Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1913 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Cottage Cheese If served as follows, will prove very attractive. Lay a lettuce leaf on a plate. In the center place round pile of salad dressing, or the yolk of a hard boiled egg may be used instead. Mix cheese with cream, soft enough to hold the form of a teaspoon. With the teaspoon lay the white petals around the yellow center. This forms a dainty daisy design. Fruit Cake That Will Keep a Year Wash and drain 1 pound of currants. Chop coarsely 1 pound of raisins, slice or chop a half pound of citron. Beat 5 eggs and 2 cups of brown sugar together, add 1 cup of softened butter, 1 cup of molasses, half a cup of sour milk, 1 teaspoon each of all kinds of spices. Stir'into this mixture 5 caps of flour. Mix another half cup of flour with the fruit to keep it from settling to the bottom. This makes two loaves. Instead of Ribbon For morning house wear spine girls like their lingerie of the simplest kind. And they hate the bother and “fuss” of running ribbons and using bodkins every time a fresh hatch of undermuslins returns from the laundry. To obviate this trouble. then,' one girl simplified matters by purchasing a roll of white linen tape, the soft, pleasant to-the-touch kind. This she put in all her plain, workaday chemises, corset covers, etc. And when she sent them to the laundry again the tapes stayed in. And she says die has saved ever so many minutes, not to mention the bother and nuisance of putting In the old-time ribbons.

Ice Cream Cake One cup butter, two cups sugar, one cup milk, three and one-half cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, whites of eight eggs, one-quarter teaspoonful salt Mix dry ingredients, cream, butter, and sugar, add milk, then flour, and beat Add whipped whites and beat again. Flavor With almond extract. Bake in three jelly tine in hot oven and when cold put together with boiled Icing flavored with almond extract r * : . i Tomato Relish One pint ripe tomatoes, one cupful celery, six white onions, two red peppers, all chopped line separately; one ounce mustard seed, two pounds brown sugar, one-half cupful salt Chop celery, tomatoes, onions and sprinkle with salt. Let stand twentyfour hours. Heat vinegar and sugar and let cool. Drain tomatpea and other ingredients, mix in mustard seed and pat on vinegar. Do not cook. German Apple Cake One pint floor, one-half teaspoon* ful baking powder, one-half teaspoonful salt mixed and sifted; rub in two tablespoonfuls of butter, add one beaten egg, and milk to make thick batter. Spread one inch deep In greased shallow tin.' Have ready several pared, cored and quartered apples. Press points Into dough, sprinkle thickly with sugar mixed with little cinnamon. Bake in hot oven. Oatmeal Gems Two cups rolled dMs, 1 cup sour milk, tot stand over night, then add 1 egg, % cap molasses, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon soda, little salt Bake In hot oven. CHEESE CUSTARD.—ScaId one cupful of milk In a double boiler, add one teaspoonful of cornstarch dissolved in a little cold milk and cook for five minutes. Stand aside, covered!, for ton minutes, add to it one-quarter of a teaspoonful of sods dissolved in one-half of a teaspoonful of hot water and two tableepoonfuls of butter; when the latter Is entirely absorbed add four eggs beaten together until-very light, one-quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, one-quarter of a teaspoonful of paprika and six tablespoonfuls of grated cheese. Pour Into greased cups, bake In a quick oven until brown and well puffed up (about fifteen minutes), and serve at once. HIS FISHING TRIP. '•So you hare got hack from your flaking trip?” "Were the fish biting?” '’No; tort my wife's seanmaw