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DECEMBER 20, 1912
gasoline, hot flour, meal, bran,
magnesia, gasoline, naptha, chloro
form, and several other powders or
fluids. Dry-cleaning, however, will
not remove blood, fruit, or other
color stains, because dry-cleaning
does not affect colors. All such
stains must be removed before or
after dry-cleaning. It will remove
grease and dirt stains, and it is
claimed that it will kill all germs
especially tho gasoline or naptha
treatment. Syrup, beer, gravy, and
starch stains are among those not
affected by the dry-cleaning methods,
and these may usually bo removed
with a wet cloth or sponging, but it
must be used with caution, and after
dry-cleaning. With some soils, the
gasoline or naptha process will not
work, unless a mixture of a pure
white oil-soap is used with the
fluid. There are several soap-like
substances on the market to be
added to the gasoline, but a very
little castile, or other pure soap will
do just as well in careful hands.
Gasoline 1s very inflammable, and we
can not urge you too often or too
forcible, to be very careful in using
it, that there is no fire or flame any
where near. Such work is best done
in the open air, even by the most
careful. For cleaning heavy gar
ments, women's skirts, coats, men's
pants, coats, vests, the gasoline will
clean without in any way wrinkling
or shrinking, and when the garment
is clean, it must be hung in the open
air until the fluid is evaporated and
the smell dissipated. It positively
must not be hung near the fire, or
in a room where even a lamp, or gas
jet is lighted. Out of doors is the
only place for it.
The Common
er.
- uuu iiuvoring to taste
Custards for Croamsnd Puddings
Put two well-beaten mhh.
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sauce pan, add four iniZ .,..,
of sugar and one pint of sweet milk
J. OV01 a slow fire until nearly
5"!.' th? strain; custard should
never be allowed to boil, or it wil
curdle. If it should curdle, whip
with an egg beater until smooth, add
ing the flavoring while beating.
Another way is to put one pint of
mine into a sauce pan with three
tablespoonfuls of sugar; bring this
to a boil, then stir into threo well
beaten eggs; return the mixture to
the pan and stir until the custard is
the consistency of cream.
Spun Sugar Put half a nminil nf
granulated sugar into a clean cop
per or porcelain sauce pan, add one
gill of water and allow to dissolve;
bring to a boil, add a pinch of cream
tartar, remove the scum carefully
and continue to boil till it registers
290 degrees F., or reaches the crack
ing stage. Take a fork or spoon and
throw the sugar lightly on an oiled
rolling-pin or oiled handle of a large
wooden spoon. Move the fork or
spoon to and fro; the sugar will then
form the desired threads.
Requested Recipes
Mrs. M. G. Wishes to know how to
make dumplings of light-bread
dough. Just at hand is one sent in
by M. F. H., which I am glad to
pass on. This is tho season for
appetizing dishes, and almost every
one of us can furnish the appetite:
When making up the bread, leave
a piece of the dough about the size
of a quart cup for a family of six.
About ten o'clock, work into this
dough a lump of butter the size of
a hulled walnut, and one egg. Mix
well with the hands and form the
same as light cakes for baking, only
smaller; flour the bread board and
lay the cakes on this two inches
apart each way; if the dough is too
soft when the egg and butter are
added, stiffen to the right consis
tency with flour worked in. At
el oven o'clock, these cakes should be
well rizen. Have one pint of water
by measure on the stove, just strik
ing a boil; add a teaspoonful of but
ter, stirring. Cut tho pieces of
dough apart if. run together, and lift
each carefully with a pancake turner,
and slip into the boiling water; lay
the cakes around in the kettle as
evenly as you can, then cover the
top; set the kettle on top of the
stove and keep simmering slowly
all tho time until the water is about
all boiled away, and be very careful
not to let them scorch. When dry,
they will be done; and as light as a
puff. When handling them, tear
"with a fork; use no knife. Make a
sweet sauce for them. Serve as soon
as done, but they will not fall if they
stand a few minutes.
Odds and Ends
To make pink sugar for garnish
ing, put ono or two tablespoonfuls of
granulated sugar on a pleco of writ
ing paper and drop a little red color
ing on it, rubbing together with a
wooden spoon. Dry this, and keep
in a tin box, covered, or a glass
Jar in a dark place. Fruit juices
nay be used, or the vegetable
coloring matter may be bought ol
tho druggist.
To whip cream, tho cream should
'he at least 24 hours old, perfectly
old and thick and sweet. Have
Contributed Recipes
Chocolate Caramel Cake One-half
cup of butter, one and one-half cups
of granulated sugar; one cupful of
sweet milk, three cupfuls of sifted
flour and three teaspoonfuls of bak
ing powder sifted together, beaten
whites of four eggs. Bake in layers.
Make a filling of the whites of four
eggs beaten to a stiff froth, ono and
one-fourth pounds of confectioner's
sugar added gradually while beating
to the whites of the eggs; flavor with
one teaspoonful of vanilla; spread on
layers and let cool. Melt two
squares of Baker's chocolate in a
small dish set in a vessel of boiling
water, and spread thinly over the
white icing. Cocoanut may be used
instead of the chocolate, but it should
be spread on before the icing
hardens.
Molasses Popcorn For three
quarts of popped corn boil one-half
pint of molasses for twelve or fif
teen minutes, then have the popcorn
in a large pan, pour the boiled mo
lasses over it and stir it thoroughly
so that the molasses and corn are
well mixed; then with tho hands
nmiro Infn balls the size wantod. A
sugar syrup may bo used instead of
the molasses, if desired.
Eggless Frosting One cup of
sugar, four tablespoonfuls of sweet
milk, one teaspoonful of butter; boil
all together until it drops thick from
the spoon, then beat until cool
enough to spread. You can make
chocolate filling of this by Just
adding the chocolate. If it should
happen to cook too hard, add a little
milk and re-heat before using.
Eggless White Cake One cup of
sucar. half a cup oi ouluui, uc .,,
mTcup of unsifted flour, three-,
fourths cup of sweet milk, one heap
ing teaspoonful of cream tartar, one
evel teaspoonful of soda; m but
ter and sugar together si f : flour
cream tartar and soda togetner
fronting, made an above.
Useful Information
For a elder aauce to bo used wM
boned ham, "Ml.
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Hnl tlOEGthor for five mlnutos.
,? rctidy a croa,n MUe made by
beating together a tablespoonrul of
wiria?,d on, of buttor- stirring it
into half a pint of boiling water and
removo from the fire us soon as It
thickens, not lotting it boil; season
the sauce with pepper and salt, then
acid the white sauce to the spiced
cider and cook slowly for ton
minutes. Use with niei-tH.
Do not use Hour and molasses on
a burn. Tho paste is apt to harden
ana stick, and the removal of any
kind of (lour and molasses paste from
the burn is torture, and apt to do
more harm than good, ns it takes
tho cooked Bkin off tho flesh. Make
a soft paste of lard and Hour and
put it on thick; romov as !oon as
it looks crumbly and replace with a
fresh one.
For easy washing, put tho clothes
to soak over night in a suds made by
boiling until dissolved the usual
amount of soap in water enough to
cover the clothes, and adding to it a
couplo of tablespoonfuls of gasoline,
stirring it well as the clothes are put
in.
fluid in tho boll water. Tho fluid Is
inoxptnslvo, and will last a long
time. Keep from muddling fingers.
Bo sure to wash quickly, and rlnso
wall to get all soap and alkali out of
tho clothes.
For ChrJ.stimw
Simple gifts can bo mado vory
attractive with a little cost for
paper, ribbons, box, and either tho
renl holly, or tho very good Imita
tion of it to be hade at the storco.
Candy boxes of any desired slzo can
be purchased, singly, or collectively,
or boxes may bo covered with cropo
paper. A bolt of red and green baby
ribbon with holly leaves prlntod on
it, and a few sheets of tissue paper,
will glvo tho package a Christmas
appoarunce. Tho candy should bo
put into the box In layers, with
paraffin paper cut to fit between, and
keep the candles from touching.
Gcuft Tilings to Know
If you use cereals, such as oat
meal, farina, cream of wheat, etc..
in the morning rub them out i they should bo cooked at least two
and put into the bolW with another
suds made as the first. The gasoline
loosens the dirt and makes it rub
out easily. Without tho gasoline,
use a washing fluid mado in this
way: Ono ounce of ammonia, one
ounce of salts of tartar, ono box of
concentrated lye (potash), one gal
lon of boiling water. Put the ingred
ients in a porcelain or brass vessel,
and pour the boiling water over it;
let dissolve, and put in a jug. In
washing, put a half teacupful of the
hours in a double boiler, or what is
known as a farina kettle, with wator
enough to mako them, when done,
like jelly. Cream Is not good to ubo
with them, but milk should bo taken.
The cereals can not bo eaten by all
people alike, and every ono should
determine for him or herself whethor
tho use of such foods are bonoflclal,
or tho reverse. All such foods, In
cluding bread, aro liko poison to
somo people, or when used In cer
tain conditions of tho system.
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Cut in five sizes, 34, 30, 38, 40
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Cut in four sizes, 4, C, 8 and 10
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