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pockets, and grato the fruit on a
"coarse kitchen grater. Put the sugar
and water over the fire, stir until
the sugar Is dissolved, let boil five
minutes, skimming well; then stir in
the gated quince pulp and let cook
slowly, stirring occasionally, for
about thirty minutes, until it is thick,
like honey. Put this into jars and
seal as usual. This will keep, and
improve with age.
Peaches and plums make a nice
confection. Scald like tomatoes to
remove the skin; plunge the peaches
into the boiling water and leave for
three minutes, then into cold water,
and peel and pit with a silver fruit
knife. One of the wire baskets used
for frying is fine to hold the fruit
when put into the boiling water.
Have a bowl of cold water to which
the juice of half a lemon has been
added, and drop each peach into this
as it is peeled, to prevent discolora
tion. When the syrup reaches the
boiling point, skim the fruit out of
tho acid water and drop into the boil
ing syrup and let cook gently until
tender; each quart of ripe peaches
will require one-half cup of granu
lated sugar to one and one-half
cups of water. Put one or two pits
in each quart Jar of fruit when cook
ing before canning. Be sure to seal
air-tight.
For baking apples wash and re
move tho cores from as many apples
as the pan will hold; put in the pan
and fill the hole where tho core was
removed with granulated sugar and
a little dab of butter; pour Into the
pan a cupful of water; bake In a
moderate oven for twenty minutes,
basting occasionally, or cover with
another pan. Let the apples stay in
the oven as it gradually cools, and
the wator In the pan will b like
jelly. If tho apples are sweet, more
wator is noedod, and 'they will keep
their shapo; but tart apples will
soften and become mushy if too much
water is in tho pan. Whon done, lift
onto a platter, sprinkle thickly with
sugar, and when cold, aervo.
A FOOD CONVERT
Good Food the True Road to Health
The pernicious habit some persons
still have of relying on nauseous
drugs to relieve stomach trouble,
keeps up tho patent medicine busi
ness and helps keep up the army of
dyspeptics.
Indigestion dyspepsia is caused
by what is put into the stomach in
tho way of improper food, the kind
that so 'taxes the strength of the
strength of the digestive organs they
are actually crippled.
When this state is reached, to re
sort to tonics is liking whipping a
tired horse with a big load. Every
additional effort he makes under the
lash diminishes hiB power to move
the load.
Try helping the stomach by leaving
off heavy, greasy, indigestible food
and take on Grape-Nuts light, easily
digested, full of strength for nerves
and brain, in every grain of it.
There's no waste of time nor energy
when Grape-Nuts is the food.
"I am an enthusiastic user of
Grape-Nuts and consider it an ideal
food," writes a Maine man:
"I had nervous dyspepsia and was
all run down and my food seemed
to me but little good. From read
ing an advertisement I tried Grape
Nuts food, and, after a few weeks'
steady use of it, felt greatly im
proved. "Am much stronger, not nervous
now, and can do more work without
feeling so tired, and am better every
"I relish Grape-Nuts best with
cream and use four heaping tea
spoonfuls as the cereal part of a meal.
I am sure there are thousands of per
sons with stomach trouble who would
fee benefited by using qrape-Nuts.
Name given by Posturn Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read the little book,
The Road to Wellville," In pkgs.
There's a reason."
Ever read the abooy letter? A
sewoqo appears from time to tone.
Chey arS genuine, teue, and full of
lanuan tatcrcfefc.
Requested Rcclpca
Mrs. S. C. A. wishes a recipe for a
hot salad. Salads are usually served
cold and as crisp as possible. Here,
however, is a salad made of boiled,
or cooked ingredients, which is per
haps what she wants. This is com
pounded of boiled or baked onions,
baked beet-roots, cooked cauliflower,
broccoli, celery and French beans, or
any of these articles ono happens to
have, in quantities to suit tho taste,
or in loft-overs; add to these articles
a common salad dressing, and, if at
hand, a small quantity of endives,
lettuce, or chervil, as fresh and crisp
as may bo.
Melted Butter Cut two ounces of
butter into little bits and as soon as
melted, add a large toaspoonful of
flour and two tablespoonfuls of Bweot
milk. Instead of the flour, arrow
root, or potato starch may be used.
Stir until thoroughly mixed, then add
six tablespoonfuls of water, hold over
tho fire and shake continuously in
tho same direction until it Just be
gins to simmer; then lot it stand to
boil up. It must cook but an instant,
and Bhould be like thick cream. If
the butter oils, put a spoonful of
cold water to it and stir with a
spoon; if it is very much oiled, it
should bo poured back and forward
from one vessel to another until It Is
right again. Beating with a Dover's
egg beater will make It perfectly
smooth.
A Stomach Tonic Peruvian bark,
hruiscd, ono and a half ounces;
orange peel, bruised, ono ounce;
proof spirit, one pint; let these In
gredients steep for ton days, shak
ing the bottle every day; let alone
for two days, then pour off the clear
liquid and cork tightly. Dose a toa
spoonful in a wine-glass of wator
twice a day, whon you feel languid,
when tho stomach is empty, about an
hour before meals. In low nervous
affections arising from a languid cir
culation, or where the stomach is In
a state of debility from age, or otner
weakening cause, this la most ac
ceptable. This tends to promote ap
petite and aids digestion. Medical
Magazine.
ter of each row of grains on six cars
of corn, and with a dull knife press
out the pulp. There should bo one
and a half cupfuls. Add to this a
cupful of milk, tho yolk of two eggs
and half a toaspoonful of salt; then
stir in ono cupful and a half of pas
try flour that has been sifted with
one rounding toaspoonful of baking
powder. Fold in tho well beaten
whites of tho eggs and bako in gem
pans In a moderate oven for about
twenty minutes. Servo for breakfast.
Excollont. Mrs. M. L. II., Iowa.
Caro of Cooking Vessels
It is claimed that many mischiefs
result from tho breaking and chip
ping of tho enamel on cooking ves
sels of this material, as the flno,
sharp particles go Into tho stomach
with tho foods. Ono can not bo too
careful of their cooking vessels, and
it is absolutely necessary that they
bo kept perfectly clean, especially In
such hot weathor as wo have In mid
summer; but cleanliness pays at all
seasons.
THE TWO BULL-MOOHEKS
When it comes to tho part of bull
mooso, it is evident that Brother
Roosevelt has nothing on Brother
Bryan. They are incontcstably tho
two greatest bull-moose statesmen in
tho world. Wo forbear to forecast
how Brother Bryan will como out at
Baltimore whether all tho other
delegates will eventually bo pitched
out on his formidable webbed antlers,
whether somo desperate band of
resoluto democrats, bent on savins
tho party, will saw away tho under
pinning beneath his stall and drop
him Into tho cellar, or whether some
hardy candldato with spurn will
presently Jump on his powerful back,
blind him with progressive blinders,
and ride him to triumphant victory.
We can't guess how it will come out.
Wo do not know what finally hap
pens when these wild creatures como
inextricably up against civilization,
and we havo no mind to guess and
bo rated as a nature fakir.
It is enough to point out tho great
advantage Brother Bryan has over
his rival bull in being a delegate and
present in the convention and ablo
to mako his charges on tho floor of
tho hall. That adVantago ho gained
by not being himself an acknowl
edged candldato. Sagamore Hill
must be full of pits pawed in futilo
wrath by Brothor Bull-moose Roose
velt since ho has seen what sensa
tions his brother bull has been ablo
to compass and by what means.
Not that It is certain that Brother
Roosevelt could havo done tho like,
ovon though unencumbered with can
didacy. In vocal feats in a public
assemblage ho Is not a match for
Brothor Bryan, and With an animal
trainer of tho talents of Mr. Root to
cope with, and Mayor Harrison's
police force confronting him, his field
would not havo been as fnvorablo as
that at Baltimore. Nevertheless, tho
dirt must be flying on Sagamore Hill,
Harper's Weekly.
LATEST FASHIONS
FOR COMMONER READERS
Contributed Recipes
Creole Corn Peel and cut into
quarters four good sized, ripe toma
toes; put into a sauco pan with a
dozen okra pods washed ana cm into
thin slices; cover and stew slowly for
twenty minutes; add the pulp of a
dozen ears of corn, a lovel teaspoon
ful of salt, one sweet pepper chopped
fine, a dash of white pepper; cook
over hot water, or in a double boiler
for fifteen minutes, then add either
four tablespoonfuls of cream, or two
level tablespoonfuls of butter, and
send at once to the table. This forms
a most desirable sauce served with
chicken.1 Mrs. L. S.
Fried Tomatoes Have only solid,
nearly ripe tomatoes, not in the least
soft; or green tomatoes, Just ready
to ripen may be used. Slice without
peeling about one-fourt Inch thick;
rolj in bread, or cracker crumbs, or
in flour; have some butter, lard, dr
other frying materials fn the skillet
and let get very hot; salt the slices
and lay them carefully in the hot
fat, and let cook a few minutes, then
turn carefully, and cook the other
side Take up as soon as tha outer
surface is c6qke"d; do not wait until
tfiey are so Soft they fall to pieces,
frhja makes an xcelfeht breakfast
dish.
Corn Puffs Score down tho cen-
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