Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1911 — FOR THE UNEXPECTED GUEST [ARTICLE]

FOR THE UNEXPECTED GUEST

Dainty Club Bteak About as Good, a Dish as Can Be Prepared in a Hurry. Prepare vegetables as follows: Potatoes mashed and beaten with a little cream until light and smooth, button mushrooms fried In butter, creamed cauliflower, French peas and some button onions stewed until tender, then fried in butter. Broil a large porterhouse steak under a clear flame and put on a hot platter. At the two ends and middle of the sides make four large potato roses by squeezing the mashed potatoes through a pastry bag or paper cone. Then arrange the caulifloker, mushrooms and onionsin little piles, leaving places for four turnip cups filled with the French, peas. These are made by cooking: thick slices of white until tender. Then with a small vegetable knife scoop them out and shape the bottom by removing some of the turnip until it is in the shape of a shallow cup. The peas, which have been cooked with a little cream and butter, are piled in these cups, and add with a few sprigs of parsley the finishing touches. Nothing ’ could be more acceptable than this steak when the man of the house brings home company to dinner. Cleaning Worn Cloth. To revive the appearance of a suit that is becoming so worn as to be shiny in certain spots, a bit of distilled white vinegar, diluted in water, rubbed on with a white woolen cloth will raise the nap and give it a lock of newness that will make the suit of good service for some weeks more. This is a good hint to take advantage of, for it can save one additional expense, especially when wanting totide over into the next season, when a heavier or lighter cloth is more appropriate. ' . Codfish 8a lad. Tear into narrow strips a pound of old-fashioned salt codfish, soak over night; next morning squeeze out the water, put in a saucepan well covered with cold water; after this steams up boil 20 minutes; drain and squeeze out the water, separate the pieces, put them in a salad-bowl with an equ?l quantity of boiled potato, one hardboiled egg, a few anchovies if you have them, a chopped pickle with or without lettuce and piask with mayonnaise dressing. ' Fruit Bandwlches. Fruit sandwiches to serve with lemonade —Cut large raisins in two lengthwise, remove seeds and lay close together between thin slices of buttered bread. Or slice bananas sod large strawberries and lay them between bread in the same manmr. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Thebread may be spread with thick cream Instead of butter. - 1 - Laundering Hint. In laundering skirts made of piqu* cotton goods or of woolen material. It is better to pin them to the l.oe by the waistband so that they will hang straight down, Instead of by the hem. If pinned at the .top tiiey will shrink evenly all around instead * sagging as they too oltvh Co by the Jther method. A PT Ij.' t