Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1916 — Notes and Comment [ARTICLE]

Notes and Comment

Of Interest to Women Readers

Cheese Good Substitute for Meat Housewives who choose to with draw meat from the table a part of the time need not, if they exercise discretion in the selection of substitutes injure the health or annoy the palate of the family. A wise use of cheese according to members of the department of home economics' of the University of Washington, will prove both healthful and economical. "Cheese is apt to be used on our table as an appetizer," said one mem bar of the faculty, “whereas its value as a muscle building and energy sup plying food makes it one of the most economical substitutes for meat. "A given amount of money spent foi American cheese will buy about twice aa much food value as if spent for meat. • "The general belief that cheese Is difficult to digest is due largely, perhaps, to the unsuitable way in which it is eaten—at the end of an already sufficient meal for example—and to its careless preparation. “In making a menu with cheese as a central dish, the cheese should replace foods of similar composition, as meat, eggs and fish. “As cheese is a conc ntrated food, some green vegetables such as stewed ce’ery, spinach, cabbage, cauliflower or lettuce should be included in the menu, as well as bread, potatoes and other starchy substances, to give a balanced meal with the proper bulk- ’ Recipes which will serve the household manager during season are given below. In cooking the cheese low temperature should be used, so as no' to toughen it. Cheese Croquettes —Thicken 1 cup milk with 1-4 cup flour or farina; cook thoroughly. Add 2 egg yolks; then melt in the sauce 1-4 pound of cheese chopped fine or grated. Season with salt, pepper and a little mustard. Spread in a shallow pan and cool. Shape, roll crumbs, egg and crumbs again, and fry in deep fat. Cheese Fondue —One cup scalded milk; 1 cup soft, stale bread crumbs; 1-4 pound milk cheese, diced; 1 tablespoon butter; 3 eggs; seasoning.Mix first your ingredients and add well beaten yolks of eggs. Cut and fold in stiffly beaten whites of eggs, lour in buttered baking dish and bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Cheese Souffle—Two tablespoons butter; 3 tablespoons flour; 1-2 cup scalded milk; seasoning; 1-4 cup grated cheese; 3 eggs. Melt butter and add flour, add gradually milk. Season. Remove from fire and add yolks of eggs beaten until lemon colored. Cool mixture, and cut and fold in whites of eggs beaten stiff and dry. Pour into a buttered baking dish and bake twenty minutes In a slow oven. Serve at once. Bar-le-duc and Cream Cheese Sand wiches or salad—Mash to a paste one cup fresh cream cheese, add 2 tablespoons bar-le-duc (currant) jelly, 3 tablespoons olive oil, 1 cup chopped peacan nuts. Season with salt, paprika and chopped parsley. Mix well and spread between thin slices of buttere.i whole wheat bread. This filling may be served in form of canapes, by spreading on slices of hot toast and garnishing the tops with slices of stuffed olives. Or the filling may be made and pressed into small balls ana served on lettuce leaves. Cream may be used in place of olive oil, and sweet pickles sliced finely and walnuts Instead of jelly alnd peacans.

Household Notes. To clean a light pompadour, rub magnesia through it, or wash it in gasoline. Fresh buttermilk diluted with water is excellent for washing linoleum and leaves a polish. If it is necessary to water flowers from a well or pump water, pump enough in the morning and allow it to get warm in the sun. It kills flowers or retards their growth if watered with the cold well water. Lemonade is enrichened with the juice of raspberries. A quick icing for the dinner cake Is made by stirring pulverized sugar into berry juice or sweetened cream, applying it to the cake before it hardens.

To Butter Crackers. To butter crackers it is necessary to have the proper proportion of butter and crackers, otherwise the ' crumbs will be butter soaked. Melt one fourth cup of butter, for one cup of crumbs. Pour it evenly over the crumbs and stir until the butter is well distribut ed over all the crumbs. Pour them into a pan to cool and sprinkle lightly over prepared food before baking. When cheese is added to a food that is covered with cracker crumbs, it is grated and added just long enough before the food is removed from the fire to melt into the crumbs.

When Soutaching a Dress. When doing this work at home buy the patterns that transfer to the material when pressed with a hot iron. The designs come in the bolt, two dis ferent patterns on one strip of paper four yards long. Press it on the, wrong side of the goods.

White Clothes. A tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with white clothes will greatly aid in the whitening process.

At the Telephon*. When telephoning do not get into the habit of holding long conversations. People who do this lose all perceptions of the times when they may be annoying or disturbing others. Particularly in the case of party wires is there call for consideration. Some one else may urgently desire to use this same telephone over which you are gossiping. Do not use the telephone of the woman upon whom you are calling unless it is absolutely necessary. Thoughtless women often make a convenience of their friends in this respect. Your hostess may not wish to take you into the part of the house in whidh the telephone is situated, or, when frequently done, it may prove a considerable expense to her. Do not call upon men in business hours if you can possibly help it. If it is necessary to do so be as brief as posible. Do not tell things which you do not wish known over the telephone. Conversations are often audible to all the persons in the room with the person to whom you are talking. If it is a business conversation it is well to think what you are going to say beforehand. Orders or requests are frequently misunderstood thru the hesitation and ctoangeableness of the person giving them. Finally, temper justice with mercy in your treatment of the young woman operators who answer your calls. Their business is a tedious and wearing one, and it is almost impossible to be always eagerly attentive.

Recipes. Remnants of ham with asparagus— Take equal quantities of cooked as paragus cut into bits and cold cooked ham chopped into small pieces. Cut the asparagus by hand before cooking. For each cup of material make a sauce of two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour, a cup of the liquid gn which the asparagus was cooked and a teaspoonful of lemon juice with salt and nutmeg to taste. Add two beaten eggs, also the ham and asparagus. Turn into individual casseroles, or cups, buttered; cover the tops with buttered cracker crumbs and bake in oven to a golden brown. Serve in the casserole as a luncheondish or as an entree. Welch Rabbit—Two cups of grated cheese, one half cup of milk, yolks of two eggs, salt and pepper, cayenne to taste; toast carefully square slices of bread with crust removed; while hot butter them, plunge into a bowl of hot water, place in a heated dish, and stand in the oven to keep warm while you make the rarebit; put the milk in a granite saucepan, stand it over a moderate fire; when boiling hot add the cheese, stir constantly until the cheese is melted, add salt, pepper and yolks of eggs, and pour over the toasted bread; If the rarebit is stnngy and tough, it is the fault of cheese not being rich enough to melt.

Unique Dust Cloth. The next time you are invited to a novelty shower in honor of a bride to be or a bachelor girl who is getting ready for a two room apartment, have ready a two in one gift. By this is meant a duster and glove combinedBuy a piece of cheesecloth measuring twelve inches square and then get an other piece about eight inches square. Featherstitch the smaller to the larger piece, allowing one side to remain unattached. Trace the outline of some one’s right hand on the little piece of cheesecloth and stitch along the lines directly thru the two pieces. By slipping the hand in the fingers thus formed the neat little housekeeper can dust her furniture and protect her band with the one article. Should this gift seem insignificant, you might make a bag of dark green calico. Make it fifteen inches long and Jnine inches wide. Finish it with casing and run green tape thru it. Across the front of it outline the word "Duster” with yellow cotton. < Such a gift may seem worthless to you, but ask any bride to be whether she has provided herself with dusters and place to keep them in, and you are sure to receive a negative answer. Such a state of affairs then surely warrants the carrying out of the above suggestions.

Health Notes. Castor oil becomes tasteless if beaten thoroughly mixed with the white of an egg. Tincture of myrrh is a good thing in the water used to rinse after brushing your teeth. Apply glycerin to a scald directly after the accident occurs and cover It up with strips of rag soaked in glycerin. The juice of a femon in hot water on awakening in the morning is an excellent liver corrective, and for stout women is said to be a flesh reducer.

To Extract Onion Juice To extract onion juice, instead of grating the onion in the usual manner move it in a rotary motion over the flat grater and do not allow the pulp to get into the juice. Take up all the pulp, place it in a little muslin square and squeeze out all remaining juice. Many prefer adding extract to pieces of onion in salads.

Bath Room Hint A piece of flannel dampened with spirits of camphor will remove stains from the mirrors and window glass. Stains on marble may be removed by covering them with a paste made of fuller’s earth and water. It should stand some time. Remove and polish