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The Commoner
into tho saucepan with the first part,
and beat for twenty minutes until
tho whole is smooth and creamy;
have ready English walnuts or pecan
meats, shelled and broken, and stir
in gently; pour into buttered pans
to cool, and cut into squares.
Strained honey may bo used instead
of tho corn syrup, and will make a
much more delicious confection.
Ella H., Iowa.
Lemon Flavoring This can be
made at home much cheaper than it
can bo bought. Grate enough of tho
outside yellow peel of well-washed
lemons to fill a small bottle. Let
none of the bitter white rind get in.
When the bottle is full, covrp with
pure grain alcohol and set away for
three weeks, then strain and pour
into clean bottles for use. An even
teaspoonful of this homo preparation
will flavor a full quart of custard or
similar dish. Another way is to rub
lumps of sugar over tho rind until
tho oil cells are broken and tho sugar
has absorbed the oil; dry these away
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Cooking Poultry
If there is any doubt about tho
tenderness of a goose, do not try to
roast it, but either steam until ten
der, finishing in tho oven, or brdise
it with long, slow cooking. In either
case, it will present tho appearance
of being roasted, and will bo eatable.
A chicken which 1b old, or tough,
should bo parboiled by putting over
the fire in more than enough water
to cover It, and if very tough, put
a' teaspoonful of baking soda in the
water; simmer slowly for an hour;
by that timo it should h tonHK
enough to lift from tho kettle, cooled
and made ready for roasting in tho
oven, as usual. Boil tho giblets in
a separate pan; basto tho fowl while
roasting with tho broth from tho pot,
and make a nice gravy from what is
left, which should not bo a great
deal, having been allowed to boil
down considerably. Tho dressing
should bo well seasoned.
Soino Good Salads
Sweetbread Salad-For six people,
wash and trim ono pair of largo
sweet-breads or two small ones;
cook them for twenty minutes and
drop at once In cold water. When
cold, take out the fat, cut Into blocks
about tho size of a largo whito bean,
add an equal quantity of chopped
celery, arrange upon lettuce leaves
and cover with mayonnaiso or a
whipped cream dressing; garnish and
flavor with shrimps, oysters, crabs,
sliced pickled peppers, or a dash of
caper, as desired.
Cheese Salad Mash very fine the
cold yolks of three hard-boiled eggs
and rub with them one coffee-aunfiil
of finely grated cheese, a teaspoonful
or mustard, a salt-spoonful of salt
and half a saltspoonful of white pep
per or paprika, the latter preferred.
When all Is well mixed, add two
tablespoonfuls each of ollvo oil and
vinegar, putting In first twenty drops
of oil, then twenty drops of vinegar,
beating, and so on, in alternation.
Heap this preparation upon fresh
leaves of lettuce, and garnish with
the whites of the eggs cut In thin
rings, and a few tips of tho celery.
Serve with hot toasted soda crack
ers, buttering the crackers just be
fore serving.
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Salad Dressing
Many people object to the use of
ollvo oil In salad dressing because of
some disagreeable experience with in
ferior or rancid oil. Of getting the
best, one can never be sure, but If
any is used, It Ehould be the best
that can be had, as olive oil in good
condition is a very wholesome food.
The liking of either olives, or tho
taste of the oil, is many times a mat
ter of education. If the taste of the
oil is objectionable, or where the best
can not be had, any one of the fol
lowing recipes may be used:
Dressing Without Oil Beat three
eggs light in an earthenware dish,
and add to them a coffee-cupful of
vinegar, a teaspoonful of salt, half
a teaspoonful of white pepper, and,
if liked, half a teaspoonful of dry
mustard. When the mixture is thor
oughly blended, put in six table
spoonfuls of cream, either sweet or
sour, 'and beat again. Set the dish
In boiling water over the fire and stir
the dressing until it is of the con
sistency of boiled custard, but not
until it curdles. Remove the dish
from the fire and set in ice water,
and when the dressing Is cold, use It
on meat or fish salad. If kept In a
cold place at this season of the year,
or on ice In warm weather, It will
keep a week.
Another This will keep a long
time if securely-bottled and kept in a
cool dark place. With threo table
spoonfuls of hot, finely mashed pota
toes thoroughly mix two salt-
Bpoonfuls of salt, a teaspoonful and
a half of dry mustard, and a salt
spponful of paprika and half a salt
spoonful of cayenne. Have in readi
ly8 AT0 "S8? bo.aton vory "Sht. and
stir them into tho potato until (he
mass is puffy. Now add alternately,
a few drops at a time, four table
spoonfuls of thick, sweet or sour
cream and two of vinegar, adding but
little vinegar at a timo until tho
cream is all in, when tho vinegar may
bo beaten in. This dressing will bo
found delicious with any salad for
which mayonnaiso is recommended,
and will bo better still if two table
spoonfuls of oil is used instead of
tho cream.
Helps for Cleaning
Whito cloth garments, so much
worn by tho little folks, soon show
soil, and can not bo washed in soap
and water without losing their
beauty. For cleaning, tako a piece
of soft, clean white cotton cloth and
dip in flnoly powdered rlco flour and
rub on tho spots, changing tho cloth
for each application. When clean,
shako well, and you will bo ploascd.
Tho facing of whito doth 'or silk may
bo cleaned by rubbing with powdered
starch, using a soft cloth, then
brushed well with a soff brush.
For romovlog grcaso from cloth,
burn a crust of bread to a cinder,
powder, and rub on tho spot. An
other way Is to put a piece of blot
ting paper under and another on top
of Uio soiled place, and press with a
rathor warm (not hot) iron, which
causes tho. paper to absorb tho
grease.
For garments that' aro very dirty,
tako two ounces of aqua ammonia,
ono quart of soft water, ono tea
spoonful of salt peter, ono ounce of
finely shredded shaving soap, mix
well together. When tho soap Is
thoroughly dissolved, apply to tho
dirty garment, and it will romovo any
dirt that can bo brought away.
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