered pot. Put in the center of the beans a quar-
ter of pound of salt pork; score the rind in slices.
Mix one pint of boiling water with half a teaspoonful
of salt, one pinch of cayenne pepper, one tablespoonful
of molasses. Pour this over the beans, set in a mod-
erate oven, and bake for four hours, keeping the pot
well covered. About an hour before the beans are
done, remove the cover to brown the top and crisp
the pork. When done, if beans are just
right, the
juice will show itself when
the pot is tilted half way
up. Serve in a deep dish, the pork on top,- garnished
with a few sprigs of parsley.

THE PROPER RELISHES TO ACCOMPANY

MEATS
Roast Beef Grated Horseradish
Roast Mutton Currant Jelly
Roast Lamb Mint Sauce
Roast Pork Apple Sauce
Boiled Mutton Caper Sauce
Boiled Chicken , Bread or Egg Sauce
Roast Turkey Cranberry Sauce
Boiled Turkey Oyster Sauce
Venison, Wild Duck or Game Currant -Jelly Sauce
Boiled Fish Drawn Butter or Caper Sauce
Broiled or Baked Fish Fish or Cream Sauce
Roast Goose Apple Sauce
 Meats and Sauces 33

Broiled Fresh Mackerel Stewed Gooseberries

Broiled Shad Boiled Rice and Salad
Fresh Salmon Green Peas and Cream Sauce
Beefsteaks or Warmed-over Meats Brown Sauce
Broiled Steaks and Chops Tomato Sauce
Small Roast Birds Bread Sauce
Veal Cutlets and Fillets, Etc Mushroom Sauce
Poultry and Boiled Fish Oyster Sauce
Salt Fish Maitre d'Hotel Sauce

MINT SAUCE
Pour over a teaspoonful of chopped green mint half
a cupful of boiling water. Add to this two table-
spoonful of butter, half a pint of cream, one saltspoon
of vinegar; boil up once more. Put in a cool place
before serving.

CAPER SAUCE
Half a cupful of drawn butter, half a tablespoonful of
chopped capers, one teaspoonful of juice from the bot-
tled capers; let it just simmer and serve.

NASTURTIUM SAUCE
Make sauce as caper sauce, using green nasturtium
seeds instead of capers, and chop very much finer than
capers.

BREAD SAUCE FOR CHICKEN

One pint of hot milk, one onion, one tablespoonful
of butter, one cupful of finely grated bread crumbs.
Press cloves into the onion; add the hot milk and let it
simmer for half an hour. Then add the butter and
bread crumbs, stir until thickened. When ready to
serve, take out the onion and cloves.
34 Two
Just for

EGG SAUCE
Boil three eggs very hard; when taken up, put them
into cold water. Shell and chop the eggs rather fine,
throw them into melted or drawn butter, beat well and
serve.
CURRANT JELLY SAUCE
tablespoonful of butter, half a small onion chop-
One
ped a tablespoonful of flour, one celery leaf,
fine, half
half a cup of stock, two tablespoonfuls of currant jelly;
fry onion light brown in the butter; stir in the flour,
browning slightly; add celery leaf and then the stock;
simmer twenty minutes; strain, reheat and add jelly and
stir until dissolved; then serve.
CREAM SAUCE
One large tablespoonful of butter, one rounded table-
spoonful of flour, one level teaspoonful of salt, one-
fourth teaspoonful of white pepper. Stir these together
and pour over the mixture one-half pint of hot milk.
Cook just long enough thoroughly to mix the ingredi-
ents, —
two or three minutes.
TOMATO SAUCE
Put into a saucepan one-half pint of stewed tomatoes,
one-half of a small onion, half a bay leaf, and half
a blade of mace, a pinch of minced parsley; simmer
slowly for fifteen minutes. Melt one-half tablespoon-
ful of butter, add to it two teaspoonfuls of flour, mix
until very smooth. Press the tomatoes through a sieve,
add them to the butter and flour, and stir until it
boils. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
SAUCE FOR BOILED MEATS
Chop fine one onion and a small quantity
half of
of mixed Put these in a small stewpan with
pickles.
half a cup of vinegar, one teaspoonful of bread crumbs,
a pinch of salt and pepper. Boil all together five
minutes, then add one gill of water and boil ten min-
utes more.
 Cream of Tomato Soup.
Bread Sticks. Celery. Olives.

Smothered Chicken.
Baked Potatoes. Creamed Parsnips.
Rolls.

Cucumber Salad.

Wafers.
Salted Almonds.

Coffee.
 GAME AND POULTRY
ROAST CHICKEN

Have a bright, clear and steady fire for roasting.

Prepare your chicken. Make a dressing of bread
crumbs, onion chopped fine, butter, pepper and salt,
and one-half cup of raisins, if liked. Put a pint of hot
water in the dripping-pan, add to it a small table-
spoonful of salt and a small teaspoonful of pepper.
Baste frequently and let it roast quickly without
scorching. When nearly done add a piece of butter
the size of a large egg to the water in the pan; when
it melts baste with it,_dredge with flour, baste again

and let it finish. From three-quarters to one hour will

roast if the When done take it up, let the
fire is right.

giblets (heart, liver and gizzard) boil tender and chop

fine.Put them in the gravy. Add a tablespoonful of
browned flour and a bit of butter. Stir it over the fire
for a few minutes, then serve in a gravy tureen.

FRIED SPRING CHICKEN

Clean and joint the chicken, then soak in salt water
for an hour. Have a frying pan ready with equal
parts of lard and butter enough to cover the chicken.
Roll each piece of chicken in flour, dip in beaten egg,
drop into boiling hot fat. Fry ttntil brown on both
sides. Serve on heated platter, garnished with parsley.
Pour most of the fat from the pan, and thicken the
remainder with browned flour, and add one cupful
of hot milk. Serve in gravy boat.
 Game and Poultry 37

STEAMED CHICKEN
Rub the chicken, after being thoroughly washed and
cleaned, with pepper and a teaspoonful of salt, wrap
the chicken in a clean white cloth, place in a steamer
as near the water as possible, cover, and steam two
hours. Serve with a cream sauce or gravy. Boil two
v cupfuls of the liquor from the kettle without the fat,
add a pinch of cayenne pepper and two pinches of
salt. Stir two tablespoonfuls of flour into one cupful
of sweet cream until smooth, then mix with the gravy.
Add one pinch of nutmeg, with one teaspoonful of
lemon juice. Garnish with celery and thin slices of
lemon.

SMOTHERED CHICKEN
Select a fine Philadelphia dry picked, young roast-
ing chicken, weighing about four pounds; singe it and
cut off the head and feet, then split it down the back
as if for broiling. Clean it, reserving the heart, liver
and the gizzard. Put some butter in a deep pan and
melt it so the bottom is well covered, then lay in the
chicken skin side up. Cover it well with little pats
of butter, season it well with salt and pepper, pour
in a half pint of boiling water, cover the pan tight
and stand it in a moderate oven. Let the chicken
cook one hour, then lift the cover and pour in a half
pint of cream. Cover it again and let it cook another
hour, then serve.

CHICKEN STEW WITH DUMPLINGS

Cut up the chicken and wash in salt water, put in
a stew pan with one cupful of boiling water and a
small piece of salt. Stew slowly. If a young fowl, it
will only take an hour to cook. About fifteen min-
utes before serving add salt and a little water to the
stew, let come to a good boil, then drop in the dump-
lings made of biscuit dough. Cover tightly, watch that
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the gravy does not burn. Serve the chicken on a

heated platter with the dumplings around it and the
gravy poured over the chicken.

CHICKEN CROQUETTES
A minced chicken, add salt and pepper
half cupful of
to and enough gravy thickened with flour to
taste,
mould into egg-shaped rolls. Sprinkle well with bread
crumbs, and brown in a heaping teaspoonful of hot
butter in an uncovered dish. When a nice brown, re-
move croquettes to a hot dish. Add to the butter left
in the pan one teaspoonful of soaked bread crumbs
and four tablespoonfuls of heated milk, boil until thick
enough to spread evenly, add the seasoning you like.
Serve with a sprig of celery on each croquette, and
serve at once.

CHICKEN LOAF
Get a four or five-pound chicken trussed as f©r
roasting, but not stuffed. Cook in as little water as
possible until the meat drops from the bones; then
remove the skin, fat, gristle and bones, and put all
back into the kettle. Add plenty of butter and salt,
pepper and celery salt to taste, and a teaspoonful of
vinegar or lemon juice. Heat thoroughly. Slice one
hard boiled egg into bottom of a plain oblong mold
and pour in the hot chicken. Be careful not to have
too much liquor or the meat will not remain at the
bottom of the mold. Set away to cool. When cool
and hardened, serve on a platter garnished with let-
tuce and olives.

ROAST TURKEY WITH OYSTER DRESSING

Dress and rub the turkey thoroughly both inside and
out with salt and pepper; steam two hours, or until
it begins to grow tender, lifting the cover
occasionally
and sprinkling with salt. Then take out, loosen the
 Game and Poultry 39

legs, and rub the inside again with salt and pepper and
stuff with a dressing prepared as follows: Take a
loaf of stale bread, cut off the crust and soften by plac-
ing in a pan, pouring on boiling water, draining off
immediately and covering closely; crumble the bread
'

fine, add half a pound of melted butter, or more if to

be very rich, and a teaspoonful of salt and a teaspoon-
ful of pepper, or enough to season rather highly; drain
off liquid from a quart of oysters, bring to a boil, skim
and pour over the bread crumbs, adding the soaked
crusts and one or two eggs. Mix all thoroughly with
the hand, and if rather dry moisten with a little sweet
milk; lastly, add the oysters, being careful not to break
them; or first put in a spoonful of stuffing, and then
three or four oysters and so on, until the turkey is
filled; stuff the breast first. Flour a cloth and place
over the openings, tying it down with a twine; spread
the turkey over with butter, salt and pepper. Place
in a dripping-pan in a well-heated oven, add half a
pint of hot butter, and roast two hours, basting often
with a little water, butter, salt and pepper, kept in a tin
for this purpose and placed on the back of the stove. A
swab made of a stick with a cloth tied on the end is
better than a spoon to baste with. Turn until nicely
browned on all sides, and about half an hour before it
is done baste with butter and dredge with a little flour.

This will give it a frothy appearance. When you dish

the turkey, if there is much fat in the pan, pour off
most of it and add the chopped giblets previously
cooked until tender,. and the water in which they were
cooked; now stew down to about one pint; place one
or two heaping tablespoonfuls of flour (it is better to
have half of it browned) in a pint bowl, mix smooth
with a little cream, fill up bowl with cream or rich
milk, and add to the gravy in the pan. Boil several
minutes, stirring constantly, and pour into the gravy
tureen. Serve with currant or apple jelly. A turkey
steamed in this way, does not look so well on the table,
40 Just for Two

but is very tender and palatable. It is an excellent

way to cook a large turkey.

HOW TO CARVE A TURKEY

After having relieved the turkey from the strings
and skewers in trussing, the turkey should be placed
on a hot platter and set on the table with the neck
at the right hand of the carver. First of all before
carving insert the fork firmly in across the breast
bone. Cut through the skin around the leg joint, bend
the leg over and cut off at the joint. Then cut off the
wings, and divide wings and legs at the joints. Carve
the breast in thin slices parallel with the breast bone.
Take off the wish bone; separate the collar bone from
the breast; slip the knife under the shoulder blade,
and turn it over, ,cut through the cartilage which di-
vides the ribs, separating the breast from the back,
then turn the back over, place the knife midway, and
with the fork lift up .the tail end separating the back
from the body, place the fork in the middle of the
back bone, and cut close to the back bone from one
end to the other, freeing the side bone. As soon as
the legs and wings are disjointed begin to serve, of-
fering dark and white meat and stuffing as each person
prefers. Do not remove the fork from the breast
bone till the breast is separated from the back. Use
an extra fork in serving. Carve only from
one side of the turkey if all the fowl is not required,
leaving the opposite side whole for another meal.
Consult the tastes of the guests as to which part they
prefer, if no choice is expressed serve a portion of
both light and dark meat. The most delicate part of
the turkey are two little muscles, lying in small disn-
like cavities on each side of the back, just a little behind
the leg attachments; the next most delicate meat fills
the cavities in the neck bone, and next to this, that
on the second joints. The lower part of the leg or
 Game and Poultry 41

drumstick as it is called is stringy, tough and hard

and should not be served but allowed to remain on
the dish.

BONED TURKEY
With a sharp knife slit the skin down the back, and,
raising one side at a time with the fingers, separate
the flesh from the bones with a knife until the wings and
legs are reached. Then unjoint from the body, cutting
through to the bone, turn back the flesh and remove the
bones. When the bones are removed the flesh may be
reshaped by stuffing. Some leave the bones in the legs
and wings, as they are the most difficult to remove.
Stuff with force meat made of cold lamb or veal and
a little pork chopped fine and seasoned with salt, pep-
per, sage or savory, and the juice of one lemon. Sew
into shape, turn ends of wings under and press the
legs close to the back, and tie firmly so that the upper
surface may be plump and smooth for the carver. Lard
with two or three rows on the top, and bake until
thoroughly done, basting often with salt and water and
a little butter. Carve across in slices and serve with
tomato sauce or meat jelly for boned turkey.

MEAT JELLY FOR BONED TURKEY

Take oil from the water (when cold) in which the
turkey was boiled, strain into a porcelain kettle, add
two ounces of gelatine, three eggs with shells, a wine-
glassful of sherry or Maderia; stir well. Add one quart
of strained liquor, beat rapidly with an egg beater,
put over the fire and stir till it boils; simmer ten or
fifteen minutes, sprinkle with a pinch of tumeric and
strain as other jelly. Add lemon juice to taste. When
cold break up and place over and around turkey. Cut
in thick slices and fanciful shapes with paste cut-
ter.
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ROAST DUCK
Wash and dry the duck carefully. Make a stuffing
of bread, onion, pepper, salt and butter; insert, and
sew up completely that the seasoning may not es-
cape. If tender, ducks do not require more than
an hour to roast; keep them well basted, and a few
minutes before serving dredge lightly with flour to
make them froth and look plump. Send to the table
hot, with a good brown gravy poured, not around,
but over them. Accompany with currant jelly and,
if in season, green peas.

WILD DUCK
Make a dressing of veal, mushrooms and bread chop-
ped fine; soak the bread in cold water for a little time
and mix with mushrooms and veal; season with pep-
per and salt and a little garlic to suit the taste; re-
move all the breast of the duck on either side; spread
the dressing on the breast and roll it up and tie it;
place it in a pan with a little butter, and salt, bake
until it is nicely browned; add one-half cup of Rhine wine
and let it simmer two minutes; cover with espagnole
sauce; cook slowly forty minutes, and serve hot with
croutons.

TO COOK QUAIL
Cut the quail in half; salt, with a little onion juice to
flavor; when browned add one pint of Burgundy
nicely
wine; simmer ten minutes; two tablespoons espagnole;
then add eight large oysters and four mushrooms;
drop the oysters in so as not to cook too much; sea-
son with salt, lemon juice and a dash of cayenne, and
serve hot.

ROAST QUAIL
Clean the quail, wash them in soda and water.
Cleanse again with clear water and wipe dry. Put
 Game and Poultry 43

two oysters inside each quail, sew up and arrange

them side by side in a baking-pan. Pour a little
boiling water over them, cover and roast half an hour,
basting often with butter. Serve upon pieces of fried
toast laid on a hot dish. Make a gravy and pour a
spoonful over each.

SMALL BIRDS BROILED

After dressing the birds, wipe dry and split down
the backbone; rub with melted butter, sprinkle with
pepper but do not salt. Lay on hot broiler over a
clear bed of coals; turn three or four times and cook
until both sides are nicely browned; take up on hot
platter and sprinkle with salt, and pour over each half
one-half teaspoonful of melted butter; lay two sprigs
of cress on each half and serve.

PIGEON ROASTED
Clean and stuff the birds the same as for roasted
chickens. Rub them well with butter, rub with salt
and lay on slices of bacon in a dripping pan, with one
cup of boiling water. Bake twenty-five minutes in a
hot oven, basting very often, and turning them that
they may brown well on both sides. Serve on a bed
of water cresses, with giblet gravy and currant jelly.

PIGEON BROILED
Clean and wash two birds, split down the back, lay
on a hot buttered gridiron with the bone sides toward
the fire. Baste with melted butter, keep covered, broil
twenty minutes slowly; turn a few minutes before it
is done, then dust with salt and pepper. Lay on but-
tered toast, add butter and the juice which escaped
while broiling. Serve on a heated platter garnished
with celery.
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BELGIAN HARE
Cut up the hare and fry quickly; put in sauce pan
water or stock enough to boil, season with six cloves,
six allspice, and pepper-corn, one bay leaf and half
of one lemon, one-half cup vinegar, and boil until ten-
der; take out the meat, thicken the stock with flour
and butter mixed; boil and strain over the hare; serve
with croutons fried in butter.

SPICED RABBIT
Cut up the rabbit after it has been very thoroughly
cleaned and laid in salt and water for about an hour.
Pour some vinegar over it and let it remain in the
pickle over night. Then put a lump of fresh butter
about the size of an egg into a deep stew-pan, cut up
an onion in it, adding one bay leaf, about one dozen
pepper corns and part of a celery root. Lay the rab-
bit in this stew, adding part of the vinegar that the
rabbit was pickled in and salt slightly before stewing.
When tender, thicken with flour that has been brown-
ed in a spider with butter.

A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEAT (MOCK TURKEY)

One-half pound of bread or cracker crumbs, one-
quarter pound of butter, one-quarter pound nut meats,
season, salt and pepper to taste, one egg, one pint
water (hot), put bread and butter in chopping bowl,
pouring over the water very hot; chop very fine; add
egg and season and mix very thoroughly; grease pudding
pans and scatter around some cracker crumbs; put in
mixture and bake one hour; serve on hot platter with
brown sauce; cook together one tablespoonful of butter
and one of flour, and one cupful water; boil till thick-
ened and season to taste.
 Cream of Tomato Soup.
Bread Sticks. Olives.
Roast Duck. Filling seasoned with Onion.
Stuffed Potatoes. Grape Jelly.

Water Cress Salad.

Cheese Wafers.
Baked Apples.
Salted Almonds.

Coffee.
 VEGETABLES
FRIED RAW POTATOES
Peel six good-sized potatoes very evenly and cut
them in slices as thin as an eggshell. Put into a fry-
ing pan one teaspoonful of butter and one of lard,
and as soon as it boils add the sliced potatoes, sprink-
ling them over with salt and pepper. Cover them with
a close-fitting lid, letting the steam partly cook them.
Remove the lid and then fry gold in color, shaking
and turning them very carefully with a wooden ladle,.
so as to brown equally and not break the slices.

MASHED POTATOES
Take seven good-sized potatoes; wash and pare,
and lay them in cold water thirty minutes; then put
them into a saucepan, cover with water and a large
pinch of salt. Boil until thoroughly tender. Drain off
the water and mash them fine. Have ready a piece of
butter the size of an English walnut melted in a lit-
tle hot milk and a pinch of salt. Mix this well with
the mashed potato until they are nice and smooth,
taking care they are not too wet. Heap them up
in a vegetable dish, smooth over the top, put a small
piece of butter on top in the center and have dots
of pepper here and there. Make it a point always to
have your dishes hot and serve hot.

POTATOES BROWNED
Take seven potatoes and mash them the same as
mashed potatoes. Lay into the dish they are to be
 Vegetables 47

served in, smooth over the top and brush over with
the yolk of an egg. Set in oven to brown; it will
brown in ten minutes if the oven is hot.

SNOW POTATOES
Boil and mash the potatoes. Season with butter,
pepper, salt and cream. Then run them through the
potato ricer.

POTATO PUFFS
Prepare four large potatoes the same as mashed po-
tatoes. While hot shape into balls the size of an
egg. Have a tin dish well buttered and place the balls
in it. As soon as they are done brush over with
beaten egg. Brown in oven. When done, slip a knife
under them, removing to a hot platter, bedded with
parsley. Serve at once.

LYONNAISE POTATOES
Take four to five good-sized cold-boiled potatoes;
slice endwise and crosswise, making them in small
squares. Heat a tablespoonful of butter in a frying
pan; fry in it half a small onion chopped fine, and fried

till it changes color (not a brown but a yellow color).

Then put in your potatoes, sprinkle with salt and

pepper, stir well with a wooden ladle and cook fifteen
minutes. Drain dry by shaking in a heated colander,
taking care not to break them. Serve hot.

STUFFED POTATOES
Bake four medium-sized potatoes. When done, cut
lengthwise in half, scoop out the inside, mixing it with
butter, pepper, salt and two tablespoonfuls of cream;
beat until light, return to the shell of the potato. Place
them again in the oven until ready to serve.
48 Just for Two

STEWED POTATOES
Slice very thin a heaping cupful of cold baked po-
tatoes; dredge with a teaspoonful of flour, a pinch of
salt, and sprinkle with pepper. Put two teaspoonfuls
of butter in a saucepan with a half cupful of fresh,
rich milk, and when hot add the potatoes; stir once,
and cook ten minutes without further stirring. The
slices should lie in the gravy unbroken.

BAKED SWEET POTATOES (No. i)

Brush clean four good-sized sweet potatoes. Bake

oven a good half hour, or until they are done.
in a hot
When thoroughly baked they feel soft and yielding
when pressed with the fingers. Try them often with
a fork while baking.

BAKED SWEET POTATOES (No. 2)

and slice four sweet potatoes; put in layers

Boil, peel
in the baking dish, covering each layer with brown
sugar and pieces of butter. Bake in a moderate oven
till a nice brown.

CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Boil sweet potatoes until just done. Peel and lay
them in a shallow pan. Sprinkle them with brown
sugar and bits of butter. Put the pan in the oven and
letthe potatoes slightly brown.

POTATOES' A LA MARYLAND
Boil four sweet potatoes with their skins on; peel,
cut in halves, lay in a shallow tin and cover with
sweet cream. Add a little salt and a large piece of
butter to each slice. Put into hot oven and bake a
rich brown.
 Vegetables 49

RHUBARB
The tender rhubarb which is one of spring's first
offerings, goes very well with roast lamb or any other
meat course for dinner. It is much more delicious if

cooked without water, as the stem itself contains

plenty of juice. Peel the stalks, cut them into pieces
an inch long and put them into the upper part of a
double boiler with sugar. Since it is to be served as
a vegetable it will not need so much sugar as when
used as a sauce, a half cupful being sufficient.

BAKED ASPARAGUS
Asparagus is another of the early spring vegetables,
and to this plant has been ascribed many medicinal
qualities. The wise housewife never throws away the
tough lower ends of the stalks, but cuts them up into
short lengths, stewing them tender, and saves the
juice to flavor her next soup. To bake the asparagus,
cut the tender ends of the stalks into inch-long pieces
and cook them about fifteen minutes. Drain them and
,

save the water in which they are cooked for the soup
kettle.
Arrange the asparagus in alternate layers, in a but-
tered baking dish, with fine bread crumbs, bits of but-
ter, salt and pepper and dice-shaped pieces of hard-
boiled eggs. Sprinkle the top of the dish with buttered
crumbs and bake twenty-five minutes. Send to the
table in a baking dish.

BOILED ASPARAGUS
Boil stalks whole in salted water; serve in individual
dishes with a dish of melted butter, in which the tops
are to be dipped as they are eaten.

CREAMED ASPARAGUS
Cut only the very tender part of the stalks into inch
pieces; boil until tender in as little water as can be
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used and prevent burning; drain off the water, season

with salt and pepper; pour into the cooking dish a cup
of thin cream or sweet milk, and thicken with a table-
spoonful of butter rubbed smooth with a tablespoon-
ful of flour; boil up until sauce is smooth, and serve.

BAKED CABBAGES
Get a small firm white cabbage, clean and boil for
fifteen minutes, then change the water and add more
boiling water. When the cabbage is very tender drain
and set aside to cool. When it is perfectly cold, chop
fine and add two well-beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of
butter, salt and pepper to taste, and three tablespoonfuls
of cream. Stir all well together, and bake in a well-
buttered pudding dish until brown. Serve very hot.
This dish is very digestible.

CREAMED CABBAGE
Chop half small cabbage and boil until tender
a
and the water nearly or quite boiled away. Cover
is
with milk, season with salt, pepper and butter and
serve.

BRUSSELS SPROUTS CREAMED

Wash and throw a cupful of sprouts into water.
Simmer until tender, which takes about three-quarters
of an hour. Drain off the water and pour over them
a cream sauce.

CABBAGE SLAW
To one cup of cabbage chopped fine, add this dress-
Mix thoroughly one egg beaten up well, and three
ing:
table-spoonfuls of sugar, a pinch of salt, about half a
pint of vinegar, then put on fire and cook until it
just
boils, stirring all the time, as it will curdle
if too sour.
(Add a little water to vinegar.) Cool this well, pour
over slaw and serve.
 Vegetables 5 x

FRIED PARSNIPS
Scrape roots carefully; boil in salted water until
tender. Cut into long slices, dredge with flour and
fry quite brown in butter and dripping mixed.

STEWED PARSNIPS
Scrape roots and slice across; cook in as little wa-
ter as possible, as the sugar of the vegetable goes
into the water and is thrown away if much water is

drained off; watch carefully to prevent burning, and

when the water is cooked away add butter, salt, pepper,
and milk enough to cover. Thicken with a little
flour.

CREAMED PARSNIPS
Boil a dozen parsnips until tender. Make a drawn
butter sauce as follows: In a small pan thoroughly
mix a tablespoonful of butter and two tablespoonfuls
of flour. Add a cupful of hot water and set over hot
water until melted. Boil up once and pour over pars-
nips which have been drained. Serve very hot.

SWISS PARSNIPS
Boil tender six parsnips, scrape and slice length-
wise. Put in a saucepan, add two teaspoonfuls of but-
ter, salt and pepper, and a little minced parsley. Shake
until the mixture boils. Dish the parsnips, add to the
sauce two tablespoonfuls of sweet cream in which has
been stirred a teaspoonful of flour. Let come to a
boil and pour over the parsnips. Serve hot.

PARSNIP PATS
Boil parsnips until tender enough to press through
a sieve. Season with salt and pepper, add one beaten
egg; form into small pats and fry a delicate brown.
52 Just for Two

DANDELION GREENS
Dandelion greens are usually the first delicacy of the
season for the women in the country. To avoid bitter
taste the leaves must be parboiled in hot water and
rinsed in cold water after each draining. Then they
are boiled for fifteen minutes, or until tender. Drain
them, run cold water over them and chop them fine.
Just before serving, heat them in a frying pan with a
little butter, salt and pepper. Send them to the table
with the top garnished with hard-boiled eggs.

SPINACH
Wash the spinach very carefully through several
waters, as particles of sand are apt to lodge in the stems
near the root. Cut away the roots before boiling. Boil
twenty minutes in as little water as can safely be used
and not burn. Drain, press in the colander to remove
all water; chop very fine, season with salt, pepper and

butter, and garnish with hard-boiled eggs.

CREAM OF SPINACH
Wash and clean thoroughly half a peck of fresh
spinach. Throw it into five quarts of salted boiling
water in an uncovered saucepan, boil for twenty-five
minutes. Drain it on a colander; when cool squeeze
all the water out of it. It must be cooled quickly
by pouring cold water over it, for the tin of the colan-
der will spoil it. Chop it as fine as possible, then
put it in a saucepan with one tablespoonful of but-
ter, cook slowly for six minutes till dry, stir often.
Sprinkle over it one teaspoonful of flour and mix well;
add half a pint of rich cream. Season with salt and
pepper to taste, cook again slowly for ten minutes.
Remove from fire and add one tablespoonful of but-
ter. Serve in a hot vegetable dish and garnish with
sliced hard-boiled eggs.
 Vegetables 53

BOILED ONIONS
Select as many onions as required. (The white sil-
ver skins are the best species.) Peel off the outside
and cut off the ends, and put in cold water in a stew-
pan, and let them scald three minutes; then turn off
the water, pour on cold water salted a little and boil
slowly until tender, which will take about thirty min-
utes or longer, according to size of onions. When ten-
der drain and dry. Pour over them a tablespoonful of
melted butter. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and
serve.

STEWED ONIONS
Select four nice onions, boil the same as boiled on-
ions. When quite done drain off all the water. Add
half a teacupful of milk, butter the size of a large wal-
nut, salt and pepper, a heaping teaspoonful of flour
stirred to a cream with a little milk. Let all boil up
once and serve in a vegetable dish.

BAKED ONIONS
One large Spanish onion, wash and clean, but do not
peel. Put into a saucepan with slightly salted water.
Boil forty-five minutes, replacing with more boiling
water as it evaporates. Pour water and lay the
off
onion on a cloth to dry. Roll onion in a buttered tis-
sue paper, twisting it at the top, and bake in a slow
oven three-quarters of an hour, or until tender all
through. When tender, peel and place in a small deep
dish and brown slightly. Baste with melted butter
for ten minutes, season with salt and pepper, and pour
over onion one spoonful of melted butter.

LIMA AND KIDNEY BEANS

One-half pint of beans, put them into boiling water,
a little more than enough to cover them, and boil till
54 Just for Two
tender. Serve with butter and salt upon them, or
cream them by mixing a teaspoonful of flour with
milk till thick, then add a little parsley, and stir into
the beans, adding a cup of milk. This makes a very
fine dish.

BEETS
Wash and cook whole until tender; leave two or
three inches of top on until they are cooked.
the
Young and tender beets should be chosen. Old beets
require three or more hours to boil tender. When ten-
der plunge for a moment in cold water and the skins
will slip off easily. Be careful in preparing beets not
to cut the skins, as the beets bleed and lose their
sugar. Slice into dish; sprinkle each layer with salt
and pepper. Heat one-half cup water, one-half cup vin-
egar, one tablespoonful sugar and one tablespoonful
butter, and pour over the sliced beets.

BAKED BEETS
Wash and clean three or four beets, put into oven
and bake three-quarters of an hour in a hot oven,
turning them often with a knife to keep the juice from
running out as it would if a fork were used. When
done, remove the skins and serve with butter, salt and
pepper on the slices.

FRIED CUCUMBERS
Pare cucumbers and cut into thick slices; dip into
beaten egg whch has been seasoned with salt and
pepper, then roll in fine cracker crumbs and fry in
frying pan a light brown.

GREEN PEAS
Use green peas as soon as possible after picking, as
they lose their sweetness rapidly. Shell, wash and
boil twenty minutes, having all the water boil away if
 Vegetables 55

possible; unless the peas are very young and tender,

it isbest to add a teaspoonful of sugar to the water in
which they are boiled. Season with salt, pepper, but-
ter, milk or cream. Heat the milk to the boiling point
and serve.

GREEN PEAS WITH NEW POTATOES

Cut two thin slices of fat, salt pork into small dice;
fry a little in the bottom of kettle in which you are to
cook the vegetables. Add about a quart of small, new
potatoes and a pint or more of green peas. Season
with salt and pepper; when tender turn off all the wa-
ter except about half a cupful. Add a cup of milk and
thicken with a little flour.

STEWED GREEN PEAS

The same amount and wash; put into
as above, shell
a saucepan with boiling water and boil until very ten-
der. Drain in a colander. Melt a heaping teaspoon-
ful of butter in one of flour; stir well and add to the
peas, and boil eight minutes.

CANNED PEAS
Drain the peas in a colander and rinse off all the
Put in basin with two or three
liquor with cold water.
tablespoonfuls of water, just enough to heat the peas
and keep them from scorching; when well heated, add
a cup of rich milk, butter, pepper and salt. Let just
come to a boil and serve. A
teaspoonful of sugar added
to the peas when boiling is a great improvement. A
good brand of peas prepared in this way will be nearly
equal to the fresh vegetable.

BAKED TOMATOES
Peel and slice four tomatoes a quarter of an inch
thick, place in layers in a pudding-dish, seasoning each
56 Just for Two

layer with salt and pepper, bits of butter and a sprink-

ling of white sugar. Cover with a lid, and, bake half
an hour. Remove the lid and brown ten minutes. Just
before serving, pour over the top three tablespoonfuls
of whipped cream with melted butter.

STEWED TOMATOES
Select four nice, ripe tomatoes, pour boiling water
over them and let them remain in the boiling water a
few minutes; peel off the skins, put in a graniteware
saucepan, and stew about twenty minutes; add a heap-
ing teaspoonful of butter, salt and pepper, letting them
stew ten minutes longer. Serve hot.

FRIED TOMATOES— GREEN OR RIPE'

Four tomatoes and one cupful of crumbs, one small
onion chopped fine, salt and pepper. If ripe tomatoes
are used, choose solid firm ones, not too ripe. Remove
skin. If green ones, just beginning to ripen, are used,
do not pare; cut a thin paring from the end and divide
into slices about one-half inch thick. Prepare the
dressing and press it into the tomatoes until all the
interstices are filled. Fry in drippings a rich brown.
Serve in hot platter.

SCALLOPED TOMATOES
Butter the sides of a small pudding-dish, put a layer
of breadcrumbs in the bottom, on them put a layer
of sliced tomatoes, sprinkle with salt and pepper, add-
ing bits of butter and a little white sugar sprinkled
over. Repeat until the pan is full, having the top layer
of sliced tomatoes with bits of butter on each slice.
Bake in a closely covered dish till thoroughly cooked
through. Remove cover and brown quickly. Serve
hot.
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GREEN CORN— BOILED

Strip off the husks
Select four nice ears of corn.
and remove the silk; put into boiling water and
all
boil twenty-five minutes. Serve on a heated platter
covered over with a large table napkin.

GREEN CORN— ROASTED

Strip off all the husks from the corn and roast on
the gridiron over a bright fire of coals, turning it as
one side is done. Serve with salt and butter.

CORN FRITTERS
Green corn left over makes a nice lunch dish. Cut
the corn from the cob. Put into a bowl one-half cup-
ful of corn, half cupful of milk, quarter cupful of
flour,one small egg, pinch of salt, and a quarter of a
teaspoonful of butter. Mix well into a thick batter,
and fry in small cakes in very hot butter. Serve with
plenty of butter and powdered sugar.

FRIED EGG PLANT

Choose medium-sized egg plants; slice a quarter of
an inch thick and let stand for a half hour in cold,
salted water; dry on a cloth and dip in egg, then in
fine crumbs; dip again in egg and crumbs and fry
a rich brown. They may be peeled before frying,
or after frying the skin readily peels off. Do not
remove from the salt water until just as you are
ready to fry, as they turn black quickly.

STUFFED EGG PLANT

Get a very small egg plant, cut in two; scrape out
all the inside and put into a saucepan with a little
minced ham. Cover with water and boil till very ten-
der; drain off the water; add two heaping teaspoonfuls
58 Just for Two

of grated crumbs, one tablespoonful of butter, half a

small onion minced; pinch of salt and a dash of pep-
per. Stuff each half of the hull with the mixture. Add
a small lump of butter to each and bake fifteen min-
utes. Serve hot.

CREAMED TURNIPS
Cut turnips into small dice; boil in salted water,
drain, pour on milk to cover. Thicken with a little
flour, moistened with milk. Season with butter, salt
and pepper.

CREAMED CARROTS
Slice new carrots and boil until tender in salted
water; use as little water as possible and prevent
burning, so that the sweetness will remain in the veg-
etable, and not be thrown away in the water. Pre-
pare a cream of two tablespoonfuls butter rubbed
into two tablespoonfuls flour, and one pint of boiling
milk or thin cream poured over it. Let all boil up
once with the carrots. Sprinkle chopped parsley over
the dish just before sending to the table.

BAKED SQUASH IN THE SHELL

Cut Hubbard squash into pieces about four inches
square; lay in baking pan, pepper and salt each piece,
and put a lump of butter in the center of each. Bake
until tender and serve in the shell just as it comes
from the oven.

SUMMER SQUASH
Cut the squash in pieces and put in a cheesecloth bag;
boil in salted water until done. Then remove the bag
and hang up to drain. When it has drained well put in
the colander, leaving the bag still closed; with a potato
masher press out the rest of the juice. Open the bag,
turn the squash into a basin and mash any remaining
 Vegetables 59

lumps. Season with butter, pepper and salt, heat, and

serve.

CAULIFLOWER SERVED WHOLE

To cook cauliflower and have it remain unbroken,
wash thoroughly, remove all outer leaves and let it

stand flower down in a deep dish of water to which a

good handful of salt has been added. Allow it to re-
main there three or four hours; then shake it free from
the water, tie it in a piece of fine muslin. Drop into
a pot of briskly boiling salted water and allow it to
boil slowly forty minutes. Remove cloth carefully
and place in deep dish flower up and cover with the
following sauce:
One tablespoonful butter, two tablespoonfuls flour;
cream together and stir slowly into one pint of boiling
milk until it is of the consistency of cream. Season
with salt and little white pepper. This vegetable can
be prepared more quickly if separated into the flowerets
and boiled until tender, omitting the cloth.

ESCALLOPED CAULIFLOWER
One cauliflower, three-quarters cup of milk, one table-
spoonful butter, two tablespoonfuls bread crumbs, one
egg, salt and pepper. Boil the cauliflower until tender,
about twenty minutes. Make a sauce of the butter
melted, add milk and crumbs and simmer until crumbs
absorb the liquid, add the beaten egg and remove from
the stove before the egg is cooked. Break the cauli-
flower carefully, arrange in a buttered baking-dish,
sprinkle with salt and pepper. Pour sauce on this,
dust a few dry crumbs on the top and bake a light
brown.

CABBAGE AND CAULIFLOWER

Cut cabbage into quarters and soak in cold water
one-half hour. Chop the leaves, and cook in boiling
60 Just for Two

water until tender. Drain and serve with butter, salt

and pepper, or with a white sauce. Cook cauliflower
whole and in a bag to keep its shape.

MUSHROOMS STEWED
Wash, peel, drain and slice rather thin. To every
quart add a half teacupful of cold water, a teaspoonful
of salt and a pinch of pepper. Simmer for five min-
utes and add a tablespoonful of butter rubbed into a
tablespoonful of flour. Remove as soon as it bubbles.
Add a teaspoonful of lemon juice if desired.

MUSHROOMS CREAMED
Cook precisely as directed for stewed mushrooms,
omitting the lemon juice and adding three tablespoon-
fuls of rich, sweet cream.

MUSHROOMS BROILED
Choose fine, large and neatly dressed mushrooms
and broil over clear hot coals for three minutes, turn-
ing once. Serve with the cups upward, dressed with
melted butter, salt, pepper and a little lemon juice.

MUSHROOMS FRIED
Place the gill side downward in hot butter, in granite
pan. Fry covered for five minutes, turning once. Serve
gills upward, adding salt, pepper and a little lemon
juice if liked.

MUSHROOMS IN SHELLS

Cut fresh, dressed mushrooms in small pieces, dry

in a napkin and toss them in hot butter in a saucepan
until brown but not done. Shake teaspoonful of
in a
flour, stir, add a teacupful of rich veal or chicken stock
and let simmer for five minutes. Beat two eggs with
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the juice of half a lemon and add slowly, stirring until

as thick as cream. Fill table shells with the mixture,
sprinkle with cracker-crumbs and brown in a very
hot oven.

MUSHROOM PATTIES
Prepare a mixture as above, have ready hot shells of
puff paste that have beenbaked in patty pans, and drop
a spoonful in each. Serve hot.

ESCALLOPED MUSHROOMS
Place alternate layers of mushrooms and cracker-
crumbs in a thickly buttered baking dish and season
each layer highly with butter, salt and pepper and a
little lemon juice. Have the last layer of crumbs.
Pour a teacupful of cream or delicate stock over, bake
twenty minutes and serve very hot.

BUTTERED RICE
Throw a cupful of raw rice into two quarts of
boiling water, slightly salted. Boil fast for twenty
—
minutes, or until each grain is softened not broken.
Drain in a colander and set in open oven to dry while
you heat a tablespoonful of butter in a frying-pan;
drop in a teaspoonful of grated onion, stir to a hiss-
ing fry. Now turn the dried rice into the hot but-
ter, toss lightly for a minute, seasoning to taste with
pepper and salt, and serve in a deep dish.

RICE CROQUETTES
One-half cup rice, three-fourths teaspoonful salt; cook
until tender and dry. While still lukewarm add to
each cup of boiled rice one-half egg, a speck of white
pepper and a bit of butter. Mould and set away to
cool. Roll in egg, then in fine bread crumbs and fry
in deep fat one minute. Make in shape of pyramid.
 MACARONI
MACARONI A LA ITALIENNE
Divide a quarter of a pound of macaroni into four-
inch pieces. Simmer fifteen minutes in plenty of
boiling water, salted. Drain. Put the macaroni into a
saucepan and turn over it a strong soup stock, enough
to prevent burning. Strew over it an ounce of grated
cheese; when the cheese is melted, dish.

MACARONI AND CHEESE

Break half a pound of macaroni into pieces an inch
or two long; cook it in boiling water, enough to cover
it well; put in a good teaspoonful of salt; let it boil

about twenty minutes. Drain it well and then put a

layer in the bottom of a well-buttered pudding-dish,
upon this some grated cheese and small pieces of but-
ter,a bit of salt, then more macaroni, and so on, filling
the dish; sprinkle the top layer with a thick layer of
cracker crumbs. Pour over the whole a teacupful of
cream or milk. Set it in the oven and bake half an
hour. It should be nicely browned on top. Serve in
the same dish in which it was baked with a clean
napkin pinned around it.

MACARONI WITH TOMATO SAUCE

One-quarter of a pound of spaghetti, one teaspoonful
of flour, one large tablespoonful of butter, one-half
pint of stewed tomatoes, salt and pepper to taste. Take
a handful of the long sticks, put the ends into boiling
salted water; as they soften, bend and coil the spag-
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hetti in thewater without breaking it. Boil rapidly

twenty minutes. When done put it in a colander to
drain.
Put the butter in a frying-pan to melt; add to it
the flour; mix until smooth, then add the tomatoes
(strained) and stir continually until it boils. Now
carefully add the spaghetti. Let it boil up once and
serve without cutting.
 Oysters in Ice Cups.
Celery. Wafers. Olives.

Boned Turkey with Gravy.

Cranberry Sauce. Currant Jelly.

Baked Sweet Potatoes. Mashed White Potatoes.

Escalloped Tomatoes.
Orange Sherbet.
Lettuce Celery Salad.
Cheese Wafers.
Mince Pie.

Raisins. Nuts. Candy.

Coffee.
 EGGS
BOILED EGGS
Three minutes boils eggs soft; six minutes boils eggs
so yolk isnot quite set; ten minutes boils eggs hard;
twenty or thirty minutes boils eggs so yolks are mealy.
They are said to be more digestible boiled as long as
this, but the yolk is apt to darken. To have eggs jel-
lied, put them into boiling water and then set dish
back on range where the water will keep hot but not
boil. In ten minutes the eggs will be cooked through;
the whites will be like a jelly, and not hard as in
boiled eggs.

POACHED EGGS
Fill' basin with boiling salted water, if the bottom of

the basin is greased first, the eggs will not stick to

the dish. Break each egg into a saucer, and let slide
carefully into the basin; keep hot but do not boil the
water;when a film of white comes over the top, re-
move eggs to a hot dish; put piece of butter on each
egg; sprinkle with pepper.

SCALLOPED EGGS
Four hard-boiled eggs, and half a cup of bread
crumbs; one-Half cup white sauce; slice the eggs in
thin rings, cover the bottom of a buttered baking dish
with crumbs, then the eggs sprinkled with salt and
pepper, cover with sauce and arrange in layers, the
same way until the dish is nearly full. Cover the top
well with crumbs, and brown nicely in a moderate
oven.
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CURRIED EGGS
Three hard-boiled eggs, two ounces of butter, half of
one onion and one gill stock, one dessertspoon curry
powder, one ounce flour, one teaspoonful of cream; fry
onion in butter (an apple may be added if desired) then
add the flour, stock and curry powder; stir gently
until flour is cooked; then add the cream; cut the
eggs in halves and warm half of the pieces in the curry;
keep the rest for decorating and dish prettily with
curry in the center, and a wall of rice around it. A
sprig or two of parsley and slices of lemon make it
look nice.

SHIRRED EGGS
Separate the number of eggs desired, being careful to
preserve each yolk unbroken in part of its shell; put
whites in a bowl; beat stiff after salting sufficiently.
Butter as many gem pans or shirred egg dishes as there
were eggs; dip a large spoonful or more of the stiff
white into each dish; drop the yolks carefully into
the center and bake until the white is very lightly
browned. A very pretty and dainty way to serve eggs.

EGGS IN DRAWN BUTTER

Boil four or more eggs according to size of family;
cut whites into small pieces, and stir into just enough
drawn butter sauce to mix well. Grate the hard-boiled
yolks over, garnish with parsley and serve.

EGGS A LA ROBERT 6
Peel one medium sized onion and remove the heart;
cut the heart into slices and put it with a tablespoonful
of butter in a saucepan over a brisk fire and brown
well; moisten with a half cupful of lean broth; season
with salt and pepper; cook and let the sauce reduce
for about ten minutes; when ready to serve cut four
 Eggs 6;

hard-boiled eggs in slices; mix them in the preparation

and let heat together, without boiling, for two min-
utes; add half a teaspoonful of diluted mustard and
serve.

BREAD OMELET
Four tablespoonfuls bread crumbs soaked in milk,
four eggs, one tablespoonful melted butter, salt and
pepper; soak bread soft, add beaten yolks and season-
ing, beating the whites and cook as an ordinary ome-
let, folding when set.

HAM OMELET
One-half cup of chopped ham, four eggs, salt and
pepper; beat eggs separately; add yolks to the minced
ham; season; fold in the whites and fry in hot greased
spider, folding over when set.

BAKED OMELET
Four eggs beaten separately, one cup sweet milk and
one tablespoonful flour, a little salt and stir whites of
eggs in last; pour into well-buttered shallow pan and
bake fifteen minutes.

CHEESE OMELET
Beat well four eggs; add to them two tablespoonfuls
of milk and one tablespoonful of grated cheese; add a
teaspoonful more of the cheese before folding. Turn
out on a heated dish and grate a sprinkling of cheese
over the omelet before serving.

BAKED EGGS
Break a sufficient number of eggs to serve the fam-
ily into a buttered shallow baking plate; season with
salt, pepper and a lump of butter on each egg; dip
enough rich cream on the eggs to about half cover the
top; bake until eggs are set.
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DEVILED EGGS
Boil hard as many eggs as are required; throw into
cold water for half an hour; remove the shells, cut into
halves and remove the yolks without breaking the
whites; rub the yolks smooth; add (for six eggs) a
large teaspoonful of melted butter or olive oil, one ta-
blespoonful of vinegar, salt and pepper to taste, and a
teaspoonful of made mustard, or one-third teaspoonful
dry mustard. Mix to a smooth paste; stuff the whites
with the mixture; press the halves closely together; se-
cure with a wooden toothpick, and lay in a bed of let-
tuce leaves.

STUFFED EGGS
Prepare same as preceding recipe with the addition
of minced ham, tongue, chicken, or other cold meat.
Mustard may be omitted desired, and lemon juice
if

substituted for the vinegar. Minced sardines or grated

cheese may be used the same as any variety of meat;
parsley chopped fine, cress, or any savory herb may be
used for seasoning. Any variety may be made with a
little practice.

PINK PICKLED EGGS

Shell hard-boiled eggs and drop them into the vine-
gar in which beets have been pickled. Remove when
colored a delicate pink. These are a pretty change for
a picnic lunch.

SCRAMBLED EGGS
Have ready five eggs broken into a dish; salt and pep-
per them; put one tablespoonful of butter into a hot
frying pan; tip around so that the butter will touch all
sides of the pan. Turn them without beating into the
pan. Stir them one way fast for five minutes until they
are mixed. Do not let them get hard. Turn over toast
and serve.
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SCRAMBLED EGGS ON TOAST

Put butter size of large walnut in frying pan; when
itmelts pour in a quarter cup of milk; break four eggs
into the milk; season with salt and pepper; stir con-
stantly until set sufficiently then dip quickly on small
slices of buttered toast.

SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH HAM

Cut very fine, cold boiled or fried ham; warm in a
skillet containing a little ham dripping; break four or
five eggs into the dish; season with salt and pepper and
stir until nearly set.

EGGS AND BACON

Take a nice rasher of bacon; cut into little diced
cubes; fry quickly until nicely browned; strain five beat-
en eggs into a basin, season with pepper and add to the
bacon. Stir until quite firm. Serve in a heated platter
garnished with hot pickles.

SERVING EGGS
Adainty way to serve eggs for breakfast, luncheon or
tea to take round slices of bread, toast them deli-
is

cately, butter them and dip lightly in hot water. On

each round spread the white of an egg beaten stiff
with a speck of salt. Make a depression in the cen-
ter, and in each place a whole yolk. Set the toast in the
oven just long enough to set the yolk and brown the
white a trifle.
 BREAD, BISCUITS, Etc.

Use flour containing a large per cent, of gluten, or

a flour called entire, whole wheat.
Flour should be kept in a dry atmosphere. It makes
better bread if heated just before using it.
If milk is used heat it to prevent souring.
Milk and water are both used luke warm.
The yeast must be fresh. One-half cake of yeast
should be used with one quart liquid if the bread is
set at night. One cake of yeast should be used with
one quart liquid if the bread is set in the morning.
Dissolve one yeast cake in one cup of luke warm water.
Loaves of bread should be baked one hour or more
in a hot oven. Place on the grate ten minutes, then re-
move to the floor of the oven. The heat of the oven
should increase slightly during the first twenty minutes
and should be kept even for twenty minutes, and should
decrease during the last twenty minutes.
When baked, the loaves should be cooled, un-
covered, on a wire rack.
Biscuits require more heat than loaves of bread.
Bread should be kept in a clean bread box and not
exposed to moisture.
WHITE BREAD
Take half a pint of peeled potatoes cut into small
pieces; boil them in one pint, of water, skim out the po-
tatoes and mash fine. Add two tablespoonfuls of fine
flour to the potatoes, pour over the potato water and
stir till smooth. When cool, add two tablespoonfuls
of yeast and a half teaspoonful of salt. Let it rise over
 Bread, Biscuits, etc. 71

night. In the morning, take the bread bowl filled with

flour,pour half a pint of boiling water in the center,
and mix. Add enough cold water to make lukewarm;
then pour in the sponge made the night before, mix
the dough soft and knead one-half hour. Put back in-
to bread-bowl and set to rise. When light, knead
down and set to rise again. Then knead into loaves,
put into bread pans and when light bake in a moderate
oven. This quantity will make two loaves.

MILK BREAD
About half-past four in the afternoon make a sponge
in the following way: Pour one and a half cupfuls of
boiling water on six hops, and when lukewarm, strain
and squeeze the hops dry. Measure the hop water and
add enough more water to make one cup and a half.
Melt in this hop water half a cake of yeast and add
three cupfuls of sifted flour. Use a three-quart basin;
cover tightly, and set in a warm place until eight o'-
clock, when the sponge should fill the basin about two-
thirds full. Sift three more cupfuls of Pillsbury's Best,
add one teaspoonful of salt and one pinch over, and put
into a six-quart earthenware vessel. Add one teaspoon-
ful of lard and one tablespoonful of sugar, and mix.
Then pour in the sponge.Rinse out the basin with one
cupful and a half of rich milk, add this to the flour and
mix. Turn on a lightly floured board and knead into a
soft elastic mass, using a half cupful of flour. Put it
back into the large basin, cover tightly and set to rise al)
night in a warm place, temperature 70°. By half-past
six in the morning it should quite fill the basin. Turn
out and knead long enough to form into loaves. Use
one teaspoonful of flour and no more for the last
kneading; the dough must be soft and elastic. Put into
pans, cover and let rise an hour and a half in a tempera-
ture of 90 The dough should more than double in
.

size. The first ten minutes the oven should be hot

72 Just for Two

enough to lightly brown the top; then moderate a little

and bake for twenty-five minutes, not more than thirty
minutes. This makes two loaves. Bread should be
entirely cold before being put away in the bread box.

SOFT GRAHAM BREAD

Three cups of graham flour, one cupful of white
flour, one teaspoonful of salt,four tablespoonfuls of
molasses, or four tablespoonfuls of brown sugar
and two tablespoonfuls of molasses, two tablespoonfuls
of butter or lard, three-fourths of a cup of warm water.
Mix the ingredients in the order given and add suffi-
cient lukewarm water to make a soft dough. When
the dough is light, beat it and pour it into the bread
pans, filling them half full. When light, bake in a
moderate oven.

BROWN BREAD
One cupful of sour milk, two-thirds cupful of molas-
ses, two cupfuls of yellow cornmeal, one cupful of gra-
ham flour, one teaspoonful of soda, a pinch of salt, and
one of ginger. Steam two hours in a covered crock in
a kettle of boiling water; the water must be boiling be-
fore setting in the crock. Mix the salt with the meal
and then add the molasses; mix the
flour, soda and
sour milk together and add to the rest. Mix carefully,
as a great deal depends on the mixing. After steaming
two hours set in oven to brown ten minutes.

LIGHT ROLLS
One egg, one cupful of sugar, three-quarters cupful
of sweet milk, three-quarters cupful of butter and lard
together, three or four cupfuls of soft bread dough,
some cinnamon and one teaspoonful of baking powder.
Knead up as stiff as required. Let it rise until very
light.
 Bread, Biscuits, etc. 73

FRENCH ROLLS
One large cup of sponge, one cupful of warm water,
one-half cupful of butter, two tablespoonfuls of sugar,
one egg, and flour enough to make a stiff dough. Let
it rise, then mould again, roll out and cut with a biscuit
cutter; fold over and lay in baking-pan. Let it rise
again and bake.

PARKER HOUSE ROLLS

Sift one quart of flour into a bowl; make a hole in
the middle, put in three level tablespoonfuls of lard,
one heaping tablespoonful of white sugar, one cupful of
warm sweet milk, one-half teacup of yeast, one tea-
spoonful of salt.
Let this stand in a warm place without stirring until
light, then stir Use a little more flour
to a soft dough.
ifnecessary. About two hours before supper, work out
the dough, using a little more flour. Roll out about half
an inch thick, cut with a biscuit cutter, butter lightly
with soft butter, fold over and put in the pans a little
way apart. Let rise until tea time and bake in a quick
oven. These rolls must be started by nine o'clock;
earlier in winter.

CINNAMON ROLLS
Make
a rich biscuit dough, using baking powder and
sweet milk. Roll out into a sheet one-fourth inch thick
and cut into strips two and one-half inches wide. Rub
two cupfuls of brown sugar and one-half cupful butter
to a cream, add to it enough ground cinnamon to give
the desired flavor, rub well together and spread upon
the strips of dough. Cut in sections, sprinkle with
raisins or currants, roll up, place in pans and bake in
a rather hot oven. When partly baked, brush with su-
gar and butter.
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LUNCH BISCUIT
Two cups (large) of flour, two teaspoonfuls baking
powder, one teaspoonful sugar, one-half teaspoonful
salt, one egg, one cupful sweet milk, one large table-
spoonful butter. Cut into small biscuits, handle as lit-
tle as possible, and bake in a quick oven. They're nice
biscuits for a lunch, for they are just as good cold as
hot.

BAKING POWDER BISCUIT

Take one cupful of sifted Pillsbury's Best and stir in
one teaspoonful of baking powder and one-fourth tea-
spoonful of salt. Cut into this one large tablespoonful
of butter, and add a half cupful of rich milk. Dredge
with flour, cut into small pieces, pat each piece into a
ball, flatten a little and lay in a greased pan close to-
gether and bake in a hot oven. Bake eighteen minutes.

GERMAN BAKING POWDER BISCUIT

One of flour, sifted twice, one tablespoonful
pint
of butter,one tablespoonful of lard, three-quarters
teaspoonful of salt, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
about three-quarters cupful sweet milk. Do not roll
heavily. Simply press it out a little with the hand.
Do not handle it any more than necessary. Cut into
biscuit shape. Let stand a few minutes, and then bake
eighteen minutes in a rather quick oven.

SWISS MUFFINS
Sift one heaping cupful flour three times with one
teaspoonful baking powder and a scant half-dessert-
spoonful of salt; half a cupful each of milk and water;
add to this one well-beaten egg, one teaspoonful of
sugar, one large tablespoonful of butter; stir well, then
add to the flour. Bake in muffin rings twenty minutes
in a hot oven. Serve hot with maple syrup.
 Bread, Biscuits, etc. 75

GRAHAM MUFFINS
Two cupfuls of graham flour, two pinches of salt,
one tablespoonful of molasses, one egg, and one table-
spoonful of butter. Set to rise and bake for fifteen
minutes in muffin rings.

CORN MEAL MUFFINS

Two cupfuls of flour, one cupful of cornmeal, good
measure, two tablespoonfuls of butter, one cupful of
sugar, three beaten eggs, two cupfuls of milk, one ta-
blespoonful and a half of baking powder, two good
pinches of salt. Sift together the flour and cornmeal,
baking powder and salt. Beat the eggs and sugar to-
gether, add the milk, stir well, then add to the flour.
At the last add the melted butter. Bake in muffin
pans in a hot oven. Serve hot.

SOUR MILK MUFFINS

Beat two eggs till very light, then add one cup of
sour milk, in which one-half teaspoonful of soda has
been dissolved; when well mixed add one tablespoonful
of sugar, one-half teaspoonful of salt, and one and one-
half cupfuls sifted flour. Have the gem pans hot and
well greased, fill half full, and bake twenty minutes.

FEATHER MUFFINS
Beat together one teaspoonful each of lard and sugar,
add the yolk of one egg, one gill of milk, one-half pint
of flour, and one teaspoonful of baking powder and a
little salt; lastly the well-beaten white of the egg. Bake
in hot oven.

WHEAT GEMS
One teacupful of milk, one full cupful of wheat flour,
a pinch of salt, and one beaten egg. Bake in gem pans.
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FRUIT GEMS
Take gem batter and add chopped raisins, figs, dates,

together or separate. Roll the fruit in dry flour. Suit

your taste as to the proportion of fruit. If a little
sweet cream is used in mixing the dough, the cakes
will be nice enough for dessert, or a lunch for travel-
ing.

NOVEL CORN GEMS

Blend thoroughly in the order mentioned two cups
of sweet milk, one well-beaten egg, a pinch of salt, one
tablespoonful of brown sugar, a tablespoonful of ma-
ple syrup, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, one cup
of Indian meal and one cup of wheat flour sifted with
a heaping teaspoonful of baking powder. When very
light stir in half a cup of finely chopped dates. Have
ready hot gem pans. Fill each about three-quarters
full with the batter and bake thirty minutes in a mod-
erate oven.

FLOUR PANCAKES
One pint sour milk, one egg, a little salt and one
teaspoonful soda. Make a batter with flour, and bake
on a hot griddle. To be eaten hot with maple syrup.

BATTER CAKES
One pint flour, two eggs, two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, one level teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoon-
ful of soft butter, one and one-half cupfuls of sweet
milk. The batter is better for standing half an hour.
Waffles may be made by the same recipe.
Always mix soda or baking powder with flour.
GRIDDLE CAKES
One cupful of sour loppered milk, half a teaspoon-
ful ofsoda, one beaten egg, one tablespoon-
ful of melted butter, pinch of salt, two tablespoonfuls
 Bread, Biscuits, etc. 77

and a half of corn meal, half a cup of flour. Mix half

an hour before baking, then add the soda dissolved in
a teaspoonful of water. Beat thoroughly and bake on
hot soap-stone griddle. Do not grease soapstone.

BUCKWHEAT CAKES
One cupful of buckwheat flour, half a teaspoonful of
salt, one cupful of luke-warm water, and one-eighth
of a yeast cake dissolved in three tablespoonfuls of
water. Mix thoroughly, and set to rise over night.
Before baking, add one teaspoonful of molasses, and.
one large pinch of soda dissolved in three tablespoon-
fuls of water. Beat well together, and bake on a soap-
stone griddle. Serve cakes hot.

POTATO PANCAKES
Grate four good sized potatoes, season with a pinch
of salt and pepper, two eggs not beaten, one tablespoon-
very little milk and a pinch of baking
ful of flour, a
powder. Mix all well together and fry like ordinary
pancakes in deep fat. Serve hot.

RICE GRIDDLE CAKES

One cup soft boiled rice, one-half cup milk, three
e ggs, yolks and whites beaten separately, three table-
spoonful flour. Fry immediately after adding eggs.

FRENCH TOAST
Cut bread which is not too fresh into pieces about
half an inch thick; cut the slices into halves; drop a
piece of butter into frying pan. Beat two eggs; add a
pint of milk with salt to taste. Drop each piece of
bread into this and then onto the frying pan. Fry to
a nice brown. Drop a little currant jelly on the mid-
dle of each piece. Serve on a plate garnished with
parsley.
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PEACH TEA CAKE

One large tablespoonful, equal parts, of butter and
lard; one gill of sugar and one gill of milk, one beaten

egg, two cups of flour, and one teaspoonful of baking

powder. Turn into a shallow baking pan. Do not
have the batter more than one-half inch deep. Cover
with sliced peaches. Sprinkle with sugar and cinna-
mon. Bake thirty minutes; serve warm with cream and
sugar.

YEAST
A double handful of hops in a thin bag, one quart of
boiling water, one quart of potatoes cut in small pieces.
Boil the potatoes with the hops until thoroughly done,
keeping them covered tightly all the time. Take the
potatoes out and mash well, then pour the boiling hop
water over them; add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, two
of ginger, one of salt, and let it stand until just warm.
Add one teacupful of yeast, put away in a jug in a cool
place. This yeast will keep two months in winter and
two weeks in summer.

Uses for Stale Bread

Crusts and small pieces of bread should be dried in

a cool oven until a light brown. Roll them on a pastry
board, or put through a meat grinder. Crumbs must
be sifted. Use them only to cover articles of food
cooked in deep fat. Crumbs should be kept in jars with
a piece of muslin tied over them.

CROUTONS
Cut pieces of stale bread into cubes, and brown in
the oven.
 Bread, Biscuits, etc. 79

SIPPETS
Cut bread into pieces two inches thick, cut either
round or four and a half inches long by three inches
wide. Remove part of the bread from the center, but-
ter, and brown in the oven.

BREAD PUDDING
Butter the sides and bottom of a deep pudding dish,
then place a layer of stale bread, rolled fine, in the bot-
tom of the dish, then a layer of any kind of fruit; sprin-
kle on a little sugar, then another layer of bread crumbs
and of fruit, and so on until the dish is full, the top
layer being crumbs. Make a custard as for pies, add
a pint of milk and mix. Pour it over the top of the
pudding and bake until the fruit is cooked. Stale cake
crumbs fine, in place of bread, is an improvement.

PLAIN BREAD PUDDING

Break up a pint of stale bread after cutting away the

crust. Pour over it a quart of boiling milk; add to this
a piece of butter the size of an egg. Cover the dish
tightly and let stand until cool, then with a spoon mash
it until fine, add a teaspoonful of cinnamon, one nutmeg

grated, half a cupful of sugar, and one-quarter teaspoon-

ful of soda dissolved in a little hot water. Beat up
four eggs very light and add last. Turn all into a well-
buttered pudding dish and bake three-quarters of an
hour. Serve it warm with hard sauce. This recipe may
be steamed or boiled. Very nice either way.

SOUP STICKS

Cut stale bread into one to three ineh slices, remove

crusts, butter and brown in the oven.
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TOAST
Cut stale bread into one-fourth inch thick. Put
slices
it on a toaster, move
gently over the heat until dry,
it

then allow it to become a little brown by placing it

nearer the heat and turning constantly. It may be first
dried in the oven. Hot milk may be poured over dry
toast.

ZWIEBACK
Cut baker's or other light bread into one-inch slices
and brown in a moderate oven.

CREAM TOAST
Onetablespoonful of butter, one tablespoonful of
flour, halfa teaspoonful of salt, one and one-half cup-
fuls of milk or cream. Four slices of toast. Heat
the butter and when it bubbles add the flour and salt,
then gradually the hot milk, stirring constantly and
allowing the mixture to thicken each time. Pour this
sauce over the slices of dry or moist toast. Moist
toast is prepared by quickly dipping dry toast into hot
salted water or hot milk.
 Chicken Sandwiches.

Olives.

Strawberries and Cream.

Coffee.
 PUDDINGS AND SAUCES

SAUCES
Cooked sauces should never boil hard, or be vio-
lently stirred while cooking.

ENGLISH PLUM PUDDING

Two cups of beef suet, two cups of chopped raisins,
half a cup of sugar, one-half teaspoonful each of cin-
namon and cloves, and a quarter of a nutmeg grated.
Mix all together and chop fine; take two cups of water,
thicken with flour enough to make a stiff batter; break
in three eggs, beaten well. Butter the tin pudding
boiler and boil three hours.

THANKSGIVING PUDDING
Two-thirds of a cupful of butter, one cupful of mo-
lasses,two cupfuls of milk, one teaspoonful of soda,
four well beaten eggs, two pounds of raisins stoned
and chopped, one pound of currants, a fourth of a
pound of citron, a scant teaspoonful of salt, flour to
make as stiff as a pound cake. Steam six hours. Serve
with any sauce desired.

NEW ENGLAND BAKED INDIAN PUDDING

Boil one pint of milk, add one cupful of sifted In-
dian meal mixed with one cupful of cold milk; when
scalded, remove from the fire, add half a cupful of
molasses, two tablespoonfuls of brown sugar, half a
.teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of ginger, a little
 Puddings and Sauces 83

cinnamon and one egg well beaten. Stir until very

smooth and then add a sprinkling of candied orange
peel, raisins and currants. Put a layer of quartered
apples in the bottom of the pudding mould, pour in
the mixture and steam three hours. Serve with
whipped cream sweetened with maple syrup.

SPONGE PUDDING
One pint of milk heated. Mix together one-fourth
of a cup of sugar, one-half cup of flour with a little
of the hot milk, and return to the double boiler. Cook
until it thickens, then add one-fourth cup of butter
and the yolks of five eggs. Pour in cups or pudding
dish. Set in a pan of hot water and bake twenty-five
minutes. Serve hot, with Creamy Sauce. Stir in whites
beaten to a froth just before baking.

CARAMEL CUSTARD
One pint of milk, quarter of a cup of sugar, three
eggs, one pinch of salt. Put the milk on to boil, re-
serving half a cup. Beat the eggs and add the cold
milk to them. Stir the sugar in a small frying pan
until it becomes liquid and just begins to smoke. Stir
it into the boiling milk; then add the beaten eggs and

cold milk, and stir constantly until the mixture be-

gins to thicken. Set away to cool. Serve in glasses.

COCOANUT PUDDING
One cupful or less of grated cocoanut, one pint of
new milk, one pint sweet cream, the whites of five
eggs whipped one pinch of salt. Pour the mix-
light,
ture into a dish. Bake three-quarters of an hour, set-
ting the dish in a pan of hot water.
Sauce— One one-fourth cupful of
cupful of sugar,
butter, one one pinch of salt,
level teaspoonful of flour,
a piece of yellow rind of lemon, two teaspoonfuls of
lemon juice. Mix and pour over these ingredients ,

a cupful of boiling water. Cook one minute.

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RICE PUDDING
One cup of cooked one quart of rich milk,
rice,
an egg, four
half a cupful of sugar, butter the size of
tablespoonfuls of washed and seeded raisins. Stir
well together, pour in a well buttered baking dish,
beat the yolks of two eggs and pour gently over the
pudding and grate one dusting of nutmeg over, and
put in oven to bake. Bake one hour and a half in a
moderate oven. When done add the whipped frost-
ing of the whites of the eggs, spread gently over the
pudding and put back in oven just a few minutes.
Serve in baking dish.

RICE CUSTARD
Break up two cups of cold cooked rice and soak in
one pint of hot milk until soft. Beat the yolks of two
eggs, and two rounded tablespoonfuls of sugar, and
when well mixed add the hot milk. Turn back into
the double boiler and stir constantly until the egg is
cooked and the custard smooth. Stir in one-fourth
teaspoonful of salt. Turn into a dish for serving,
and when slightly cooled spread one-half cupful of
apple jelly or raspberry jam over the top. Beat the
whites of the two eggs until stiff and dry, add two
tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar and one tablespoon-
ful of lemon juice and pile it lightly over the top. Put
in the oven a few minutes to get a delicate brown.
Serve cold.

FIG PUDDING
One pound of figs chopped fine, two cupfuls of bread
crumbs, half a pound of suet chopped, two eggs beaten
thoroughly, one cupful of milk, one cup of fine sugar;
nutmeg to taste. Steam two hours.
Sauce. One tablespoonful of butter, one tablespoon-
ful of flour, one-half cup of pulverized sugar, one cup
of hot water. Season with lemon or wine.
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STUFFED FIGS
Take nice large figs. Wash and soak them in warm
water and gently press into their regular shape. Cut
a slit in each fig and press in a teaspoonful of chopped
English walnuts. Put a strip of muslin around each
and catch with a few stitches to keep the nuts from
boiling out. Put in a saucepan and cover with water
and enough sugar to make a syrup. Boil gently until
the figs are tender. Just before taking from the fire,
put in a slice of lemon and stir it around three or four
times and then take out. Cut off the muslin, put the
figs in a glass dish, pour the syrup over them and
set in a cool place. When cold serve with whipped
cream piled around them.
PRUNE PUDDING
Stew one pound of prunes, drain off the iuice,
stone, and chop fine. Beat the whites of four eggs
stiff and and add gradually one cupful of sugar, beat-
ing all the time, and then add the chopped prunes
gradually. Beat thoroughly. Bake twenty minutes
and serve cold with a custard made of the yolks of
the eggs.
BAKED QUINCES FOR DESSERT
A dessert is baked quinces with currant
delicious
jelly and whipped cream. Cut a slice from blossom
and stem end of each quince; put them in a dish with
enough water to cover up to half the depth of the
quinces. Cover the fruit with another dish and bake
in a moderate oven until the quinces are quite soft;
then stand them in a cool place. When ready to serve,
put them in a glass dish. As soon as the quinces are
out of the dish pour a little more water in, add enough
sugar to sweeten well, boil the whole to a syrup and
pour it over the quinces; then, when ready to serve,
put a teaspoonful of currant or plum jelly on top of
each quince and surround with whipped cream.
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PEACH TAPIOCA
Wash a cupful of tapioca through several waters
and soak over night. In the morning put it in a
let
sauce-pan with a pint of boiling water and set on the
stove to simmer until the tapioca is clear. Pare half
a dozen peaches and cut into quarters, stir into the
tapioca with half a cupful of sugar. Take from the
fire, turn into a deep dish and stand aside to cool.

Serve very cold with cream.

STEAMED APPLE PUDDING

Line a mould with slices of bread and butter, put in
a layer of stewed apples, then another layer of bread
and butter, and so continue until the mould is filled.
Beat two eggs, add one pint of milk, pour over bread
and apples. Steam one hour and serve with liquid
sauce.
APPLE LOAF
Take sufficient good light bread dough for a loaf,

knead well into it a piece of butter or lard the size

of an egg, one cupful finely chopped apple, one-half
teaspoonful each cinnamon and nutmeg, and two ta-
blespoon fuls sugar. Let rise till light and bake in
moderate oven for 45 minutes. Take out, rub well '

with butter, sprinkle with white sugar and cinnamon,

let set in oven for 10 minutes, then set away to cool
and eat with coffee for breakfast.

APPLE LOAF WITH OATMEAL

Pare and
slice several apples. Place a layer in a
well greased baking dish, then a layer of well cooked
twenty minutes. Serve with milk or cream and sugar,
oatmeal, until all is used. Place in oven and bake

BAKED APPLE
Remove the core, stand it in a granite pan, add a
little water and (if apples are sour) a few spoonfuls
 Puddings and Sauces 87

of sugar. Bake in a quick oven, basting frequently.

We like them if a little cinnamon be sprinkled ovei
them before baking. If desired, one-half cupful
whipped cream may be added after they are cool.

STEAMED APPLE
Remove the core and steam continuously till tender.

BAKED APPLE SAUCE

Place a layer of sliced apple in a baking dish with a
sprinkling of sugar, then another layer, till the dish
is filled. Bake twenty minutes.
FRIED APPLE
Pare and core apples, keeping them whole. Cut into
slices crosswise, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon or a
little lemon juice, set aside for a few minutes, then
dip each piece in batter, slide into hot fat, fry on one
side, turn and fry on the other.

OLD-FASHIONED BROWN BETTY

Pare and cut apples into slices. Put in a baking
dish,with layers of bread crumbs and a sprinkling of
sugar and cinnamon between apples. Have the top
layer crumbs, with cinnamon dusted over the top.
Place in oven, cover for fifteen minutes, then bake
twenty minutes longer. Serve with cream.

APPLE PONE
Pare and chop finely one quart sweet apples. Pour
a pint of boiling water into a quart of white corn meal.
When cooked, add one pint sweet milk, stir in the
apples, turn the mixture into a greased shallow pan,
cover and bake in' moderate oven for at least two
hours. This same recipe may be turned into a mould
and steamed three hours and used as a pudding.
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TURNOVER
Put one pint add one-half teaspoon-
flour into a bowl,
ful of salt, two baking powder, mix
level teaspoonfuls
thoroughly. Then rub into the mixture one table-
spoonful butter, and add sufficient milk to make a
dough. Roll into a sheet half an inch thick, cut with
biscuit cutter, put two tablespoonfuls of stewed ap-
ples on one-half the dough, fold over the other half,
pinch the edges together, place in baking pan, brush
with milk and bake for twenty minutes.

STEWED APPLE DUMPLINGS

Pare, core and quarter four good-sized apples, put
them into a stewpan, add four tablespoonfuls sugar,
cover the pan, let stew. While they are stewing, make
dough as for turnover, cut into small circles, place
closely over top of apple, cover saucepan and stew
slowly fifteen minutes without lifting the lid. Dish
apples around the edge of the platter and put sauce
in center.

BAKED APPLE DUMPLINGS

Cut a short pie crust into five or six inch squares.
In the center of each place a pared and neatly cored
apple, filling the space with sugar and cinnamon if
liked, also a clove. After wetting the edges of the
pastry with white of egg, fold it over the apple, pinch
and flute them to look well, and encase the apple com-
pletely. Bake from thirty to forty minutes, toward
the last brushing the top with the white of egg and
dusting with a little sugar. Serve with hard sauce.

STEAMED APPLE DUMPLINGS

Using a soft biscuit dough, proceed as before, wrap-
ping each dumpling finally in cheesecloth. Cook the
dumpling in rapidly boiHng water for one hour, re-
 Puddings and Sauces 89

move the cheesecloth and serve with hard sauce. Oth-

er fruit such as peaches and apricots may be used in
the same way.
PUFFS
Three eggs well beaten, one tablespoonful of flour,
one pint of sweet milk. Bake in cups in a quick oven.
Serve with sauce.

DATE PUFFS
One egg and half a cupful of sugar, two tablespoon-
fuls of butter,two tablespoonfuls of milk, half a tea-
spoonful of baking powder, flour enough to make a
thin batter, stone and cut in half one teacupful of
dates, dredge and stir into the batter, half fill small
earthen cups and steam twenty-five minutes. Serve
with rich cream.

MACAROON DAINTY
Take as many wine glasses as you have people;
half each one with powdered macaroons, cover that
fill

with grape jelly, and on top of that put a heaping

tablespoonful of whipped cream.

APPLE SAUCE
Pare, quarter, and core five apples, put them in a
sauce pan, pour over them one cup of boiling water
and seven tablespoonfuls of sugar. Cover closely and
cook three-quarters of an hour. Be careful not to
burn, and do not stir them. Serve hot with a few
slices of lemon on top.

CRANBERRY SAUCE
Pick over carefully and wash two cupfuls and a half
of fine cranberries. Put them in a sauce pan, pour
over a heaping cup of sugar, and a cup and a half oi
boiling water. Cover and cook slowly one hour.
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HARD SAUCE (No. i)

Cream half a cup of butter, add one cup of very light

brown sugar, beat ten minutes, then add the juice of
one lemon and the grated rind of half a lemon, and
beat five minutes more.

HARD SAUCE (No. 2)

Beat until white and of the consistency of thick

cream one cupful of pulverized sugar and half a cup-
ful of butter; add the whipped whites of two eggs and
beat for a few minutes longer. Flavor with one table-
spoonful each of brandy and extract of nutmeg.
Smooth into shape with a broad knife dipped in cold
water. Stamp with a wooden mould and place on ice
until needed.

MILK SAUCE
One cupful of sugar, one beaten egg and one table-
spoonful of butter; pour over one cup of scalded milk.
Put on the stove and scald again. Flavor to taste.

CREAMY SAUCE
One-fourth cup of butter, creamed with one-half
cup of powdered sugar, beat light, add two table-
spoonfuls of sherry wine and two of cream, add alter-
nately a few drops at a time.

SAUCE FOR BOILED RICE

Beat the whites of three eggs with two heaping ta-
blespoonfuls of sugar; add one teacup of rich cream
and the juice and peel of two lemons.

FOAMING SAUCE
Dissolve a teacupful of sugar in a little water; bring
to a boil, stir in a glassful of wine, then the beaten
whites of three eggs. Serve without delay.
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FOAM SAUCE
Take a half cup of white sugar, one-fourth of a cup
of butter, one tablespoonful of corn starch; mix to-
gether and beat to a cream. Set upon the stove and
add boiling water until it is of the right consistency.
Flavor with lemon or anything preferred.

CREAM SAUCE
To the whipped white of an egg add the beaten
yolk; then stir in, gradually, one cupful of powdered
sugar; add half a cupful of cream, diluted with one-
third of a cupful of milk and flavored with rose or
vanilla.

WHIPPED CREAM SAUCE

To a pint of thick sweet cream, whipped until foamy,
add the beaten whites of two eggs. Sweeten and
flavor to taste. Serve very cold.

SOUR CREAM SAUCE

Beat hard and long one pint of sour cream, the
juiceand rind of one lemon and sugar to taste.

CUSTARD SAUCE
Heat one pint of milk to boiling; beat together two
eggs and one cupful of sugar and stir into the hot
milk. Shake the saucepan gently until the mixture
thickens; remove from the fire, flavor to taste and
serve hot.
RASPBERRY SAUCE
One-third of a cup of sugar, half a pint of raspber-
ries, halfa tablespoonful of melted butter, half a cup-
ful of hot water. Boil all together slowly, removing
the scum as fast as it rises; then strain through a
sieve. This is very nice served with bread or rice
puddings.
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FRUIT SAUCE
Bring slowly to a boil one cupful of hot water, two-
thirds of a cupful of sugar, one table'spoonful of but-
ter and one pint of fruit syrup. Skim, strain and serve
hot with fruit roll or fruit dumplings.

SAUCE AUX QUATRE FRUITS

Pare a very thin rind from one lemon and one
orange; then remove the thick white skin, cutting close
to the pulp. Cut fruit into small dice. Pare, core and
dice two sour apples. Put all into a saucepan, add the
orange and lemon rind, shredded, and one cupful of
seedless raisins. Add a little water and simmer while
the following mixture is prepared: Stir into half a
pint of boiling water half a teaspoonful of corn starch
wet with a little cold water; add one cupful of sugar
and cook slowly for fifteen minutes. Strain, add one-
half cupful of white wine and the fruit mixture. Flavor
with one teaspoonful of extract of almonds. Serve
hot.

PLUM PUDDING SAUCE

Pour two cupfuls of water over four cupfuls of
sugar; throw in a few cloves and several blades of
mace tied in a muslin bag, also the thin rind of two
lemons. Simmer for four or five hours, or until of
a rich golden color, a shade darker than honey. Take
from the fire, remove spices and lemon rind, add a
cupful of sherry, and, if desired, half a cupful of brandy.
Reheat a portion of the sauce as needed, adding a
lump of butter and a little more wine. This sauce will
keep all winter.

WINE SAUCE FOR PLUM PUDDING

Cream one heaping tablespoonful of butter, and one
cup of brown sugar until foamy. Add one heaping
 Puddings and Sauces 93

tablespoonful of flour, beat and stir in slowly one cup

of boiling water, half a teaspoonful of salt. Boil and
stir constantly ten minutes, then add one wine glass of
brandy. Serve in a sauce boat.

WINE SAUCE
Melt one tablespoonful of grape jelly, add two table-
spoonfuls of sherry wine, and four drops of lemon
juice. Serve hot.

CHOCOLATE SAUCE
One cup of milk, two ounces of grated chocolate,
boil five minutes, and pour on the yolks of two eggs
beaten with half a cup of sugar, half a cup of rich
cream, strain, return to the fire, and stir till thick as
honey, flavor with vanilla.

RICE JELLY
Wash a cupful of rice and soak it for two hours in
a cupful of water. Have ready on
the range a quart of
boiling water and turn the rice and the water in which
it was soaked into this. Boil for three-quarters of an
hour, then strain through a muslin bag. When cold
and thick serve with powdered sugar and cream. It
is very nice and nourishing.

TAPIOCA JELLY
Soak a half cup of tapioca over night in a cup of
cold water. Put into a double boiler a pint of boiling
water and dissolve in this a tablespoonful of granu-
lated sugar. Now turn in the soaked tapioca and cook
until clear. Remove from the fire and add two tea-
spoonfuls of lemon juice. Have ready two jelly glasses
wet with cold water and turn the liquid jelly into
these. Set in a cold place to form. Serve very cold
with sweetened cream.
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DISHES PREPARED WITH GELATINE

General Rules

If possible, soak gelatine in cold -Water until it is

softened; the boiling water then dissolves it. It should
be covered with a cloth while soaking. If gelatine

must be softened quickly, pour cold water over the

gelatine and heat over boiling water until it is dis-
solved. If jellies are to be moulded, the moulds should
be first wet with cold water. Jellies should be placed
near the ice to harden, but may be hardened quickly
by surrounding with ice water.

PLYMOUTH ROCK SALAD

Select three large juicy oranges, cut two of them
into little squares, one apple chopped
three table-
fine,

spoonfuls of finely chopped almonds. Mix well to-

gether and put into moulds. Soak half a box of Ply-
mouth Rock gelatine in one cup of orange juice and
half a cupful of cold water, and half a cupful of sugar
20 minutes. Add half a cup of boiling water to dis-
solve then strain through a cheese cloth and pour
it,

into the moulds. Set on ice to harden. Serve in or-

ange cups with two teaspoonfuls of mayonnaise dress-
ing, on a salad plate decorated with a large lettuce
leaf. Make the day before or early in the morning of
the day it is to be served. This salad will keep for
days if moulded in granite muffin tins and kept in a
cool place, or on ice. which is much better.
There is no gelatine on the market that comes up to
the Plymouth Rock gelatine, and I have tried them
all. Plymouth Rock is so perfectly clear, does not
have to be strained, and it takes only a little time to
dissolve. I could not keep house without it.

Amelie Langdon.
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LEMON JELLY
One package gelatine, one-fourth cupful of cold
water, two cupfuls of boilng water, one cupful of
sugar, one-half cupful of lemon juice. Soak the gel-
atine in cold water, add boiling water, sugar, and juice.
Strain and put in cold place or on ice to harden.

ORANGE JELLY
One package gelatine, one-fourth cupful cold water,
one-half cupful boiling water, one cupful of sugar,
one cupful orange juice, three teaspoonfuls lemon
juice. Soak the gelatine in cold water, add the boiling
water, sugar and juice, strain, and put on ice to harden.

COFFEE JELLY
One package gelatine, one-fourth cupful of cold
water, three cupfuls of coffee, one-half cupful of sugar.
Soak the gelatine in cold water, add the boiling coffee,
and sugar. Strain, set on ice to harden.

WINE JELLY
One package gelatine, one-fourth cupful of cold wa-
ter,two cupfuls of boiling water, one cupful of sugar,
three tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, one cupful of wine.
Soak the gelatine in cold water, add the boiling water,
sugar and lemon juice. When slightly cooled add the
wine, strain, and set on ice to harden.

CREAM PUDDING
Soak one-half box of gelatine in one-half pint cold
water ten minutes. Scald one pint of milk and add
the gelatine and one cupful sugar. Beat the
yolks of three eggs, stir into the milk and cook three
minutes. When cool add one pint whipped cream
and vanilla to taste. Turn into a mould and put on
ice to harden. Serve with whipped cream.
 CHEESE DAINTIES
CHEESE SOUFFLE
Two tablespoons butter, one large tablespoon flour,
one-half cup milk, one cup grated cheese, three eggs
and one-half teaspoon salt, tiny dash of cayenne; put
butter into a pan and when melted but not
sauce
browned add and stir smooth, add milk and sea-
flour
soning and cook two minutes; add the beaten yolks
and cheese; and then set away to cool; when cold add
whites beaten stiff; turn into a buttered baking dish;
bake twenty-five minutes and serve immediately.

HOT CHEESE BALL

Whites of two eggs beaten to a stiff froth (very
one-half cup of grated dairy cheese, two drops
stiff),

of Worcestershire sauce; make into balls the size of

an English walnut, and drop into hot lard, brown and
serve at once.

COLD CHEESE BALLS

Put some dairy cheese through a meat chopper, us-
ing a fine cutter; to each cup of cheese add one-fourth
teaspoon salt, season to taste with paprika or cayenne
and add enough rich cream, creamed but-
olive oil, or
ter; mould into balls; English walnut meats or hick-
ory nut meats can be added; put away to chill thor-
oughly. To serve with salad.

CHEESE BALLS WITH TOMATO SAUCE

Mix together two cups of grated cheese, a quarter
of a teaspoon of salt, a few grains of cayenne pepper
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and one cup of bread crumbs; then add two eggs

beaten stiff, shape into small balls, roll in crushed
cracker crumbs and fry in deep fat; serve on triangles
of buttered toast and pour over them a tomato sauce.

CHEESE PATTIES
Chop very finely one pound of cheese and beat thor-
oughly into it, one at a time, three eggs and a table-
spoon of cream. Season with pepper, salt and a little
celerysalt, butter small individual molds, fill with the
cheese mixture and bake standing in hot water for
twenty minutes or until firm. Turn from the molds
and serve with a vegetable salad.

CHEESE CUTLETS
Put a pint of milk in a double boiler, add half a cup
of cornstarch moistened with a little cold water, and
cook fifteen minutes, remove from the fire and stir in
half cup of melted butter the beaten whites of two
eggs, one saltspoon of salt and one cup of grated Par-
mesan cheese; when thoroughly blended, pour into a
buttered pan to cool. Then cut into squares, sprinkle
with cheese and chopped parsley and reheat; serve
with celery and potato chips.

CHEESE RELISH
To eat with thin slices of bread and butter. Soak a
cup of dry bread crumbs in a pint of cold milk. Beat
into the three eggs one tablespoonful of butter and half
a pound of grated cheese. Put into a baking dish and
strew the top with bread crumbs and bake in the
oven until a delicate brown and of custard like con-
sistency. Do not have the oven too hot.

CHEESE OMELET
Butter pieces of bread and lay in a baking dish,
grate cheese over bread and continue till dish is full,
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pour over all a custard made of two eggs, one pint of

milk, one pinch of salt; bake half an hour.

ESCALLOPED CHEESE
Soak soft one cup bread crumbs in milk enough
till

to cover, one cup grated cheese or more, three eggs,

well beaten, butter size of an egg, melted, mix crumbs,
eggs and the cheese with the butter, and pour into
buttered baking dish; grate crumbs thickly over the
top and bake an hour in rather hot oven, but not hot
enough to separate eggs and milk.
 NUT DAINTIES
SALTED ALMONDS
Shell one pound them with
of Jordan almonds, cover
boiling water, and let them stand a few minutes un-
til the brown skin will easily rub off. When the skins
have been carefully removed from the almonds put
them in a pan, dust lightly with fine salt and shake
carefully in a moderate oven until they are crisp and
slightly browned. Do not use fat or oil of any kind,
as it destroys the delicate flavor of the almond. Sugar
almonds are dusted with fine sugar and roasted in
the same way.

BOILED CHESTNUTS
To eat chestnuts as a relish, or for Hallowe'en or
gala days throw them into a kettle of boiling water
and add one teaspoonful of salt for each pint of chest-
nuts. Boil rapidly for twenty minutes. Drain in a
colander, and serve smoking hot.

CREAM CHESTNUTS
Cream chestnuts can take the place of potatoes by
removing the and the brown skin underneath.
shell
Throw the chestnuts into boiling water, and boil
rapidly for twenty minutes or until they are perfectly
tender; drain; season lightly with salt and shake them
over the fire until they are dry and mealy. Serve plain
or with a cream sauce.

ROASTED CHESTNUTS
Make a cross through the shell on the flat side of
the chestnut. Put them into a baking pan and shake
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shells split,
constantly over the hot fire, until the
which will take about twenty minutes. Serve hot.
Chestnuts become heavy if they stand too long after
cooking.

CHESTNUT CAKES
Boil one quart of chestnuts. When done open the
shells and scoop out the inside, and add a half tea-
spoonful of salt, a half cupful of milk and two eggs
well beaten. Mix thoroughly and then stir in six
tablespoonfuls of pastry flour. Drop by spoonfuls
on a lightly greased griddle. When brown on one
side, turn and brown on other, cooking slowly. These
cakes are very wholesome.

USES OF NUTS
Chopped almonds, pecan-nuts, English walnuts, pine
nuts maybe sprinkled over lettuce and covered with
a French dressing for a dinner salad. Pine nuts may
be stuffed with boned meats instead of the usual stuf-
fing, and they can also be dusted slightly with salt
and served in place of almonds or salted peanuts.
The best filbert nut comes from England and is called
the corylus grandus, and is very delicious, served
with brown bread and butter, lettuce or fruit salad.
All nuts form a suitable substitute for meat. Nuts
are being used more in cooking than ever before, and
no dinner seems perfect without the serving of some
kind of roasted nuts.

SUPERBA CHESTNUT SAUCE

This delicious sauce can be served with chicken,
and a variety of dishes. Shell and blanch half a
pound of chestnuts, cook them in slightly salted wa-
ter, just enough to cover them; let cook forty minutes,
when tender, strain and mash. Add to the mashed
nuts one pint of rich sweet milk, a very scant tea-
spoonful of celery salt, a pinch of salt and pepper, a
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piece of butter the size of an English walnut, with

the grated rind of one lemon; boil up once and then
the sauce is ready for use.

CREAM OF CHESTNUT SOUP

Shell and blanch one pound of chestnuts, boil until
tender in slightly salted water. When tender add to
one pint of rich sweet milk seasoned with half a tea-
spoonful of celery salt, two teaspoonfuls of minced
onion, half a teaspoonful of pepper, and the same of
minced parsley. Cook for ten minutes. If desired, just
before serving grate in half of a lemon rind, and add
a half cup of whipped cream.

SALAD SUPERBA
Lay your thickly with crisp lettuce leaves,
platter
over these sprinkle lightly a layer of water cress, and
the same of nuts, next cut into one-half inch cubes the
choicest portions of a ripe watermelon, and arrange
these closely on top, pouring over all the following
dressing: Beat the yolks of two eggs light, add two
tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, one teaspoonful of salt,
and a little pepper, cook in double boiler until it thick-
ens, then set aside to cool. When quite cold, stir in
one cupful of whipped sweet cream and a tablespoon-
ful of chopped olives. This salad is certainly worthy
of its name.

COMPANY NESSELRODE PUDDING

One pint of blanched almonds, one pint of blanched
chestnuts, one pint of grated pineapple, half a pound
of candied fruit (figs and dates may be substituted),
one pint of cream, yolks of ten eggs, one tablespoon-
ful oflemon, grape juice or vanilla flavoring, one pint
of water, the same of sugar. Blanch and then boil
your chestnuts for half an hour, put them through
the nut mill, together with your almonds. Boil wa-
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ter, sugar,and pineapple together for twenty minutes,

then your beaten eggs, stir until it thick-
stir into this

ens, then remove from the fire, set inside a

basin of
cold water and beat for ten minutes. Finally add
your nuts and chopped fruit, and freeze in your ice
cream freezer. This delicious pudding can be de-
creased but it is best to serve for company only, and
on gala days. The vegetarians claim this their favor-
ite pudding.

WALNUT DAINTY
Wash two large bright red apples and core them.
Chop one teacupful of English walnut meats fine; mix
with sugar, and fill the apples with the nut meats.
Set in a baking dish; pour one cupful of hot water
round the apples, and bake till done but not broken.
Take out of the oven when done and be careful not to
break the apples when removing them from the dish
onto a serving plate. Add to the syrup in the baking
dish a half teaspoonful of butter, a pinch of salt, and
a few gratings of nut meg or cinnamon, stir till well
mixed and hot. Pour this around the. apples and dust
them on top with powdered sugar.

ROYAL NUT MACARONI

Boil half a pound of macaroni in slightly salted
water till tender, then drain in a colander, then mince
in chopping dish but not too finely. Line the buttered
baking dish with grated triscuit, then a layer of
minced hickory nuts, then a layer of macaroni; repeat
this until the dish is filled. It takes half a pound of
hickory nuts. To half a pint of cream add a tiny
pinch of cayenne, a pinch of salt, half a teaspoonful
of butter, boil up and pour over the macaroni and
place in a moderate oven and bake till it is slightly
browned on top. Serve hot.
 SALADS

SALAD SUGGESTIONS

Salads may be served in summer for the morning

meal, when appetites are fitful. If so, make it as sim-
ple as possible, using the most tender and crisp leaves
of salad plants or subacid fruits, with simple French
dressing. This may apply to a dinner, a mid-day lunch-
eon. If so, it should be made of more nourishing ma-
terials, meat or fish, or meat and vegetables or fruits
and nuts.

PLYMOUTH ROCK TOMATO SALAD

This is a most delicious salad, as well as a very

attractive one.
Select a can of the best brand tomatoes. Take the
juice and soak half a box of Plymouth Rock gel-
in it

atine for twenty minutes, then pour in two cups of

boiling water to dissolve it and one cup of sugar. Se-
lect from the can two solid tomatoes, put into the
mould; slice very thinly half a green pepper and a little
parsley. Pour over the gelatine and set on ice till
ready for serving. Serve on a salad plate garnished
with large lettuce leaves or parsley and three bright
red radish roses. On top of the salad put two tea-
spoonfuls of mayonnaise dressing. This salad should
be made the day before it is to be served.
I find the muffin tins make the best moulds for in-
dividual use, as it always makes an attractive and ap-
petizing looking salad.
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TOMATO SALAD (No.i)

Take two firm, ripetomatoes and pare without scald-

ing, with a sharp knife. Take out part of the core, and
put them on a bed of lettuce leaves. Fill the hollow
with the dressing; put in the ice box fifteen minutes be-
fore serving.

TOMATO SALAD (No. 2)

Select two tomatoes of similar size, plunge into boil-

ing water. Remove and cut out a circular piece around
the stem end of each. Remove the skin, and set aside
on ice to chill. When ready to serve, dispose each to-
mato on a lettuce leaf seasoned with French dressing.
Filleach cavity with a spoonful of finely chopped nut
meats and fruit and mayonnaise dressing, with a large
candied cherry on top.

TOMATO SALAD WITH NUTS

Select medium-sized red tomatoes, place them on let-
tuce leaves on bread and butter plates. Scoop out the
stem end of the tomato until a small cup is formed.
Just before serving fill it with roasted peanuts and
pour over the nuts and tomato a salad dressing made
in the following way:
—
Dressing. One teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful
of mustard, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, yolks of two
eggs, eight tablespoonfuls of sweet cream. Mix well
together, then add two-thirds of a cupful of vinegar and
cook over boiling water until done, stirring all the time.
Do not beat the yolks, but stir with the mustard, sugar
and cream. The salad should not be put together until
just before serving, as it spoils the flavor. Properly
made, it is one of the prettiest salads imaginable.

TOMATO AND CUCUMBER SALAD

For this salad have ready a head of lettuce, four me-
dium-sized tomatoes and two cucumbers. Pull the let-
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tuce leaves apart and arrange them in a salad dish.

Peel the tomatoes, slice them in thin slices and place
them on the lettuce leaves. Sprinkle with salt and
pepper. Now peel and slice the cucumber and arrange
the slices in the form of a pyramid upon the slices of
tomato. Peel the other cucumber and lay thin slices
of it around the edge of the tomato for a garnish.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper and pour over it any pre-
ferred dressing. Scatter chopped parsley over the top.

TOMATO AND SHRIMP SALAD

Peel large, smooth tomatoes and cut in half and
scoop out the seeds, leaving only the shell, take a can
of shrimps and drain them properly and set on ice till
thoroughly cooled; the, tomatoes the same; mix the
shrimps and mayonnaise dressing and fill the shells;
place each on a crisp lettuce leaf and serve with more
of the dressing.

A DELICIOUS SALAD
Every woman wants a dainty dish at her finger ends
to help along the meal when guests arrive unexpected-
ly, or the palate craves something especially delicious.
A salad newly designed by a New York chef, is a dish
fit to set before a queen.
There are salads and salads, but if you have not tast-
ed tomatoes prepared after the latest plan and served
with walnuts, you have not realized the full possibil-
ities of the salad dish. Here is the scheme:
Take ripe, but firm, tomatoes. Pour hot water upon
them to loosen the skins. Remove them and peel care-
fully. Now cut them in small squares and press through
a sieve. Put them in the ice chest and freeze. Shell
some English walnuts, being careful to remove every
trace of hard substance or husk. Mash these, folded
in a clean cloth, with a rolling pin.
When the tomatoes are thoroughly frozen, serve them
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on crisp white lettuce leaves—having individual dishes,
of course — and cover with mayonnaise. Over each dish
sprinkle a thimbleful of the crushed walnuts.

APPLE SALAD (No. i)

Line a salad bowl with watercress; cut into neat dice

half to three-quarters of a pound of cold veal or lean
fresh pork, add to the cress; also add two raw tart
apples cut small, season with salt and pepper, a tea-
spoonful of chopped pickle and a tablespoonful each
of oil and vinegar. Mix and cover with a mask of salad
dressing.
APPLE SALAD (No. 2)
Chop fine a large juicy apple. Add four stalks of
crisp white celery chopped fine, a pinch of salt and
one of mustard and pepper. Stir and cover closely.
Put in a cool place for twenty-five minutes. Before
serving pour over the following dressing: Stir to-
gether the yolk of one egg, a pinch of salt, and one
of sugar, a dusting of cayenne pepper, then add drop
by drop two teaspoonfuls of olive oil.

APPLE NUT SALAD

Boil and peel some French chestnuts, cut in small
pieces, mix with celery, and tart apples cut in slender
strips. Pour over the salad a mayonnaise dressing.
Serve on lettuce leaves.

WALDORF (APPLE AND CELERY SALAD)

Use bright red or green apples. Jonathans or North-
ern Spies are best. Cut the stem end off, saving it.
Scoop out the apple pulp. Mix with one-third its
bulk in chopped celery, and salad dressing number
one, which has had cream added to it. Return this
apple pulp and celery and dressing to the shell of ap-
ple. Replace the stem top. Serve the apple, very cold,
on a lettuce leaf.
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WATERCRESS AND APPLES

Prepare the watercress the same as lettuce, letting
it become crisp in cold water, then drying it thor-
oughly. Mix it with mayonnaise salad dressing. A
few thin slices of sour apple with watercress make a
good salad to serve with ducks.
A chopped hard-boiled egg sprinkled over the top of
water cress is a good garnish, and improves the salad.

WATER CRESS SALAD

Have
equal quantities of cress, pepper grass, and
sorrel. Serve with French dressing and garnish with
nasturtium blossoms.

LETTUCE SALAD
Select tender, crisp head lettuce. Wash with care
in cold water the inner leaves and lay in a clean dry
towel to absorb the moisture. Serve with French
dressing and accompany with radishes.

CELERY SALAD WITH NUTS

Use equal parts of celery and English walnuts and
serve on lettuce leaves. When ready to serve pour
over the following dressing: Yolks of two eggs beaten
lightly, one-half teaspoonful each of mustard and salt,
beating constantly, four tablespoonfuls of melted but-
ter, six tablespoonfuls of vinegar; cook in a double
kettle until it thickens. When removed from the fire
add the well-beaten whites. Before serving add a cup
of whipped cream.

A HANDSOME SUPPER SALAD

One cup of Malaga grapes, three bananas, three or-
anges, one cup of English walnut kernels, one bunch
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of celery, one head of lettuce, mayonnaise dressing.

This salad must be prepared by the housekeeper her-
self, as it is such a dainty dish that a hireling would be

apt to slight it and make a failure of what might be

otherwise a temptation to the most fastidious gourmet.
The only tedious part of the operation is the skinning
the grapes. This done, set them aside in a cold place
while you make ready the other ingredients. Peel the
oranges, remove the white inner skin, separate the fruit
into lobes, each of which cut in half, and remove the
seeds. Peel and slice the bananas, cut each nut kernel
in half, and cut the celery into half-inch pieces. Line
a salad bowl with lettuce. Mix carefully together the
grapes, nuts, oranges, bananas and celery; heap them
in the center of the bowl and pour the mayonnaise
over them.

FRUIT SALAD
One orange, two bananas, four slices of chopped
pineapple, one handful of Malaga grapes, half a dozen
candied cherries chopped fine and one dozen English
walnuts minced. Lay in a salad dish.
Dressing. — Stirtogether one teaspoonful of mustard,
one of butter, a tiny pinch of salt and pepper. Heat
two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, beat into this the yolk
of two eggs; then add the above ingredients, cook un-
til stiff and set aside till cold. Just before serving add
one teacupful of whipped cream and pour over the
fruit.

FRUIT SALAD WITH CHERRIES

Take a half cupful of water, and one cupful of sugar,
add the juice of a lemon, liquor glass full of maraschino,
half fill dainty glasses with stoned and sliced cherries,
strawberries or bananas; pour over each glass a little
syrup; mix an equal quantity syrup and lemon jelly and
pour into glasses; this can also be moulded.
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ORANGE SALAD
Use for this salad sour oranges; if these cannot be
obtained, strain over sweet oranges after they are sliced
a little lemon juice. Cut the oranges in thick slices,
remove the seeds carefully, arrange them in rows, and
turn over them salad dressing. Serve with game.
Grape fruit may be used the same way, and walnut
meats used with either.

ORANGE AND WALNUT SALAD

Peel four oranges, stripping off all the inner white
skin, and put them on ice for several hours before di-
viding them into lobes, and each lobe in three pieces.
Crack twenty English walnuts, throw them into boiling
water and let them lie there three minutes, drain, and
skin them and break into small bits. Line a salad bowl
with lettuce; arrange the oranges and nuts in alternate
layers upon this, covering each layer with a good salad
dressing. Serve at once.

STRAWBERRY SALAD
Choose the heart leaves of head lettuce, heap a few
strawberries on each and dust them lightly with pow-
dered sugar; lay a teaspoonful of mayonnaise on each
portion and serve cut lemons with it; delicious for
lunch.

GRAPE FRUIT SERVED IN LATEST CHIC

The delicious new way to serve grape fruit makes
it doubly delightful eating. The old fashion of digging
it out with a spoon was never graceful, and if a woman
wore a pretty gown
she was kept on the jump with
anxiety. One jogging, one unfortunate turn of
little

the hand, and there was the villainous juice cavorting

over everything.
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With the new serving, the instrument isn't a spoon
at all. It's a fork —an oyster fork, which cleverly
lifts a plug of the fruit from the rind, and conveys it

to the mouth without unlovely juiciness.

Oscar, chef of the Waldorf, has been giving away
the secret of preparing it in this manner. His recipe
is as follows:
Cut your fruit first in halves. Then with a sharp
knife cut a circle around the core. Take the seeds out
and the fibres, too, which join the sections together.
Now cut away each from the fibre which holds
section
it in place. Lift each plug to see that it is entirely
free.
Remove the skin from Malaga grapes, halve them and
place these halves about the outer edge of each plug.
The fruit is now away in the ice-chest until
to be laid
thoroughly served with a wreath of sml-
chilled. It is
lax or other dainty vine, the circle in the center being
filled with shaved ice. A little diluted rum or wine
sprinkled over it two hours before serving adds a deli-
cious nuance of flavor.

EGG SALAD
Take the number of eggs
and boil justrequired
twenty minutes. Whenand remove the
cold, shell
whites carefully from the yolks; chop the whites, and
leave the yolks whole. Serve on lettuce leaves with a
boiled dressing, and small balls of cottage cheese.

MARGUERITE SALAD
Take justmany hard-boiled eggs as there are
as
persons to be served. Remove the yolks and make
them fine with a perforated spoon, add salt and pep-
per, a pinch of mustard and a little melted butter. Mix
thoroughly. Lay a lettuce leaf on a salad plate and ar-
range the yolk on it for the center of the "Marguerite."
Chop the whites and scatter around the edge. Pour
over it a mayonnaise dressing.
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BEAN SALAD
Put into a salad bowl half a dozen leaves of crisp
add a cupful each of baked beans and tongue,
lettuce,
or ox palate, cut into dice, and two hard-boiled eggs
cut not too fine; season with a teaspoonful of chop-
ped parsley,salt, white pepper and two tablespoonfuls
of vinegar; mix together, arrange neatly and mask
with a top layer of salad dressing.

BEET AND CHEESE SALAD

Make cottage cheese into little balls, stick on either
side half English walnut. Use the small strawberry
beets that are put up in three-pound cans, slice, and
you can easily cut them into heart shape. Use two
cheese balls and three beet hearts on lettuce leaf. Keep
on ice until just before time to serve, add French dress-
ing just before serving. This is such a simple salad
and so tasty that you will be sure to like it.

BEET AND SPANISH ONION SALAD

Gut into slices, then into two baked beets, slice
strips,
a medium-sized Spanish onion, and quarter and sep-
arate the sections. If convenient add as much table
celery asyou have onion, half a teaspoonful of capers
or chopped pickles, salt and white pepper; mix, then
over all add salad dressing.

POTATO SALAD
Pare three large cold boiled potatoes, and slice them.
One small onion minced. One hard boiled egg sliced.
Fill the salad bowl with alternate layers of potatoes
and eggs, sprinkle each layer with salt, and add onion
before pouring on the dressing, pour over the salad
one-half cup of hot vinegar and garnish with celery.
If preferred, lettuce dressing can take the place of
the hot vinegar.
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COLD POTATO SALAD

Chop cold boiled potatoes fine, with enough raw on-
ions to season nicely; make a dressing as for lettuce
salad, and pour over it.

HOT POTATO SALAD WITH BACON DRESSING

Take one-quarter of a pound of very fat bacon, freed
from rind and bone, and cut in slices, then in dice. Put
it in a frying pan and heat slowly until the fat is well

drawn out and the dice golden brown. Skim out the
bacon, add one tablespoonful of onion, cut fine more —
if the onion flavor is liked —
and cook slowly until col-
ored. Add much vinegar as there is fat
one-half as
in the pan, a dash of Cayenne and one-half as much
good stock as there is vinegar. Have ready about
three cupfuls of freshly cooked, diced potato, which
have been kept hot in a steamer; turn them into the
frying pan and stir carefully through, that they may
absorb the dressing evenly. Add the diced bacon and
turn at once on a heated platter, garnishing with water-
cress.

GERMAN POTATO SALAD

Pare six or eight large potatoes, and boil till done,
and slice thin while hot; peel and cut up three large on-
ions into small bits and mix with the potatoes. Cut up
some breakfast bacon into small bits, sufficient to fill
a teacup and fry it a light brown; remove the meat,
and into the grease stir three tablespoonfuls of vine-
gar, making a sour gravy, which with the bacon pour
over the potato and onion; mix lightly. To be eaten
when hot.

POTATO AND CUCUMBER SALAD

Arrange in a salad bowl layers of thinly sliced cold
boiled potatoes, cucumbers, celery and hard-boiled
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eggs. Reserve one egg to garnish the top. Pour over

the vegetables a mixture of two tablespoonfuls of melt-
ed butter, half a tablespoonful of vinegar, half a salt-
spoonful of salt, a dash of pepper and a few drops of
onion juice. Let it stand for an hour or two in a cold
place, then pour over it a boiled dressing. Garnish
with celery leaves.
CUCUMBER SALAD
The fresher the cucumbers are and the quicker they
are served after being cut, the better; always have
them as cold as possible. They need a good deal of
seasoning, therefore add a little salt, pepper and salad
dressing, slightly thinned out with vinegar. Mix, set
in the ice-box ten minutes and serve.
For breakfast the cucumbers may be placed on a leaf
bed of cress and garnished with a circle of crisp rad-
ishes.

CUCUMBER AND ONION SALAD

Pare cucumbers and lay in ice water one hour; do
the same with onions in another bowl. Then slice them
in the proportion of one onion to three large cucum-
bers; arrange in a salad bowl and season with vinegar,
salt and pepper.

CUCUMBER SALAD TO SERVE WITH FISH

Peel the cucumbers, and place them in cold water to
become crisp. Do not use salt in the water, as is
sometimes recommended, as it wilts and makes them
indigestible. Cut the cucumbers in two lengthwise,
and lay them, with the flat side down, on the dish on
which they are to be served. Slice them without de-
stroying their shape, and pour on them salad dressing.

A SPRING SALAD
Pick over, trim, wash and cook one-half peck of spin-
ach in the inner vessel of a double boiler until tender.
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Drain it dry and chop it very

fine. Season with salt,
paprika, a dash of nutmeg, lemon juice and melted
butter. Butter some cups and line them with the spin-
ach, leaving a small round hole in the center. Fill this
with cold boiled eggs, chopped and well seasoned.
Pack the mixture in firmly. Put upon the ice and when
very cold turn out upon crisp lettuce and serve with
a good salad dressing.

VIRGINIA SALAD
Choose a large head of curly lettuce, open and press
apart and remove with a sharp knife the inner leaves.
Wash and let it serve as a case or mould from which
to serve the following salad. Chop cabbage fine and mix
with a cooked dressing made as follows: Mix until
smooth, one tablespoonful of butter, one teaspoonful of
flour, fifteen drops onion oil, one-half cup hot vinegar.
Beat with wooden spoon, cook ten minutes. Pour on
one egg beaten with one-half teaspoonful each salt,
sugar, mustard, and a pinch of cayenne. Cook three
minutes and cool. Thin at time of serving with one
cup of thick sour cream.

SALMON SALAD
One small can of salmon, three bunches of celery
chopped fine, and mixed with the salmon.
—
Dressing. A small teaspoonful of mustard, two ta-
blespoonfuls of vinegar, yolks of two eggs, salt and
cayenne pepper to taste. Mix, and .add to the salmon
and celery. Serve in a salad dish garnished with let-
tuce.

CLAM SALAD
Boil two dozen medium clams in a pint of water
ten minutes only; use the broth for a soup by whisk-
ing 'into it a half pint of warm milk containing a
whisked egg; heat, but do not boil, and serve.
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Chop the clams, not too fine, put them into a salad
bowl with one-third each of potato and cold fish; let-
tuce or watercress may or may not be used. Cover
with salad dressing. Hard-boiled eggs may be used
if desired.
LOBSTER SALAD
Cut the boiled lobster into one-inch pieces or larger.
Marinate it, and keep in a cool place until ready to
serve; then mix with it lightly a little mayonnaise salad
dressing. Place it in the salad bowl, smooth the top,
leaving it high in the center. Mask it with a thick
covering of salad dressing. Sprinkle over it the pow-
dered coral of the lobster. Place on top the heart of a
head of lettuce, and around the salad a thick border
of crisp lettuce leaves, carefully selected.
Shad roe, canned salmon, or any firm, white fish, mix-
ed with mayonnaise salad dressing, and garnished with
lettuce, may be served as a salad.

OYSTER SALAD
Dip eight medium sized oysters in cracker crumbs,
and fry a delicate brown in a teaspoonful of hot but-
ter. Lay on a plate and set in ice box to cool, then
cut them into half inch pieces and mix with seven ta-
blespoonfuls of chopped crisp celery. Put into salad
bowl and serve with the following dressing.
One-fourth of a cupful of sour whipped cream. Beat
the yolk of one egg with a pinch of mustard, one of
salt, and one of cayenne pepper and sugar. Add one
tablespoonful of olive oil, then the whipped cream, and
one tablespoonful of lemon juice. Pour over the
salad and serve.

SHRIMP SALAD
When canned shrimps are used, they should be re-
moved from the tin and thoroughly washed in cold
water. Shrimps, tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs and wa-
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tercress, with salad dressing, form a surprisingly good

salad in warm weather.

CHEESE SALAD
Small cakes of cottage cheese. Serve in a bed of
shredded lettuce. Cover with thick salad dressing and
garnish with crescent olives.

BIRD'S NEST SALAD

An exceptionally pretty salad, looking almost too
dainty to eat, was furnished lately by a cooking school
pupil for her mother's dinner party. It was down in
the menu as a "bird's nest salad," and the deprecatory
remark offered by one of the invited guests that "it
seemed almost likerobbing a bird's nest," was most
natural. The white heart leaves of lettuce were used
to simulate the nests, several of them being curled about
to make the little hollow. In each of these were placed
five little speckled eggs made of cream cheese rolled
into shape, then sprinkled with fine chopped parsley.
The French dressing, which was "to animate the
whole," in Sidney Smith's trenchant words, was cun-
ningly hidden away under the leaves of the dainty
nests.

NARRAGANSETT SALAD
Take equal parts of hickory nuts, walnuts and al-
monds, blanching the latter, and throwing the walnut
meats for ten minutes in water in which onions are
boiling. Add tiny bits of celery and pour over a good
cream salad dressing. Put a bit of sweet whipped
cream on top and garnish with round slices cut from
a long radish. Do not peel, as the dainty pink rim adds
much to the appearance.

CHICKEN SALAD
There is only one secret about this salad. Do not
use tough, old fowl, nor use the meat too dry. When
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possible let the fowl stand in the water in which it was

cooked until cold; this will make it sufficiently moist.
When cold roast poultry is used, cut it up and moisten
slightly with chicken broth, or water containing a lit-

tle vinegar, pepper and salt.

Mix equal quantities of cut-up chicken and celery
with a few spoonfuls of salad dressing, arrange neatly
in a bowl, and mask with more of the dressing. Dec-
orate with eggs, olives and cucumber pickle. Use
lettuce, watercress, chickory, wild chickweed, dande-
lion, or any other tender salad green when celery is
scarce.

A NOVEL SALAD DISH

The hostess of today is like the Athenian, always
striving after some new Many
have tried filling
thing.
one side of an orange with whipped cream, and here is
a pretty, inexpensive way to serve salad. Take large
and long cucumbers, cut them once through the middle,
lengthwise, scrape out the inside and one has a pretty
individual green boat in which to serve the salad. This
is particularly pretty with lobster or shrimp salad on

account of the contrast in color. Of course just half

as many cucumbers as guests are required, as one cu-
cumber makes two boats.

MAYONNAISE DRESSING (No. 1)

Yolk of one egg. Beat and add half a teaspoonful

of mustard dissolved in the juice of one lemon and a
teaspoonful of vinegar, large pinch of salt and a dust
of pepper. Pour in oil gradually until you have the
desired amount.

COOKED MAYONNAISE DRESSING

Heat five tablespoonfuls of vinegar over boiling wa-
ter. Beat two eggs until light with one tablespoonful
of vinegar. In a bowl mix one-half cup of butter, one-
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fourth cup of sugar. Add one tablespoonful of mus-

tard, a pinch of salt, a dash of red pepper. To the
heated mixture add eggs, stirring constantly until thick,
then remove from the fire. If too thick, add a little
cream. This will keep for days, if kept in a cool place
or on ice.

BOILED DRESSING
To the beaten yolks of two eggs add a cupful of
vinegar and cook over hot water until thick. Put in a
bowl one tablespoonful of melted butter, one table-
spoonful of sugar, one saltspoonful of salt, one tea-
spoonful of mustard and a pinch of cayenne. Mix
thoroughly together and pour over the egg and vine-
gar. If put together in this way there will be no rank
flavor as there often is in other dressings.

CREAM DRESSING (No. i)

One level teaspoonful flour, one level tablespoonful

sugar, one level teaspoonful salt, one-fourth teaspoon-
ful white pepper, one speck red pepper, yolks of two
eggs. Mix these together and pour over it seven table-
spoonfuls of hot vinegar. Stir well until thick. Add
one large tablespoonful of butter and when it is well
mixed in, take the mixture from the fire. Cool quickly,
this may be kept a week or two. When ready to use,
mix it with one-third its bulk in rich cream, sweet or
sour. Whip the cream.
CREAM DRESSING (No. 2).

Two tablespoonfuls of whipped sweet cream, two of

sugar and four of vinegar; beat well and pour over the
cabbage, previously cut very fine and seasoned with
salt.

FRENCH SALAD DRESSING

Mix one saltspoonful of pepper with one of salt; add
three tablespoonfuls of olive oil and one even table-
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spoonful of onion scraped fine; then one tablespoonful

of vinegar; when well mixed, pour the mixture over
your salad and stir all till well mingled.
The merit of a salad is that it should be cool, fresh
and crisp.For vegetables use only the delicate white
stalks of celery, the small heart-leaves of lettuce, or
tenderest stalks and leaves of the white cabbage. Keep
the vegetable portions crisp and fresh until the time for
serving, when add the meat. For chicken and fish
salads use the mayonnaise dressing. For simple veg-
etable salads the French dressing is most appropriate,
using onion rather than garlic.
 SANDWICHES
Bread for sandwiches should not be more than twen-
ty-four hours old, and cut thin, the crust should all
be neatly cut away and the butter creamed and evenly
spread. If nuts are used they should be chopped fine,
salted and mixed with butter, or with enough cream
salad dressing to moisten.
When preparing sandwiches for a large company it is
sometimes necessary to make them several hours in ad-
vance of the serving. If a napkin is wrung out of hot
water and wrapped around the sandwiches, which
should then be placed in a cool room, they will keep as
fresh and moist as though just spread.

LETTUCE SANDWICHES
Cut white bread in thin slices, cutting away all
crusts. Place on a slice a fine tender lettuce leaf and
spread with salad dressing; cover over with another
slice and press gently together. Nasturtium leaves or
flowers and a bit of mustard or the yolk of hard-boiled
egg may be added if desired.

WATER CRESS SANDWICHES

Wash well some water cress and dry them in a clean
white cloth, pressing out every bit of the moisture.
Then mix, with the cress hard boiled eggs chopped fine,
season with salt and pepper to taste. Cut thin slices
of bread and cut away the crust. Cut the cress into
small pieces, removing the stems. Place the cress be-
tween each slice of bread and butter, with a few drops
of lemon juice on each. Press down the slices, and
serve.
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CELERY SANDWICHES
Chop fine three full-size stalks of celery; add to this
enough salad dressing to make a thick paste; spread
evenly over thin slices of white, graham, rye, or Bos-
ton brown bread; form sandwiches and cut these into
squares or fingers.

CUCUMBER SANDWICHES
These are quite new. Slice medium sized cucumbers
very thin, and let them stand in cold salt and water
one-half hour, then drain off and pour over white wine,
or tarragon vinegar, with a few drops of lemon juice,
let stand one hour, lay the cucumber slices upon small
rounds of brown bread, and spread with butter.

CHICKEN SANDWICHES.
Mince up fine half a cupful of boiled chicken, put it

into a saucepan with gravy, or cream enough to soften

it. Add a teaspoonful of butter, a tiny pinch of salt and
one of pepper. Work it very smooth while it is heat-
ing until it looks almost like paste. Then spread it on
a plate to cool. Spread it between slices of buttered
bread and crisp lettuce leaves. Press both sides to-
gether.

TOASTED SANDWICHES
Use one part of chicken or veal and one part of cold
tongue; to one cupful of meat when chopped add one
tablespoonful of melted butter, one teaspoonful of es-
sence of anchovy, one-half teaspoonful of lemon juice.
Cut bread and butter it; toast each slice a delicate
brown; spread with the above mixture while hot and
put together. To be eaten cold.
PEANUT SANDWICHES
Pound peanuts to a paste in a mortar and season with
salt and spread between thin slices of bread.
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NUT SANDWICHES
Mix half a cupful of chopped nuts with one table-
spoonful of mayonnaise and spread on thin slices of
entire wheat bread trimmed and cut into fancy shapes.
Almonds, English walnuts, or peanuts may be used sep-
arately or in combination, and chopped dates may be
added to the nuts.

OLIVE SANDWICHES
This a unique way of serving olives at teas and
is

receptions. Cut the flesh from the stones of half a

dozen queen olives, chop it fine, add to it a scant table-
spoonful of salad dressing. Mix and spread on thin
slices of buttered bread; form sandwiches and cut
these into squares or fingers. Stuffed olives are very
appetizing served this way.

RUSSIAN SANDWICHES
Cut bread into very thin slices, then into squares.
After buttering, spread a layer of fresh Neuchatel
cheese on each piece. Chop seeded olives very fine
and mix with a mayonnaise dressing, then add a layer
of this over the cheese. Press both sides of the sand-
wiches together. Serve on a plate garnished with let-
tuce leaves.

NUT SANDWICH WITH CHEESE

One-half cupful walnuts chopped fine, cream cheese
enough worked with them to form a smooth paste.
Soften the paste with cream until it will spread on
thin slices of bread.

DELICIOUS SANDWICHES
Three ounces of cream cheese chopped fine, mix with
one teaspoonful butter, one teaspoonful of anchovy,
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add a few chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts), season

to taste, salt and white pepper. Cut thin slices of
white bread and remove the crust, spreading the above
mixture between the slices; garnish with water cress.

CHEESE SANDWICHES
Grate dry cheese and sprinkle on buttered bread; add
a very light sprinkling of cayenne pepper if desired.

HAM SANDWICHES
Mince fine three or four small slices of boiled ham,
mix with mayonnaise dressing, chop two green pickles
fine. Cut bread into very thin slices, butter, lay on a
crisp lettuce leaf, and then put in the filling. Press
both sides of the sandwiches together.

CLUB SANDWICHES
Lay between thin slices of hot buttered toast, a thin
slice of boiled ham, then a slice of cold chicken and
lastly a crisp lettuce leaf with mayonnaise dressing.
Serve hot.

EGG SANDWICHES
Hard boil four eggs; be sure the eggs are nice and
fresh. When cold, cut them into thin slices and lay
them between very thin slices of bread and butter; sea-
son with salt and pepper, and a sprinkling of nutmeg.

OYSTER SANDWICHES
Chop fine half a teacupful of raw oysters; add salt
and pepper to taste and a dash of cayenne pepper. Put
in a saucepan with two teaspoonfuls of butter and three
teaspoonfuls of bread-crumbs. Heat until steaming and
then add half a teacupful of thick cream into which has
been beaten the yolk of an egg. Stir until the mixture
thickens. Remove from the fire and add five drops of
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lemon juice. When cold, spread between buttered

sandwich bread.

LOBSTER SANDWICHES
Mix the coral of the lobster with a little butter and
spread on thin slices of wheat bread. Dust with a lit-
tle paprika. Have half a cup of the lobster meat chop-
ped rather fine and mix with one tablespoonful of may-
onnaise. Put this between the buttered slices with a
lettuce leaf on each side. Press the slices together.
Serve on a small meat platter, garnished with lettuce
and olives.

BANANA SANDWICHES
Select one large very ripe banana, peel and slice very
thin and evenly. Sprinkle with one tablespoonful of
lemon juice. Add a little honey to white cream cheese
and spread on dainty rounds of bread instead of but-
ter. Place a layer of the sliced bananas between the
two slices. Preserved ginger and orange peel minced
fine and mixed with a little sweet cream may be used
for filling.

DILL SANDWICHES
Slice thin and spread with butter rye bread; on one-
half of bread spread thin chips of cold chicken, or
turkey, cover this with dill pickles, sliced very thin,
then cover with the other slice of bread, and butter;
press together; good for picnics and outings.

GRAHAM BREAD STRIPS

Take thin slices of graham bread and spread lightly
with butter and then with prepared mustard, then
grated cheese; press slices of bread firmly together,
cut in inch-wide strips, brown in the oven. To be eaten
with salads.
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DAINTY SANDWICHES
A sandwich which enjoys great vogue at New York
teas is easily made. Butter three slices of white bread
and two of graham. Lay light then dark on top of
one another alternately and press carefully together,
then cut like layer cake in pieces half an inch wide.

BOSTON SANDWICHES
Cut thin slices of Boston brown bread, in rounds, or
any odd shapes, spread them lightly with cream or
Neufchatel cheese, take a corresponding number of
slices and spread with olives and pimentos chopped
and mixed with salad dressing; press the slices together
with a leaf of crisp white lettuce between each sand-
wich.

TO MAKE BUTTERS FOR SANDWICHES

Rub the butter to a cream, blending any flavor de-
sired, such as anchovy, caviare, sardine, lobster,
cheese, parsley, cress, chives, horseradish, any of which
may be used.
 GARNISHES

For oysters, sardines, fish, roast veal or salads, lemon

slices a desirable garnish. For cold meats, chops
make
and cutlet, parsley or celery tops.
For decorating fowl nothing better than watercress
can be, used. Balls made of boiled rice with jelly on
each are attractive on a plate of cold meat.
In garnishing cold corned beef sliced gherkins and
large pickles sliced make an attractive garnish. For
game, cold tongue, fried oysters or roast veal, currant
jelly is used as garnish.
For oysters, sardines, fish, lemon
roast veal or salads,
slices make a desirable garnish. For cold meats,
chops, and cutlets, parsley, celery tops, or watercress,
or sliced green peppers.
If you wish to serve peas as an entree, cut out with
a cookie cutter a round of bread from an ordinary sized
slice of bread, then two rings with a doughnut cutter.
Dip them in melted butter and toast delicately brown
in the oven. Fill the cavities with peas cooked in a
delicatecream sauce.
For salads and jelly, orange cups, and oranges cut in
the shape of daisies make
a pretty garnish.
A pretty garnish for a dish of hash or fish or salad,
is eggs. Boil the eggs just hard enough to make them
shell easily, which takes about eight minutes of hard
boiling. Serve whole and hot.
Never under any circumstances serve a heavy soup at
a luncheon.
For poached eggs, cut the bread into rounds with a
large cake cutter before toasting. For small birds or
asparagus, remove the crusts and cut into oblong
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pieces. For minces and fricassees, cut into small

squares or diamonds. For a border, cut after toasting,
into inch and a half squares and then into halves diag-
onally, making triangles; or cut into long pointed tri-
angles.

A DAINTY CENTERPIECE
Scoop the pulp from oranges, fill the hollowed skins
with wine jelly, pile whipped cream on top. The or-
ange pulp can be used for cake, pudding or salads.

CHEESE SHELLS
Don't throw away the shell of the Edam or Pine-
apple cheese. It is most sightly for serving a cheese
or macaroni preparation. Cook the macaroni as de-
sired for the cheese shell, heat in moderate oven, pour
in food sprinkled with grated cheese and send to the
table on a doily covered plate.

DECORATIONS
The luncheon table apart from the center piece and
decorations should have as little as possible on it.
At each place should be a plate and napkin with a din-
ner roll tucked in its fold, two knives, two forks,
spoons, salt cellar, water glass, and if wines are served,
one for sherry and one for claret.

FINGER BOWLS'
Finger bowls with perfume and water and
filled
were in use long before the com-
floating flower bottles
ing of Christ. In the ceremonious course dinner of to-
day the finger bowl makes its appearance twice. It
is first presented after the salad.
 BEVERAGES
For a family of two there is nothing equal to the
Marion Harland coffee pot. The best way to clean a
"Marion Harland" coffee pot is to use good hot water
and soap suds. Never use strong alkali soaps or
washing sodas, or powders, or sand. A careful clean-
ing each time after use, with good, hot, soapy water
will keep your coffee pot in condition for years. Thor-
oughly scald and clean before using the first time.
After using, the pot and filter must be thoroughly dry
before the parts are again put together. It is a good
plan to air and dry the parts by placing the filter and
cover on the spout and handle. To keep the wire
gauze filter from clogging or filling up, it is absolute-
ly necessary that you use stiff brush for cleaning the
—
wire gauze a new tooth or nail brush answers admir-
ably. New filters or covers can be purchased from
your dealer, or will be sent by mail. Price for filters
35c, strainer for inside of filter 15c, cover 20c. When
ordering give number stamped on bottom of pot.
Be careful in buying coffee not to get too much at a
time, as it loses its flavor, no matter how well sealed.
For the small family get half a pound of coffee and
keep in an air tight glass jar.
Never put dry coffee into the coffee pot, it makes it

very hard to keep clean inside. A little cold water

should be poured in first, then the egg, and last the
coffee, then mix all together thoroughly.

COFFEE
Mix two tablespoonfuls of ground coffee with a tea-
spoonful of raw egg and two tablespoonfuls of cold
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water. Pour on this two cupfuls of boiling water, cover

closely, and let it boil up; then remove from the fire.
Let it stand a few minutes to settle, then strain into a
hot coffee pot through a damp cheese cloth laid on a
wire strainer.

FILTERED COFFEE

Place in the "Marion Harland" filter one table-

spoonful of fine ground coffee for each large cup of
coffee infusion you wish to make.
Place the strainer in position. Pour the required
quantity of fresh boiling water into the filter. Set the
pot on the fire to keep the water hot, but not to boil.
The beverage will be ready in ten or fifteen minutes.

FRENCH AFTER DINNER COFFEE

To make one pint of this infusion, take four table-
spoonfuls of ground coffee, previously warmed, and
make the coffee as per directions. When ready
pour the coffee- into small cups, and serve with
sugar only. It is very exhilarating.
French coffee differs from English breakfast coffee
only in that it is twice as strong.
To many Americans, French coffee will appear bit-
ter. This is on account of its strength.

BURNT COFFEE
This coffee should be served in small cups, and be
made as strong and clear as possible, and sweetened
almost to a syrup. At the last moment a little brandy
should be poured gently over it on a spoon, fire set to
it, and when the spirit is partly consumed, the flame

is blown out, and the coffee drunk quite hot. Allow

a cupful for each person.
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A DELIGHTFUL BEVERAGE FOR A HOT

SUMMER DAY
Make an infusion of very strong coffee, put it in an
earthen bowl, sweeten it agreeably to your taste, and
add to it an equal quantity of boiled milk, or a third
of rich cream. Surround the bowl with broken ice,

and let it stand till icy cold.

COFFEE CREAM
Make a large of strong, clear coffee, add
cupful
half a pint cream to it, beat them well
of boiling
together, sweeten with two tablespoonfuls of sugar,
and when cool add a small pinch of salt, the well-
beaten yolks of six eggs and the whites of two. Stir
the mixture over the fire for a few minutes to thicken
it, pour into glasses, and serve with a little sifted
sugar on the top of each glass. This is sufficient for
six or eight persons.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST COFFEE

Take freshly roasted berries, grind them at the
lastmoment, and make the powder hot in the oven.
To make six large sized cups of strong coffee, measure
into the filter cup one cup of ground coffee, pour
on the boiling water, and set by the fire. The bever-
age will be ready to serve in about fifteen minutes

TO MAKE TEA
Allow two teaspoonfuls of tea to one large cupful of
boiling water. Scald the teapot, put in the tea, pour
on about a cupful of boiling water, set it on the fire
in a warm place where it will not boil, but keep very
hot, to almost boiling; let it steep or "draw" ten or
twelve minutes. Now fill up with as much boiling wa-
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Beverages 1 3

ter asis required. Send hot to the table. It is better

to use a china or porcelain teapot, but if you do use
metal let it be tin, new, bright and clean; never use-
it when the tin is worn off and the iron exposed. If
you do you are drinking tea-ate of iron.
To make tea to perfection, boiling water must be
poured on the leaves directly it boils. Water which
has been boiling more than five minutes, or which has
previously boiled, should on no account be used. If
the water does not boil, or if it be allowed to overboil,
the leaves of the tea will be only half-opened and the
tea itself will be quite spoiled. The water should be al-
lowed to remain on the leaves from ten to fifteen min-
utes.

COLD TEA
Three tablesr3oonfuls of tea, six tablespoonfuls of
sugar; one pint of water, juice of one lemon and a
half. Let the tea stand in water over night. In the
morning strain and add the lemon juice and sugar. Al-
ter it has again stood an hour, strain again and
the tea is ready for the cracked ice. Serve in small
soda glasses.
COCOA
Three tablespoonfuls of cocoa to a half pint of wa-
ter, as much milk as water, sugar to taste. Rub the
cocoa smooth in a little cold water; have ready on the
fire half a pint of boiling water; stir in grated cocoa
paste. Boil fifteen minutes, add the milk and boil five
minutes more, stirring often. Sweeten in cups so as
to suit different tastes.

LEMON SYRUP
Take the juice of six lemons; grate the rind of three
in it, let it stand over night. Then take three pounds
of white sugar and make a thick syrup. When it is

quite cool strain the juice into it, and squeeze as

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much oil from the grated rind as will suit the taste.
Put into bottles, tightly corked, for future use. A
tablespoonful in a goblet of ice water will make a
delicious drink.

MILK PUNCH FOR INVALIDS

One-half pint of milk made very sweet, half a wine
glass of rum, stir well together. Grate a little nut-
meg over the top of the glasses. Serve with straws
in each glass.

WINE WHEY FOR INVALIDS

Sweeten to taste half a pint of milk, put in a double
boiler let come to a boil, throw in one glass of
and
cherry wine. When the curd forms, strain the whey
through a clean muslin bag into small soda glasses.

ORANGEADE
Juice of two oranges, two tablespoonfuls of powdered
sugar, four teaspoonfuls of lemon juice, one glass of
finely chopped ice, two glasses of water, shake well
in a large shaker. Serve in soda glasses, and dress
with fruit.

LIMEADE
Four tablespoonfuls of lemon syrup, two tablespoon-
fuls of lime juice. Pour over finely chipped ice in
mineral glasses. Sweeten to taste with powdered sug-

GRAPE-JUICEADE
Four tablespoonfuls of lemon syrup, four tablespoon-
fuls of grape juice, one glass of water; sweeten to
taste. Stir well and serve in mineral glasses with
straws.
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LEMON .EGGNOGG
Two tablespoonfuls of lemon syrup, two eggs, four
dashes of Angostura bitters, one teaspoonful of rum,
three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, one glass of
milk, and a cup of chipped ice. Shake well in shaker,
strain, and serve in soda glasses with straws.

DELMONICO'S EGG LEMONADE

Two fresh eggs, two tablespoonfuls lemon juice, one
and a half tablespoonfuls powdered sugar, one glass
of finely chipped ice. Shake well in shaker, strain, and
serve.

EGG-PINEAPPLE
Half a cup of pineapple syrup, one cup of sweet
cream, two eggs, one glass of chipped ice, three table-
spoonfuls and a half of powdered sugar. Shake and
serve in soda glasses with straws.

HOT EGG MILK

Two teaspoonfuls of sugar, one ounce cream, one egg,
hot milk to fill an eight-ounce mug. Top with whipped
cream and sprinkle with nutmeg. If there is no
facility for keeping hot milk, use about two ounces of
cream, and fill the mug with hot water.

MINT JULEP
Dampena small bunch of mint, dust with powdered
sugar, bruise slightly and pour over it a little boiling

water; allow this to draw, then strain into a tall, thin

glass quite filled with finely cracked ice; dress the
glass with sprigs of mint, and pour in enough brandy
to fill. Do not stir, but stand it away till thoroughly
cool. Serve with straws.
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HOT CLAM SODA

One teaspoonful of clam juice and a little cream;
fill stir with a spoon, and add salt
cup with hot water,
and pepper.

CREAM DE BEEF BOUILLON

Add one ounce of sweet cream to a cup of beef
bouillon and top with whipped cream and you have a
delicious drink.

DOROTHY ALE
Juice of one orange, three teaspoonfuls powdered
sugar, one egg, one ounce grape juice, one-fourth ounce
port wine, small quantity shaved ice; fill glass with
plain water; shake, put in lemonade glass, finish with a
slice of pineapple and a cherry.
 FOR THE CHAFING DISH
WELSH RAREBIT
One-half pint ale heated to boiling point, cut up fine
one pound ordinary cheese, beat one egg and add to
the cheese, together with two teaspoonfuls mustard,
one teaspoonful of salt, one saltspoonful of cayenne
pepper. Put all into the beer, stirring constantly, but
carefully, until smooth, but no longer. Serve at once
on toast or crackers.

ENGLISH RAREBIT
Cut finely a cup of cheese and crumb a cup of bread
crumbs, put in your chafing dish or frying pan a piece
of butter the size of a walnut, add the cheese and stir
it to a cream. Moisten the bread crumbs with a cup
of milk, thicken with three eggs well beaten. This
will serve six or eight persons.

CHEESE DREAMS
Cut thin slices of bread and spread with butter; be-
tween two slices of the bread sandwich a thin slice
of cream cheese. Fry quickly in butter in a chafing
dish or frying pan.

CHEESE SOUFFLE
Three cups of cheese, two eggs, one saltspoonful of
soda, one saltspoonful of salt, one saltspoonful of mus-
tard, one tablespoonful of butter, one-half cup of hot
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water, one teaspoonful of Worcestershire, one tea-
spoonful of lemon juice, and a little red pepper. Melt
the butter in the blazer over the hot water. Put in
the cheese, broken in small pieces, and add the sea-
soning. Dissolve the soda in the water and gradually
pour it in the melting cheese. Beat in the eggs sep-
arately until very light. Add a little cold water to the
yolk while beating, and stir them into the cheese. As
soon as smooth and creamy, put in the Worces-
it is

tershire and lemon juice. Whip in the white of the

egg last. Serve at once, on toast.

CHEESE AND HAM

To one cup of white sauce add one-haif cup chopped
ham, one-half cup of grated cheese, one-half teaspoon-
ful cayenne. Serve on toast.

SHRIMP WIGGLE
Make a white sauce of one tablespoonful of butter,
one tablespoonful of flour, one-half pint milk. When
thick add one-half can shrimps and one-half can green
peas. Serve when the shrimps and peas are hot.

NEW YORK CHAFED OYSTERS

Put one pint of oysters in a chafing dish, add butter
size of an egg, salt, pepper and Worcestershire sauce
to taste. When the oysters begin to heat, add flour a
little at a time, to prevent lumps, stirring well, until
the gravy is slightly thickened. Serve on hot plates.

SCALLOPED OYSTERS
Put layers of buttered bread crumbs, well seasoned
with salt and pepper, and layers of oysters in the blazer
over hot water. Have crumbs for the last layer.
Cover the pan and cook ten minutes.
 For the Chafing Dish 137

PIGS IN BLANKETS
Drain and wipe large oysters. Pin around each a thin
sliceof bacon. Fasten it with a wooden toothpick.
Cook them in the hot blazer until the bacon is brown
and crisp.
PANNED OYSTERS
Have the chafing dish hot and then turn in a pint
of oysters, which have been drained well, season with
salt, pepper and celery salt, adding butter, and when
the oysters begin to curl on the edges, serve on dry
toast.

LOBSTER A LA NEWBURG
One lobster, one cup of cream, red pepper, two table-
spoonfuls of butter, yolks of three eggs, three table-
spoonfuls of sherry, salt. Cut one large or two small
lobsters in small slices. Cut with a silver knife. Put
it in the blazer with the butter. Season with salt and
a dash of red pepper, and pour over the sherry. Cover
the pan and cook five minutes. Mix the beaten eggs
with the cream, and pour it on the lobster. Serve as
soon as it boils. Shrimp and hard-shelled crab may
be prepared the same.

CREAMED CHICKEN
Cold roast chicken or turkey, two cups of white
sauce and two tablespoonfuls of salad oil. Cut the
chicken or turkey in slices and dip them in the oil.
This should be done an hour before cooking in the
chafing dish. Then prepare the white sauce and cook
the chicken in it for about five minutes.

CREAMED CHICKEN AND MUSHROOMS

To one pint of cream or white sauce add one pint of
cold chicken chopped fine, and add one-half pint mush-
rooms. Heat and serve hot.
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SPRING CHICKEN
Take one spring chicken and split open, lay in cold
water for one hour; one-half Bermuda onion sliced
and one-fourth pound best butter. Braise the onion
to a delicate brown; one-half teaspoonful of paprika,
steam chicken thoroughly and braise and cover until
nearly done; do not break the chicken; put in one ta-
blespoonful flour, shake well, add one pint of rich
cream, let it come to a boil and season to taste, strain
the sauce and pour over the chicken and let it simmer
over a slow fire three-quarters of an hour; when ready
to serve add one gill of sparkling Tokay wine. Cook
in chafing dish.
FRIED CHICKEN
Cut the breast in pieces and lay in salt and water for
a short time, wipe dry and roll in flour; fry in hot lard
and butter, season with salt and pepper, fry parsley
also. Make a gravy of cream seasoned with salt and
pepper, a little mace and thicken with flour, in the pan
in which the chicken has been fried.

CREAMED SWEET BREADS AND PEAS

Make a white sauce from two tablespoonfuls of but-
ter. When melted, stir in two tablespoonfuls of flour,
and when well blended add gradually one pint of milk.
When thick, season with pepper and salt, then add one-
half pint of sweet-breads (boiled and cut in dice) and
one-half pint of green peas. Heat thoroughly and
serve.
CREAMED MUSHROOMS
Cook small mushrooms for ten minutes in a little
salted water. Drain them and add white sauce.

CREAMED EGGS WITH CHEESE

Cook three eggs until hard, slice when cold into one
cup of white sauce. When boiling hot stir in carefully
 For the Chafing Dish 139

two tablespoonfuls grated cheese and season with cay-

enne. Serve on rounds of toast.

STEWED KIDNEYS
Split the kidneys and cut each in three pieces. Brown
them in butter. Stir flour and water in the pan to
make a brown sauce, and cook the kidneys m this for
ten minutes.

BROILED LAMB CHOPS

Have rib chops, with the bones removed, rolled into
rosettes. Broil in the hot blazer from eight to ten
minutes, turning them several times. Season with
salt, pepper and butter. Broiled tomatoes should ac-
company this dish.

BROILED TOMATOES
Cut large tomatoes in thick slices, without peeling.
Sprinkle them with a little salt, pepper and sugar and
roll them in cracker dust. Put a tablespoonful of but-
ter in the blazer, and put in the slices of tomato. Turn
frequently until done.

FRIED TOMATOES
Slice the tomatoes as for broiling, dredge with flour,
fry a light brown in butter, lay them in a hot chafing
dish. the butter in the spider add a little more
To
butter,add as much flour as you did butter, stir well
and add milk or cream, season to taste and pour over
the tomatoes. It is best to serve either fried or broiled
tomatoes in a chafing dish, as they cook very quickly.

DEVILED TONGUE
Sprinkle slices of tongue with mustard and red pep-
per, and pour over a little salad oil. Place the slices
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together in one pile, and let them remain an hour.
Then brown them in hot butter. Serve with slices of
brown bread.
BROWN SAUCE
One tablespoonful of butter, one tablespoonful of
flour, one tablespoonful of onion juice, two cups of
beef stock. Cook the onion, butter and flour until it is
brown, add the stock, and season the gravy. Beef
extract and water may be used instead of stock.
 BREAKFAST FOODS
VITOS BREAKFAST FOOD
Stir one cup of Vitos into one quart, or four cups,
of boiling water, salt to taste and boil IS minutes.
Serve with cream and sugar. Best results are obtained
by using double boiler.

FRIED VITOS MUSH

When cold, slice, dip in beaten egg and fry. Serve
with syrup.

CREAMED VITOS
To two and one-half cupfuls boiling water add one
teaspoonful of salt and stir in slowly one cupful of
Pillsbury's Vitos. Let this boil five minutes, stirring
all the time, then put it in a double boiler, add two
cupfuls milk and let it cook for thirty minutes. Serve
hot with cream.

VITOS WHEAT FOOD WITH APPLES

Core apples, leaving large cavities; pare and cook
until soft insyrup made by boiling sugar and water
together. Fill cavities with Pillsbury's Vitos mush
and serve with sugar and cream. The syrup should
be saved and re-used.

STEAMED OATMEAL
One teacupful of oatmeal, one quart of cold water
and a teaspoonful of salt; gradually heat and steam
one hour and three quarters after it begins to cook.
Serve with cream and sugar.
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CRACKED WHEAT
Soak one teacup of cracked wheat in not quite a
quart of cold water over night; boil half an hour in the
morning in a double boiler; add a teaspoonful of salt;
serve with sugar and cream.

BOILED RICE
Take one teacupful of rice and one quart of fresh
milk; place in a steamer, and steam from two to three
hours, when nearly done, stir in a piece of butter the
size of a butter ball and a pinch of salt. Serve with
cream and sugar.
 PIES

All of the materials must be as cool as possible.

Pastry flour should be used.
The following fats may be used alone or in combina-
tions of two: butter, butterine, lard, cottolene, beef
drippings. The fat should not be cut very fine, if a
flaky crust is desired. Baking powder is sometimes
used.
The dough should be mixed with a knife and not
touched with the hands. It should be rolled in one
direction only, and on one side, using but little flour.
The d6ugh is rolled thin and baked until brown.
All pies made with fresh fruit should be made with-
out an under-crust, and cooked in a deep earthenware
plate. Fill the plate very full. If sugar is used with
fruit pies, it should be placed on the bottom of the
pie plate. Meat and oyster-pies should also be made
without any under crust. The crust should be cut
in several places to allow the steam to escape.
If an under crust is used, this crust should be baked
on the out side of a tin plate, then filled. In this case,
the crust must be pricked all over with a fork so that
it may keep its shape.

If two crusts are used, the lower one should be mois-

tened around the edge with cold water, then a half-
inch strip of paste should be placed around the edge of
the under-crust. This strip should also be moistened
and the upper crust placed over the pie and pressed
slightly around the edge.
The pastemay be made the day before using, then
covered and placed on ice. It rolls more easily if
placed on ice after mixing.
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PIE CRUST
One even cupful of flour,and one teaspoonful of
salt. Sift several times. Cut into the flour half a cup
of ice cold lard, and ad,d four tablespoonfuls of ice
cold water; stir with a spoon. Divide the paste in
two equal parts, roll out one part for the under crust.
The other half roll out an eighth of an inch thick, dot
it with a teaspoonful and a half of butter, dredge very

lightly with flour, fold up to the smallest size pos-

sible, pat with the rolling pin, and roll out once, press-
ing the rolling pin this way and that. Slash with a
knife any design you like, lay upon the fruit in the pan,
pinch the edges together; trim. Bake in hot oven.

PIE CRUST FOR ONE PIE

One large cup flour, one-half cup shortening (lard
and butter mixed) rubbed through the hands into the
flour, a little salt and wet with ice-cold water to make
the dough just so it can be handled; flour the board
or what is better a marble slab. Divide the crust in
two parts and cover the plate, reserving the rest for
upper crust. This is a plain crust and just enough for
one pie. Especially good for fruit pies.

PLAIN PASTRY
One and one-fourth cupfuls of pastry flour, one-
fourth teaspoonful of salt, one-third cupful of fat and
butter, one-half of each, ice water. Mix in the order
given.

MINCE MEAT
One-half cupful of mixed candied citron, lemon and
orange peels, one-half cupful of suet, one and one-
half cupfuls of mixed raisins and currants, one and
one-half cupfuls of chopped apples, one cupful of
cooked beef chopped fine, one heaping tablespoonful
 Pies 145

and half of molasses, three tablespoonfuls of brown

sugar, one teaspoonful and a half of mixed spices.
(Nutmeg, allspice, cloves, cinnamon and black pep-
per.) Add three pinches of salt, half a cupful of
brandy and half a cupful of cider, mixed. Cover the
raisins with cold water and seed them. Wash and pick
over the currants, cover both raisins and currants with
cold water and cook slowly until the water has boiled
away. Add the candied fruit and suet chopped fine,
sugar, molasses, spices and cider, boil slowly one hour
and ten minutes, stirring quite often. Mix apples and
beat together, add salt and other ingredients, cook
thoroughly fifteen minutes. Put away in jar in a cool
place until wanted. This makes one large pie. Before
covering the pie, it is a good idea to lay on top a few
nut meats, either hickory or English walnuts. Mine
meat should stand at least three days before using.

APPLE PIE
Wipe and cut tart apples into eighths; remove the
cores and skins. Vary the amount of sugar according
to the acidity of the apples, using two tablespoonfuls
or more for an apple. If the apples are not juicy, add
from one-half tablespoonful to one tablespoonful wa-
ter, according to the size of the apple.
The apples may be flavored with lemon juice, cin-
namon or nutmeg, and should be covered with bits of
butter. Bake until the apples are soft and the crust is
brown. Apple sauce may be used on a baked crust.

GRANDMOTHER'S APPLE PIE

One pint of flour and one teaspoonful salt, one table-
spoonful of lard and two of butter, six tablespoonfuls
of ice water, five good sized tart apples, one and one-
half cupfuls sugar, butter the size of a walnut, one-
half cupful water and either cinnamon, nutmeg or all-
spice to suit the taste. Put flour, salt, lard and butter
146 Just for Two

into a chopping bowl and chop until the lard and but-
ter are like small sized peas; then add the water with-
out mixing; turn out on the board and roll and fold
over. Continue to do so until the crust is smooth, then
line the pie-tin and fill with sliced apples and spice. Do
not put on a particle of sugar. Then the upper crust
with a slit cut in it; bake. Put on the fire the sugar, wa-
ter and butter; boil fifteen minutes or until it thickens,
then pour through the slit you have made in the pie
before it was baked. This sweetens the pie, the crust
is not soggy, and the juice does not run out in the

oven while baking as in the old way.

APPLE LEMON PIE

Two chopped fine, two eggs beaten, juice
tart apples
of two lemons, grated rind of one, one cup of sugar,
a pinch of salt. Bake between two crusts.

LEMON PIE
One-fourth cupful flour, one cupful sugar, one cup-
ful of boiling water, juice and rind of one lemon,
four tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, four teaspoon-
fuls of butter,two eggs. Beat the yolks of eggs until
light. Mix the sugar and flour together. Add the boil-
ing water slowly. Cook twenty minutes, stirring fre-
quently, add the mixture to the egg, add butter and
lemon, and cook until the egg thickens. When the
mixture is cool, place it in a baked crust. Cover with
a meringue, and bake until a delicate brown.

SMALL LEMON PIE

Moisten one heaping tablespoonful of corn starch
with a little water, add a cupful of boiling water. Stir
over the fire until it boils three minutes; add a tea-
spoonful of butter and one cupful of sugar. Take off
the fire and when slightly cooled, add one beaten egg
and the juice and grated rind of one lemon. Bake with
a crust.
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CREAM PIE
Yolks of two eggs, two tablespoonfuls of corn starch,
two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and one pint of rich milk.
Flavor to the taste; put the yolks and whites together,
or spread the whites over the top of the pie.

WHIPPED CREAM PIE

Line a pie plate with a rich crust and bake quickly
in a hot oven. When done, spread with a thin layer
of jelly or jam, then whip one cupful of thick sweet
cream until it is as light as possible; sweeten with pow-
dered sugar and flavor with vanilla; spread over the
jelly or jam; set the cream where it will get very cold
before whipping.

BAKERS' CUSTARD PIE

Beat up the yolks of three eggs to a cream. Stir
thoroughly a tablespoonful of sifted flour into three
tablespoonfuls of sugar; this separates the particles of
flour so that there will be no lumps; then add to it
the beaten yolks, put in a pinch of salt, a teaspoonful
of vanilla and a little grated nutmeg; next the well-
beaten whites of the eggs; and, lastly a pint of scalded
milk (not boiled) which has been cooled; mix this in
by degrees and turn all into a deep pie-pan lined with
puff paste, and bake from twenty-five to thirty min-
utes.

CHERRY PIE
Line your pie tin with good crust, fill half full with
ripe stoned cherries; sprinkle over them one cupful
of sugar, one teaspoonful of flour sifted, dots of butter
here and there. Now fill the crust to the top with more
cherries. Cover with the upper crust and bake. This
is a most delicious pie.
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FIG PIE
Stew one dozen large figs in one teacupful of water
and one-half teacupful of sharp vinegar. Stew the figs
until soft, then add a half teaspoonful of butter, sugar
to taste and a little flour. Bake with an under and
upper crust.

RASPBERRY PIE
Line a shallow pudding dish, or deep plate, with pie
crust and fill with berries, a cup of granulated sugar

mixed with one tablespoonful of flour. Cover with a

tolerably thick sheet of crust; make several incisions
for the escaping steam; bake until crusts are a delicate
brown. Serve cool.

CRANBERRY PIE
Take fine,sound, ripe cranberries and with a sharp
knife split each one until you have a heaping coffee
cupful; put them in a vegetable dish or basin; put over
them one cupful of white sugar, half a cup of water,
a tablespoonful of sifted flour; stir it all together
and put into your crust. Cover with an upper crust
and bake slowly in a moderate oven. You will find
this the true way of making a cranberry pie.

PIE PLANT PIE

Wash and skin the pie plant, and cut in inch length
pieces, put in granitepan and cover with cold water
and heat to boiling and drain off the water; to two
cupfuls of pie plant add one cupful sugar, a table-
spoonful of flour mixed. Line the plate with paste,
put in the pie plant and cover with thin crust with
slashes for steam to escape, and keep the juice from
running out while cooking. Bake till the crust is a
delicate brown.
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PUMPKIN PIE
Select a small fine grained pumpkin. Steam it until
perfectly tender, then press through a colander. To a
pint of the sifted pumpkin add one quart of rich milk,
three well beaten eggs, tea cup of sugar, one tablespoon-
ful of ginger, one teaspoonful cinnamon, and a half
teaspoonful of salt. Stir all together. Line two deep
pie tins with good pastry, pour in the mixture, sift a
little sugar and a dusting of nutmeg over the top and
bake until firm in the center and a golden brown in
color.
SQUASH PIE
Take one part of a Hubbard squash, cut in half,
scrape out the seeds and peel. Put into a saucepan
and cover with salt water. Mash fine; one good cupful
will make a pie. Use the other as a vegetable. Beat
the yolk of one egg with four tablespoonfuls of sugar,
a half teaspoonful of ground ginger, three pinches of
salt, and two-thirds of a cup of hot milk; pour on
slowly, stirring all the time. Add a teaspoonful and a
half of butter and a heaping cupful of hot mashed
squash, a scant teaspoonful of flour, three pinches of
grated nutmeg. Beat all together, add the white of
the egg beaten to a froth. Beat thoroughly, and pour
in pie pan; sprinkle a little brown sugar over the top.
Bake in a hot oven ten minutes.
 Cream of Carrot Soup.
Celery. Wafers. Olives.
Roast Turkey with Gravy.
Mashed White Potatoes. Stewed Tomatoes.
Lingham Berries. Quince Jelly.
Lemon Ice.

Water Cress Salad.

Cheese Wafers.
Plum Pudding or Pumpkin Pie.

Nuts. Raisins.
Black Coffee.
 CAKES
RULES FOR CAKE MAKING
In making cake, accuracy in measuring the ingredi-
ents is absolutely necessary. Success follows those
who give strict attention to detail. The baking is
usually the most difficult part. Eggs must be per-
fectly fresh; butter sweet, and flour fine. Butter
cakes, as pound cake, cup cake and fruit cake, must
be baked in a very moderate oven (220°Fahr.), while
layer cakes may be baked more quickly (from 280°
to 300° Fahr.), Angels' food and sunshine cake
should be placed in a very cool oven (212° Fahr.),
the heat increased slowly for three-quarters of an
hour, browning at the last. Do not beat the butter,
sugar and eggs in a tin basin; it scours the basin, but
discolors the materials. Use a wooden spoon and a
white enameled bowl.
Measure everything before beginning.
Always separate the whites and yolks of the eggs,
unless the recipe specifically directs otherwise.
Beat the butter to a cream before adding the sugar;
then beat the sugar and butter until very light before
adding the eggs.
When a recipe calls for a teaspoonful of baking
powder, it always means a rounding spoonful, unless
otherwise stated.
Each teaspoonful of baking powder may be replaced
by a half teaspoonful of soda (level) and a level tea-
spoonful ot cream of tartar sifted with the flour
three or four times.
I52 Just for Two
must be per-
Dried fruits,as currants and raisins,
floured, and added to the cakes
fectly dean and well
at the last moment.
cake is
If fruits sink to the bottom of the cake, the
thick to hold them in place; add more
not sufficiently
flour to the batter.
pint.
Cups used for measuring hold a half
greasing cake pans.
Suet is the best material for
burns easily, sticks and holds the cake to
the
Butter
pan. . .

is mixed.
Have the oven ready as soon as the cake
a mod-
Cookies, thin small cakes as wafers, require
Fahr.); molasses cakes, a
erately quick oven (240
very moderate oven; as they scorch easily.

If you are without a thermometer,

and must guess
oven (a most unsatisfactory way),
at the heat of the
and you find it too hot, quickly lift the lids of the
stove and put a pan of cold water in the oven. Cakes
baked too quickly at first will come up in the center,
crack and run over the sides of the pan.. It is im-

possible to keep them in shape.

Do not jar the stove, or open and close the oven
door until the center of the cake is "set."
Do not cover a cake with paper; the paper burns
and spoils the flavor of the cake.
Regulate your oven. If necessary to look at a cake
while baking, do it as quickly as possible, and open
and close the door carefully.
In recipes, where time is given for baking, remem-
ber it is guaged by a thermometer, and it is impos-
sible for you to follow it correctly without one. Be
careful then that the cake is thoroughly done before
you take it from the oven. If it is not, it will tick
loudly when you put your ear to it, and will tall
when taken out, having a heavy streak near the bot-
tom.
 Cakes 153

It is always well to line the pans with greased

paper for fruit cake, pound cake, wedding cake and
cakes rich with butter.
When a cake is done, turn it gently on a cake sieve
and allow it to cool. Do not handle it while hot.
Do not melt or warm the butter until it is oily. It
may be slightly softened in warm water.

PLAIN LAYER CAKE

Cream one butter ball and one cupful of sugar, two
eggs, beaten separately; mix yolks and sugar and but-
ter together. Add one cup of milk, one cup and a half
of flour and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, sifted.
Add the beaten whites last.
Filling. —
One egg well beaten, one-half cup of sugar,
two tablespoonfuls of flour, mix together; one and one-
fourth cups of milk, let milk come to a boil. Add one
teaspoonful of vanilla.

CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE

One cupful of sugar, two cupfuls of flour, one cupful
of milk, four eggs, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
flavor to suit taste.
Filling —
and Icing One-half cupful of grated choc-
olate, one large cupful of sugar, one-fourth cupful of
milk, butter the size of an English walnut. Mix and
put on the stove to boil. It should not be stirred while
boiling. Boil ten minutes and then set off and let cool,
stirring occasionally. When cool put between and
on top of the cake. If it is not thick enough, put back
on stove and cook a little more.

MAPLE LAYER CAKE

Melt one-third of a cake of chocolate over hot
water. Dissolve one teaspoonful of baking soda in
one-half a cup of warm water. Beat one-half a cup
154 Just for Two

of butter to a cream, add two well beaten eggs with

out separating, and now beat in gradually two cups of
maple sugar, and beat for ten minutes. Add the soda
and water to one cup of thick sour milk, add this with
the melted chocolate to the egg mixture; now stir in
two cups and a half of sifted flour. Beat all well to-
gether and bake in three layers. When cold put
together with maple or caramel filling.

COCOANUT CAKE
Cream together three-quarters of a cup of butter and
two of white sugar, then add one cup of sweet milk,
four eggs, whites and yolks separately beaten, the
yolks added first to the butter and sugar, then the
whites. Flavor with lemon or vanilla. Mix three
heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder in three cups
of sifted flour and add last. Bake in jelly pans.
—
For Filling. Make an icing by beating the whites of
three eggs and a cup of powdered sugar to a stiff froth,
When the cake is cooled, spread a thick layer of this
frosting over each cake, arid sprinkle very thickly with
grated cocoanut.

ORANGE CAKE
Beat a cup of butter to a cream; add a cup and a
half of granulated sugar; beat and mix well. Beat four
eggs, the lighter the better; add these; then add one
cup of milk; stir well; sift two cupfuls of flour in which
are two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; add, mix well
and beat.
Grease three layer pans with lard, pour in the mix-
ture and cook fifteen minutes in a quick oven. To the
rind and juice of one orange, add the white of one egg,
and sufficient powdered sugar to make a stiff frosting.
Use this also as filling between the layers. If desired,
an orange may be divided into sections and the frost-
ing decorated with these. This cake is delicious.
 Cakes 155

ANGEL CAKE
The whites of six eggs, three-fourths cup of flour,
three-fourths cup of sugar, one-half teaspoonful cream
of tartar, and a pinch of salt. Flavor according to
taste and bake in a small sized angel cake tin.
Directions. —Sift flour seven times and sugar seven
times. Put the cream of tartar and salt in the flour the
last time you sift it. Have your oven ready. It must
be moderately cool and even. Now beat the eggs
quickly to a stiff froth, add the sugar gradually while
stirring rapidly and lastly add the flour gradually, still
stirring rapidly and put in the tin and bake forty min-
utes in a quiet room. Let cake cool a little before tak-
ing it from the pan. When testing cake to see if it is
baked enough, use a broom straw.

WHITE SPONGE CAKE

Whites of five eggs, one cupful of flour, one cupful
of sugar, one teaspoonful of baking powder. Flavor
with vanilla. Bake in a hot oven quickly.

CREAM SPONGE CAKE

This cake can be made in twenty-five minutes.
Beat together two eggs and three-fourths of a cup
of granulated sugar very light; add five tablespoon-
fuls of boiling water. Be sure that the water is
boiling. Beat slightly and add one cupful of flour, sift-
ed twice, with one teaspoonful of baking powder and
a saltspoonful of salt. Flavor slightly with lemon.
Beat until the flour is absorbed but no longer, bake
in jelly cake pans in a quick oven twelve minutes.
Whip one cup of cream stiff; sweeten with powdered
sugar, a spoonful at a time while beating. When
sweet enough flavor with lemon to taste. Put
part of it on the bottom of one cake; lay the other
156 Just for Two

cake on with the top up; then put the remainder ot

the cream in a pastry bag containing a tube in the end
and decorate the surface with dots of cream.

LEMON SPONGE LAYER CAKE

Four eggs, two cupfuls of sugar, two cupfuls of flour,
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, three-fourths cup-
ful of boiling water. Beat the yolks and sugar till very
light, add flour and whites alternately, and, just before
putting in the oven stir in the boiling water. Bake in
a large pan or in layers.
Icing—White of one egg, large cup of sugar, the
grated rind and juice of half a lemon. Spread between
the layers and ice over the top.

WHIPPED CREAM CAKE

Three-fourths cup of sugar, three eggs well beaten,
one cup flour, one large teaspoonful baking powder,
bake in a flat tin; when cold split with a sharp knife,
and spread with a good cup of cream (measure before
whipping) whipped stiff and seasoned with vanilla and
sweetened to taste.

SNOW CAKE
One pound of arrowroot, quarter of a pound of pow-
dered sugar, half a pound of the very best butter, the
whites of six eggs, flavor with essence of almonds or-
lemon. Beat the butter to a cream, stir in the sugar
and arrowroot gradually, at the same time beating the
mixture; beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth,
add them to the other and beat well for twenty-five
minutes. Then put in the flavoring. Pour the cake
into a buttered mould and bake in a moderate oven
for one and a half hours.
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YALE CAKE
Beat the yolks of eight eggs with one cupful of sugar
and three-fourths of a cupful of butter which has been
creamed, two cupfuls of sifted flour, half a teaspoonful
of soda in half a cupful of sweet, milk. When well
mixed bake in a shallow pan.

MARBLE CAKE
—
White Part. Whites of four eggs, one cup of white
sugar, half a cup of butter, half a cup of sweet milk,
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teaspoonful of
vanilla orlemon and two and half cups of sifted flour.
—
Dark Part. Yolks of four eggs, one cup of brown
sugar, half a cup of cooking molasses, half a cup of
butter, half a cup of sour milk, one teaspoonful of
ground cloves, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one tea-
spoonful of mace, one nutmeg grated, one teaspoonful
of soda, the soda to be dissolved in a little milk and
added after part of the flour is stirred in, one and a
half cups of sifted flour.
Drop a spoonful of each kind in a well-buttered
cake-dish, first the light part, then the dark, alternately.
Try to drop it so that the cake shall be well-streaked
through, so that it has the appearance of marble.

DEVIL'S FOOD
Part 1st. Two-thirds of a cup of chocolate shaved,
two-thirds of a cup of brown sugar, half a cup of
sweet milk, one teaspoonful of vanilla. Put the choc-
olate and sugar on the stove. Add the milk slowly,
stirring constantly; cook until smooth. Add the vanil-
la when taken from the stove. Put in a pan of cold
water to cool.
Part 2nd. One-half cup of butter, and one cup of
brown sugar creamed; add two eggs and beat until
light. Add the cooled chocolate and beat well, then
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add one-half cup of milk, one teaspoonful of soda sifted

with two cups of flour. Beat hard, line the tin with
oiled paper or butter the tin. Bake in two layers.
Chocolate Cream Filling. Six tablespoonfuls of
grated or shaved chocolate, enough milk or cream to
moisten, one cupful of sugar, one egg beaten. Stir the
ingredients over the fire until smooth. Take from the
stove and add vanilla. When cool put between and on
top of the cake.

BLACK CHOCOLATE CAKE

One cup of sugar, two cups of flour, two-thirds full,
two eggs, two even teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar,
one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of milk, one even
teaspoonful of soda, one even teaspoonful of vanilla.
Mix as usual and add the following mixture: One-half
cake of Baker's chocolate, one-quarter of a cup of
sugar (scant), two-thirds of a cup of milk, one tea-
spoonful of vanilla, one egg. Cut the chocolate in
pieces and put in a saucepan with the milk, stirring all
the while. When dissolved add the egg beaten with
the sugar. When cooked thick as mustard add to cake
mixture and bake. Ice with thick white icing. The
mixture will look very soft when ready for the oven,
but do not add more flour, as the softer it is, the nicer
the cake will be.

RICH FRUIT CAKE

Two scant teacupfuls of butter, three cupfuls of
dark brown sugar, six eggs, whites and yolks beaten
separately, one pound of raisins, seeded, one of cur-
rants, washed and and half pound of citron cut
dried,
in thin strips; also half a cupful of
cooking molasses
and half a cupful of sour milk. Stir the butter and
sugar to a cream, add to that half a grated nutmeg,
one tablespoonful of ground cinnamon, one teaspoon-
ful of cloves, one teaspoonful of mace, add the mo-
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lasses and sour milk. Stir all well; then put in the
beaten yolks of eggs, a wine-glass of brandy; stir
again all thoroughly, and then add four cupfuls of
sifted flour alternately with the beaten whites of eggs.
Now dissolve a level teaspoonful of soda and stir in
thoroughly. Mix the fruit together and stir into it two
heaping tablespoonfuls of flour; then stir it in the
cake. Butter two common-sized baking tins carefully,
line them with letter paper well buttered, and bake
in a moderate oven two hours. After it is baked, let
it cool in the pan. Afterward put it into a tight can,
or let it remain in the pans and cover it tightly. Best
recipe of all.

MOLASSES CAKES
Cream one half cup of butter and one half cup
of sugar together, add one cup of very dark molasses,
one half cup of sour milk, one-eighth of a teaspoon-
ful of salt, one teaspoonful ginger, one-half teaspoon-
ful of cinnamon, one-fourth teapoonful each of cloves
and nutmeg, one teaspoonful soda sifted with one cup
of flour, and enough flour to make a very soft dough;
mix all together thoroughly, and roll out one-fourth
of an inch thick, cut in round or fancy cakes, press a
raisin or nut-meat in the center and bake in quite a
hot oven. They can also be covered with any frosting
one prefers.

STRAWBERRY SHORT CAKE

Two cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder,
one-half teaspoon two teaspoonfuls sugar, three-
salt,
quarters cup milk, one-quarter cup butter, strawber-
ries.
Mix the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar and sift
twice. Work in the butter with tips of the fingers
and add the milk gradually. Toss on a floured board,
divide into two parts, pat and roll out. Bake in two
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layers, one on top of the other, with butter between;

when open with a knife. Sweeten strawberries
cool,
to taste. Crush slightly and put between and on top
of the short cake. Cover the top with whipped cream,
sweetened and flavored with vanilla.
To one-half pint thick cream, add one-quarter cup
milk and beat until stiff with the egg beater. Add one-
quarter cup powdered sugar and one-quarter teaspoon-
ful vanilla. Serve at once.
The cream may be omitted. Other fruits may be
substituted.
CINNAMON BARS
One pound of light brown sugar, four eggs; half a
cup of blanched almonds, shredded; peel one lemon,
and grate the rind, one tablespoonful cinnamon, one
teaspoonful ground cloves; one pound of flour. Cream
the sugar and eggs one hour, add the almonds and
lemon, cinnamon, and cloves, mix thoroughly, add
the flour, roll out very thin, cut in long bars, and bake
until brown.

GRANDMOTHER'S SOFT GINGERBREAD

Take two eggs, one teacupful of molasses, one of
sugar, one of butter, one of sour milk, one-half table-
spoonful of soda, one tablespoonful of ginger. Mix
and bake in slow oven twenty-five minutes.
stiff,

BROD TORTE
Four tablespoonfuls of chopped almonds, rind of one
lemon, four tablespoonfuls of citron, twelve eggs,
beaten separately, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, half
a teaspoonful of cardamon, one teaspoonful each of
cloves and mace, one small cup of sifted stale graham
bread crumbs, which moisten with one glass of wine,
one cup of sugar. Mix the beaten whites of eggs in
last, and bake in a slow oven one hour. This is a Ger-
man holiday cake and very fine.
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CARAMEL FROSTING
One cup of brown sugar, one cup of pulverized sug-
ar, one-half cup of milk, butter the size of a walnut,
four squares of Baker's chocolate, one teaspoonful of
lemon essence, one teaspoonful of vanilla essence. Put
the sugar and chocolate in a saucepan with milk and
boil until melted; add the butter and boil until it
shreds; add the essences and beat until it is thick
enough to spread upon the cake.
CARAMEL FILLING
Boil in a granite sauce pan without stirring, three
cups of brown sugar, one cup of cream and one heap-
ing teaspoonful of butter. Let cook until when dropped
in cold water it is hard enough to be waxy. Stir
only on the bottom to keep from burning, then set
in a pan of cold water and as it hardens, spread it
on the cake while it is still soft enough to spread.
It will settle into a smooth surface almost instantly.

BANANA FILLING
Make an icing of the whites of two eggs and one and
one-half cups of powdered sugar. Spread this on the
layers, and then cover thickly and entirely with ban-
anas sliced thin or chopped fine. This cake may be
flavored with vanilla. The top should be simply
frosted.

FIG FILLING
Chop one pound of figs fine, add to the figs one-
half cup sugar and one cup of hot water, stew
of
until soft and smooth. Spread between the layers
and ice the whole cake with boiled icing.
LEMON FILLING
Cream one cupful of sugar and two tablespoonfuls
of butter, two eggs; beat sugar, butter and eggs well,
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then add the juice of two large lemons, juice only, beat
all together and boil until the mixture is
of the con-
sistency of jelly. Let cool, and spread between layers

and on top. Oranges can be used instead of lemons.

BROWN COOKIES
Two cupfuls of brown sugar, half a cupful each of
lard and butter, two eggs, and one cupful of strong hot
coffee in which dissolve one scant teaspoonful of soda,
one teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg,
and as many chopped raisins, citron, and nuts as you
desire. Thicken with flour and drop from spoon in
little round cakes. Bake in moderate oven.

SUGAR JUMBLES
Cream one cup of butter, and two cups of sugar,
three eggs; beaten slightly, three-fourths of a cup of
milk, one-fourth of a teaspoonful of nutmeg, one tea-
spoonful of vanilla or rose extract; two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder, sifted with one cup of flour, adding
enough flour to make a very soft dough. Roll out
one-half inch thick, using as little flour as possible; cut
with hole in center, and bake, remove from oven as
soon as done, sprinkle with granulated sugar and
arrange raisins around the cookie near the center.

OATMEAL COOKIES
Two cupfuls of flour, two cupfuls of Quaker oats,
two eggs, one cupful of sugar and one cupful of short-
ening, (butter, lard, suet, or both), one teaspoonful of
salt, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one teaspoonful of
soda sifted in the flour, and one cupful of raisins. When
all stirred together, drop on the tin in drops the size of
an English walnut. Bake in a hot oven. These will
keep for months in a covered butter jar.
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SOUR CREAM COOKIES

Take one cup of butter, one cup and a half of sugar,
two eggs, one cup of sour cream and one teaspoonful
of soda. Beat sugar and butter to a cream, add the
two beaten eggs, mix soda with cream and add flour
enough to roll out thin. Sprinkle lightly with sugar,
cut, and bake in quick oven.

MRS. B.'S COOKIES

Two cups of sugar, four beaten eggs, two and a half
cups of flour, one-quarter teaspoonful of ground cloves,
one teaspoonful of cinnamon, two ounces of citron,
three ounces of chopped almonds, two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder. Beat eggs and sugar and add other
ingredients. Roll out thin and cut into diamond shape
and let stand over night. In the morning take whites
of two eggs, beat slightly, then add enough pulverized
sugar to stiffen, spread over cookies and bake in a slow
oven. Fine.

ROCK COOKIES
Cream one cup of butter, and one cup of granulated
sugar sifted, two eggs well beaten, beat butter, sugar,
and eggs fifteen minutes, add one cup of sifted flour
mixed with one teaspoonful of baking powder; one
half pound seeded raisins, one half pound chopped al-
monds, and three tablespoonfuls of brandy. Add
enough flour to make a soft batter, drop from spoon
on buttered paper, and bake in a quick oven.

COCOANUT DROPS
Beat the whites of two eggs, add half a cupful of
sugar, one tablespoonful of flour, one cupful of cocoa-
nut; mix lightly and drop on oiled paper, and bake in
a very moderate oven.
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ALMOND MACAROONS
One cupful and three quarters of chopped almonds,
one cupful and three-quarters of powdered sugar,
whites of three eggs, one heaping teaspoonful of cin-
namon. Beat eggs very stiff, and add other ingredi-
ents, drop on paraffined pan and bake in a very moder-
ate oven.

PARIS STICKS
One and three-quarters cupfuls of chopped almonds,
one cupful of pulverized sugar, the whites of two eggs
beaten to a stiff froth, the grated rind of one lemon.
Mix the ingredients and roll out on pulverized sugar;
cut into strips an inch wide and put into paraffined
pans. Bake in a slow oven. Excellent.

ALMOND STRIPS
Mix one cup of almonds, chopped fine, with the
white of one egg slightly beaten, two tablespoonfuls
of powdered sugar. Roll out puff paste very thin,
three inches wide and ten inches long, cover with the
almond nut mixture, cut into long strips, bake until a
light brown.

PUFF PASTE
One cup of butter; two cups of pastry flour; ice-
water to moisten. Wash butter thoroughly, reserve
two tablespoonfuls, shape remainder into round cake
one half inch thick, on floured board. Work the
two tablespoonfuls butter, into the two cups pastry
flour with the tips of fingers, adding enough ice water
to moisten into dough. Knead on floured board one
minute, cover with napkin, place in a pan on ice ten
minutes, roll into oblong squares one-fourth inch
thick, spread the butter on lower half, cover with up-
per half, press edges together, fold right side of paste
 Cakes 165

over and left side under, cover and chill five minutes,
turn half-way round, roll one-fourth inch thick, dredge
with flour to prevent sticking, fold from each side,
chill again five minutes. Repeat twice, turning half
way round each time, fold from ends to center, mak-
ing three layers, put between pans of ice covered with
napkins, do not let paste touch the ice. When the
paste is thoroughly chilled it is ready to roll out.

SOPHIA'S LADYFINGERS
One cup two eggs, beaten separately, one-
of sugar,
half cup of hickory nuts chopped fine, one teaspoon-
ful of baking powder, the grated rind of one lemon.
Mix sugar and yolks, add the nuts and whites of eggs
and flour enough to roll out, sprinkle lightly with
sugar, cut into strips three inches long and one inch
wide, and bake in moderate oven. Delicious.

DOUGHNUTS
One-half cup of sugar, one egg, one cup of milk,
one tablespoonful of melted lard, one pinch of salt,
three tablespoonfuls of baking powder in part of flour;
add flour enough to roll out the dough, cut, and fry in
very hot lard. When brown on both sides, drain on
unglazed paper. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
 FROZEN DESSERTS
Sherbets and ices are made with the juices of water
and sugar. Manage to keep on hand a supply of canned
fruit syrups and a variety of delicious deserts may
be quickly prepared. To give a nice, smooth consist-
ency to a water ice dissolve one tablespoonful of gela-
tine. The following are some of the most delicious
sherbets and ices. Follow the directions given under
Orange Sherbets for all the other varieties.

ORANGE SHERBET
One tablespoonful of gelatine, one-half cup of cold
water, one-half cup boiling water, one cup of sugar,
one pint of orange juice. Let the gelatine dissolve in
the cold water ten minutes, add the boiling water, and
when dissolved add the sugar, another cup of cold
water and the orange juice. Strain when the sugar is
dissolved and freeze. Some prefer to boil the water
and sugar in a clear syrup, remove the scum, and when
cool add the fruit juice; others use the white of an egg
beaten stiff; adding it after the sherbet is partly frozen.
To make pomegranate, make the same as orange sher-
bet, using the blood-red orange instead of others.
Serve in orange baskets or in scooped-out apples laid
on a lettuce leaf. There are so many pretty ways of
serving ices and creams if one will only go to the
trouble.

PINEAPPLE SHERBET
Two lemons, one cupful of pineapple, one quart of
water, one pint of sugar. Boil the sugar and water
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together ten minutes. While cooking, drop into this

syrup a piece of yellow lemon rind. Mix the syrup
with the juice of the lemons and the pineapple. Freeze.

RED RASPBERRY SHERBET

One box of red raspberires crushed and heated with
a water and the seeds strained out, one pint of
little
water and one cup of sugar boiled together, and the
juice of one-half lemon. Freeze.

MILK LEMON SHERBET

Three-fourths of a quart of milk, two lemons, one
cup of sugar. Grate the rind of half of one lemon and
mix with the lemon juice. Mix sugar and lemon juice
well. Have freezer cold as possible and ready. Add
milk and pour quickly into freezer. When half frozen
add the beaten whites of two eggs.

ICE CREAM WITHOUT A FREEZER

One pint of rich whipping cream, one cup of grated
pineapple or mashed peaches, or any preferred flavor-
ing or fruit. First whip the cream till perfectly stiff,
then add the fruit and put into a tin pail or mould and
bury in a bucket of finely chopped ice and salt. In
fifteen minutes take out and scrape the cream away
from edges, stir, and bury again. Do this three times
and at the end of an hour you will have most de-
licious ice cream.

VANILLA ICE CREAM

One quart of cream, one small cup of sugar. Fla-
vor to taste.

PEACH ICE CREAM

Mash six small peaches through a sieve and mix with
the cream and make as above.
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BANANA ICE CREAM
Apretty ice cream for luncheon is banana ice cream
of a delicate yellow tint served in the skin of red ban-
anas. The skins can be made firm and stiff by lay-
ing them carefully in a pail and burying it in ice and
salt.

COMPANY ICE CREAM

One quart of milk, three-fourths pint of granulated
sugar, the yolks of eight eggs, six bananas, peeled and
sliced. Put the milk in a double boiler with the sugar.
When scalding hot pour over the well-beaten eggs,
stirring all the while, then return to the boiler and
cook until of the consistency of a soft custard. Re-
move from and add the bananas.
the fire Stir until
well mingled, cool thoroughly and freeze.

BISQUE ICE CREAM

Make a soft custard of one quart of milk, the yolks
of four eggs, and one cupful of sugar. When at boil-
ing point stir sugar, cream and flavor together; add
lightly the whites of the eggs, pour into a mould and
set on ice until required.
i

CARAMEL ICE CREAM

Brown one and one-fourth cupfuis of granulated sug-
ar in a frying pan, without water. Stir the sugar con-
stantly over a hot fire till it melts and browns. Have
ready a pint of milk heated almost to boiling point.
Pour the melted sugar into the hot milk, when it will
at once form in a large lump, but by stirring contin-
ually it will again dissolve. Set aside to cool, then add
a good one-half pint of cream and a scant one-half tea-
spoonful of vanilla. Strain and freeze. This makes
one quart of ice cream.
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ICE CREAM WITH GELATINE

One pint of rich cream, one cup of milk, one cup of
sugar, whites of two eggs well beaten, and one table-
spoonful of gelatine dissolved in hot water. Flavor to
taste.

SUNDAES
Cut two figs (of some large, fine brand), into quar-
ters and mix with vanilla cream, put in stem ice cream
glasses and pour some of the juice over the top. The
figs give a fine flavor to the cream.

CENTRAL SUNDAE
A half pound of English walnuts, half pound pecans
chopped together with one teacupful of powdered
sugar; add enough maple syrup to suit the taste. Pour
over plain ice cream and serve in stem glasses.

CHERRY EARL
Very popular. Simply maraschino cherries poured
over ice cream.

BLACK AND WHITE

Layer of ice cream with chocolate sauce poured over.
Another layer of cream and sauce. Dark red cherry
on top.
 FRUITS, JELLIES, PRESERVES

"Waste not, want not" and "Many a time a small

leak has sunk a great ship." And so it is with the
canning of fruit. The thrifty housekeeper is always
concerned in household economy and she instinctive-
ly in times of plenty prepares for times of need.
During the canning season it is best for economy's
sake to can fruit scientifically, and when canned goods,
spoil, she will know at once it is due to the fact that
either the jars, covers, rubbers or contents are not
perfectly sterilized or not on tight which they must
be. There is quite a variety of glass jars on the
market for canning fruits, all of which are satisfac-
tory. To avoid trouble be sure that the covers are
in perfect condition, and that you have the best of
rubbers. Another thing that helps the housekeeper
is the can tighteners which can be bought at almost

any hardware store. Never use left over rubbers, it

is not the best economy to do so. Use absolutely no
tin cans or tin ware of any kind, it is not safe. To
sterilize jelly tumblers, wash the glasses thoroughly
and put them in a kettle and cover with cold water,
place on the stove or range and heat gradually until
the water comes to a boiling point. Remove the
glasses and drain. Fill the glasses at once with the
jelly or fruit placing the glasses while filling on a
cloth wrung out of hot water. Set aside to cool,
when cool cover air tight and set away in a cool
dark place for the winter. To sterilize fruit jars,
 Fruits, Jellies, Preserves 17 1

covers and rubbers, wash the same as jelly tumblers,

then fill them with cold water, set in a kettle on a
trivet, fill the kettle nearly to the top of the jars with
cold water, place on the range and let the water come
to a boiling point gradually. Remove the jars from
the water, empty, then fill them while hot, placing
the jars while filling them on a cloth wrung out of
hot water, being careful there is not a draught of air
coming on them, be sure to have the cloth come well
up around the jar while filling. Put the covers in
boiling water and let stand at least eight minutes,
dip the rubbers in and out of the hot water, but do
not let them stand in the water. Every housekeeper
should have a jelly bag, it is one of the indispensables
and it takes very little time to make one. Fold the
opposite corners of a piece of cotton and wool flan-
nel three-fourths of a yard long. Sew up in the form
of a cornucopia, rounding at the end, then fell the
seam to make secure, hem the top, and furnish with
two tape loops, by which to hang it.
Fruits for canning should be perfectly fresh and
free from blemish, and not overripe and of the best
quality. For canning fruit allow one-third its weight
in sugar and three cupfuls of water to each pound
of sugar. Boil the sugar and water in a preserving
kettle for ten minutes to make a thin syrup, then
cook a small quantity of the a time in the
fruit at
syrup, this keeps the fruit in perfect shape. Place the
jars on a cloth wrung out of hot water and fill with

the fruit and enough syrup to overflow the jars, if

there is not sufficient syrup to overflow the last jar
to be filled add the boiling water as the jar must be
filled to overflowing. Introduce the handle of a
silver spoon between the fruit and jar that the air
bubbles may rise to the top and break, then very
quickly put on the rubbers and covers that have been
sterilized, and take care that the jars are air tight.
 A FEW RULES TO OBSERVE
Never use left-over rubbers.
Be sure the covers of fruit-jars are in perfect con-
dition.
Never under any circumstances use tin.
Wash and sterilize, jars, covers and rubbers.

Buy absolutely fresh perfect fruit, not over ripe for

preserving or jelly making.
Granite ware is the only ware to use in cooking.
Tinned goods of all kinds, as soon as opened,
should have the contents turned out into a china or
granite-ware vessel.
Never be without a jelly bag.
The best covers for jelly tumblers are made by
cutting letter paper into circular pieces just to fit in
the top of the jelly glasses. Dip in brandy and
cover the jelly. Put on second covers made of circu-
lar pieces cut larger than the glasses, and fasten
securely over the edge with paste, or tie with twine.
Wooden spoons are the thing for preserving, silver
ones for the testing of jelly.
Sugar for jelly making should be put in a granite
pan, placed in the oven leaving the oven door ajar and
stirred often, till it seems warm and dry. This quick-
ens the process of making juice jellies.

CURRANT JELLY
Currants to be used for jelly-making should be un-
derripe rather than overripe, and should not be picked
directly after a rain. Cherry currants are usually
considered to make the best jelly. Equal proportions
of red and white currants are desirable, making a light-
er colored jelly than as red ones are used. Pick
if all

over the currants, but do not remove the stems;' wash

and drain. Mash a few in the bottom of a preserving
 Fruits, Jellies, Preserves 173

kettle using a wooden masher, and so continue until

all the berries are used. Bring slowly to the boiling
point, and let simmer until the currants look white.
Strain through a coarse strainer, then allow the juice
to drop through a jelly-bag. Measure the juice,
bring to the boiling point, and let boil five minutes.
Add an equal measure of heated sugar, boil three min-
utes, skim, and pour into on a
sterilized glasses, set
cloth wrung out of hot water. Place in a sunny win-
dow and let stand twenty-four hours, then cover.

RASPBERRY JELLY
Wild raspberries as well as wild strawberries, make
the best jellies. They should not be overripe, should
be among the first pickings, and not gathered directly
after a rain. In making raspberry jelly, one has to
but follow the recipe for currant jelly, using raspber-
ries in place of currants. When currants and raspber-
ries are used in equal proportions a delicious jelly
is the result.

GRAPE JELLY
Stem and pick over the grapes carefully. Mash well,
and pour all into a preserving kettle and cook slowly
for ten minutes to extract the juice. Strain through a
colander, and then through a jelly-bag, keeping it as
hot as possible as it jellies much quicker. A few
quince seeds boiled with the grapes the first time tend
to stiffen it. Allow a pound of loaf sugar to every
pint of juice, and boil fast for twenty-five minutes.
Try a little on a cold dish and when it seems done,
remove and put into jelly glasses.

QUINCE JELLY <

Wipe the quinces, remove stem and blossom ends,

cut in quarters and remove the seeds. Put in a granite
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ware preserving kettle, and add cold water to come

nearly to the top of the fruit. Cover, and cook slowly
until the fruit is soft. Mash and drain through a
coarse sieve; then allow the juice to drip through a
jelly-bag. Boil for twenty minutes, add an equal
quantity of heated sugar, boil for five minutes, skim.
Let stand twenty-four hours in a light place, then
cover.
CRAB-APPLE JELLY
Follow recipe for quince jelly, having the fruit

whole, instead of cutting in quarters.

PLUM JELLY
To one peck
of plums add three pints of water, boil
until soft,pour into a jelly bag and let it drip, but do
not squeeze. Take equal weights of juice and sugar,
and boil twenty minutes or until it jellies.

SPICED PEACHES
Five pounds of peaches, two and a half pounds of
sugar, one-quarter of a pint of cider vinegar, a quar-
ter of an ounce of stick cinnamon, a quarter of an ounce
of whole cloves, a quarter of a teaspoonful of whole
allspice, and an eighth of a nutmeg broken into bits.
Boil the sugar and vinegar together fifteen minutes.
Put in enough peeled peaches to cover the bottom of
the kettle and cook gently until a straw will pierce
them easily. Skim the peaches out very carefully. Put
them on a hot platter and cook the remainder of the
peaches in the same way. When done, drain off the
juice, put it in the kettle, boil up, and skim. Put the
peaches in a stone jar, pour the hot syrup over them,
tie the spices in a bag and lay on top. Cover closely,
and in five days pour off the juice, boil up, and pour
hot over the peaches. Cover tightly, with heavy
brown paper or a coarse cloth. Keep in a cold, dry,
dark place.
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CANNED PEACHES
Above all, peaches must be spotless and not too

ripe. Peel carefully, but do not stone them, as it adds

to the flavor. Allow one pint of water and one cupful
of sugar to every quart of peaches. Boil sugar and
water for fifteen minutes; then add the peaches a few
at a time and boil gently, and when a broom straw will
pierce them easily they have cooked enough. Put the
pea'ches in jars that have been well heated with boil-
ing water, put the peaches in two-thirds full. Boil and
skim the syrup and pour over the peaches until the jars
are full. Seal at once. Keep canned goods in a cool,
dark place, the darker the better.

PRESERVED PEACHES
Select sound, ripe peaches. Peel, halve, and stone
them. For every quart of peaches an equal amount of
sugar. To every three pounds of sugar, add one cup-
ful of boiling water. Melt, and boil fifteen minutes.
Then drop in the peaches and cook them until a straw
will pierce them easily. Skim carefully and put into
heated jars. Boil and skim the syrup eight minutes
longer, fill the jars with the syrup and seal.
A good plan is to halve and stone them before peel-
ing or take a dozen or more peaches and scald them
by pouring boiling water over them and let stand two
minutes, no longer. In this way they will easily peel.

PRESERVED CHERRIES
Take and to each pound of cher-
large, ripe cherries,
ries allow a pound of Stone the cherries
loaf sugar.
and save the juice that comes from them in the proc-
ess. As you stone them, throw them into a large pan
or tureen and throw half the sugar over them and let
them lie in it two hours after they are all stoned.
Then put them in the kettle with the remainder of
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the sugar. Boil and skim them till the fruit is clear
and the syrup thick. Put away in tightly sealed jars.

PRESERVED WATERMELON
Take the thick rind of a ripe watermelon, cut it into
small strips, cut off all the red part and scrape the out-
side. Boil the rind with peach leaves and saleratus
twelve leaves and one teaspoonful of saleratus to two
quarts of water. This will turn them green. Boil till
tender, then take them out and put them into cold wa-
ter with a half tablespoonful of alum dissolved in it to
make them brittle. Let them soak one hour. Then
rinse them in clear water and boil fifteen or twenty
minutes in a syrup of equal parts of sugar and water
adding lemons cut into small pieces, allowing one
lemon to two pounds of rind. When cool, add a little
extract of ginger. Let them stand three days. Then
pour the syrup off, boil it till very rich, and just cover
the rinds. Pour on boiling hot.

PRESERVED CITRON
Pare the green rind from the citron, scrape the in-
side well, cut into pieces not more than two inches
long, boil in clear water till easily pierced -with a
straw; make a syrup of one pound sugar to every
pound fruit, one-half pint water to each pound sugar,
juice of one lemon, one-half ounce ginger to each pound
fruit; boil all together till the citron is transparent, and
bottle while hot; tie the ginger in a cheesecloth bag,
and take out before canning the preserves.

PRESERVED QUINCES
Pare, core and quarter your fruit, then weigh it and
allow an equal quantity of white sugar. Take the par-
ings and cores and put in a preserving kettle; cover
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them with water and boil for half an hour; then strain
through a hair sieve, and put the juice back into the
kettle and boil the quinces in it a little at a time until
they are tender, litt out as they are done with a drainer
and lay on a dish; if the liquid seems scarce, add more
water. When all are cooked, throw into this liquor
the sugar,, and allow it to boil ten minutes before put-
ting in the quinces; let them boil until they change
color, say one hour and a quarter, on a slow fire; while
they are boiling occasionally slip a silver spoon under
them to see that they do not burn, but on no account
stir them. Have two fresh lemons cut in thin slices,
and when the fruit is being put in jars lay a slice or
two in each. Quinces may be steamed until tender.

PRESERVED EGG PLUMS

Use a pound of sugar for a pound of plums; wash
the plums and wipe dry; put the sugar on a slow fire
in the preserving kettle, with as much water as will
melt the sugar and let it simmer slowly; then prick
each plum thoroughly with a needle, or a fork with
fine prongs and place a layer of them in the syrup; let
them cook until they lose their color a little and the
skins begin to break; then lift them out with a per-
forated skimmer and place them singly in a large
dish to cool; then put another layer of plums in the
syrup and let them cook and cool in the same manner,
until the whole are done; as they cool, carefully re-
place the broken skins so as not to spoil the appear-
ance of the plums; when the last layer is finished,
return the first to the kettle, and boil until trans-
parent: do the same with each layer; while the latest
cooked are cooling, place the first in glass jars;

when all are done, pour the hot syrup over them;
when they are cold, close as usual; the jelly should
be of 1 ie color and consistency of rich wine jelly.
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PRESERVED LEMONS
Select large, juicy lemons having skins of medium
thickness. Soak them for a few moments, then scrub
with a soft brush to insure perfect cleanliness. Drop
into boiling water and boil granulated sugar with one-
half its measure of water until it forms a soft ball when
tested in cold water. Drain the lemons, drop into the
syrup and simmer for fifteen minutes. Take from the
fire for an hour, reheat and simmer another fifteen
minutes. Repeat this twice more, with an hour inter-
val between each cooking, then set away over night.
Drain off and measure the syrup; add one-quarter its
volume of sugar and repeat the four boilings of the
day before. Transfer the lemons to fruit jars. Seal at
once.

PRESERVED CRANBERRIES
The cranberries must be large and ripe. Wash them
and to six quarts of cranberries allow nine pounds of
the best loaf sugar. Take three quarts of the cran-
berries and put them into a stew pan with a pint and
a half of water. Cover the pan and boil or stew them
till they are all to pieces. Then squeeze the juice
through a jelly bag. Put the sugar into a preserv-
ing kettle, pour the cranberrjr juice over it and let it
stand until it is all melted, stirring it up frequently.
Then place the kettle over the fire and put in the re-
maining three quarts of whole cranberries. Let them
boil till they are tender, clear and of a bright color,
skimming them frequently. When done, put them in-
to jars with the syrup, which should be like a thick
jelly.

TO PRESERVE BERRIES WHOLE

Buy the fruit when not too ripe, pick over im-
mediately, wash if absolutely
necessary and put in
glass jars, filling each one about two-thirds full. Put
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in the preserving kettle a pound of sugar and one

cupful of water for every two pounds of fruit, and
let it come to a boil. Pour this syrup into the jars
over berries, filling them up to the brim; then set the
jars in a pot of cold water on the stove, and let the
water boil and the fruit become scalding hot. Now
take them out and seal perfectly tight. If this pro-
cess is followed thoroughly, the fruit will keep for
several years.

ORANGE MARMALADE
Slice with a sharp knife nine oranges and six lemons
cross-wise as thin as possible; remove the seeds
and put in a preserving kettle with four quarts of
cold water. Cover and let stand for thirty-six hours.
Let boil for two hours, add eight pounds of sugar,
and then let boil for two hours. Turn into jelly
glasses.

PLUM MARMALADE
After the juice is taken from the plums, rub the pulp
through a collander. To this add an equal amount of
sugar and boil twenty minutes. Put up like jelly.

QUINCE MARMALADE
Wipe the remove the stem and blossom ends,
fruit,

cut in quarters and remove the seeds. Put in a gran-

ite-ware preserving kettle, and add nearly water enough
to cover the fruit. Cook slowly until soft. Rub
through a hair sieve, and add three-fourths of its meas-
ure of heated sugar. Cook slowly twenty minutes,
stirring occasionally to prevent burning. Put into
sterilized jelly glasses.

QUINCE HONEY
Pare and grate five large quinces. To two cupfuls
of boiling water add five pounds of granulated sugar.
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Stir over the fire until the sugar is dissolved, add the
quinces and cook fifteen minutes. Turn into sterilized
jelly glasses. When cold it should be about the
color and consistency of honey.

RASPBERRY JAM
Pick over the raspberries. Mash a few in the bottom
of a preserving kettle, using a wooden masher, and
so continue until all the fruit is used. Heat slowly
to the boiling point, and add
gradually an equal
quantity of heated sugar. Cook slowly
forty minutes
and put in a stone jar or jelly tumblers.

CANNED FRUIT JUICES

Canned fruit juices are an excellent substitute for
brandy or wine in all puddings and sauces, etc.
It is a good plan to can pure juices of fruit in the
summer time, putting it by for this purpose.
Select clean fruit, press out the juice and strain it
through a flannel cloth. To each pint of juice add
one cupful of white granulated sugar. Put it in a
porcelain kettle, bring it to the boiling point, and bot-
tle while hot in small bottles. It must be sealed very
tight while it is hot. Will keep a long time, the same
as canned fruit.

UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE

Wash, pick over and drain ten pounds of grapes,
from which the stems have been removed. Put into
a preserving kettle, and add one cupful of cold water.
Heat until the stones and pulp separate, then strain
through a jelly-bag; add three pounds of granulated
sugar, heat to the boiling point, and bottle. Ten
pounds of grapes will make one gallon of grape juice.
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AMBROSIA
Two sweet oranges peeled and sliced, four slices of
pineapple, and a half cupful of grated cocoanut. Place
alternate layers of orange and pineapple with the
grated cocoanut between, and sprinkle pulverized
sugar over each layer. This is delicious.

RASPBERRIES
There is no more delicious fruit than the red rasp-
berry, not one which can be served in a greater variety
of ways. Below are given a number of reliable rec-
ipes:
—
Raspberry Float. Mash a pint of red raspberries;
add two-thirds cup of sugar. Beat the whites of four
eggs until stiff, then add one-third cup of fine sugar.
Rub the crushed berries through a sieve and add slow-
ly one spoonful at a time of the juice to the eggs, beat-
ing slowly and constantly, until the mixture will stand
alone. Serve on a fancy dish well chilled.
—
Raspberry Cream. Crush a pint of fresh red rasp-
berries and rub them through a sieve to remove all
seeds. Place a pint of cream in a double boiler until
it reaches the boiling point, then stir slowly into the
raspberry juice; add one-half cup of sugar or more if
preferred, and cool. Pour into sherbet glasses and
place on top of each a spoonful of whipped cream.
—
Red Raspberry Shortcake. Make a crust, allowing
one heaping tablespoonful of butter and one teaspoon-
ful of baking powder to every cup of flour. Roll thin
and bake on a large pie plate or tin; spread butter be-
tween the two layers so they can be separated without
cutting; spread agaia with butter and fill with fresh
raspberries, which hare stood with sugar over them for
one-half hour or longer. Serve at once.
Raspberry and Currant Shrub. Mix together one —
quart of red raspberries and one pint of red currants,
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both of which are very ripe. Heat over the fire, mash
and squeeze through a jelly bag; strain until clear.
Add two cups of granulated sugar and two cups of
water which have been boiled together until clear.
When ready to serve add two quarts of ice water.
Raspberry Shrub.— Place in a stone jar six quarts of
raspberries, cover with a pure cider vinegar and let
stand twenty-four hours, then strain through a jelly
bag. Place six quarts of fresh berries in the juice and
let them remain there twenty-four hours; squeeze
through a jelly bag and afterwards through a cheese-
cloth. Allow one pound of sugar to each pint of juice.
Place in a porcelain kettle over the fire and let it boil
rapidly ten minutes; remove with a skimmer anything
which rises on it; pour into bottles and seal. One
cup of this added to one quart of water makes a pleas-
ant drink in hot weather.
—
Raspberry Sauce. For sponge or other pudding.
One cup of powdered sugar, one-half-cup of butter
beaten to a cream until very light, then add the well
beaten white of one egg and one small cup of crushed
red raspberries very slowly. Chill on ice for three or
four hours before serving.
 RELISHES
CUCUMBER PICKLES
Select small cucumbers, wash and wipe them, tip -the
ends, but do not peel. and pack into pint
Slice thin
jars. When full to the top, add one tablespoonful of
salt and one of whole white mustard seed, pour over
enough vinegar to cover. Cover tightly and put away
in a cool, dry place. Do not open in less than two
weeks. Excellent.

GREEN TOMATO PICKLES

Three quarts of green tomatoes sliced in inch-thick
slices,one pint of white onions, and four green pep-
pers sliced thinly. Put them with salt in layers in an
earthen jar to stand over night. Use a half cupful of
fine table salt. In the morning drain an hour in a col-
ander, then put them into a kettle, pour over them one
pint and a half of cider vinegar, add a quarter of a cup-
ful of sugar, a half tablespoonful of whole cloves, a
quarter of an ounce of stick cinnamon broken into bits,
and a few allspice, tied up in bag. Cook slowly for
twenty minutes. Just before removing from the fire
add half an ounce of mustard seed, stir lightly with a
wooden spoon, and put away in an earthen jar well
covered for three weeks, in a cool place. Then put
it on the stove again and boil up with a quarter of a

cupful of sugar and seal in hot jars.

WATERMELON PICKLES
Cut the melon into any shape desired. Make a weak
solution of alum and pour over it, let it stand twenty-
four hours, then scald in clear water and drain. To
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seven pounds of rind, take one quart of good cider

vinegar, four pounds of sugar and a half pint of ginger
root. Put in the rind and boil until it looks nice and
clear, then remove the rind to a jar, boil the liquid
until it is a rich syrup, and pour over the rind. When
cool cover the jar tightly and set away in a cool place.

PICKLED GREEN PEPPERS

Take one dozen large, green, bell peppers, extract
the, seeds by cutting a slit in the sides so as to leave
them whole. Make a. strong salt brine and pour over
them, and let stand twenty-four hours, then take them
out of the brine and soak in water sixteen hours. Turn
off the water and scald a pint of vinegar, in which put
a small piece of alum and pour over them, letting them
stand three days. Prepare a stuffing of one hard head
of white cabbage, chopped very fine, and seasoned with
a little salt and a half cupful of white mustard
seed. Mix all well and stuff the peppers hard and full,
then stitch up each pepper with a darning needle and
coarse thread, place them in a stone jar and pour over
the spiced vinegar scalding hot. Cover tightly.

CHILI SAUCE
Select eighteen large, ripe tomatoes, five good-sized
onion's,and two red peppers; chop fine, and add two
tablespoonfuls of salt, one tablespoonful each of cin-
namon, cloves and allspice (ground), an eighth of an
ounce of mace broken into bits. Mix all thoroughly,
then add one pound of brown sugar and three and a
half cupfuls of vinegar and half an ounce of ginger.
Put into a granite kettle. Cook till thick as catsup,
stirring often, but do not strain. Put away in tightly
corked bottles or jars.

PICKLED ONIONS
Peel small onions until they are white. Scald them
in salt and water until tender, then take them up, put
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them into wide-mouthed bottles, and pour over them

hot spiced vinegar; when cold, cork them close. Keep
in a dry, dark place. A tablespoonful of sweet oil may-
be put in the bottles before the cork. The best sort
of onions for pickling are the small white buttons.

SPICED CHERRIES
Select fine large cherries; wash well and drain five
pounds; boil one quart vinegar with two pounds sugar,
two ounces white cloves and the rind of lemon peeled
thinly; tie the spices in bit of cheesecloth, simmer all
together for twenty minutes; when boiling hot pour
over the cherries; cover closely and let stand till the
next day; drain off the juice and boil again, and pour
boiling hot over the cherries; repeat this twice more
and seal. These are delicious.

SPICED CURRANTS

Four pounds of fruit, three pounds of brown sugar,

half a of vinegar, one tablespoonful each of
pint
ground cloves and cinnamon. Put in an agate sauce-
pan and boil slowly two hours. Be very careful not
to burn; stir often. Put away in tightly covered jars.

RED CURRANTS WITH ORANGES AND

RAISINS

Five pounds of currants, three and one-half pounds

of sugar, one pound of raisins, three pounds of or-
anges. Wash and stem currants, stone raisins, and cut
oranges into small pieces. Boil the currants twenty
minutes; add the raisins and cook a little longer, then
add the sugar and let it come to a boil, then put in the
oranges. Remove from the fire and put in jelly
glasses. This recipe fills fifteen glasses.
 CANDIES AND CONFECTIONS

HOLIDAY CANDY-MAKING AT HOME

The cream candies should be put into a closely cov-
ered dish as soon as cold, and they are much better
after being kept this way for several days. Hore-
hound, butter-scotch, taffy, etc., should also be kept
covered, as this prevents them from becoming moist
and sticky.
Fondant is the foundation for innumerable kinds of
cream candies and is made as follows:
Two cupfuls of granulated sugar, one cupful of hot
water, and one-third of a teaspoonful of cream of tar-
tar. Place on the back of the stove and stir until thor-
oughly dissolved. If there are any grains around the
sides of the pan, clean off with adamp cloth before let-
ting it come Boil over a quick fire until a
to a boil.
little of it dropped into cold water will make a soft
ball. Remove the mixture from the fire and put it
aside to cool, leaving it in the dish in which it was
cooked. Do not put it into cold water to cool. When
cool (not cold) stir until it becomes a thick creamy

mass. When ittoo hard to stir any more, take it

is

into the hands and knead. Kneading the fondant has

somewhat the same effect on the candy as kneading
dough has upon bread; it makes it light and smooth.
Then put it into an earthen dish, cover with a slightly
dampened cloth and let stand until desired for use. It
will be better after standing for two or three days, and
it will keep for a week or more. If the fondant is
grainy after being stirred, put more water with it, dis-
 Candies and Confections 187

solve again and cook as before, taking care not to jar

the pan either while it is cooking or cooling.
For pink fondant use the same proportions as for the
white, adding half a tablespoonful of pink sugar, which
can be bought of a confectioner and is inexpensive, a
small quantity lasting a long time.
For maple fondant use: Two cupfuls of light-brown
(coffee C) sugar, a cupful ofmaple syrup, a cupful of
hot water and one-third of a teaspoonful of cream of
tartar. This is more easily made than either of the
other kinds, as the brown sugar is more moist than
the white and is not as likely to grain. It is, therefore,
a good one with which to begin.

NUT WAFERS
Use white fondant for these. It is not well to melt
too much at a time, because it will get hard before you
can drop it all. Have ready over the fire a pan with
about half an inch of water in it. Put the fondant into
a small stew-pan and place the pan in the water for the
fondant to melt. Flavor with vanilla, stir in broken
walnut meats and drop from a spoon on parafine paper.
Pecan nuts, black walnuts, hickory nuts, etc., may also
b£ treated in this way.

COCOANUT WAFERS
Use white fondant. Melt, flavor with vanilla and
mix in shredded cocoanut until quite stiff; then drop on
paraffine paper.

PEPPERMINT AND WINTERGREEN

WAFERS
Use white fondant, or pink for the wintergreen, if
preferred. Melt, flavor with two or three drops of
peppermint or wintergreen oil and drop on the paper
in small round wafers. These are very nice and are
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more quickly made than any of the others, as well as

less expensive.Maple wafers may be made in the same
way, but no flavoring is necessary for them.

WALNUT CREAMS
These may be made with either the white or maple
fondant. Roll a piece of the fondant into a ball and
press well into each side half walnut meat, then lay
aside on paraffine paper to harden. The white fondant
should have a few drops of vanilla worked into it be-
fore being made up into balls.

OPERA CREAMS
Two cups sugar, one cup cream and boil till it
makes a soft ballwhen dropped in water. Flavor with
vanilla, stir till cool, then work on the bread board.
Spread on a plate and cut in squares.

CREAM TAFFY
Take two pounds of light brown sugar; pour over it

enough cold water to cover it well before putting it

over the fire; afterbegins to boil add a tablespoonful

it

of vinegar; just before the taffy is done put in a lump

of butter the size of a small egg; cook till it will be

quite hard when dropped into cold water. Do not stir
at all or the taffy will be sugar before pulled. Remove
from the fire and put in flavoring; pour quickly into
well buttered platters and set in a cool place. Begin
to pull as soon as it is possible to take it into the hands.
The quicker it is pulled the better it will be. If a fla-
vor is desired add one tablespoonful of grated choco-
late to each platter just after it is poured out. As the
taffy is pulled the chocolate will mix with it. Pull as
long as possible, till it is quite hard and very white,
and cut in small pieces; put aside for several hours.
It will cream nicely.
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BUTTER SCOTCH
Two cupfuls of granulated sugar, one cupful of Gold-
en Drip syrup, half a cupful of butter. Cook the in-
gredients until they make a hard ball when dropped
into water. Pour into buttered pans, having the candy
about half an inch thick. Cut into sauares when cool
and wrap in paraffine paper.

FUDGE
Two cups sugar and one cup cream or milk, one-
fourth pound chocolate unsweetened, small piece of
butter; when it begins to boil stir constantly; when it
hardens slightly in water take from range; flavor with
vanilla and stir till cool; turn on a buttered tin; when
cold cut in squares.

WALNUT PANOUCHI
Four cups of light brown sugar, one-half cup cream
or milk. Boil five minutes. Put in one cup chopped
walnut meats, boil about three minutes, then take off
and stir until cool and thick enough to put on buttered
platter.

COCOANUT CANDY
Two cups sugar and one-half cup water; boil till it
crisps in water; then remove from range and stir till
creamy; add one grated cocoanut and turn in buttered
tin; when cold cut in squares; use this cream for pep-
permint cream; flavor with essence of peppermint.

MAPLE CANDY
One cup maple sugar, one-half cup cream; boil till it
creams and when stirred drop by teaspoonfuls on a
buttered dish; place one-half English walnut on each
piece candy.
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CHOCOLATE CARAMELS
One cup of grated chocolate, one cup of molasses,
one cup brown sugar, butter size of small egg; put all
in saucepan, except chocolate; test by dropping in cold
water; when done pour on buttered pans.

HOME CARAMELS
One-half pint baker's chocolate grated, one-half pint
sugar, one-half pint molasses, one-half gill milk and
butter size of an^egg; boil till it hardens in water.

BRANDY TUTTI FRUTTI

Just before strawberry season put one quart of bran-
dy and three pounds of sugar in a three gallon jar; stir
this frequently and when strawberries are ripe hull
three pounds and put them in the jar, with three pounds
of sugar. Always add an equal weight of fruit and sug-
ar. Add each fruit in season. Stone the cherries;
plums must be cut in pieces; peaches and apricots
pared and sliced; pineapples are a delicious addition.
This mixture must be covered closely in a cool place
and stirred every day until the jar is full. Serve with
ice cream and blanc manges.

KISSES
Six ounces of powdered sugar, three ounces of but-
ter; beat to a cream. Add whites of three eggs, well
beaten, soda size of a pea dissolved in a little hot wat-
er, flour to roll in a thin sheet; cut in small cakes.

EXTRA GOOD KISSES

Whites of eight eggs beaten stiff, one pound pulver-
ized sugar. Flavor to taste and beat the sugar in by the
teaspoonful; after adding the sugar beat one hour.
The kisses to be light and crisp should bake thirty
minutes.
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TO CANDY FRUITS OR NUTS

Boil in an agate sauce pan, one pound granulated
sugar and one gill butter, till a drop of syrup is brittle
in ice water; add a tablespoonful of lemon juice to the
syrup and set the sauce pan in a pan of boiling water;
take each piece of fruit with the sugar tongs; dip into
the syrup till each piece is covered; then lay on waxed
paper to dry.

CANDIED ORANGE PEEL

When oranges are used save the peels by putting in
a jar of salt and water; when there are what you wish
to candy put them on the stove in cold water; boil up
well and drain and put in clear water, changing till
the bitter is out of the peel and they are tender; when
tender chop and weigh; take pound for pound of sugar
and orange peel; add a little water to dissolve the
sugar; put in the peel and cook till clear; remove from
the syrup and put on plates, with sugar, and set in
warming closet to dry.

HOREHOUND
Packages of horehound can be bought of a drug-
gist at trifling expense.Two-thirds of a teaspoonful of
this steeped for a few minutes makes a flavor strong
enough for three cupfuls of sugar. Use the propor-
tions of a cupful of water to two cupfuls of sugar and
half a teaspoonful of cream of tartar. Strain the tea
carefully and pour it over the sugar; add water and
cream of tartar and stir until thoroughly dissolved.
Boil until when dropped into water it is very brittle
and does not seem at all chewy. Pour into pans and
mark into squares when cool. If covered, this will keep
for weeks without getting sticky. Half a cupful of
Coffee C sugar added to the granulated makes a better
color for this candy.
 INVALID COOKING
GRUELS
Any kind of grain requires long, slow cooking.

RICE GRUEL
Two cracked or crushed rice,
level tablespoonfuls of
two cupfuls of boiling Cook two hours
salted water.
over hot water. Strain out the grains and dilute with
milk or cream. Serve hot or cold. It is delicious with
whipped cream.

INDIAN MEAL GRUEL

One quart boiling water, one tablespoonful flour, two
tablespoonfuls white corn meal, one-half cupful cold
water, one-half teaspoonful salt; mix the flour, meal
and salt in the cold water, add to the boiling water and
cook ten or fifteen minutes, stirring all the time. Re-
move to the back of range and let cook half an hour
longer, stirring it occasionally; strain through very
fine sieve or cloth. To each cup of the gruel add one-
half cup of milk, one-fourth teaspoonful of butter,
more salt if needed, and a tiny bit of sugar if the gruel
is liked better sweetened; a teaspoonful of whipped

cream added to a cupful of gruel makes it more tempt-

ing; place the cream on top of the cup just as it is
ready to serve.

OATMEAL GRUEL
One cupful oatmeal, three pints cold water; boil
slowly three hours or more until the oatmeal is creamy.
 Invalid Cooking 193

Strain through a fine sieve, rubbing part of the oatmeal

through. Do not try to rub too much or the gruel will
be too thick. This can be set in the ice box and re-
heated as needed, but it should be strained from the
dish in which it is prepared into cups, as the jelly is
apt to remain in little particles in the milk. For each
cup of the prepared gruel add one-half cupful milk,
one-fourth teaspoonful butter, salt to taste. One tea-
spoonful sugar is considered an addition by some.

BARLEY GRUEL
Barley gruel is made the same as the oatmeal gruel,
substituting washed barley oatmeaL
for the

EGG GRUEL
Separate the yolk and white of an egg, beat both
very stiff, add a few drops of lemon juice to the yolk,
add one tablespoonful, more or less, of sugar to the
beaten white, fold the white into the yolk and pour over
all one cup of heated milk, beating rapidly all the time.
Flavor as desired.

MUSHES
The following formula will apply to the cooking of
all cereals.The importance of the long cooking of all
starchy material cannot be too strongly emphasized.
To one cupful of cereal, add one teaspoonful of salt.
Have the water boiling rapidly, drop in the cereal slow-
ly, that the water may not cease boiling, cook rapidly
directly over the fire until the starch grains hare swol-
len and burst open the cellulose pockets, and the mix-
ture has thickened and settled. Now place the top of
the double boiler over the lower part and steam from
six to eight hours. The amount of water used should
be one-fourth more than is given on the package.
An attractive method of serving mush is to remove
the core of an apple, making a large cavity, steam it
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and when done fill the cavity with cooked cereal. If

it isdesired to serve more cereal, a wall of cereal may

be formed around the apple. Serve with cream and
sugar to taste. Dates, figs and raisins properly pre-
pared may be served with the cereals.

BEEF JUICE
Beef juice obtained from best round steak, which
has been merely heated through over the coals, and
then entirely deprived of soluble substances by a meat
press, is the most concentrated form of liquid food. If
prepared with the most scrupulous neatness from the
best materials and served at once, it leaves nothing to
be desired. To prepare the press for use in making
the beef juice, it should stand in boiling water for thir-
ty minutes.
Take beef from upper part of round, broil over coals,
holding broiler close to the coals (when it is not pos-
sible to have coals it may be broiled on a very hot pan)
until well browned. Now put pieces in the press that
has been standing in hot water, and press out the juices
into a cup standing in hot water. Season with a little
salt and pepper, and it is ready to serve. It is often
offered to a sick person in a red glass, that the color
may not be offensive. It may be taken to the sick room
in a bowl of hot water that it may be served hot. Hot_
water added, it becomes beef tea.

BEEF TEA
Two pounds lean beaf, one and one-half quarts cold
water; chop the beef fine, pour on the water, let stand
one hour, then set back on the range and let come to
a boil slowly. Simmer one hour, strain through cheese
cloth, and season to taste. Serve very hot.

TO CLARIFY BEEF TEA

Add one-half white of egg slightly beaten to one pint
 Invalid Cooking 195

of cold beef tea; let it come to a boil and strain through

cheese cloth.

BEEF BROTH
A nutritious beef broth that can be kept a week in the
winter is made in this way: Order three pounds of
solid beef from the shoulder or shin and three pounds
of bone from the shank. Have the butcher crack the
latter. Trim off any dried pieces of skin or soft or
bloody portions of meat, and put the bones and meat
in a stone jar. Cover with four quarts of cold water,
set in a slow oven and cook, covered, from eight to
twelve hours. Strain and season with two teaspoonfuls
of salt. Set aside, uncovered, to cool. If you wish to
keep it for several days do not remove the fat, which
will rise to the top and harden. Take out a little as
needed, heat and serve very hot.

BROILED TENDERLOIN
Cut an inch slice of tenderloin, broil eight minutes
over coals, turning every ten seconds. At the same
time broil a small piece of round. Press the juice of the
round over the tenderloin, season with butter, salt and
lemon juice. A little minced parsley may be added.

MUTTON BROTH
One neck of mutton, one-fourth cupful pearl barley,
one stalk celery, one onion, one sprig parsley, one tea-
spoonful of salt; cover the meat with cold water after
it is washed and cut into rather small pieces, add the

washed barley; let it come to a boil slowly, add the

vegetables cut small and one teaspoonful salt. Simmer
until the meat drops from the bones; let the broth be-
come cold. Remove every particle of fat, strain through
cloth or fine wire sieve; boil, pour into cups and put
a tablespoonful of whipped cream on each cup of the
hot broth.
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CLAM BROTH
This will be found specially acceptable .before break-
fast and it is so easily prepared that it can be made
fresh daily. Procure a dozen clams in the shell, scrub
well in cold water to remove every particle of sand,
—
place in a saucepan, cover with boiling water about a
—
pint and boil about fifteen minutes, or until all the
clams are open. Take out the shells, chop the clams
fine, skim the broth, return the clams to it, season to
taste, with a tiny bit of butter or cream, pepper and
salt, if necessary, and serve piping hot in a cup with
toast or crackers. It may be necessary to strain the
clams out entirely for one very ill, but all the proper-
ties of the clam with the lime in the shells are pre-
served in the broth.

CHICKEN BROTH
Heat one pint of chicken stock boiling hot. Beat
two eggs and yolks well, add to boiling mixture and
cook three minutes. Flavor with sherry and serve hot.

CHICKEN JELLY
Pound one-half raw chicken, bones and meat to-,
gether, with a wooden potato masher or mallet. Heat
slowly in three pints of cold water. Cover and cook
until the meat is in shreds and the water reduced one-
half. Strain through a hair sieve and season with
pepper and salt, then let it simmer about five min-
utes. When cold, skim, keep on ice, and serve with wa-
fers. Very nourishing for the convalescent.
CHICKEN CUSTARD
To one-half pint of cream add one-half pint of strain-
ed chicken stock; heat in a double boiler. When hot
add the well beaten yolks of two eggs. Cook to the
consistency of soft custard. Season with salt and turn
into cups, and serve cold.
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SOUPS
Milk soups are another way of serving hot milk, fla-
vored with more or less pulp of the vegetables that
grow above the ground, which are tender and rich in
mineral substances. The milk should not be heated
above 160 degrees Fahr.

CREAM OF CELERY SOUP

Cook celery until soft, mash and rub through a sieve.
This is celery puree. Add or six drops of onion
five
juice to the puree. Melt one level tablespoonful of
butter, add the same amount of flour and cook together
until frothy. To the flour and butter add one-fourth of
a cupful of celery puree and one-half cupful of boiling
water and cook together five minutes, then add one-
fourth cupful of milk anr .e same of cream. Heat to
160 degrees Fahr. and serve seasoned with salt and
pepper.

GREEN PEA SOUP

Cook together as above one-half tablespoonful of
butter and flour, add one-fourth cupful of hot milk, cook
until it thickens a very little, add two level tablespoon-
fuls of cooked and strained pea-pulp, seasoned with
one-eighth of a teaspoonful of salt and one-fourth of a
teaspoonful of sugar. You may add a little whipped
cream. Serve hot.

BAKED CUSTARD
Many cooks believe that the baked custard must be
served in the baking dish or cup, and they never at-
tempt to unmould it; this can be done easily if the
mould is buttered before the custard is poured in. If
the moulds are small the usual proportion of eggs is ,

sufficient, but if large, it is well to add one more egg

to a quart of milk. Scald one pint of milk and pour
over three beaten eggs, beaten with one-quarter cupful
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of sugar, one-quarter level teaspoonful of salt, and one-

half teaspoonful flavoring. Strain into buttered mould
holding one and one-half pints. Set in a pan of hot
water in a moderate oven and bake slowly until firm,
then unmould onto a dish for serving.

FLOATING ISLAND
As the convalescent nears the pudding stage, an old-
fashioned floating island is nourishing and digestible.
Heat a pint and a half of milk in the double boiler un-
til scalding, but do not allow it to boil. Beat the
yolks of three eggs with four tablespoonfuls of sugar,
and pour over the egg and sugar very gradually a. cup-
ful of the hot milk. Return to the boiler with the rest
of the milk and cook until it begins to thicken. When
cooked flavor with a teaspoonful of vanilla or orange
and pour into a glass dish. Beat the whites of the eggs
to a stiff froth, adding a half cup of currant jelly, a
teaspoonful at a time. Spread over the custard and
place in a rather cool oven for a few moments to "'set."

FRIZZLED EGGS
Put a piece of butter the size of a small nut in a
cup with a pinch of salt, a little white pepper. Break
in two eggs without stirring. Cook in a pan of boiling
water until the whites are set. Serve immediately.

EGG NOG
Beat three eggs, yolks and whites separately, mix the
yolks with three tablespoonfuls of sugar. Beat well
and then add one pint of rich milk and grated nutmeg,
four teaspoonfuls of the best whiskey. Lastly whip in
the whites of the eggs.

EGG TOAST
Brown a slice of bread nicely, dip in hot water slight-
ly salted, butter it, and lay on top of this toast an egg
 Invalid Cooking 199

that has been broken into boiling water and cooked

until thewhite is hardened. Season the egg with a bit
of butter and a little salt.
The best way to cook an egg for an invalid is to
drop it into boiling water, or pour boiling water over
the egg in the shell and let it stand a few minutes on
the back of the stove.

EGG LEMONADE
Separate white from yolk of egg. Beat the yolk until
stiffand creamy. Add the juice of one lemon, beat
thoroughly, add two level teaspoonfuls of sugar, fold in
the white of the egg, beaten stiff and dry. Pour over
shaved ice in a glass, let stand five minutes, and serve.
The yolk may be omitted if too rich.

IRISH MOSS LEMONADE

Pick over and wash one-fourth of a cupful of Irish-
moss, pour on one pint of boiling water and cook two
hours, just below the boiling point, 200 degrees Fahr.
Strain and add lemon juice and sugar to taste. Excel-
lent for bronchial troubles.

OYSTER TOAST
Serve broiled oysters on cream toast and sprinkle
with minced celery.

CRUST COFFEE
Dry slices of bread in the oven until it is as
stale,

brown as the coffee berry, but do not scorch it; pour

boiling water over the bread and set on the back of the
stove for a few minutes, where it will keep very hot
but not boil. Pour off the liquid carefully and serve
with cream and sugar.
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TOAST WATER
Toast brown bread without burning it and put into
cold water; it will be ready for use in one hour; if pre-

ferred sweet add loaf sugar to taste.

APPLE DAINTY
Wipe, quarter, pare and core apples; to each pint al-
low one-third of a cupful of sugar, one-third cupful of
cold water, a speck of cloves. Put into an earthen dish,
cover tightly and bake slowly eight hours. When can-
died and deep red in color pile lightly on a dish, and
pour over a boiled custard, made with the yolks of
three eggs, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one-half tea-
spoonful of vanilla and one pint of scalded milk. Pile
lightly over this the three whites, beaten with one
tablespoonful of powdered sugar.

ROSE GELATINE
Use any brand of gelatine that has rose coloring,
mould in long shallow granite pan, just thick enough to
cut out heart shaped pieces with a cookie cutter. These
come in heart shapes and can be used in cutting sand-
wiches too. Serve with whipped cream not sweetened.

FRUIT SYRUP
A refreshing drink to use in fever cases may be made
from dried peaches or apricots. Thoroughly wash
one-half pound of the fruit, taking it piece by piece
between the thumb and forefinger. Soak over night in
one quart of water. In the morning simmer for half
an hour, strain and chill.

UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE

Cover Concord grapes with cold water (after remov-
ing from the stems and washing thoroughly in a col-
ander), then boil until tender. Press the juice through
a. wire sieve and add to it one cupful of sugar to every
 Invalid Cooking 201

three quarts of fruit juice. Place over the fire, let just
come to a boil, and bottle hot. Do not let grapes
boil too long the first time, nor any more than boil up
the last time, or the flavor will be impaired. Serve with
cracked ice. For invalids, dilute one-half.

WINE JELLY
One ounce of gelatine, one and one-half quarts of
water, one and one-half pounds of sugar, three lemons,
two tumblers sherry wine, one wine glass brandy, one-
fourth teaspoonful essence of cinnamon. Soak the
gelatine in the water till thoroughly dissolved, add the
sugar and the lemons cut in thin slices, the wine, bran-
dy and cinnamon. Let it come just to a boil. Strain
into moulds and set on ice to harden.

LEMON JELLY
One teaspoonful of granulated gelatine. Soak in two
tablespoonfuls of cold water, add four tablespoonfuls
of boiling water, two tablespoonfuls sugar and the juice
of one-half lemon. Turn into a mould and set in ice
water to harden.

SPONGE CAKE
A good sponge cake served with cream or a glass of
milk makes an excellent lunch for an invalid. To make
the cake, beat six eggs and cup of sugar until perfectly
perfectly creamy, light and white. Add a teaspoonful
of flavoring, and two tablespoonfuls of cold water and
beat again. Stir in lightly one cupful of sifted flour,
with a scant teaspoonful of baking powder with it, but
do not beat. Merely fold it in. Bake in a deep tin in a
rather slow oven.
 THINGS WORTH KNOWING
To wash them in
clean sponges, diluted tartaric acid,
rinsing them afterward in water; it will make them very-
soft and white.

fruits and meats see if the top

Before buying tinned
is or depressed. If the top has bulged out, then
flat
air has entered the tin and fermentation has set in.

Vinegar should not be kept in a stone jar, as the

acidmay affect the glazing and the vinegar be rendered
unwholesome. Glass jars are the best vinegar recep-
tacles.

Freshen the house by putting a few drops of oil of

lavender in an ornamental bowl, then half fill it with
very hot water. This will give a delightful freshness to
the atmosphere.

A good china cement

is made by mixing with a strong
solution of gum
arabic and water enough plaster of
paris to make a thick paste. This should be applied
to the broken edges with a camel's-hair brush.

When lighting a gas stove it will often give a slight

explosion and light wrong, thus causing no heat. Turn
the gas off very quickly, and on again. It will then
light properly without any further trouble.

If you have left boiled eggs in the water a little too

long, break the top of the shell at once by patting it
with a spoon. This lets out some of the heat, and the
hardening process is stopped immediately.
 Things Worth Knowing 203

A —
Paint Stained Dress. If you happen to get wet
paint on your dress, rub the stain at once with another
piece of the same material, and the stain wrll entirely
disappear. You can use another and covered part of
the same garment. What happens to the paint it is
difficult to say, but it certainly disappears.

Grease Marks on Wall Papers. —These can be re-

moved by applying a paste of pipeclay and water to the
stains,and allowing this to dry on all one night or day.
Then the powder should be gently brushed off without
scraping the paper.

—
To Clean Carved Ivory Articles. The beauty of
carved ivory curios is frequently spoiled on account of
dust which collects in the interstices, so those who
possess them will be pleased to hear of an excellent
method of cleaning the ivory effectually. A paste
should be made of sawdust, water and a few drops of
lemon juice. This paste should be applied thickly all
over the carving, and be permitted to dry on. When
finally brushed off with a soft, firm brush, the prepara-
tion will be found to have left the ivory pure and white
once more.
To Remove Rust —
Stains from Matting. Cover the
stain with paper and place a warm iron on this. When
the spot is warm dip a glass rod in a bottle of muriatic
acid and go over the rust spot with it, wetting every
part with the acid. The spot will turn a bright yellow.
Instantly wash it with an old toothbrush dipped in
boiling water, rub dry with woolen cloths. Before be-
ginning the work have all the appliances ready, and
then work rapidly from start to finish. Muriatic acid
corrodes metals, therefore keep the bottle corked tight
when not using it. Two or three ounces of the acid
will be ample.

Flower vases can be easily purified and cleansed by

rinsingthem out with warm water and powdered char-
coal.
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When cutting new bread always put the knife in hot
water first, and you will find that it facilitates the cut-

ting.

To Keep Clothespins New. —To prevent new clothes-

pins from splitting, let them stand in cold water a
few hours before using.

A box filled with lime and placed on the shelf in a,

pantry and frequently renewed will absorb the damp,
and keep the air pure and dry.

When
weighing molasses for cooking purposes, if the
scale well floured first the syrup will run off quite
is

smoothly, without leaving any stickiness behind.

—
Good Polish for Oilcloth. Save all candle ends and
melt in the oven, mix with it sufficient turpentine to
make a soft paste. This is excellent for linoleum, etc.
Celery should be allowed to lie in cold water, to
which a little salt has been added, for an hour before
it is required for the table. This will make it very
crisp.

To Brighten Copperware. —A little crushed borax it

sprinkled thickly on a flannel cloth that is wet with hot

water and well soaped will brighten the copper like
magic.

To Darken Brown boots that have seen their best

days rub all over with a piece of clean white flannel
wet in ammonia. Do this twice, then polish with the
usual brown liquid, and they will look as nice as ever.

—
Tapestry-Covered Furniture. To clean this, first
brush thoroughly; then add a tablespoonful of ammonia
to a quart of water. Wring a cloth out of this, and
sponge thoroughly, rinsing and turning the cloth as
it gets dirty, changing the water when necessary. This
freshens and brightens it wonderfully.
 Things Worth Knowing 205

—
Scrubbing Board Floors. Plenty of soap and cold
water and no soda are the secrets of success in wash-
ing board floors and the wood must be scrubbed the
way of the grain and not round and round, if you want
to get the dirt off. Change the water often. You can't
expect boards to be a good color if they are rinsed in
dirty water.

Few housekeepers pay the attention they should to

their ice boxes. An ice box can be kept in perfect
condition if it is thoroughly cleansed once a week, but
twice is better. The box should be thoroughly washed
with strong soda water, and the drain pipes should be
washed out. An ice box should always be full of ice.
It is the poorest economy to allow the supply to de-
crease, and if sufficient ice is provided the box can be
kept at an even temperature, which insures the preser-
vation of the food it contains. There are people who,
from a false idea of economy, fail to get the best re-
sults from the use of ice and refrigerators. A common
mistake is getting a small piece of ice every day or ev-
ery other day, instead of filling the ice chamber two
or three times a week. The small piece of ice cannot
reduce the temperature sufficiently, and the result is
that each new piece melts rapidly and the food cannot
be kept.
Tissue paper should never be thrown away. Save it
allfor polishing windows and mirrors, or for removing
the first coating of grease from dishes previous to their
immersion in the dishpan.

Never use soda for washing china that has any gild-
ing on it, for the soda will in time surely remove it all.
Instead of soda, use a little soap; that has no bad effect.

Put a teaspoonful of ammonia in a quart of water,

wash your brushes and combs in this, and all grease
and dirt will disappear. Rinse, shake, and dry in the
sun, or by the fire.
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To renovate leather furniture, wash it with soap and
water, and when dry apply a little vaseline, rubbed in
with the hand. Let it remain till next morning, then
polish with a soft duster. This treatment will prevent
the leather from cracking.

Coal that is kept in a dry and airy place will burn

much longer than that which is kept in a close cellar,
with no ventilation. When coal remains long in an
airless place it gets rid of its gas, and the absence of
this renders it less powerful and more wasteful when
burned.

Carpets in svo^is which are seldom used are apt to

be attacked by moths. Salt sprinkled around the
edges and well under the carpet before it is put down
will generally prevent their ravages. Plenty of light
and air should be admitted into the rooms as moths
favor close, dark places.

Wet boots and shoes when taken off will last much
longer if they are placed on their sides and allowed to

dry, pulling the uppers as flat as possible. By this

means the soles are exposed to the air and dry better.
It is also a good plan, when one does not possess boot-
trees, to fill the boots or shoes with soft, crumpled pa-
per or oats, so that they will keep their shape.

To prevent portieres catching under the door when

opened quickly, screw a small ring (such as are used
for picture frames) into the center of the door frame,
and to this fasten a blind cord sufficently long to
reach to the bottom of the curtain. Put another ring in
center of the door at the top, thread cord through, and
fasten to bottom of curtain. As the door is opened so
the curtain rises.

To keep ants, moths or any other insects out of the

closets or pantry, sprinkle the shelves and corners with
sassafras oil, and they will soon bid you "good-bye."
 Things Worth Knozving 207

A fairly sizable piece of black velveteen, perhaps a

quarter of a yard, makes the most satisfactory brush
for silk that can be had; it removes the dust perfectly
and yet does not injure the fabric.

—
Care of Bath Rooms. Plenty of fresh air and a gen-
erous flushing of pipes, using disinfectants every two
weeks at least. Copperas is the very best; dissolve a
couple of pounds of crystals in a gallon of water, pour-
ing it down the drains while hot. It has no odor,
but will stain any clothing, and must be used with care.

To make calico wash well infuse three gills of salt in

four quarts of boiling water, and put in the calicoes
while hot, and leave them till cold. In this way the
colors are rendered permanent and will not fade by
subsequent washing.

To remove paint and putty from window glass put

sufficient make a strong
saleratus into hot water to
solution and with this saturate the paint or putty, which
adheres to the glass. Let it remain till nearly dry, then
rub off with a woolen cloth.

To disinfect a room from the smell of tobacco or

closeness, place in an open mouthed jar one-half spirits
of lavender and a lump of salt of ammonia, leaving
it uncovered. It is excellent.

If our lady readers wish to keep a bouquet fresh

let them dropa teaspoonful of powdered charcoal into
the water intended for the flower stalks, and they will
keep their freshness and perfume for several days, and
look and smell the same as those just gathered. The
charcoal settles to the bottom of the vase, the water
remaining clear.

For burns nothing excels linseed oil and lime water.

Dip cotton in the lotion and apply to burn and bandage.
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For backache and pain in the chest the Belladonna
and Capsicum plaster is the best and can be obtained
at all drug stores.

Many
jewels require an occasional sleep, in order to
Diamonds, rubies, opals and sap-
retain their brilliancy.
phires are among the number. They should be put
away in total darkness every now and then. The usual
velvet or satin lined cases are the correct receptacles.
It is best to wrap them in jewelers' tissue paper, then
pack them in wool and lay in air-tight compartments.
A number of stones are seriously affected by fumes
from furnaces, sewer gas, moisture, and sea air.

The ammonia on vegetation is very bene-

effect of
ficial. you desire your plants to become more flour-
If
ishing, try it upon them by adding six drops to every
pint of water you give them. Do not repeat this often-
er than once in eight days, lest you stimulate them too
highly.

Two pounds of alum dissolved in three quarts of boil-

ing water and applied to all cracks and crevices will
keep out ants, roaches and bedbugs.
To
clean straw matting, use a coarse cloth dipped in
salt and water. Wipe dry. The salt will keep the mat-
ting from turning yellow.

To remove ink stains, apply lemon juice and salt and

lay the articles in the sun.

No
housekeeper should be without a bottle of spirits
of ammonia,for besides its medical value, it is very de-
sirable for household purposes. With a pint of suds
mix a teaspoonful of spirits, dip in your silver knives,
forks and spoons, and rub them with a brush and polish
with a chamois skin.
For washing mirrors and windows, put a few drops
of ammonia on a piece of paper and it will readily take
off every spot of finger marks on the glass.
 Things Worth Knowing 209

Ammonia is a most refreshing agent at the toilet

table. A few drops in a basin will make a better bath

than pure water.
Ammonia entirely absorbs all obnoxious smell so
often arising from the feet in hot weather.

To take spots from wash goods, rub them well with

the yolk of an egg before washing.

To take white spots from varnished furniture, hold

a hot plate over them and they will disappear.

Never allow meat to remain in paper; it absorbs the

juices.

To prevent the odor of cabbage or onion, throw red

pepper pods into the pan they are cooking in.
A package of Gold Dust and a cake of Sapolio should
be kept in every kitchen, to be used freely on all dishes
that require scouring and cleansing.

Salt and beeswax will make rusty flatirons as clean

and smooth as glass. Tie a lump of wax in a bag and
keep it for the purpose. When the irons are hot, rub
them first with the wax bag, then scour them with a
paper or cloth sprinkled with salt.

Blue ointment and kerosene mixed in equal propor-

tions and applied to the bedsteads is an unfailing bed-
bug remedy, as a coat of whitewash is for the walls of
a log house.

Kerosene will soften boots or shoes that have been

hardened by water and make them pliable as new.

When cheese becomes too hard, grate it and put it

away in covered bottles, it is useful for macaroni.

Salt toughens meat if added before it is done.

Crackers are much more crisp if set in a hot oven a

few minutes before serving.
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If you value your own and your family's digestion,

don't serve tea with fish. The tannic acid hardens the
fibre and makes it indigestible. It should not be of-
fered with any form of fish, shell-fish, or the articulate
animals like lobsters and crabs. Iced tea and
soft-shell
crabs, for example, are a combination that should be a-
voided.

One of the dyed chamois-skins is an excellent lamp

mat for a polished table —the rich red, green, or a cer-
tain shade of peacock blue. A red one goes especially
well with a lamp of Egyptian design.

A recent addition to the list of savory salts is onion

salt, which is now put up in shaker cans or bottles for

flavoring use.

As most of the people cook by gas perhaps the follow

ing suggestions may be a help in the saving of gas.
Puddings, pies, and beans can be baked well and at a
small expense by using a small tin oven, such as comes
for oil stoves. Place the oven over one of the single
burners, and you will find it will give a very satisfactory
bake with only a low flame. This little oven is fine for
keeping the dishes warm and the victuals hot.

Do away bits of toilet soap. Get a quart or

not throw
pint Mason and put in the bits of soap. Pour in al-
jar
cohol not quite enough to cover the soap. This will
make a jelly which will be found very useful for the
hands, in the bath, and for shampooing. Just before
using add three drops of lavender or rose.

To prevent flannels from turning yellow lay pieces

of white wax in the folds of white flannel or swiss mus-
lin.

The following are a few of the many articles which

should be in every household in case of emergency es- —
pecially if a doctor is not to be obtainable immediately.
 Things Worth Knowing 211

Absorbent cotton, bandanges of convenient length and

width of old cotton (which every housekeeper has if
carefully saved), old linen handkerchiefs, pieces of soft
flannel,prepared mustard leaves, adhesive plasters, ar-
nica, pure vaseline, collodion, witch-hazel, ammonia
borax, ipecac, spirits camphor, aconite No. 3 labeled
"poison." No 2 is invaluable in the household if admin-
istered carefully in fever, ten drops in a glass of water,
dose one teaspoonful each hour. Pure wine, whiskey,
or brandy if occasion requires.
The hot water bags are indispensable (and can be
obtained at slight cost). One per cent solution of car-
bolic acid is very useful (also a deadly poison) in cases
of injury because of its cleansing qualities. If a cut is
to be treated, the wound should be cleansed in clear
tepid water, then rinsed with the carbolic solution, then
painted with collodion, which staunches the blood and
serves as a varnish to keep out air and any dirt.

The solution of carbolic above mentioned is excel-

lent for burns; saturate the cotton and put on to the
afflicted spot, bandage and keep wet.
Trifling injuries, whether cuts or tears, should be
gently cleansed with luke warm water poured over the
wound, then replace the skin or tissue, and lay a clean
white cloth soaked in laudanum, or alcohol, or water
over the injured part and loosely bind on.
A cloth dipped in cold water and placed on the nape
of the neck or a cold key, or a teaspoonful of salt in
a cupful of water or vinegar may be snuffed up the nose,
and rarely fails to stop the bleeding. Also, brown pa-
per dipped in vinegar and placed on the nape of the
neck will stop bleeding from the nose.
To brown flour for gravies and soups, put a few table-
spoonfuls of flour evenly in the bottom of a baker's
pan, over a moderate fire, stir until it has become a
fine amber brown. Bottle and keep for use.
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Salt will curdle new milk, hence in preparing milk
porridge, gravies, etc., the salt should not be added un-
til the dish is prepared. Salt will remove stains from
silver caused by eggs. Apply dry with a soft cloth.

Take bread scraps before they have become musty and

dry them in the oven. When thoroughly dry roll to a
powder or through the food chopper, put into jars for
breading, etc.

To whip eggs well they must be very fresh and cold.

HOUSEHOLD USES FOR REFINED PARAFFINE

For Washing.— One-half teacup of paraffine wax
shavings to one ordinary bar of washing soap both dis-
solved in a little hot water, is sufficient for one boiler
of washing. Pour this mixture when dissolved into the
boiler of hot water (the best r< suits are obtained by dip-
ping the clothes into cold water then wringing and
putting into the boiler). Boil the clothes thirty min-
utes, after which all that is required to have beautiful,
white clothes is the usual sudsing, rinsing and bluing.
Using Paraffine Wax as above will save hard rubbing
and scrubbing. Will take the dirt out of your clothes
without hard rubbing. Absolutely pure and will not in-
jure the most delicate fabrics. Has no taste or odor.
Just as important as soap for laundry work.

For Ironing, a teaspoonful of melted paraffine wax

mixed with hot starch insures a smooth, glossy fin-
ish.

Irons are kept smooth, bright and clean by rubbing

them over small pads made of paraffine wax covered
with cheesecloth or old linen.

For Sealing Preserves. —When the jam or jelly is

cool, wipe the inside rim of the glass with a cloth to
insure perfect cleanliness; then pour in the melted par-
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affinewax until it is about one-fourth of an inch thick.

Let stand until the wax hardens and turns white. No
other cover is necessary. If the fruit is thoroughly-
cooled before pouring on the melted wax it will not
mix with the fruit.

For Cake and Pie Pans. —Warm the pans and rub the
inside with Paraffine wax. This is superior to the old
method of greasing the pans with butter.

Stone jars with tight fitting covers make excellent

bread boxes.

Wash
the refrigerator once a week with a little lye
in the it cuts every thing away from the tubes,
water as
and leaves the ice box fresh and clean.

Colored napkins are used when fruits are served.

They do not show the stains as the white napkins do.

Keep the dishes containing food closely covered and

the refrigerator will be kept from odors.

Vegetables to be cooked by boiling should be put into

boiling water as little as possible, and if water is added
let it be boiling hot. Steaming or baking is best for
most vegetables, their finer flavors being retained.

Wash lettuce carefully so as not to bruise, cutting

each leaf from stalk, and put it in a closely covered
stone jar. Set on ice or in a cool place. Each day
look over the lettuce, rinse in fresh cold water and re-
turn to jar. Lettuce and celery thus prepared will keep
for nearly a week.

Set asparagus bunches in a few inches of cold water

to,keep fresh, the water should not come more than
half way up to the stalks. When ready to cook, wash
thoroughly in several waters to get out the sand.
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HOUSEHOLD WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
4 Teaspoonfuls equal one tablespoonful of liquid.
4 Tablespoonfuls equal one wine glass or one-half gill.

2 Wine glasses equal one gill or half a cup.

2 Gills equal I coffeecupful or 16 tablespoonfuls.
2 Coffeecupfuls equal one pint.
2 Pints equal one quart.
4 Quarts equal one gallon.
2 Tablespoonfuls equal one ounce of liquid.
2 Tablespoonfuls of salt equal one ounce.
16 Ounces equal I pound or I pint of liquid.
4 Coffeecupfuls of sifted flour equal one pound.
1 Quart of unsifted flour equals one pound.

i Pint granulated sugar equals one pound.

2 Coffeecupfuls of powdered sugar equal one pound.

I Coffeecupful of cold butter equals one-half pound.

1 Tablespoon of soft butter, well rounded, equals i oz.

i Pint of chopped meat, solidly packed equals I pound.

25 Drops of liquid will fill an ordinary sized teaspoon.

An ordinary tumblerful equals one-half pint.
4 Teaspoonfuls equal one tablespoonful.
i Tablespoonful of flour equals one-half ounce.

2 Tablespoonfuls of ground spice equal one ounce.

5 Nutmegs equal one ounce.
i Teacupful of rice equals one-half pound.

i Teacupful of corn meal equals six ounces.

i Teacupful of stemmed raisins or currants equals 6 oz.

i Teacupful of stale bread equals two ounces.

TIME TABLE FOR COOKING

Asparagus, Tomatoes and Peas is to 20 minutes

Brown bread 3 hours
Beef Corned and A-la-mode 3 to 5 hours
Beef, Mutton 2 to 3 hours
Beans — String and shell 1 to 3 hours
Coffee 3 to 5 minutes
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Tilings Worth Knowing 2 1

Corn Meal 3 hours

Clams, Oysters 3 to 5 minutes
Cabbage and Young Beets 30 to 45 minutes
Carrots, Onions & Vegetable Oysters. 30 to 60 minutes
Eggs, soft boiled 1 to 3 minutes
Eggs, hard boiled 6 to 10 minutes
Freezing Ice Cream 30 minutes
Hominy, Fine 1 hour
Ham 5 hours
Macaroni, Potatoes and Spinach 20 to 30 minutes
Oatmeal, coarse, steamed 3 hours
Oatmeal, rolled 30 minutes
Potted Pigeons 2 hours
Parsnips and Turnips 30 to 45 minutes
Puddings, one quart, steamed 3 hours
Puddings, Small 1 hour

Rice, Steamed 45 to 60 minutes

Rice, Boiled 15 to 20 minutes
Soup Stock 5 to 8 minutes
Sweet Corn 5 to 8 minutes
Sweet Breads 20 to 30 minutes
Squash, Celery and Cauliflower 20 to 30 minutes
Tea, Steeped without boiling 5 minutes
Tongue 3 to 4 hours
Water, one quart, over gas, covered . 5 minutes
Water, one pint, over gas, uncovered. 4 minutes
Wheat Granules 20 to 30 minutes

TIME TABLE FOR BAKING

Biscuits and Rolls 10 to 20 minutes
Bread 40 to 60 minutes
Baked Beef —rare—6 pounds 70 minutes
Baked Beef —well done 90 minutes
Beef, braised 3 to 4 hours
Cake, sponge 40 to 60 minutes
Cake, fruit 2 to 4 hours
Chickens, Tame Ducks i Ato 2%
z
hours
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Ducks (wild), Grouse 25 to 30 minutes
Fish, thick 45 to 60 minutes
Fillet of Beef 20 to 30 minutes
Gems, Muffins, Thin Cakes 20 to 30 minutes
Mutton, Lamb iJ4 to 1^ hours
Puddings, Rice, Indian, Plum 2 to 3 hours
Puddings, Custard 20 to 45 minutes
p; es 30 to 40 minutes
Patties 15 to 25 minutes
Potatoes 30 to 45 minutes
Scalloped Dishes 15 to 30 minutes
Veal, Pork, Turkey 2 to 3 hours

MEALS AS REMEDIES
"Every meal would be a remedy if it were rightly
taken,'' said a physician. "Every article of food has
some curative property or other, and if we ate correctly
each mouthful would improve our general health.
Nervous persons, for instance, should eat lots of cel-
ery for celery is the best nerve tonic in the world.
Leeks and good for the digestion and for
garlic are
the circulation, and thus they should be tavored by the
dyspeptic and the weak-hearted. Asparagus clears the
blood. For the liver tomatoes are excellent. For
the kidneys nothing is better than spinach. For the
anemic rice is superb. Grapes are good for malaria
and pineapples will heal a sore throat. But onions are
the most valuable food of all. A raw onion, taken every
night before turning in, cures the worst cases of in-
somnia. Onion soup is an excellent remedy for de-
bility of the digestive organs."

CHOOSING ORANGES
The young housekeeper should pay extra attention
to the choosing of herdozen oranges from the box or
pile displayed. She should judge by weight and ap-
pearance. A juicy orange is heavy in proportion to its
 Things Worth Knowing 217

size, while a "corky one is light in weight." A smooth

fine grained skin which appears to be tightly stretched
is a good indication of the contents, while the heavy
coarse grained, dry skin, signifies a coarse grained fruit
with little juice.

DAINTY WAYS OF USING ROSE LEAVES

With the blooming of roses the woman who keeps

abreast of the times is on the alert to gather in every
leaf of the fragrant harvest. From time immemorial
the Orientals have utilized roses for their choicest
sweets and flavors. Our great grandmothers were
adepts in the preparation of rose flavors and pot pourris,
but the modern woman has been slow in awakening to
their possibilities.
The rose pillow is now esteemed the acme of dainti-
ness for the new baby's carriage or the bride's outfit.
To collect a sufficient supply, make a systematic tour
of the garden each morning while the dew is still on,
provided with basket and shears. Select the roses
whose petals are ready to fall, shake into the basket,
snip off the denuded stem and throw it away. Carry
the fragrant burden to the garret or spare room, where
papers have been spread upon the floor, and empty the
petals upon them. Stir and turn every day until per-
fectly dry, transferring to bags when that is accom-
plished.
When a sufficient amount of petals has been collected
put in pretty cases made of fine hemstitched handker-
chiefs fagotted together, through which white or rose,
colored ribbon may be run. These wash beautifully.
If something more elaborate is desirable, a bolting cloth
cover, embroidered or hand painted with roses, is dain-
ty and effective.
For rose syrup, collect fresh petals each morning and
spread on a tray to dry. When enough have been col-
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lected for a tumbler of preserves, put in a fresh granite
or porcelain kettle with just enough water to cover, and
simmer until tender. Add sugar in the proportion of
a pound to each pint of the leaves and water and cook to
a rich syrup. The Turkish women frequently use hon-
ey in place of sugar, one-half pound of the honey equal-
ing a pound of sugar.

This syrup gives a delicious flavor to a pudding sauce

or mince meat, or it may be utilized as a sweet at a
Turkish tea. Pour in glasses and seal.
To secure rose flavoring, fill a wide-mouthed bottle
with fresh petals, packing them down as tight as pos-
sible. Then pour over them enough pure alcohol to
submerge.
Richer and stronger is rose brandy. Fill a glass jar
with fragrant petals, and cover with French brandy.
Next day pour off the brandy, take out the leaves and
replace with fresh ones. Return the brandy. Do this
several times, until the brandy is strongly impregnated.
Then strain and bottle tightly. Keep the can covered
during the distillation process.
The petals of the yellow rose infused in boiling water
furnish a delicate dye, which is attractive with old-fash-
ioned rose desserts and for home-made candy.

To make candied rose leaves, gather fresh leaves and

spread them on an inverted sieve or oiled paper in
the open air until slightly dry, but not crisp. Make
a syrup, using a half-pint of water and a half pound of
granulated sugar, and boil until it spins a thread. Dip
each rose leaf in thh syrup, using a hat pin or fine wire.
Then lay back in place. After several hours, melt a
half cupful of fondant, add two or three drops of es-
sence of rose, a drop of cochineal to color, and a few
drops of water to thin. Dip the leaves in this one by one,
sprinkle with crystalized sugar, and return to the oiled
paper again to harden.
 Things Worth Knowing 219

WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
First Year— Cotton
Second Year —Paper
Third Year— Leather
Fifth Year— Wooden
Seventh Year—Woolen
Tenth Year—Tin
Twelfth Year— Silk and Linen
Fifteenth Year — Crystal
Twentieth Year— China
Twenty-Fifth Year— Silver
Thirtieth Year— Pearl
Fortieth Year— Ruby
Fiftieth Year— Golden
Seventy-Fifth Year —Diamond
BIRTH MONTH GEMS
Their Sentiment and Flower

January Garnet— Constancy Wild Rose

February Amethyst — Contentment Pink
March Bloodstone — Courage Violet
April Diamond— Innocence Easter Lily
May Emerald—Success in Love Lily of the Valley
June Pearl— Purity Daisy
July Ruby—Nobility of Mind Rose
August Moonstone— Conjugal Felicity Pond Lily
September Sapphire— Chastity Poppy
October Opal—Hope Cosmos
November Topaz—Fidelity Chrysanthemum
December Turquoise — Success and Happiness Holly
 SUGGESTIVE MENUS
Simple Breakfasts

Raspberries. Sugar and Cream.

Batter Cakes. Maple Syrup.
Coffee.

A Cereal with Cream and Sugar.

Veal Steak. German Fried Potatoes.
Toast. Coffee.

Cantaloupes.
Codfish Balls. Baked Potatoes.
Toast. Coffee.

Sliced Peaches. Sugar and Cream.

Little Pigs in Blankets.
Creamed Potatoes.
Toast. Coffee.

Peaches. Sugar and Cream.

Waffles. Maple Syrup.
Coffee.

Cantaloupes.
Lamb Chops. Baked Potatoes.
Toast. Coffee.
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Strawberries. Sugar and Cream.

French Toast. Maple Syrup.
Coffee.

Baked Apples. Sugar and Cream.

Pork Chops. Creamed Potatoes.
Toast. Coffee.

Vitos. Sugar and Cream.

Liver and Bacon.
Toast. Coffee.

Peaches. Sugar and Cream.

Egg Omelet.
Muffins. Maple Syrup.
Coffee.

Vitos. Sugar and Cream.

Broiled Bacon. Baked Potatoes.
Bread and Butter. Coffee.

Baked Apples. Sugar and Cream.

Eggs on Toast.
Coffee.

Sliced Oranges.
Creamed Chipped Beef.
Toast. Coffee.
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Simple Lunches

Cold Tongue. Tomato Ketchup.

French Fried Potatoes.
Rye and White Bread.
Peaches. Sugar and Cream.
Milk.

Cold Roast Beef Sandwiches.

Lettuce Salad.
Strawberry Shortcake. Cream.
Coffee.

Cold Roast Pork. Hot Biscuits.

Apple Salad.
Cake. Coffee.

Cold Sliced Ham. Potato Chips.

Lettuce. Bread and Butter.
Cheese. Soda Wafers.
Coffee.

Cold Sliced Beef. Horseradish.

French Fried Potatoes.
Bread and Butter.
Strawberry Shortcake. Tea.

Salmon Salad. Potato Chips.

Soda Wafers. Bread and Butter.
Lemon Cake. Coffee.
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Schmier Kase. Rye Bread and Butter.

Hot Baked Apples. Sugar and Cream.
Iced Tea.

Chicken Sandwiches. Lettuce.

Strawberries and Cream.
Iced Tea.

Strawberry Cocktail.
Creamed Fish in Ramekin Cases.
Soda Biscuits.
Fried Chicken. Cream Sauce.
French Peas.
Wafers. Cream Cheese.
Coffee.

Bouillon in Cups. Croutons.

Broiled Chicken. Cream Sauce.
Rolls. Coffee.
Celery Salad. Wafers.
Nut Sundae.