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DECEMBER 6, 1907
The Commoner.
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how little even a generous salary
will buy.
Hero are some good recipes which
I hope you may like:
Cabbage Boil a firm, white head
of cabbage fifteen minutes, change
the water, replacing with fresh boil
ing water from the teakettle. Cook
until tender, drain, and set aside un
til perfectly cold. Chop fine and add
to it two well-beaten eggs, a table
spoonful of butter, a little pepper
and salt, three tablespoonfuls of rich
cream, stir all well together, put
into a buttered pudding dislr and
bake until brown.
Creamed Carrots Boil three cup
fuls of carrots, cut in dice, in salted
water until tender. Dress with a
cream sauce made by blending a
tablespoonful each of butter and
flour, letting heat to a light yellow
color, then add a cupful of milk,
boiling up until it thickens, then
season with pepper and salt and
serve. A border of canned peas is
liked with this dish.
Parsnips These should not be
used until after the ground freezes
hard, as the freezing sweetens them.
They may be cooked in salted wa
ter until tender, then laid in a pan,
some nice fat meat laid over them,
and browned in the oven. Or, they
may be cooked until tender, mashed
with butter, pepper and a very little
flour stirred into them, eaten so, or
made out into little cakes and fried.
Or, one-fourth pound of nice pickled
side meat may be put into 'a kettle
with a pint of water and let cook
slowly for one hour. A half hour be
fore dinner, put a half dozen good
sized potatoes on the meat, then the
parsnips with a little pepper and
cook until the parsnips are done.
Watch closely that they do not get
too dry and scorch before they are
done.
readily and cheaply constructed, and
with a little persistence tho princi
ples may bo successfully applied.
There are quite a fow makes of tho
chest on the market, and parties who
count their time moro than money
have tried them. So far as I have
heard, they have given a promise of
satisfaction. Like all other house
hold contrivances, tho perfection of
tho working depends as much on the
woman as upon the machine; but
tho rules are simple, and can be
easily applied, though "practice" is
required to make one "perfect." It
is to bo regretted that women are
so reluctant to accept the helpful
ness offered her. in tho household in
ventions, but this conservatlveness is
being overcome.
Tho Cooking Chest
The cooking chest, or "hay-box,"
Ig no longer an experiment, but 'is
one of the new-old discoveries which
will not only give to the family a
much better class of cookery for less
fuel, but will relieve the housewife
of much watchfulness and anxiety.
The home-made article can be very
BEGAN YOUNG
Had "Coffee Nerves" from Youth
For Tough Meats
In tho matter of cooking meats, it
Is well known, though tho knowl
edge is not put into practice as often
as it should be, that the moro slow
ly it is boiled, tho more tender and
tasty it becomes. A tough piece of
meat, If allowed to boil briskly for
half an hour to set the surface albu
men, then drawn back where it will
barely simmer for several hours, or
until perfectly tender, then left to
cool in tho water in which It was
boiled, will come out very tender,
juicy and appetizing; while the same
piece of meat, if kept rapidly boil
ing until it falls from tho bone, then
dished up, will still be tough, dry
and tasteless. Simmering does not
mean boiling, but the water must
be kept at boiling heat, and a very
little ebullition will attest to the
fact that it is. Too much water
must not be added at first, and much
of it may be allowed to evaporate,
and in this way, the remainder
makes excellent gravy. The pot
should be kept closed, to confine the
steam, and in this way the cooking
will be much more oven. Try this
method with your next tough pieco
of meat, or old fowl.
alimentary tract undigested. Whllo
it makes little difference as regards
tho obtaining of nourishment, tho
question, from tho view-point of
digestion and non-fermentation is do
cidedly in favor of a mixed diet
not wholly one or tho other. It Is
claimed that tho eating of moat clogs
tho system with uric acid, producing
rheumatism, etc. There is no gain,
however, In changing to a vegetable
diet, becauso the vegetables that are
substituted for moat (thoio furnlsh
Ing the protein beam, pea and
lentils) contain xanthln, a substance
closely allied to the uric acid In
moats and producing tho snmo re
sults. Summing up tho pros and
cons of vogotarlanlsm and mixed
diet, carefully and without prejudice
weighing the one over against the
othor, we may safely say that It Is
not altogether tho kind of material
that enter tho being, but tho klud
of being the materials enter.
Joseph B. Bowles, In Globe Democrat.
Sonic Remnant Recipes
Turkey Uomnantu Take tho re
mains of a cook ad turkey, and To
utovo all bones, grlstlo and bits of
touch skin; to one pound of thiit add
ono-hnjf pound of cold boiled tongue,
mid pound or mash tho wholo to a
amooth pnito, with a generous pleco
of buttur and a hnlf-teaspoonful 0t
powdorcd niaao, a half teaspoon till
eah of Halt and pepper, and a pinch
of cinnamon. When this is qulto
smooth, press into little pots, covor
with clarified butter and put lit a
cool place. Tho meat may be run
through a chopper, using tho fino
cutter.
Scalloped Turkey Chop tho moat
taken from tho carcass of tho tuikoy
and fill a butterod dish with alter
nate layers of tho turkey meat, broad
crumbs and a nlco cream trnuco -a
scant pint of the c renin sauce to each
largo cupful of tho moat and soa
son each layer to suit the trtsU.
Cover tho top with buttered crumba,
and brown In a moderate oven.
Paris Fashions for Readers of
The Commoner
"When very young I began using
coffee and continued up to the past
six months," writes a Texas girl.
"I had been exceedingly nervous,
thin and very sallow. After quitting
coffee and drinking Postum Food
Coffee about a month my nervousness
disappeared and has never returned.
This is the more remarkable as I am
a Primary teacher and have kept
right on with my work.
"My complexion now is clear and
rosy, my skin soft and smooth. As
a good complexion was something I
had greatly desired, I feel amply re
paid even though this were the only
heneflt derived from drinking Pos
tum. . "Before beginning its use- I "had
suffered .greatly -f rom -intIigGstion,.and
headache; these troubles are now
unknown.
"Best of all, I changed from coffee
to Postum without the slightest in
convenience, did not even have a
headache. Have known coffee drink
ers who were visiting me, to use Pos
tum a week without being aware
that they were not drinking coffee.
"I have known several to begin
the use of Postum and drop It be
cause they did not boil it properly.
After explaining how it should be
prepared they have tried.it agahuand
pronounced it delicious."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read the booklet, "The
Road-to W3llville,':.inpkgs. There's
a Reason."
"Small Matters"
For the woman of quiet tastes,
black or white, or gray and white,
or two tones of gray, in checks or
pin-stripes, as suit, always is becom
ing, and will go with any coat and
hat.
Fr-eshness and neatness of attire,
rather than costliness of material,
is the rule of the day. This can only
be attained by attention to the con
dition in which the garment is worn
and laid away.
Hats should bo brushed and put
away carefully when taken off;
gloves, veils and neckwear should
be smoothed out before being put
away, and for shoes, it Is. well to
have trees on which to slip them for
airing when taken from the feet.
Little .economies and discriminate
buying, purchasing nothing merely
because it is cheap, or "bargain," or
may be needed at some future time,
adding only such things as will
serve a definite purpose, Is at all
times, to -be commended.
It is the woman -who tosses her
clo'thing down in "-any old place,"
when she takes them off, and hangs
her coat and skirt (when she hangs
them at-all) on -whatever will hold
them, who "never has anything fit
to wear." The best of materials will
look cheap under this process.
What to Eat
It has been indisputably proved
hy experiment that animal foods are
more easily, more readily, and more
completely digested than vegetable;
milk, eggs and beef being the most
readily so of. all foods in use, having
a minimum oL residue (from 3 to 6
per cent) remaining undigested,
,while:from .20 to .70 per cent of all
vegetable foods pass through the
2112 LfrtlriT Shlrt-Walst, with
Three-Quarter Length Sleeven find a
Returnable Chemisette. Steel gray
inessallno with tho chemlsctto of
cream-colored luce, and trimming f
Persian embroidery makes thin waist
appropriate for all and every occaHlon.
Six sizes, 32 to 42. "'
2U.1 Girls' Sailor Suit. Consisting of
a IJIouHO Slipped on Over tho Head,
with or without Yoko Pacini; and a
Onc-Piece. Plaited Skirt Jolnod to an
Undej-waist Having a Shield Facing
There Ih no stylo of costume moro be-
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n coming it me jtruwiiiK k umui mu
B imnnliiiliin ui 1 1- r-.uit I iiml niil'V lllllo
anrvo iti nnn lit the IiumL materials for
itH development. Pour sizes, C to 12
yeara.
21 01 Ladle' Princess Slip, Length
ened by a Gathered Flounce. In Snort
Sweep or Round Length. Taffetas silk,
otton backed satin, organdy or lawn
iay be urd with good effect for UiIh
lip. Seven sizes, 82 to 44.
2130 Ch lids' Plaited Coat. Any
'irlght colored broadcloth, or chovlot
vith the collar and cuffs bound with
lark furf Im HeaHonabJo for tho devel
pment of this garment. Four sizes,
I to 7 year.
2152 Ladles' TiirKod Shlrt-Walst.
Cashmere, nuns-velllng, voile, or. taf
fetas silk all develop well In this style.
Seven sizes, 32 to f 1.
2135 Ladles' Skirt, In Medium Sweep
,y Round Length, with Plaited Front
lore, and Having a Circular Flounce
lolned to a Foundation and tucked
Over-Skirt at the Sides. This pattern
ift suitable for any soft finished ma
terial, such as granite cloth, lady's
Hoth, etc. Six sizes. 22 to 32.
2H 1 TWJhhob' Reml-Flttlng Coat.
Tbi3 Jaunty little model Is particularly
tyllh, If developed In reversible
tweod. Three sixes, 13 to 17 yoars.
2139 Child's One-Piece Dress,
r-w.onii nt rvntre-liack. Black and
white sheoherd's olald with
rnrint. mohair, makes thh
styllsli one. Five sizes, 1 to 9 years.
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Black and
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Is model a I
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