Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1909 — FOR THE HOUSEWIFE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR THE HOUSEWIFE

Hints on the Menu. Turnips should be served only with pork. Apple sauce may be served with pork or duck. Cranberries always with poultry. Currant jelly with roast lamb or game. Guava jelly is also good with game. If possible, a cream soup should not be served at the same meal with cream dessert. Gingerbread is usually served with baked apples. Marshmallows are being served with hot chocolate. When theydissolve they give a pleasant flavor to the chocolate.

Chicksn Jolly For Invalids. To prepare chicken jelly pound half of a raw chicken with a mallet—bones and meat together. Put it in a quart of cold water and heat slowly in a covered saucepan. Let it simmer until the meat is in white rags and the liquid reduced one-half. Strain and press, first through a colander, then through a coarse cloth. Salt to taste. Return to the fire and let simmer for five minutes longer. Skim when cool. Serve cold—just from the ice—with soda wafers. Keep on the ice or make it into sandwiches by putting the jelly between thin slices of bread spread lightly with butter.

Apple Toast. Cut six apples into quarters, take the core out, peel and cut in slices. Put in the saucepan an ounce of butter, then throw over the apples two ounces of white powdered sugar and two tablespoonfuls of water. Stew quickly. When tender, <*ut two or three slices of bread half an inch thick and fry in the frying pan a nice yellowish color in a little butter. When nice and crisp place them on a dish and sprinkle with a little sugar. Put on apples an inch thick. Serve hot.

Combined Dishpan and Drainer. A useful household article has recently been invented which will facilitate the washing and draining of dishes, says Scientific American. It consists of a dishpan of greater length than its width and preferablj- formed with a rounded inclined wall at one end. Set into this pan, at the opposite end, is a dish drainer formed with sheet metal walls and having a skeleton bottom. The drainer is arranged to fit snugly into the disbpan so that it will be held therein by frictional engagement. The bottom of the drainer

consists of a series of rods and crossbars terminating at one end in a dish support or bail. The dishes as they are washed in the forward end of the dishpan are supported on edge on the rods, the first dish being leaned against the bail. Being supported in upright position, the dishes will drain readily, and while in the drainer boiling water may be poured upon them to rinse them. Since the drainer and dishpan are combined in a,.single article the dishwasher will be saved many unnecessary steps.

Food For the Convalescent. The convalescent's diet should never contain pork or veal, as both are difficult of digestion. Hot bread and pastry are also under the ban, as is every form of fried food. Otherwise eggs are good, as are tender broiled steak, cornstarch, rice and tapioca pudding and jellies, well made cocoa and good milk. Variety, it must be remembered, is essential to tempt the appetite.

For the Sewing Room. A small rug made from a piece of thick carpet to fit the treadles of the sewing machine will keep the feet warm in winter when sewing on the niachine. when they otherwise soon would become cold from the cold iron of the treadles. This is much easier on the feet, especially if they are inclined to be tender.

Vaseline Stains. Vaseline stains on towels and clothing can be removed by soaking them in kerosene or alcohol before sending them to the laundry. Vaseline stains are obstinate if they are not removed in the right way. Washing the stains with soap and water sets them and makes it almost impossible to remove them. Mock Cauliflower. Chop together one-half small head of cabbage, one single bunch of celery. Cook thirty minutes or until tender in just enough water to cover. When done add one cup of milk, season, dash of pepper, small piece of butter, thicken a little. . Cleaning Painted Walls. To clean painted walls dissolve two ounces of borax tn two quarts of water and add one tablespoonful of ammonia. Use half this quantity to each bucket df water. Do not use soap. Wash a small amount of the paint at a time and rub dry with a clean cloth. a Removing Rust. To remove the rust that accumulates on steel knives cover the blades with sweet oil for a day or so and then rub with a lump of fresh lime. This with the oil fotms a soap and cleanses the knife perfectly.

DISHPAN AND DRAINER.