Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 98, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1929 — Page 5

SEPT. 3, 1929

Dorothy Alden’s Page of Helpful Hints for Homemakers

Keep Your Icebox at Even ‘Chill’ An average temperature is maintained easily in a good refrigerator provided it is kept well iced. In fact, government tests of good ice boxes show an average temperature of 48.4(i degrees P. Here are a few simple directions to enable you to check up on the present efficiency of your ice box. Are the hinges and latches tight? See that the latches snap shut and wedge In as they should. Is the floor level under your ice box? A little uneveness in one of the floor boards may cause trouble. The meltage might run to the front Instead of the back, where the outlet Is, or it might not run at all. Is your ice box big enough? The capacity of your refrigerator should correspond to the size .of your family. Do the rabbets fit snugly? Sometimes the door rabbets (grooves) do not fit snugly into the rabbets on the ice box. Make sure that the fit snugly. Should that prove impossible. et a flrst-class new ice box. How about the gaskets? If the doors are fitted with gaskets (which they shoul be) notice whether the gaskets are worn flat or coming loose. To be useful, these airtight padding strips must be in good repair. Is your Ice box well isolated? For best results, an ice box should be insulated completely with two inches of corkboard or its equivalent. Never have less than one inch in wooden cabinets or Hi inches in metal cabinets. Do not overcrowd the food compartments.

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Time Savers Busy housewives! Getting home from summer vacations! Starting the children off to school! There are so many things to be done in the fall that ther£ seems to be no time left for meal preparation. Dorothy Alden suggests “casserole dishes” as time-savers for autumn meals. She has assembled a number of recipes for them, which she will be glad to send you on receipt of a stamped envelope. Write to Dorothy Alden, The Indianapolis Times.

Use String With Paraffin When putting paraffin on Jelly glasses, pour a little on first, then lay a clean string across the glass, and pour on the rest of the paraffin. The string should extend over the edge of the glass on both sides and is secure in the parraffin when it hardens, making it easy to remove when opening the jelly. Frosting Made Easily A delicious cake filling can be made by placing an unopened can of sweentened condensed milk in boiling water to cover, and boiling it for two hours. The result is a caramel frosting all ready to spread on the cake. Cake Easily Made A simple cake to serve with an iced beverage or tea is made by covering vanilla wafers with confectioner's sugar icing and sprinkling with tiny spiced candies, which come in assorted colors. Beet Juice for Dressing Instead of using cream for thinning salad dressing, if the juice from canned beets is used, the dressing will be a lovely pink shade, and the flavor is different, too.

Breakfast and Luncheon for School Children Is Mother’s Next Problem

THE summer has passed so quickly that we enter September with the feeling that it can not possibly have been more than two weeks since the children brought home their report cards in June. And with school starting so soon, how busy we all will be trying to accomplish in a week or ten days the many, many things we promised ourselves that we would

get done during the summer, while the children were home. Os course, there is always sewing for the girls, and suits and shoes to buy for the boys. Perhaps little Mary needs to have her eyes examined before she goes back to her books, or Jimmy should have his tonsils out. At any rate, it looks like a busy time for mother. But after you nave all their needs taken care of, and they once more are back in school, alas, you can not sit down then and drawn a sigh of relief, for you find that all your working schedules for the day have to be revised to meet the school hours. Breakfast and lunch take on anew significance with the return to school, as every well-informed mother realizes. Within the last decade, we have been hearing much about the mal-nourished child, and it frequently has been found that the first meal in the morning is the faulty one.

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The family arises late, and the children are hustled off to school with the fear in their minds of being tardy and a most inadequate breakfast in their stomachs. Good Breakfast Important A school child’s breakfast should be hearty. By that I do not mean that it should be made up of pancakes, sausage and fried potatoes—some of the food that used to be included in the “hearty” breakfast. What I do mean is that it should be made up of substantial, easily digested foods. There should be fresh or stewed fruit, a cereal, preferably a cooked one, at least three times each week; bacon or eggs, toast, milk or cocoa.

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And, above all, it is the mother’s duty to see that the family arises early enough so that breakfast can be eaten leisurely, and not bolted in a mad rush for the front door. An adequate bre?k f ast takes little more time for preparation than one which is inadequate, so this means no extra tax on the mother of the family. It does mean careful planning, though. If time is short, the cereal can be cooked the night before, and heated in the double boiler in ten or twelve minutes the next morning. Cooked fruit, of course, can be prepared and Kept on hand in the refrigerator, while the children themselves can help prepare the fresh fruit before breakfast. Get Up in Time [ I repeat, that as far as the morning meal is concerned, the main duty for the mother of the family is to get everyone up early enough so that breakfast may be prepared and eaten without rushing. The mid-day lunch offers a little different problem. Its preparation breaks into the middle of one’s work to such extent that it is no wonder if the homemaker sometimes holds up her hands in despair at “so much to do and so little accomplished.” While lunch for the school child should not be a heavy meal, it should be substantial and nourishing. At the same time, the mother wants to plan the type of meal that will take as little time as possible, for she has too many things to do in the morning to spend many minutes over the lunch. It is with these two thoughts in mind—ease of preparation and substantial nourishing foods—that the following luncheon menus are suggested. They have also been planned with a view to the children’s tastes: Cream of Tomato Soup Toasted Cheese Sandwiches Apple Sauce or Sliced Peaches Cookies Milk Soup Is ‘Something Hot’

In this menu, the cream of tomato soup furnishes the “something hot.” Any kind of a milk soup that the children would like could be substituted. The soup with milk in it is, of course, preferable, because it is more nourishing. Soups of this type, too, are prepared quickly and easily, a point in the mother’s favor. The toasted cheese sandwiches are most easily made from some of the soft, packaged cheeses. Spread the bread with the cheese, place another slice on top, and place the made sandwich in the broiler long enough to brown on both sides. This sort of sandwich appeals to the children because it is like the kind they serve at the sandich shops or the drug store lunch counters which their friends may patronize. Creamed Dried Beef or Creamed Eggs on Toast Celery Fruit Whip Cookies Milk The main dish in this luncheon menu can be prepared very quickly, too. By all means have some kind of dessert for the children daily. It need not be elaborate—in fact, it should not be. The dessert not only pleases them, but in the case of younger children it can be used, often, as a means of getting them to eat the more substantial part of the lunch. No soup—no dessert! A sweet at the end of the meal, too. frequently keeps them from buying cheap candy and knick-knacks on the way back to school. Fruit Whip cup fruit pulp, unsweetened. Sugar Lemon juice 3 egg whites. Pare, quarter and cook enough apples or other fruit to make % cup when pressed through a sieve. Add sugar and lemon juice to taste, and gradually fold into stiffly beaten egg whites. Pile in glass serving dishes, chill, and top with a puff of whipped cream or a custard made from the egg yolks. Top milk obtained in cream top bottles will whip, and an occasional spoonful of this as a topping for an otherwise ordinary desert will quite glorify it in childish eyes. A lot of whipped cream would be too rich, as well as too expensi’r. A nlain fruit flavored gelaiin, wn—h : _ whipped until frothy, just as it starts to congeal, is another easily prepared dessert that will please. Casserole of Rice and Cheese Cooked Green Vegetable or Salad Whole Wheat Bread Cocoa Junket Milk. Casserole dishes are convenient to serve for the children's lunch. They can often be made from leftovers, they nearly always contain milk and are substantial, and they can be prepared right after breakfast and placed in the refrigerator ready to slip into the oven as lunch time approaches. Baked Rice and Cheese 3 cups cooked rice lta cup cheese Vt teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 3 tablespoons margarine Crumbs Put a layer of cooked rice in a

Here Is Help Each season brings its own particular problems and duties for the home maker. If Dorothy Alden can help you solve any of your fall housekeeping problems, or suggest ways to make your duties lighter, won’t you please write to her for help? A stamped addressed envelope will bring you a reply. Write to Dorothy Alden, The Indianapolis Times.

greased baking dish, cover with a layer of cheese, add seasoning, and continue to fill the dish in this manner. Place the crumbs on top, and dot with the margarine. Add enough milk to come half way to the top of the rice. Bake in a moderate oven fifteen to thirty minutes. Whether a green vegetable or a green salad is servd with the lunch depends upon the ages of the children. Very young children should have the cooked vegetable in preference to the salad. If the salad is served it should not have a rich dressing. A wilted lettuce salad would be a good one. Cocoa Junket 1 tablespooi. cocoa 3 tablespons boiling water 2 teaspoons sugar 1 cup milk Va junket tablet 1 teaspoon col<l water V* teaspoon vanilla Mix cocoa and hot water, and cook over low fire for few minutes. Add the sugar and when dissolved add gradually to the milk. Dissolve the junket tablet in cold water. Heat the milk mixture to lukewarm, add vanilla and dissolved junket. Pour immediately into serving glasses or cups and do not disturb until set. Chill slightly and serve with a dash of whipped cream. Serves two. Cream of Lima Bean Soup Sliced or Stewed Tomatoes Whole Wheat Bread Rice Date Pudding Milk. Pudding Is Good The rice date pudding is very good and quickly made if you have a cup of cooked rice on hand. Into the cooked rice mix chopped dates. Whip cream from a cream top bottle of milk, and sweeten to taste. Fold the rice and date mixture into the cream and serve. Peanut Butter Sandwiches Marmalade and Cottage Cheese Sandwiches Cooked Green Vegetable or Salad Milk Brown Betty In this menu, the dessert furnishes the hot dish. Any hot pudding would do. Vinegar Saves Aluminum When an aluminum pan is used for boiling eggs, add one teaspoon of vinegar to each quart of water. The acid will prevent the aluminum from turning dark, and no time will be spent brightening it afterward.

WHY ENVY THE CAT ? THE cat, any cat, once upon a time was better equipped in some respects than human beings. The cat could see in the dark, while man was dependent on torches, fires, candles, lamps, or lanterns. In those days sundown meant little to the cat, insofar as its travels were concerned. The cat was quite some animal. After sundown man, however, was handicapped and had to use contrivances that were difficult to handle and required no end of attention. Now, touch a button and a million slaves are at your command to provide you with a flood of light. In this day and age you don’t need eyes that can see in the dark You’ve beaten the cat at its own game. This is the season when twilight falls earlier and one turns on the lamp for evening reading. Let us give you a lesson in correct and restful home lighting and artistic interior decoration. This service is offered without cost, in our modern electric home in the lower Lcor of our building, 48 Monument Circle, where we show you the proper selection and placement of lighting fixtures, that you may gain the most effective lighting as well as decorative effects. HOME SERVICE DEPARTMENT Mrs. J. R. Farrell, Director INDIANAPOLIS POWER & LIGHT COMPANY

Good Pickles Made From Pet Recipes Many of us have a pet pickle recipe that we use year after year. It may be the only home-made pickles to be found on our shelves, but we would feel lost without them, just the safne. If you have no pet pickle recipe, perhaps you would like to adopt one, and here are several from which to make a choice: Olive Oil Pickles Slice fine 100 small cucumbers, and 1 quart of small white onions. Let stand in strong brine for three hours. Drain well and dry between towels. Add 2 cans of pimentoes, chopped. To the pimento liquor add the following: 2 qts. vinegar V/a cups olive oil 2 tbsp. celery seed 2 tbsp. white mustard seed 1 cup Sugar Bring this mixture to a boil. Pour over the pickles, and seal in jars. Bread and Butter Pickles Slice 1 gallon of cucumbers, large size. Add tablespoon of salt, and cover with water. Let stand overnight. in the morning, rinse well. Thoroughly heat 3 pints of cider vinegar, 1 tablespoon celery seed, % teaspoon curry powder, % cup mustard seed, 4 cups sugar. When boiling, add the cucumbers. Stir well for a few minutes, then seal. Icicle Pickles Use cucumbers 5 or 6 Inches long. Quarter them lengthwise and so*k in ice water for 2 hours. Pack in jars with a stalk of celery, and several small white onions. Pour the following mixture well heated over the cucumbers: 1 qt. white vinegar Vs cup salt 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. white mustard seed This is sufficient for two quarts. Seal the jars and do not use for several months. Kosher Dill Pickles 4 dozen cucumbers Va cup mixed spices 3/ lb. salt 3 heads garlic 6 red peppers 3 doz. bay leaves Large bunch of dill Wash the cucumbers. Mash the garlic very fine and mix with the salt. Spread the garlic and salt mixture evenly over the bottom and sides of a clean five-gallon stone jar. Then place the cucumbers in the jar and cover with water. Put the bay leaves, mixed spices, and dill on top, and press the cover down with a heavy weight. Let stand for two weeks before using.

Quality Bread and Cake Delivered to Your Door DAILY PHONE or WRITE for Service 359 E. Merrill St. DRexel 5600 What Happens in A Good, ICE Refrigerator TcE, in a properly “■“constructed and || Ijgy /[, \N-oy*. operated refrigera- if ||| Fl fj j tor, creates a con- jj| |j| Id w 'OjflSh stant circulation of pure, cold air, thus removing food odors \p3 \JkG } through the outlet || and preventing unappetizing inter- * change of food flavors. The cycle of air in a well iced refrigerator is exactly as shown in the right-hand illustration. And it is this constant circulation of cold purified air which explains the incomparable freshness of ICE-kept foods. [ 0 enable ICE to serve you most satisfactorily, be sure you have a refrigerator that is well insulated, tightly joined together and built to let air circulate freely. We shall be glad to help you select a properly constructed refrigerator and to see that it is kept well filled with ice. Artificial Ice & Cold Storage Lincoln 6443 Capital Ice Refrigerating Cos. Lincoln 2313 Polar Ice & Fuel Cos. TAlbot 0689

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