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APRIL 24, 1908
The Commoner.
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nutrition, or imperfect assimilation
of the foods taken. A physician's
advice will sometimes aid in locat
ing the trouble.
Bctwcen-Season Recipes
Fortunate is the woman who is
not entirely dependent upon canned
goods, at this season of the year.
Well as they may have served their
purpose during the winter days, the
sight of "green things growing,"
which have not yet reached the cook
ery stage, makes the best of them
distasteful, and if one have dried
things, a little care in preparing
them makes a delightful change.
Butter beans, if soaked twenty
four hours, or over night before
cooking, are almost as good as the
fresh ones. After soaking, drain and
put over the fire in hot salted wa
ter; for half a pound of beans, boiled
thus until tender and drained, take
a small piece of butter, and as soon
as the butter is melted, add to it a
teaspoonful of finely chopped shallot
and a finely-chopped leaf of parsley,
cook a couple of minutes, then add
the cooked beans, a little cream and
a few drops of lemon juice, with pep
per and salt to taste. Serve quite
hot.
Dried peas may be used as a
vegetable salad or entree. Soak peas
overnight, and cook in salted water
until tender: put into the water an
onion and a blade of fresh mint; or
a little dried mint, tied up in a bit of
muslin, may be used. When the
peas are tender, drain carefully; put
a little piece of butter in a stew pan
and add the peas, a little cream and
pepper and salt to taste. Let this
get very hot, then add a few drops
of lemon juice and a teaspoonful of
nice sugar. Dish up on hot dishes
and serve with fried croutons.
For lentil salad, soak the beans
over night, then cook slowly in salt-
liquid to it, and let stand until it
becomes vinegar.
Do not peel the stalks of pie-plant
unless they are old and hard. The
ed water until very tender, then beautiful red of the Render now
drain and turn into a colander and
dash cold water over them. Leave
until cold, then put into a salad
bowl, anl add a dessertspoonful of
very finely minced shallot, a tea
spoonful of minced parsley, pepper
and salt to taste, and a very little
finely chopped capers,, or pickles.
Mix well and dress with oil and vin
egar; mix thoroughly and serve at
once.
COFFEE EYES
It Acts Slowly but Frequently , Pro-
f v duces Blindness
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The curious effect of slow daily
poisoning and the gradual building
in of disease as a result, is shown
in numbers of cases where the eyes
'are affected by coffee.
A case in point will illustrate:
A lady in Oswego, Mont., experi
enced a slow but sure disease set
tling upon her eyes in the form of
increasing weakness and shooting
pains with wavy, dancing lines of
light, so vivid that nothing else
could be seen for minutes at a time.
She says:
"This gradual failure of sight
alarmed me and I naturally began a
very earnest quest for the cause.
About this time I was vtold that coffee
poisoning sometimes took that form,
and while I didn't believe that coffee
was the cause of my trouoie, i con
cluded to quit it and see.
"I took up Postum Food Coffee
in spite of the jokes of Husband
whose experience with one cup at a
neighbor's was unsatisfactory. Well,
I made Postum strictly according to
fUrpcHmw. boiling it a little longer,
because of our high altitude The
result was charming. I have now
used Postum in place of coffee for
about three months and my eyes are
well, never paining me or showing
any weakness. I know to a cer
tainty that the cause of the trouble
was coffee and the cure was in quit
ting it and building up the nervous
system on Postum, tor tnai was u
solutely the only change I made in
diet and I. took no medicine.
''My nursing baby has been kept
in a perfectly healthy state since I
have used Postum.
"Mr. , a friend, ciiscarueu
coffee and took on Postum to see if
he could bo rid of his dyspepsia and
frequent headaches: The change
produced a most remarkable im
provement quickly."
"There's a Reason." Name given
by -Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Our First Fruits
Strawberry Jam. To every pound
of fruit allow one pound of sugar;
put the sugar and fruit together in
layers and let stand until the juice
begins to run, then mash to a pulp,
cook slowly, stirring constantly un
til as thick as wanted. S.,1 in hot
jars,.
Preserving Strawberries. Lf, at all
sandy or dirty, put the fruit into a
colander and pour cold water quick
ly over it, shaking the colander a
few times that the grit may be
washed out, drain a few minute, and
stem. Allow sugar and fruit pound
for pound, a layer of sugar and a
layer of berries, until all are used;
let stand until the juice is started,
but use no water. Set over the fire
and let come to a boil slowly, boil
ing for fifteen minutes, cooking but
a quart or two at a time. Do not
stir. Then dip out carefully into
hot jars and seal.
Strawberry Syrup. Remove any
grit or dirt from the berries as
above, then, with a potato masher,
or fruit press, mash to a pulp. Put
the pulp into a cheese cloth bag, and
hang so it will drain all juice out.
Then, allow to each pint of juice
one pint of sugar, putting the juice
over the fire and boiling it for fifteen
minutes before adding the sugar,
which should be heated in the oven
meantime. Add the hot sugar to
the hot juice, stir until dissolved,
then boil ten minutes longer. When
it forms a jelly-like film on a cooled
drop, pour into jelly tumblers, or
small, wide-mouthed jars or bottles,
let get cool, cover well and when
cold, seal. Strawberries do not make
a stiff jelly if used alone, but the
syrup is delicious for many pur
poses. Preserving in Sunshine. Have
perfect fruit, and if necessary, clean
from dirt, and grit; let be perfectly
dry, hull, and arrange on a platter
or shallow dish, and cover the layer
of berries with an amount of sugar
equal in weight to the weight of the
berries. Let stand over night, and
in the morning cover the dish with
glass and set in the hottest sunshine
to be had. Take into the house be
fore sunset, and set out in the morn
ing. Do this for five days; then
seal in glass jars. Or, set the dish
in a very slow oven, if the sunshine
is not to be had; or on a rack over
the stove where it will heat, but not
scorch, and keep until it is done,
or the sunshine can be had.
Rhubarb Vinegar. This may be
made in smaller quantities by keep
ing proportions the same. For ten
gallons, take twenty-five large sized
stalks of tender rnuoaro, ana pounu
or crush with a piece of wood in a
strong tub, adding ten gallons of
water; let stand twenty-four hours.
Strain off the water and to it add
eighteen pounds of brown sugar free
from molasses and a teacupful of
best brewer's yeast. Bring temper
ature to sixty-five or sixty-eight de
grees, and put the mixture into a
twelve gallon cask; Place in a tem
perature that will not fall below
sixty degrees Fahrenheit. In a
month, strain it on now .
growth makes the cooked dish as
beautiful to the eye as delicious to
the palate. Use the very least pos
sible amount of water when starting
it to cook, keeping the vessel cov
ered while it is steaming.
Strawberry Sandwiches. Make a
thin layer cake batter and pour onto
a tin sheet. Bake as you would lay
er cake. After it is baked, cool and
spread one-half of it with berries,
crushed and made very swent, and
turn the other half over it, press
closely together and cut into finger
pieces. Ice the top and sides of each
with boiled icing.
Strawberry Meringue. The paBte
should be rich, and puff paste is best.
Roll out as for a pie, and cut an
oblong piece six by nine inches;
from the scraps cut a rim not more
than half an inch wide and fit it at
the corners as a frame. Moisten
the under crust slightly with cold
water and lay the rim on. Bako
the paste in a quick oven. Beat
some crushed strawberries until light
and Binooth, making quite sweet;
spread on the crust and cover with
a mcrinque mado from the whitea
of tli roe eggs beaten stiff, and threo
tablespoon fu In of sugar beaten in
gradually. Set In the oven and
leave until a light st-aw color.
THIS JURY SYSTEM
All In all, the jury system, wo be
lieve, justified of its fruits, but ono
can not help thinking It strange, at
times, that the wit of man has not
ovolved n better scheme for settling
disputes than trusting them to the
enforced unanimity of twelve men
selected almost at random from a list
off of which the most intelligent per
sons in the community try to keep
their names. Baltimore News.
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