Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 254, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1930 — Page 11

MAR. 4, 1930

Dorothy Alden’s Page of Helpful Hints for the Home

Games Help Pass Away Rainy Days Many mothers dread the gathering of .storm clouds on the horizon chiefly because they know that it mean. Junior and Anne will be forced to stay indoors the next day. Perhaps they would dread them less if they made sure that their children were provided with adequate amusements for just such rainy days? No matter how simple it may be. a new game means all the difference between cranky, cross or happy, laughing children at the end of a rainy day, points out a writer in Successful Farming. A garden or mail order catalog, a pair of blunttipped scissors. a 5-cent box of crayons. and a half-hour of patient instruction will result in hours of busy work for little fingers on days when the weather will not permit play out-of-doors. Teach your small son or daughter to color the pictures in the catalog with the crayons. Then show the child how to cut them out neatly. Or collect a half-dozen or so large colored pictures from magazine advertisements, pictures that have people or animals in them and that tell a story of interest to the children Paste these pictures on heavy cardboard for backing. On the cardboard back mark one picture with lines, dividing it into squares or oblongs not too small, another into diamonds, another into triangles, and the rest into different Irregular shapes. Then with strong scissors cut along the lines. The different shaped pieces will indicate those belonging to each picture, and

KEEP THE HOME LIGHTS BURNING - - - Our Home Service Department says: “Good light means good health. No home can be attractive when it is kept in the dark, so let our home lighting specialists help you with your home lighting problems.” We hold classes in lamp shade making every Friday at 2 p. m. in our “Home Service Home” in the lower floor of our Monument Circle building. This service is free and you are cordially invited to attend. Home Service Department Mrs. J. R. Farrell, Director INDIANAPOLIS POWER & LIGHT COMPANY Lower Floor, 48 Monument Circle

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Help for You Dorothy Alden will be glad to have you consult her concerning your household problems. A stamped, addressed envelope to The Times, accompanying your letter, will bring her personal reply.

Will aid in fitting the pictures together again. Save the spools empty from thread. At Eastertime dip them into the egg dyes. Or after you have dyed clothing drop them in the dye bath. The children will enjoy,, stringing them, or using them in conjunction with building blocks, or for wheels. To Remove Floor Stains To remove stains from light colored floors, rub the discolored wood with a cloth dipped in a solution of oxalic acid and water. An adequate solution is four ounces of acid to a quart of hot water. After the discoloration has been removed. wash the spot with vinegar. This will prevent the acid from continuing its work after the surface has been polished. Finish with one or more applications of wax until you have built up the finish as before. Clean Milk Stains Many a good linen cloth has been spotted hopelessly because the owner tried to wash out a milk stain in hot water, thinking that the hot water would dissolve any oily matter. In reality, the hot water turned the spot a brownish color that could not be washed out. To clean milk stains, advises the Household Magazine, first wash them with cold water. Then warm soapsuds will do the job.

Many Pleasing Ways of Serving Fish Give Home Cooking Variety HOUSEWIVES who find getting a pleasant variety in their cooking such a problem often are the ones who fail to realize the many interesting ways in which fish can be served, Zorada Titus, food specialist of the Household Magazine, points out. Frying, broiling, baking, she says, are only the obvious ways of preparing fish. There are innumerable other more interesting methods of adding this important item of diet to the menu. She suggests such variations as sea pie. salmon and tomato loaf, fish souffle and prune tuna fish salad. To make sea pie, says the Household Magazine authority, take 2 cups salmon, 3 cups macaroni, cooked in boiling salted water, 2 tablespoons chopped onion, 2 hard cooked eggs, 14 teaspoon salt, few grains of pepper, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 cup milk. Flake the salmon, from which all bone has been removed. Line a deep dish with pie crust. Fill the dish with alternate layers of salmon, macaroni, chopped onion, and sliced egg. Add the seasonings and dot with butter. Add the milk. Cover with a crust. Bake in hot oven until crust is nicely browned.

Salmon and tomato loaf, as described in the magazine, requires 2 cups salmon, 1 1/2 cups cooked tomatoes, 1 tablespoon melted butter, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon pepper, 1 3/4 cups cracker crumbs, I egg, well beaten. Flake the salmon from which all bones have been removed. Combine with other ingredients. Pour into buttered baking dish. Bake twenty minutes in moderate oven. For fish souffle one first must flake two cups of fish from which all bone has been removed. Add 2 tablespoons melted butter, 1 cup boiled rice, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 3 well beaten egg yolks, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1/4 teaspoon of pepper. Stir until the ingredients are well mixed. Fold in the stiffly-whipped egg whites. Pour into buttered baking dish, set in pan of warm water. Bake in moderate oven until an inserted knife comes out clean. Prune tuna fish salad is composed of 2 cups tuna fish, 1 cup diced

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pineapple, 1/4 cup lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 3 cups shredded cabbage, 1 1/2 cups cooked, pitted, chopped prunes, mayonnaise or French dressing. 1/2 teaspon paprika. Break fresh fish into small pieces with a fork. Combine with other ingredients. Add mayonnaise or French dressing to moisten. # # # A delightful hot dish for a buffet supper, says Fay Wray, noted movie actress, who is famous in Hollywood for her table, is Jarvis stuffed peppers. Cut stem ends from 6 green peppers. she instructs in the current issue of Screenland, remove seeds, parboil 2 minutes in boiling water to which has been added 1/8 teaspoon soda. Heat 1/2 can tomatoes, let simmer 20 minutes, rub through sieve and continue simmering until there is 1/2 cup tomato puree. Add 1/2 cup hot boiled rice, let stand until rice has parboiled and cut in small cubes. Season with 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon paprika, fill peppers with mixture, place in pan, sprinkle with buttered bread crumbs and brown in oven. Place on circles of sauteed bread and pour sauce around. Littleton Sauce —Mix 1 teaspoon flour and 1 teaspoon mustard; when blended add 1 tablespoon melted butter, 1 tablespoon vinegar, 1/2 cup boiling water, the beaten yolks of 3 eggs. Cook in double boiler until mixture thickens. Add 1/4 teaspoon salt and a few grains of cayenne. Before serving, add 1 teaspoon current jelly. # # # Cottage cheese provides an excellent way of utilizing milk that has soured. A simple rule for making it appears in Successful Farming. Take a pan of clabbered milk. Cut this across in opposite directions more rapidly to release the whey; set over a kettle of hot water on the stove; occasionally stir or lift gently from the bottom to equalize heat, and let remain until whey and curd are well separated but curd not in the least tough and stringy. Then pour into a close-meshed colander to drain curd from whey. The curd should be of the consistency of rather stiff cake batter, but more grainy. Tip into a large bowl, work and squeeze through the fingers until smooth; add salt to taste, a tablespoonful of butter, and enough thick cream to make of the consistency of a thick drop batter. Press into wet cups, or make into small balls for individual portions. A variation of this recipe, given by Successful Farming, reads as follows: Let the clabbered milk remain over the water a somewhat shorter time, so that the consistency of the curd is somewhat less firm. Tip into a fine colander, drain a somewhat shorter time. Place in a bowl and, using a fork, toss into it salt as you wish, and thick cream to make the consistency of tapioca cream. Pile irregularly in a shallow glass dish, chill, and serve for desert with cream and a little nutmeg; accompany with nice homemade cookies or ginger cakes. Recipe for Dressing The following are good proportions for French dressing: I teaspoon sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon mustard, 1/4 teaspoon paprika. 3 tablespoons lemon juice or vinegar, 8 tablespoons olive oil. Mix the seasonings together, add the acid, then the oil gradually, beating it or shaking it thoroughly to form an emulsion. This will separate upon standing, and will require a good shaking before using again. Hot Oven Necessary If you have trouble in making pie shells for filled pies, due to the fact the shell shrinks in the baking, you need to use a hotter oven. It is a good plan to bake pie shells, on an inverted pie pan, instead of on the inside, pricking them well with a fork. When baked in this manner, they can be slipped off the pan when removed from the oven, and placed inside, ready for the filling. Hot Plate for Baby Hot plates are exceedingly helpful in establishing good food habits for baby. points out Mable Ruppert in the Housenold Magazine. These china dishes set in compartments for hot water keep the food warm to the very last spoonful, and baby instead of saying decidedly, “No, any!” says “All down, muvver ” Usually the dish is decorated with a nursery rhyme character. Mattresses Need Strips Some day when you have time, spend an hour sewing strips of heavy material to the sides of your mattreses, to be used as handles or loops big enough to slip the hand through. Sew four of these to each mattress, one to each comer. These handles enable one to turn the mattress easily and make it easy to carry them out for their frequent sunning. Baking Tin Is Mold If you do not have molds, in which to make jellied salads or desserts, pack the mixture in pound baking powder cans. When removed, slice in rings and serve on lettuce leaves.

DISH CLOTHS, TOWELS SHOULD BE WASHED

Washing the dish towels and dish cloths every time they are used, is an excellent habit to acquire. It practically is the only way to be reasonably sure of preventing an accumulation of germs on dishes, j glassware and silverware. Os course, the first step in sanii tary dish washing, is to make use of plenty of hot water and good 1 soap, then scalding water and clean j towels for drying finish up the job : as nearly perfectly as possible. The j ideal way, is to stack the dishes in ! a wire rack and scald them thoroughly, then they will need no drying. That leaves the glassware and silerware for the towels. This method not only saves time, but saves washing so many towels. " Eat Vegetables and You'll Get Your Vitamins ~ ‘ Cabbage, carrots, lettuce, peas, ; peppers, spinach and tomatoes form i the “Big Seven” among vegetables rich in vitamins, and you will plant them in ycur spring garden and serve them on your table above all others, if you value the advice of E, R. Lancashire, Ohio State university scientist. Professor Lancashire, in the current issue of the Farm Journal, nai tional agricultural monthly, grades the twenty-eight most popular American vegetables according to their content of vitamins A, B and C. None, of course, contain vi tamin D, which is found in fish and fat foods But lettuce is particularly distinguished by a richness of vitamin E. In the following list, the vitamin values of the vegetables is indicated by the Figure 1 where the vitamin is found in small amount, by 2 when the amount is moderate and by 3 when the vitamin content is very rich: Vegetable Vitamin Content Asparagus 2 3 0 Beans 2 2 2 Beets 0 2 1 Cabbage 1 2 3 Carrots 33 2 Cauliflower 1 2 1 Celery o 2 0 Chard. Swiss .. 2 1 0 Cucumbers 1 l 2 Eggplant 1 1 0 Endive 10 1 Kohlrabi 0 0 1 Lettuce, leaf 2 2 2 Okra 0 2 0 Onions 0 1 2 Pepper, green 2 2 3 Parsley 0 2 0 Parsnips „.... 0 2 0 Peas 2 2 2 Potato, sweet 1 2 2 Potato, white 12 2 Pumpkin 2 Radish 12 2 Rutabagas 12 3 Spinach 3 2 3 Squash 2 0 0 Tomatoes 2 2 3 Turnips 0 2 2 To the increased use of vegetables, as well as to increased sunshine, it is pointed out, is due the upeurve in the nation’s health statistics which accompanies each spring.

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Wax Makes Polishing of Wood Easy Advent of the so-called modernistic style in furniture and interior decoration is bringing about anew interest in a wood surface as something beautiful in and of itself. Puzzling as the new style may be to some, nevertheless it possesses certain aspects of beauty, one of the chief of these being the use of beautiful woods, often rare, expensive and hitherto little used woods such as thuya, ebony, snakewood and others. In the construction of furniture, plain flat surfaces unadorned by ornamentation or carving, showing only unusual loveliness of texture, natural markings and grain are em- ! phasized. This new interest in wood surfaces is causing housewives to ap- ; predate the beauty of the more ; familiar mahogany, walnut, maple and cherry furniture which they have already In their possession. Keeping it clean, is, of course, the I first essential to its good appearance. Obscures Beauty The fine film of dust and grime which accumulates on it, in spite of all care, will in time obscure the richness of coloring and beauty of | texture of fine woods. , An occasional washing with lukewarm water and a mild soap fol- ; lowed by a thorough drying should be made a regular part of the household routine. This should be followed by an application of a good : wax, well rubbed in and allowed to i dry for twenty minutes or so, after which the furniture should be polished with a soft wool cloth, or polishing mlt which is very inexpensive, and a handy thing to have for this purpose. Preferred to Oil Wax Is to be preferred to oil for polishing, since it closes the pores of the wood and creates a surface which tests have proved collects only one-half as much dust as an | oiled surface. If you do not care to use soap and water on your furniture, the grime ’ may be removed with liquid wax : wiped off with clean dry rags. The * same polishing treatment as outlined above then should be used, after which furniture will show' off ;to the best advantage whatever beauty of texture and grain the wood of which it is made possesses. Neglect of furniture,’as well as of personal appearance, is as disastrous to furniture as it is to individuals. An occasional cleaning and polishing will have the toning up effect on wood that a facial treatment has on a beautifully textured skin.

ANY Today, Lady? today . . . NOW ... is the time to use ice. It is not in summer alone that food spoils; it needs constant protection. With our rapidly changing weather conditions, window coolers simply cant preserve food. It is false economy to try to get along without ice even in winter . . . for you not only have to throw food away, but you run a tremendous risk by feeding your family food which has not been properly protected. Make the use of ice a year ’round habit, and you will reap the benefits in better food, greater economy and better health. Remember ICE is your best health insurance! HEAR the story of ice in the morning over Station WKBF and between 5 and 7 in the evening over WFBM. ICE RESEARCH BUREAU of Indianapolis 1215 Merchants Bank Bldg. Indianapolis

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"Coffee to Be Really Good . . . . Must Be Fresh” Such a coffee is Hoosier Club, which is delivered weekly to Indianapolis independent grocers and every two weeks to grocers in central Indiana. Note Buy Indianapolis Directions for the use of Hoosier Club ’ s fine grind for Drip-O-Coffee Later and percolater grind is found under lid of the new Hoosier can. HOOSIER COFFEE CO INDIANAPOLIS

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