Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1911 — Page 2

NEW AND OLD RECIPES

■BO ME MINTS AS TO THE PREPARATION OF VEGETABLE*. Baked Bermuda Onions a Dish to i Tempt Any Appetite—Duchesse Feae Mexican Onion SpaghetuTor rriM wi ran >*epperß. Baked Onion*.—Parboil Bermuda Milons tens minutes. When cold remove center and fill with mixture of bread crumb* and the ehopped center*, seasoned highly and adding a generous amount of butter. Sprinkle with buttered crumbs, cover, and bake an hour In a pan containing a little water. Uncover and brown lightly. * nnnhMaii Peas.—Mash six boiled potatoes, add salt and pepper, two tablespoon* melted butter, two tablespoon* cream, yolk* of four eggs. Mold in oblong hollow cases, brush with egg, and bake a delicate brown. Fill with freshly cooked green peas and serve at once with lamb chops or veal cutlets. ! ■ Mexican Onion Spaghetti—Melt two tablespoon* butter in saucepan of granite ware. When hot add four ounces spaghetti, broken small, a half onion chopped, one teacup canned tomato, half teaspoon salt, six shake* cayenne. Stir till slightly browned. Add a large cupful of hot water and simmer till water is absorbed and spaghetti is tended. Stuffed Cucumbers.—Peel four medium sised cucumbers cut in two lengthwise, remove seds. Prepare Alling of one cup minced chicken or veal, two tablespoons cream, one tablespoon crumbs, _ salt, pepper and parsley, minced. Fill and bake covered a half hour, surrounded by one cup white stock. Uncover with buttered crumbs and brown five minutes. Cauliflowwer Timbale. Press through sieve one cup bolted cauliflower, add one-third cup crumbs, two whole eggs, and one yolk beaten till well mixed, half teaspoonful salt, dash •alt, dash of pepper, one-half cup .cream or milk. Mix thoroughly, turn Into buttered mold, and bake till centof Is firm. Unmold, serve with drawn butter. Fried Green Peppers.—Cut open, lengthwise, four green peppers. Remove seeds, slice peppers crosswise, and lay in boiling water. Let them stand until the water is cold. Drain •nd wipe peppers and fry in butter. Serve with fish.

An Old-Fashloned Dish.

When in doubt about what to eat — eat ham and egg*. This time of year the appetite has * fashion of becoming Indifferent and refusing to respond at the mention of dishes that usually cause it to take on a keeu edge. Ham and eggs, served country style, will usually supply the ‘ want In frying ham country style choose slices not too thin. If very salty, it may be necessary to parboil it Trim and place in a heated fryingpan, using no fat, and fry over a quick fire for -ten minutes. Allow six eggs to a slice of ham. Break the eggs into a bowL Add two tablespoonfuls of sweet cream and beat thoroughly Salt and pepper slightly and when the ham la almost done turn the eggs over it in the pan and fry until they set Serve on a large platter garnished with curly parsley.

Tutti Frutti Jam.

One box or drawer of strawberries, three baskets or half drawer of raspberries, one and a half pounds black tartarian cherries, one and a half pounds Royal Ann cherries, two and • half pounds apricots, one and a half pounds gooseberries, juice of three pounds currants. Prepare the fruit as follows: Pit and out cherries in half, cut strawberries in half and apricots into suitable pieces; scald the gooseberries twice and drain; mix all fruit together, allowing one cup of granulated sugar for every cup of mixed trait; add the currant juice, allowing one cup of sugar for every cup of the juice. 801 l 30 or 40 minutes, fill jelly glasses and seal as for jelly.

What to Buy.

If you bad to furnish a home, but had very little means, what would you buy first? This is a problem that many young women have to solve, and that will have to be solved in the future by many more. The best thing to do is to buy only necessary articles at first and to bny furnishings of good quality. It is far better to have a few good household articles, and the touch of a woman’s hand over all, than to have a house full of cheap things that only “make a show." Buy slowly and well.

Strawberries and Spongecake.

Stamp out slices of stale spongecake Into rounds and spread these on one side with strawberry jam. Arrange them on a pretty plate in a circle, fill the center with ripe strawberries. Cook two cupfuls of augur with three-fourths of a cupful of water to a heavy sirup, then add one tablespoonful of strawberry extract aad pour this over the strawberries. Serve hot.

Stuffed Potatoes.

Select fine large potatoes and bake until tender. Cut off the ends, scoop but the contents with the handle of a spoon, and work soft with butter, hot milk, pepper and salt, and a little grated cheese. Retuna the mixture to the skins, mounting it up on the open ends, and with these uppermost set the potatoes te the open five minutes JBnt from the skins. Delicious.

FOR THE BREAKFAST TABLE

Almond Bread Will Be Found an E» cellent Substitute tor TimeHonored Coffee Cake. L Two and a half cups of flour, one and a half cups of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a quarter teaspoonful of salt and six wellbeaten eggs should be mixed Into a •oft dohgh. Add tin a quarter of a pound of sweet almond*, blanched and washed, but not cut Lastly, work tn one and one-quarter glassfuls of the best salad oil. Knead the dough faithfully. Do not have it too stiff. Flour the kneading board welt Cut the dough Into pieces about as 'arge as a medium-sited potato, and roll these on the board into lengths. These should extend from one side of the baking pan to the other. Flour—not grease—the pan. Bake In a tai?: oven to a light brown. As soon as the pan Is remov*d from the even, cut the strips into two or into four inch pieces. If this is not done at once while the almonds arc soft, you cannot cut the rolls neatly. The recipe allows for five dozen pieces of almond bread. You may make half the quantity if you like. The oil used as shortening is not tasted at all tn the bread. You may keep It a long time without finding it soggy or anything but crisp and good. -

AN AUTOMATIC COFFEE POT

Housewife Need Only Provide Material, Light the Lamp, and Her Work Is Done. This coffee pot, the invention of a Parisian, is absolutely automatic. The ground coffee Is placed in the pot with the required amount of water and the wick of the alcohol lamp is

lighted. When the coffee Is sufficiently boiled ft pours itself into the cups. The coffee is placed In a perforated box in the lid of the pot A tube runs from the coffee box to the bottom of the pot, and the water, on boiling, mounts thia tube and circulates through the coffee. The liquid then passes Into another tube which carries it to the cups. The alcohol lamp is automatically extinguished the moment the coffee is sufficiently boiled. —Popular Mechanics.

Bolling Time.

Potatoes, 30 minutes, unless small, when rather less; cabbage and cauliflower, 25 minutes; peas and asparagus, 20 to 25 minutes; carrots and turnips, 45 minutes when young, 1 hour in winter; on ins, medium size, one hour; beets, 1 hour in summer, 1 hour and 30 minutes or 2 hours (if large) in winter; French beans, if slit or sliced slantwise ard thin, 25 minutes, if only snapped across, 40 minutes; broad beans, if very young, 30 minutes, old, 40 to 45 minutes. All vegetables should i put in fast-boil-ing water and quickly brought to the boiling point again, not left to steep tn hot water before boiling, which toughens them and destroys color and flavor. This time-table will be found useful if copied and fastened on the kitchen wall.—New York Press.

Chicken Mousse With Peas.

Chop enough cooked chicken meat, free from skin and bone, to make two cupfuls and pound to a paste; add one and one-half cupfuls of rich cream sauce and press all through a sieve. Season with salt, pepper and one tablespoonful of lemon juice; then add the beaten yolks of four eggs and blend, beating thoroughly with a wooden spoon. Fold in the whites of the eggs, beaten stiff and dry, and turn the mixture into a buttered mold; place on several thlckneses of paper, surround with hot water, cover with buttered paper and bake until firm In center. Remove from mold to a hot serving dish and pour hot buttered peas around it Serve with a rich cream sauce.—Harper’s Bazar.

French Strawberry Pudding.

Dtp enough macaroons in wine to line a buttered pudding dish; cover with ■ sweetened ripe strawberries. Beat the yolks of four eggs with three tablespoonfuls of sugar and one teaspoonful of strawberry extract; pour over the strawberries; put in a moderate oven to bake. Beat the whites of eggs to a stiff froth with two tablespoonfuls of sugar; put on the top of the pudding and let brown tn the oven. Serve cold.

Pretty Vegetable Salad.

In little cups of lettuce prepared lb individual portions, cut shaved cabbage that has been previously thrown into iced* water to render It crisp; slice into this thta slices of a deep red beet; sprinkle with celery seed and poor mayonaise over; garnish with slices of tomato spread with dressing also and sprinkled with ths shredded cabbage.

Sweet Muffins.

One-half cup of sugar, 1 dessertspoon of butter, 2 eggs. Break eggs, sugar and butter into a dish and beat with sugar and butter 1 cup flour, 1 cup of R. (L white meal. 3 teaspoons of baking powder, good pinch of salt, milk enough to make thick batter. Drop into gem pass and bake to quick OWL

Poultry House Construction By A. G.

A. G. Philips, Animal Husbandry Department, The poultry house is the home of the hen and as such, should provide sunshine, fresh, dry air and no drafts, all of which are necessary in supplying comfort and cheerfulness. One of the requisites for the production of eggs Is that the hen shall be happy and kept in congenial surroundings. Years of experiment and observation by many experiment stations and practical poultrymen, have proven that the “open front” is the most universally satisfactory type of poultry house. This type of house supplies plenty of fresh, ‘cold, dry air, free from drafts and an abundance of sunlight, the main things necessary in any hen house. The area of the house is controlled by the size of the flock, but four square feet per fowl is generally satisfactory. Fowls should never be crowded. Thus for 50 fowls a house 15x15 feet is a good size. The foundation should be six Inches above ground and at least 12 Inches below, in order to keep out dampness and frost. A good width at the top is four Inches. A cement floor is a good floor for poultry, because when properly made it is dry, rat proof and sanitary. The

Shall Bread Be Baked in the Home

By Prof, Henrietta W. Calvin

Household Economics Department, Purdue University

Prof. Henrietta W. Calvin, Household Economics Department, Purdue University. All intelligent women are now Interested in discussing questions relating to Industries In the home, and those that can, with advantage, be taken out from the home and be earned on in large factories or centers. In regard to the production of bread, certain factors must be considered, as, comparative cost of home produced article and that purchased'; comparative quality and comparative cleanliness and general sanitary condition. In considering the cost of home produced bread, it may be figured ah follows: Cost of flour—four tokveo—3 lbs <ll Cost of liquid—l ft.—sklmmilk 02% Cost of yesst—l CSJce compressed 02 Cost of salt, sugar and lard .01 Total cost of materials |.IC% Total cost of mVerials for one loaf. .04% To the cost cf materials must be added the cost of fuel, which will be used In the baking. If gas at one dollar per thousarfl is used, it will add two cents to the cost, making each loaf cost |.04%. If gasoline, at IT cents per gallon la used, this will result in a fuel tost of .01% for Tour loaves. If the Ordinary coal range is used, the actuG cost of baking will vary with the übe made of other parts of the range at the same time, since a thrifty houseWtfe will bake while cooking other fbods or while Ironing. If no other use is made of the range heat, then the -«st of baking win be nearly the same as when gasoline Is used. Thus it Is figured that the actual cash cost of one loaf of home-made bread will be .04%, if made with compressed yeast Homemade yeast will save about one-third of a cent In each

Animal Husbandry Department, Purdue University

Poultry House.

Interior of Poultry House.

litter on the floor will keep the hens from becoming cold. Thorough sanitation is absolutely necessary. The height of the house is controlled by its depth. It should be high enough to allow sunlight to strike the rear of the house sometime during the day. A house 15 feet deep should be nine feet In front and four and onehalf feet deep in the- rear. A large amount of air space is necessary. The walls should be absolutely tight, except the front, which should be open. Double walls are not necessary. An open front with tight walls, allows no draft. The front should contain a glass window through which light may pass when, the cloth windows are closed. The remainder of the front, with the exception of the bottom two feet, should -be open, covered with wire, and supplied with muslin curtains that should be left open except on stormy or cold nights. The interior fixtures should all be above the floor and the roosts movable. The coop can be used for- extra males or brooding hens. The feed platform allows cleanliness of all water and feed vessels. Any person building such a house will find It cheap, easily constructed and entirely satisfactory.

loaf, or the actual cost will be about .03%. This loaf will weight one pound. A baker’s loaf weighs about thirteen ounces and will cost five cents, that is, four pounds of baker’s bread costs 25 cents or four pounds of home-made bread costs about 18% cents, or a gain In money saved of nearly seven cents. The time required for making bread Is about one hour. There are many hours of a housewife’s time that do not net her seven cents saving. There is little doubt but what the majority of housekeepers can so manage their duties that home baking will pay from the cash standpoint. A wage earning woman, such as a teacher, cannot afford to make her own bread, If it is considered from the money side only, nor could the overworked mother “afford” it If seven cents was all that was gained. Then we come te consider the question of quality. The highest grade of materials have been used in the homemade article, it has the highest nutritive value. It, if rightly made, is sweet, well baked, palatable and attractive. Baker’s bread Is too often slightly acid, over-raised and undter baked. Under-baked bread contributes to dyspepsia and all it’s attendant evils. So it pays to make good home-made bread for digestive reasons. Watch the baker's wagon being loaded In the early morning hours. The coat, the gloves that were worn when the horses were harnessed, are still on. The bread Is piled high upon the sleeves of that arm. The bread is handled by those gloves. Is the bread wagon very cleah? Does the man pile a good deal of bread on the front box and then pass the lines over It? In the hot summer days, do the files rise from the filth of the road when the wagon stops and swarm Into the wAgon? Are you certain that the bakeshop kitchen Is as clean as your own? Did you ever find something unattractive In your bread? Perhaps It pays to make home-made broad because of better sanitary conditions. Money is not the only measure of worth. The seven cents gain is but a part of the total gain.

By A. G.

WAS NOT FOR STARS ALONE

N<w Telescope Enables His Wife to Make Bom* . important Miscovonaa* • ‘T hecame interested in astronomy not *t> very long ago,” relates a man who has money enough to Indulge his hobbles, “and I purchased a pretty good sized telescope, which I mounted in the cupola of my house. For several weeks I Interested myself in making observations of the star-sprinkled heavens. After a while, however, 1 got tired cf the pastime, and one evening my wife announced that she was going-np to make a few observations on her own account “She had been on the roof rather more than an hour, I reckon, when she came back downstairs with a satisfied look on her-fsce. “‘Did you make any observations, my dear?* I asked her. "Well, I should rather guess I did,' she gurgles, her face alight with enthusiasm. “ ‘Some important discoveries, I presume?* 1 pursued, wiyi all the casm I could put Into my voice. "'lmportant is a mild term,’ she answered. ‘Jimmy DeCourcy is out walking with that horrid woman who had all that divorce court notoriety last month. Please don’t ever invite him here again for dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Smythe are having an awful family row in their dining room and their curtains are up. Daisy Oliver must be engaged to Dick Sturtevant, for they are sitting on her back porch and he has his arm around her.' (Parenthetically—they live about a mile from our house. It’s a remarkable fine telescope.) ‘Old Dr. Bultitude is mowing his lawn to save 25 cents, and he’s -do«ing it after dark so that nobody will see him. Josie Summerville went down to the drug store and met Shannon Ellis there and went for a walk with him, although her father has torbidden her ever to speak to him again. Mrs. White’s washing is still on the line and it’s going to rain before morning. And what do you think — the Porters are over at the Browns playing bridge, though Mrs. Porter told me yesterday that she would never * speak to Mrs. ’Brown again. And— ’ “But what’s the use? She made more discoveries in this little town in one hour than I could record in the solar system in two months.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer.

A Blank Shame.

"What is the matter?" inquired Her Dearest Friend, as she was ushered into the boudoir of her newly married chum and found, Instead -of the vision of happiness she had expected, a disheveled heroine largely dissolved in tears. “What is the matter?" "Algernon has gone away for a week —’’ “But, my child, you don’t mean to say that you are such turtle doves that you can’t spare him for a week without making a scene like this?” “Oh. no, it isn’t t>at at all! Of course, it is hard to live alone, but he has at last shown me what a monster he is.” “Why, this is shocking! What can he have done? You haven’t found he was already married or ” “No, no, no! It’s only that he is a heartless, miserly creature. Only think! I asked him to leave me a check to pay for things while he was away.” “Well, surely he didn’t refuse?” “No; worse than that —far worse! He just wanted to w< and and humiliate me! He left me a check, all dated and signed, complete, except that he didn’t put any amount in! Wasn’t that very cruel?” —Judge.

The End at Last.

Miss Sparhawk believed in “having clothes appropriate to occasions.” and she graded her wearing apparel with great care. She boasted, and with reason, that she could "get more wear out of a dress that any one else in Canby. When the garment was past its first, second and third stages of usefulness for public wear, it was relegated to certain seasons of domestic stress, from which it passed eventually to the rag bag. One gingham, long dead to Miss Sparhawk’s heart, had reached this last stage, and she acknowledged it one day to the seamstress, "Don’t see as If I’d bad half the good I expected out of it,” she said, wistfully. “Tisn’t but eight years since I had It made up. Two years I wore It Sundays, the next two, sewing circle afternoons, next two when I went errands to the village, and these last two round the house, common. But now —” and she regarded the bundle sorrowfully before stuffing It into the yawning piece-bag—“now ’tisn’t even fit to hang out washing In, Mondays-**—Youth’s Companion.

Matches by the Billion.

New York is the greatest matchmaking and match-destroying city in the world. These matches don’t last long. They flare Into a flame and burn out to the extent of about four hundred million a day. So if each Individual New Yorker doesn’t burn a hundred matches every 24 hours he is not doing his share of the work. Th® greatest match making industry of the city Is over In Queens borough, whe te nearly 100,000 cubic feet of lumber is split by machines each year, making 15,500 minion matches. Besides what the city uses of this sup ply It Imports 200,000 million each year, which la one-fifteenth of the output of the United States. If the matches that Father Knicker booker uses in a 1 year were placed end to end they would make six Uses serosa the continent.

THIS WAS THE LIMIT

PAPA THREATENED THE TOTAIj DISRUPTION OF HOME. He Instated on Having the Place Livable or Moving to a Hotel, - ■ and He Carried Hia Point "Wipe your feet, papa," reminded! papa’s eldest daughter as he stumped, muddlly on the front porch. Papa accordingly shuffled his feet diligently! upon the wire mat; then stepped upon a atrip of carpet on the porch and by contorting himself into weird shapes wiped the edges of his shoe soles comparatively dean. < ' t “Don’t hang your wet coat there!”’ called his wife. “Don’t you know wa-j ter will ruin that chair?” Papa ac-i cordingly gathered up his raincoat and carried It up to the bathroom. .. “Oh, mamma,” walled the youngest daughter; "look at the mud he’s leaving on the stairs! And I just washed them myself!” But papa z was putting on his slippers in the bathroom, standing on one' foot and hopping about like some damp stork. Then ha changed his clothes and came down stairs. “Did you change your clothes, dear?” inquired' his wife sweetly, eyeing the chair in which he sat with speculative eye. Papa growled and, turned over a sheet of his paper, for/ he .knew all About that inquiry. Presently he-stretched, yawned and rose. He walked over to the sofa, heaped with pillows and lay back luxuriously just as the middle daughter came in. “Why, papa,” she shrieked; “you’re spoiling the sofa pillows. You’re lying right on them.” Papa sat up. “What’s this sofa for?’’ he demands ed. His wife had come in by this time and stood, side by side with her Indignant daughter. “Certainly not to treat as you’re treatlng .it," she said. "If you want to take a nap lie on your bed.” Papa arose. His jaw began to grow rigid, for papa was getting mad. For long he had put up with this sort of thing and the limit was reached. “Take those pillow* up to your rooms,” he commanded the assembled daughters; “this sofa goes out in the woodshed. .This is no place top use less things.” Then he dragged it out into the shed, leaving consternation In his wake. “What do you mean?" stormed hia wife. Papa looked at her and she began to grow uneasy under his look. He didn’t say anything. “Go'up in the bathroom and get my raincoat and shoes,” he directed. “One of your girls, 1 don’t care which.’’-The girls looked at each other. “Go!" said papa, "and be quick.” The youngest daughter went Then papa sat on a sacred chair and put on hi§ shoes. The slippers, one inside the other, he handed the oldest daughter. "Take them to the bathroom,” he commanded. The oldest daughter stared. Then she started to say something and shrugging her shoulders departed, holding the slippers as though they might bite. She couldn’t miss any of this remarkable situation, so she returned. “I’m going down to the office,” said papa; "you can pack up what you like, because we’re going to store thia truck and go to a hotel.” “Why, papa!" It was a chorus of alarmed voices. But papa was firm. “One thing 1* certain,” he said; “we're through with this foolishness. I’ve had all I’ll stand. I’ll do thia much —either you’ll make this place homelike, beginning tomorrow morning, or we quit housekeeping. That’* all.” Then he departed in the rain. But when he returned his slippers were in the hall, and his favorite chair, with the evening, papers on it, was stationed under the light and the family had retired. Then papa put on the slippers, put them on another chair and began to read. —Galveston News.

Japan Likes Her Birds.

Birds have an excellent time in Japan, and our own agriculturists would do well to emulate' the treatment meted out by their eastern confreres to such birds as the swallow and . martin, says the Wide World. With a skilled appreciation of the part these feathered friends play in relation to their crops by keeping down the insect pests, they exert every effort to protect them and to encourage them to propagate their kind. It is to be wondered at that this sentimental but withal eminently practical nation reverences the swallows as messengers to the gods and invites them to build their nests, not only under eaves and rafters, but in every and any room of the house? In the hotel dining room were several nests, where the happy parents reared their families tn complete safety. ■. -r •

A Reasonable Supposition.

Big Mr. Uttle (truculently)—To’ Bah, am a Hah, sab! Little Mr. Biggs (diplomatically)— Uh-well, sah, considerin’ yo’ heft an yo’ boldness ’cross de equator, I dunnuh but what dar mought be a little suppin’ to date tho’ry, sah!— Puck.

Forbidden Sweets.

"Robson denounces kissing." "Sour grapes.*’ "Why do you say thats "His wife la so homely he couldn’t possibly enjoy kissing her and so sharp eyed he never gets a chance tn kiss anybody else."