The Auxiliary cook book

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 68909 *** THE AUXILIARY COOK BOOK [Illustration] PRICE, FIFTY CENTS [Illustration] PUBLISHED BY THE AUXILIARY SOCIETY OF THE HEBREW SHELTERING GUARDIAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ORPHAN ASYLUM 1909 _As the tender bud requires the sunshine, air, and water for its development, so the child, to unfold all its powers and inborn faculties, requires the sunshine of kindness and sympathy, an atmosphere of love and a rich spiritual and physical nourishment. Who can administer all these elements so essential for the blossoming of the child’s soul more tenderly than a mother? And where an inscrutable destiny has taken her away, those who stand in her place must be inspired with her deep love and affection, her tender heart and her keen vision into the child’s being._ _LUDWIG B. BERNSTEIN, PH.D._ INTRODUCTORY This valuable Cook Book is the product of the zeal and energy of the ladies comprising the Auxiliary of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York Orphan Asylum, who have labored in a noble cause for the benefit of their Cottage Fund. In compiling this work the members have exercised the greatest care in contributing their best and tried recipes, and have attached their signatures thereto. The Household Hints will form a valuable addition to every home. The Committee extend their sincere thanks to those who have co-operated with them and so kindly contributed toward this work. They have rendered their best efforts to insure the success of this undertaking, and they trust that their patient endeavors have produced a volume which will prove, as they are confident it will, to be of great value in every household. MRS. H. J. SOWER, _Chairman of Cook Book Committee_. “BLESSED IS HE WHO CONSIDERETH THE ORPHAN.” CONTENTS PAGE SOUPS, 9 FISH, 13 POULTRY AND GAME, 20 MEATS, 24 HOUSEKEEPER’S TIME-TABLE, 28 VEGETABLES, 30 ENTRÉES, 36 SALADS, 44 SAUCES, 49 PUDDINGS, 54 DESSERTS, 59 BROMANGELON, 63 PIES AND PUFF PASTE, 66 PASSOVER DISHES, 69 BREAD, FRITTERS, ETC., 71 CAKES, 76 ICINGS AND CAKE FILLINGS, 90 ICES, 92 PICKLES, PRESERVES, ETC., 95 SANDWICHES, 100 BEVERAGES, 104 CANDY, 107 MENUS, 109 HOUSEHOLD HINTS, 113 THE AUXILIARY COOK BOOK SOUPS DIRECTIONS FOR SOUPS Iron, agate, or porcelain kettles should be used for making soups. Meats for soups should be put to cook in cold water, boiled gently, and the required quantity of salt added at first, to extract the juices of the meat and cause the scum to rise. Allow one quart of water, one teaspoon salt for each pound of meat. Remove all scum carefully before vegetables are added. All grease should be removed before the vegetables are added. It is well to cook meat the day before the soup is wanted, that the grease may be cooled and removed easily. Grease may be easily removed from hot soup by adding a little cold water. _Miss Ray Mayer_ GUMBO SOUP Have bouillon quantity required for family. Take giblets, end of wings, and necks of poultry. Then add sliced gumbo, also one tomato, one or two Chili peppers. Stew all this for a few moments, then add little by little bouillon, and let boil one and one-half hour. Serve soup with a bowl of dry rice. _E. L. S._ MOCK BISQUE SOUP One good lump of butter, one big tablespoon flour; let this brown. Add milk as much as is needed for soup. Now take one can of tomatoes; boil; pass through a colander; season with salt and pepper, and sweeten with a pinch of soda; before serving, mix with milk. _E. L. S._ OX-TAIL SOUP Two pounds of beef and two ox tails, one large onion, celery, two carrots, one turnip and parsley; boil in one gallon of water for three hours, slowly but steadily; season, strain. You may then add noodles, rice, or any other thing you like, such as peas, dumplings, etc. _Mrs. Jake Brown_ JULIENNE SOUP Cut carrots and turnips into quarter-inch pieces the shape of dice, also celery into thin slices, asparagus tips, peas, and string beans cut into small uniform pieces. Cover all this with water and season well with salt and pepper; let cook until tender. In another saucepan have your soup stock to boiling-point, to which add the cooked vegetables; more seasoning if necessary. Serve hot. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ RICE SOUP May be made with either beef or mutton stock, also by adding all kinds of vegetables. Boil one-half cup of rice in double boiler. Strain the soup; add the rice and let boil one-half hour longer. _Mrs. Greenberg_ TOMATO SOUP One can tomatoes, one teaspoon celery salt, one teaspoon salt, sprig of parsley, one pint hot water, one onion, one-fourth cup butter, one and one-half tablespoon flour, one teaspoon sugar, cup milk. Boil tomatoes with onion and water twenty minutes; heat butter and flour together; add milk while hot; strain tomatoes into hot milk and flour; then add all the other ingredients. Serve with croutons or rice. _Mrs. Shipley_ OYSTER SOUP Take as much milk as you want soup. Let come to a boil; stir in one-half cup of fine cracker meal, add one quart of fresh oysters, a lump of butter. Let come to a boil but once. Then remove from the fire; season with salt and pepper; serve with oyster crackers. _Mrs. Haines_ CREAM TOMATO SOUP One-half can tomatoes, a piece of butter the size of an egg, one-half teaspoon of saleratus or soda, two tablespoons of cracker meal, salt to taste. Boil tomatoes one-half hour; strain; then put on the fire, add the butter, cracker meal, and soda. Heat one cup of milk to each plate of soup, which pour into the tomatoes; after the soda sizzles add salt to taste. _Mrs. Max Kohn_ NOODLE SOUP Have your soup boiling, put in desired quantity of GOODMAN’S noodles, and boil for ten minutes uncovered. EGG BALLS FOR SOUP Boil five eggs till hard, that is, about twenty minutes, and then put them in cold water. Peel, cut the whites in rings, mash the yolks with two raw yolks, add one-half a teaspoon of salt, a few drops of onion juice, a dash of cayenne. Form into small balls like marbles, and drop into boiling soup two minutes before the soup is taken off the fire; add also the rings made from the whites of the eggs. _Mrs. A. Herz_ SUET BALLS FOR SOUP Have half a cup of suet finely chopped and freed from skin. To this add one-half teaspoon of salt, pepper as you wish, and half a cup of flour. Mix and add ice water, a few drops at a time, while you stir. When you have a stiff paste, not wet and soggy, but merely sticking together, form in little balls like small marbles, drop in boiling soup, and cook from five to seven minutes before serving. _Mrs. A. M. Solomon_ MEAT BALLS FOR SOUP One pound fine-chopped meat; add two eggs, salt, pepper to taste, one onion chopped fine, parsley, bread crumbs to keep together; fry; strain soup, and put in balls before serving. _Miss Ray Mayer_ BREAD FINGERS FOR SOUP Cut off the crusts of stale slices of bread, cut the bread in fingers about four inches long and three-quarters of an inch wide; lay in a dripping-pan and toast a golden brown in a moderate oven. _R. I. F._ FISH THINGS WORTH KNOWING ABOUT FISH Fish that has white flesh requires about ten minutes to the pound in boiling and fifteen minutes in baking. The old idea that fish is a “brain” food was long since proved to be without foundation, but it has not yet been proved that an overdiet of fish does not lead to skin troubles. Never buy a fish that has dull eyes, white gills, or soft, spongy flesh. When a fish is fresh, the eyes are bright, the gills red and the flesh firm and odorless. Lobsters and crabs, if alive, should be lively, or, if boiled, the lobster’s tail should be tight against the body, not hanging limp. The proper cooking of fish is not a simple matter; if it is underdone it is uneatable, while overdone fish is tough and tasteless. The cooking of a fish depends upon the size, kind, the nature of the water from which it was taken, its character and the character of the water in which it is cooked. _H. J. S._ SOAKING SALT FISH By bad soaking the fish is sometimes spoiled, made flabby and tasteless, and voted a failure, when, if properly cooked and treated, it would be appetizing. Use cold water or milk, and keep while soaking in a cool place. _Mrs. H. A. S._ BROILED MACKEREL Follow the directions for soaking given in the foregoing recipe. Wipe the fish dry; brush it lightly with olive oil; lay it on the broiler with skin side up first, then broil quickly. Lay on a hot platter, squeeze one-half lemon over it and send it to the table at once. A few sprigs of watercress or crisp red radishes go well with broiled mackerel. _Mrs. E. F. Jones_ CODFISH BALL One cup of soft boiled potatoes mashed while hot and fresh into half a cup of shredded codfish. Fish and potatoes should be well mashed together, seasoned with one tablespoon of butter and a beaten egg, dropped into a pan of boiling-hot lard or fat, and fried until a delicate brown. When lifted from fat, they should drain a moment on brown paper and go to the table hot. _Mrs. A. Cooper_ CODFISH SPANISH STYLE One tablespoonful oil, onions, parsley, a little flour, tomatoes and Chili. Fry this all together; add enough water to make as much gravy as you wish; season to taste; add codfish and let boil until tender. _E. L. S._ SCHARF FISH One kitchen spoonful of lucca or olive oil. Let same get very hot; add a chopped onion; let brown; then add two tablespoonfuls of flour; also brown this. Now slowly stir in three cups of cold water so as not to lump. When this is stirred smoothly add chopped parsley, one toe of garlic, salt, pepper, and a large tomato cut in quarters. Now add your sliced fish and let boil until tender. Serve cold. _Mrs. H. A. S._ FISH AU GRATIN Trout, blue, or any whole fish may be used. Have onion, garlic and parsley chopped finely together. Line bottom of dish with cracker crumbs, parsley, etc.; put your fish in dish and repeat the parsley, crumbs, etc. Then pour over this one cup of white wine or sherry, one cup of bouillon, pepper, salt, one tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce; put small pieces of butter on top. Bake in hot oven from thirty to forty minutes. Before serving garnish with round slices of lemon and finely chopped parsley. _Mrs. H. A. S._ MACKEREL WITH HACHEE SAUCE Cut fresh mackerel in pieces about three inches square; flatten with a wet knife; place in buttered pan, season with salt, pepper, and a little lemon juice. Cover with buttered paper, bake ten minutes. Sauce: Mix a teaspoon each of hashed mushrooms, small onions and parsley in a cup of vinegar with cayenne pepper; heat until vinegar is almost absorbed, then add four tablespoonfuls of soup stock and the chopped mushrooms. Boil gently; add a tablespoonful capers, two chopped gherkins; simmer until thick as rich cream, and lastly add a wine-glass of sherry. _Mrs. Oppenheimer_ FILET OF SOLE À LA MOUQUIN Thoroughly wash and pick over a pound of spinach, put it over the fire with no more water than clings to the leaves and cook for ten minutes. At the end of that time drain the spinach and chop it fine. Have ready thin filets of flounders, halibut, or whitefish. Cover them with acidulated warm water--a slice of lemon in the water is all that is wanted--and add a slice of onion, a sprig of parsley and a bit of bay leaf. Simmer for ten minutes and drain. Put the minced spinach into the bottom of a buttered baking dish, arrange the filets on it, cover with a cream sauce to which a tablespoonful of grated cheese has been added, and brown in the oven. _Mrs. Sam Moss_ FILETS OF HADDOCK A medium-sized fish is bought and cut in filets. Then it is washed, dried, cut into strips, and covered for an hour with salt, pepper, minced parsley, olive oil, and a teaspoonful of anchovy sauce. At the end of that time the fish is rolled in flour, then is brushed with beaten egg, dipped in bread crumbs and rolled into little rolls tied with a thread. The rolls are then fried in deep fat. The fish is served with slices of lemon sprinkled with parsley. _Mrs. H. Moss_ OYSTER CANAPÉS One cup cream, four tablespoonfuls bread crumbs, one tablespoon butter, one pint of oysters, paprika, a little nutmeg and salt. Boil the cream, add the bread crumbs, then the butter. Chop the oysters fine; add oysters, then season, add a little chopped parsley. Serve hot on buttered toast with olives and a little gherkin. _Mrs. Joe Newman_ LOBSTER À LA AMERICAINE Boil live lobster (that has been thoroughly washed) in the following for forty minutes: two quarts water, parsley, onions, thyme, one bay leaf, pepper, salt. Remove lobster, separate it, leaving meat in shell. Chop one onion, one bay leaf, thyme, red pepper, garlic, parsley; melt one tablespoon butter and cook the above chopped herbs until yellow; thicken with flour, add enough water to make plenty of sauce, pepper, and salt. Place lobster in this; cook twenty minutes. Serve on large platter, very hot. _Mrs. L. S. Firetag_ LOBSTER À LA NEWBURG Three lobsters, one-half cup sherry, one cup of cream, one tablespoonful butter, yolks of three eggs. Boil live lobsters twenty minutes in salt water; when cool pick out the meat, put it in the wine and butter, and let cook three minutes, always stirring; then add cream, and let scald; add salt, pepper and yolks of the eggs. _Mrs. D. Tim_ DEVILED CRABS (FOR TWELVE) Pick twelve crabs or one can crab meat, one-half teaspoon salt, one-half pint cream, one and one-half tablespoon butter, one tablespoon flour, chopped parsley, a little cayenne. Put cream into double boiler; when it is scalded add butter and flour after it has been rubbed together till smooth; add parsley, then crab meat; fill shells, put bread crumbs on top, with small piece of butter. Bake until light brown. _Mrs. Shipley_ BROWN FRICASSEE OF OYSTERS Melt one-fourth cup of butter; in this cook two slices of onion, a sprig or two of parsley, three slices of carrot and one-fourth of a green pepper pod cut in strips until browned. In the meantime scald one quart of oysters and drain carefully; cook one-third cup flour in the butter with the vegetables until well browned; add one cup of oyster liquor and one-half cup of cream. Stir constantly until the sauce thickens, then strain over the drained oysters; let heat over boiling water. Serve hot in ramequins. _Mrs. H. J. S._ OYSTER OR LOBSTER COCKTAIL Cut the boiled lobster into cubes with a silver knife and for each glass allow a tablespoonful of Chili sauce, a tablespoonful of tomato catsup, a teaspoonful of lemon juice, two teaspoonfuls of horseradish, and a few drops of Worcestershire sauce. Serve the lobster around the glasses containing the sauce or in the sauce as preferred. Use low cocktail glasses in cracked ice. _Mrs. Baum_ DRY OYSTER STEW Take six to twelve oysters, cook them in one-half pint of their own liquor, season with salt and white pepper and butter; cook for five minutes, stirring all the time. Serve in bowls or soup plates. _Mrs. Marx_ BROILED OYSTERS Dry a quart of oysters in a cloth; dip each oyster in melted butter well peppered, then in beaten egg or in cracker crumbs; broil on a wire broiler; from three to five minutes. Dip over each a little melted butter. Serve hot with slices of lemon. _Mrs. Blum_ ROAST CLAMS IN SHELL Roast in a pan over a hot fire or in a hot oven. When they crack open, empty the juice into a saucepan, add the clams, with butter, pepper, and a little salt. _Mrs. Hirsch_ SOFT-SHELL CRABS Take out the sand-bags and pull out the spongy substance from the sides. Wash and wipe dry; roll in cracker meal which has been seasoned, then dip in a beaten egg. Then have a deep frying-pan ready filled with seething hot butter, and fry brown. Serve very hot and garnish. _Mrs. Greenberg_ POULTRY AND GAME ROAST SNIPE After drawing and cleaning the birds fill each one with a piece of well-buttered bread; season with salt and pepper. Fasten a piece of bacon around each bird, catching it together. Place the birds in a shallow pan, and almost cover with port wine. To this add a tablespoon of butter. Baste every ten minutes. Bake one-half hour in a steady oven. _Mrs. Erlanger_ BROILED QUAIL Dress and rinse the quail in cold water; wipe dry. Open them down the back. Lay on a wire frame in shallow pan, with breast turned down. Cook slowly in gas stove under the flame. Dissolve three tablespoons butter in one-half cup water in a pie plate. When the quail are cooking turn them in this butter every five minutes in order to baste and make juicy. When cooked through turn the birds over and brown the breasts. When finished pour melted butter over them, and season with salt and pepper. Serve hot on buttered toast. _Mrs. Bauman_ CHICKEN WITH RICE Procure a young fowl, prepare it as for fricasseeing and put it into a pot, with a sliced onion, a red pepper cut into pieces and salt and hot water enough to keep it from burning. Simmer the fowl slowly for about an hour. Then turn in two cupfuls of canned tomatoes and cook very slowly for another hour. At the end of that time add a cupful of rice and cook slowly for three-quarters of an hour longer, until the chicken is very tender and the rice done. Season with parsley minced very fine and serve with the meat in the centre of a platter and the rice as a border. Care must be taken to keep the rice from burning. Properly seasoned, the dish is a very appetizing one. _Mrs. Silverman_ CHICKEN CURRY Chop two large onions, fry in butter till brown; add a young chicken which has been cut in small pieces, one tablespoon curry, three fresh tomatoes or one cup canned tomatoes, salt and pepper to taste. Cover and let simmer for one hour. Then add one cup milk; let boil up once. Bank the rim of a platter with boiled rice and pour the curry in the centre. _Mrs. Buxbaum_ ROAST TURKEY Select a fat turkey, draw, singe, and wash it. Save the giblets; wash and clean them and put them on in water to boil. Dress the turkey, season with salt and pepper, and before placing in the oven pour over it hot melted butter to close the skin. Pour in a little water and roast about two and a half hours, basting frequently. Chop the giblets when tender. Brown a little butter and flour, add salt, pepper, the chopped giblets and the water in which they have been cooked. To this add the gravy in the roasting-pan and serve the whole as a gravy. ROAST GOOSE A goose should be prepared the same as turkey, only no butter should be used as there is always a great deal of fat, most of which must be removed from the pan before the water is added. ROAST DUCK Ducks require the same treatment as geese. POULTRY DRESSING Bread crumbs broken fine and seasoned with salt and pepper, onion juice, and chopped parsley. For ducks and geese add a little sage. Butter should be added to give smoothness. Add two well-beaten eggs and mix thoroughly. CHICKEN CASSEROLE Cut up the chicken in portions, using liver, gizzard, and heart also. Have a stone casserole with a cover (or a good-sized covered saucepan). Place in the bottom of the casserole a good-sized piece of butter, with this add an onion or two cut in small pieces, one carrot, half a turnip, a bit of parsley, a bit of celery top, which give a delicious flavor. First put in butter, a few bits of the onion, and the pieces of chicken; cook flat on the bottom of casserole for five minutes to become a golden brown. After all the pieces are thus browned in turn, add all the rest of the cut-up onion, carrot, turnip, etc., and let cook for twenty-five minutes over a very slow fire. The slow fire makes it tender, cook it in its own juices; pepper and salt each piece of chicken before placing in casserole. Before serving add a glass of white wine or sherry. Serve in the casserole. _Mrs. H. A. Siegel_ PRESSED CHICKEN Cook a fowl in just water enough to keep it from burning until the meat loosens from the bones. After it has cooled pick it to pieces and mix the light and dark meat. Boil till hard two eggs; slice thin and add to the picked up chicken. Boil down the water in which the chicken was cooked till it fills a small teacup; add a little pepper, butter and salt. Mix all with the picked up chicken; put in a mould or bowl; put on a weight to press, and set in a cool place. When time to serve tip the chicken on a platter and garnish with hard-boiled eggs and watercress. _Mrs. Elizabeth Sower_ MEATS CROWN ROAST OF MUTTON In the centre of your crown roast lay chopped mutton or lamb well seasoned and mixed with bread crumbs, one-third crumbs, two-thirds meat; salt the roast and bake, basting often and allowing an hour and a quarter to one and one-half hour. Serve with green peas and mashed potatoes. _Mrs. Haines_ BEEFSTEAK EN CASSEROLE Use two pounds of round steak cut one and one-half inches thick. Heat a frying-pan, rub over the surface with fat from the meat. Fry steak on both sides. Put the meat into the casserole; put in also twelve or more each of carrots and turnips cut into shapes of marbles or balls; also add one dozen small onions, nicely peeled, a tablespoonful of kitchen bouquet, a generous pint of soup stock; cover and let cook gently for one and one-half hours. After cooking one hour salt and add a little more stock if needed. The vegetables may be browned in fat or butter before putting in the casserole. _Mrs. H. A. S._ FRICASSEE TRIPE To one pint of boiling milk or cream add one pound of boiled tripe which has been cut into pieces one inch square, season with chopped onion, one teaspoonful minced parsley, one-half teaspoon salt, pepper, a little cayenne, three pieces of mace. Let simmer for fifteen minutes; thicken with two tablespoonfuls of flour stirred into one tablespoon of butter. Serve on thin toast. _Mrs. M. Steinberg_ BAKED CALF’S LIVER Dust with flour two pounds of liver; leave liver whole. Lay in a deep pan, season with pepper, salt, and chopped onion. Lay across the top several slices of bacon, add two cups of tomatoes juice, with which baste the liver while it is baking. Bake in a moderate oven until liver is tender enough to pierce with a fork. Before serving squeeze the juice of a lemon over the whole. _Mrs. H. Lang_ KIDNEY STEW Wash very thoroughly two beef kidneys, remove the skin and fat. Cut in thin slices and put in a quart of cold water. Parboil, throw out the water, put in fresh water, and boil gently for two hours. Then season with salt and pepper and thicken with flour to form a smooth gravy. Serve on a platter surrounded by a wall of mashed potatoes or on pieces of toast. _Mrs. Jonas_ POT ROAST Rib, sirloin, or rump can be used. Have bone removed and meat rolled. Put meat into a round-bottom pot. Brown the beef on one side, then on the other. Then add one pint of boiling water, and a piece of suet; salt when half done. Cover tight, cook tender. When done pour out the liquor, and thicken with browned flour, a tablespoon or more stirred into the gravy to which you may have to add more water. When thickened, strain and add a little pepper. _Mrs. Roose_ BROILED CHOP FOR INVALID French a rib chop by scraping the long part of the bone until all the fat is removed. Lay on clean buttered paper the shape of the chop and cut double, fold the paper over so as to form a case; place on a pan and broil for six minutes. Serve at once. _Mrs. Sontheim_ BURGEAU (FRENCH) With lamb, veal, or chicken, cut into small pieces all vegetables in season, take potatoes, cut same as meat, put into pot and cover with water, let boil three or four hours, then add can of tomatoes and same of green peas, then let simmer one hour more. Thicken with a little brown flour. _Mrs. Fragner_ BEEF TONGUE WITH OLIVES Wash clean a tongue and let stand in boiling water for ten minutes. Then put in a casserole without peeling, add different vegetables and small pieces of salt pork. This may be left out if not desired. Salt and cover with water, and one glass of white wine. Let cook gently for two hours; now peel tongue, strain the sauce and thicken with flour; return tongue to the gravy and ten minutes before serving add one pint of pitted olives. _Mrs. H. A. S._ BOILED TONGUE Wash a tongue well, rub with salt, then put on to boil; after boiling ten minutes remove from fire, and take off the skin, put on again in clear water and let boil slowly until tender. Season tongue with whole allspice, pepper, also onions, a little vinegar to taste. When boiled soft add thin slices of lemon and thicken with ginger snaps. _Mrs. Max Kohn_ When breading chops, cutlets or frying fish use A. Goodman & Son’s Matzoth Meal. HOUSEKEEPER’S TIME-TABLE MEATS ROASTING OR BAKING Time. Beef, ribs or sirloin, rare per pound 10 minutes “ “ “ “ well done “ 12 “ “ “ “ “ boned and rolled “ 12 “ Round of beef “ 15 “ Mutton, leg, rare “ 10 “ Mutton, leg, well done “ 15 “ “ loin, rare “ 10 “ “ shoulder, stuffed “ 15 “ “ saddle, rare “ 10 “ Lamb, well done “ 15 “ Veal, “ “ 20 “ Pork, “ “ 30 “ Turkey “ 15 “ Fowls “ 20 “ Chicken “ 15 “ Goose “ 18 “ Venison “ 15 “ Filet, hot oven “ 30 “ Ducks, tame entire time 45 to 60 “ Ducks, wild, very hot oven “ 15 to 30 “ Partridge “ 30 to 40 “ Grouse “ 30 “ Pigeons “ 30 “ Braised meats “ 3 to 4 hours Liver, whole “ 2 “ BOILING Mutton per pound 15 minutes Potted beef “ 30 to 35 “ Corned beef “ 30 “ Ham “ 18 to 20 “ Turkey “ 15 “ Chicken “ 15 “ Fowl “ 20 to 30 “ Tripe “ 3 to 5 hours BROILING Steak, 1 inch thick 8 to 10 minutes Steak, 1½ inch thick 10 to 15 “ Mutton chops, French 8 “ Mutton chops, English 10 “ Spring chicken 20 “ Quail 8 to 10 “ Grouse 15 “ Squabs 10 to 15 “ Shad, bluefish, trout 15 to 25 “ Small fish 5 to 10 “ FISH BOIL Halibut and salmon per pound 15 minutes Bluefish and bass “ 10 “ Cod and haddock “ 8 “ BAKE Halibut, salmon, bass, bluefish, shad, etc., for one hour. Trout, pickerel, whitefish, etc., for one-half hour. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ VEGETABLES MASHED POTATOES Peel potatoes of uniform size, cover with boiling water, and cook until tender, salting the water in which they are cooked when the potatoes are about half done. Drain off the water, then with a fork or wire potato-masher beat to a fluff in the same saucepan in which they have been cooked. When entirely free from lumps add for every pint of potatoes about one-third of a cup of hot milk, a tablespoonful of butter, and salt and pepper to season. Whip until as light as a feather. Heap in a hot dish, but do not smooth the top; leave it piled lightly. If necessary to keep hot for some time, set the pan containing the potato in a saucepan of hot water, but leave uncovered or cover lightly with a single fold of cheesecloth. Mashed potatoes left over may be utilized in a variety of ways. To make potato pompon take the potato up by spoonfuls and make into balls. Roll in beaten egg, then in bread or cracker crumbs and fry like doughnuts in hot fat. A little minced onion, parsley, or nutmeg may be mixed with the potato if desired; or make a potato omelet by adding to a cupful of mashed potatoes one cup of sweet milk, three eggs well beaten, a tablespoonful of flour, and a little salt. Mix until smooth, turn into a heated frying-pan, with a tablespoonful melted butter, and fry both sides, turning when brown. Mashed potatoes left over may also be added to shredded codfish for codfish balls, may be mixed with well-beaten egg yolks made into flat cakes and fried in butter, or baked in a buttered tin in the oven, or mixed with a little grated cheese, put into ramequins or a buttered pudding-dish with a layer of cheese on top and baked until brown. _Mrs. M. Harris_ SCALLOPED TOMATOES Season one can tomatoes with one teaspoonful onions, chopped; two dashes pepper, one teaspoonful salt. Begin by covering bottom of baking dish with bread crumbs, spread with bits of butter and a layer of tomatoes. Follow with a second layer of bread crumbs and tomatoes. Cover the top with buttered crumbs and bake in oven until a light brown. _Mrs. Niprut_ HASHED BROWN POTATOES Chop cold boiled potatoes and season them to taste with salt, pepper, and a little onion juice. Put a couple of tablespoonfuls of drippings in the frying-pan, turn in the potatoes, press them into a solid cake, and cook them very slowly until they are covered on the under side with a brown crust. Turn them out onto a plate with the brown side upward. _Mrs. Israel_ SUCCOTASH Cut from the cob enough green corn to fill a pint measure; then take two-thirds of a pint of Lima beans; let them stew in enough water to cover them. When tender season with butter, pepper, and salt; if too thin, thicken with flour. _Mrs. Solomon_ SPINACH Pick over your spinach carefully and wash in several waters. Let boil for fifteen minutes. Drain, then chop very fine; season with salt. Put on a pan, add a little fat or butter, rub a teaspoonful flour in same, add the spinach, also a little soup stock. Just before serving add the beaten egg; garnish with hard-boiled eggs. _Mrs. Hirsch_ GREEN PEAS If canned peas are used, heat, add a teaspoonful of sugar, some chopped parsley and a teaspoonful flour to thicken, a piece of fresh butter. _Mrs. Frank_ OYSTER PLANT Scrape the roots and lay in cold water at once; cut in thin slices; put into a stew-pan with enough salt water to cover them. Stew until tender. Pour off the water, add milk and let boil for ten minutes, add butter, salt, and pepper, and thicken with flour. _Mrs. Ball_ ROAST SWEET POTATOES Pare, cut lengthwise, salt, and put them around roast meat or poultry of any kind. Roast three-quarters of an hour or until brown. _Mrs. Freedman_ STEWED TOMATOES Let tomatoes cook slowly for ten minutes. Season with salt, pepper, a lump of butter, and a teaspoonful of brown sugar. Do not allow them to cook but a few minutes longer; if the sauce is too thin, thicken with a little corn starch. _Mrs. Goodman_ STEWED BEETS Boil first, then scrape and slice them. Put beets into a stewing-pan with a piece of butter rolled in flour, some boiled onion and parsley chopped fine, a little vinegar, salt, and pepper. Let stew one-quarter of an hour. _Mrs. M. Cohen_ BAKED BEETS Beets retain their sugar if baked instead of boiled. Turn with a knife frequently, as fork allows juice to run out. Remove skin, slice, and serve with butter, salt, and pepper on slices. _Mrs. M. Cohen_ RICE AND OKRA Wash one quart of okra pods and slice. Then strain three-fourths of a cup of canned tomatoes, pressing the pulp through a sieve. Put this all into a pot with two cupfuls of meat stock, a large onion sliced, a red pepper cut fine (remove the seeds), salt and white pepper. Let simmer for three-quarters of an hour. In the meantime boil one cup of rice; drain and dry the rice in the oven with the door open; add last one tablespoon of powdered gumbo to the okra, turn around the rice, which is heaped in a mound in the centre of a dish. _Mrs. Holtzman_ MACARONI To cook GOODMAN’S macaroni properly have plenty of salted water boiling, then boil the macaroni rapidly (uncovered) until tender, which generally takes twenty to twenty-five minutes. Always put the macaroni in boiling water and never add cold water while boiling. BOILED MACARONI Break the package of GOODMAN’S macaroni in convenient lengths into a deep vessel, nearly filled with boiled salted water. Boil till tender, stirring occasionally from the bottom. When cooked, drain off the water through a colander, then add one-half cup milk; place on the fire till it boils, then stir in a little flour, add a piece of butter and serve. MACARONI WITH MILK Boil GOODMAN’S macaroni in salted water for ten minutes, then drain and blanch in cold water. Boil some milk and water in equal proportion, then put in the macaroni, which should be just covered. If in boiling, the liquid should diminish, add some warm milk. When done put in saucepan with a little butter on top and put in the oven to brown. _Mrs. Grunthal_ ITALIAN SPAGHETTI One tablespoonful of butter, one of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, and one-quarter teaspoonful of pepper. When melted and mixed add three-quarters cup of strained tomatoes and stir until smooth; add one tablespoonful of meat juice and stir until dissolved. Put layer of GOODMAN’S boiled macaroni (one-half pound in all), the sauce and grated cheese in a heated dish and stand in open oven for five minutes. _Mrs. B. Smidth_ NOODLES Have boiling water ready; put in the desired quantity of GOODMAN’S noodles; allow to boil uncovered for ten minutes; drain through colander. Shake well to allow all water to escape; then place in baking dish, over top sprinkle matzoth meal and lumps of butter put in oven, and slightly brown. Serve. _Mrs. F. Levy_ Rice should be boiled 30 minutes Barley “ “ “ 2 hours Asparagus “ “ “ ½ “ Peas (in summer) “ “ “ ½ “ Beans to stew “ “ “ 3 “ Cabbage “ “ “ ½ “ Potatoes “ “ “ ½ “ Spinach “ “ “ 10 minutes _Miss Ray Mayer_ ENTRÉES MUSHROOM FRICASSEE Sauté three pounds of fresh mushrooms, a few at a time, in butter until half done. Then cook a tablespoonful of flour in a tablespoonful of butter, then add a cup of cream; when this comes to a boil, add the mushrooms. Cook slowly for fifteen minutes; flavor with a tablespoon or two of sherry or Madeira wine. _Mrs. Solomon_ EGGS AU GRATIN Butter individual ramequins and put a layer of sliced hard-boiled eggs into the bottom of each. Dot the top with dabs of butter and sprinkle with grated cheese. Add another layer of eggs, butter, and cheese, and so on, until the dish is filled. Sprinkle the top with buttered crumbs and bake until they are brown--about ten minutes. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ CELERY AND OYSTERS ON TOAST Three stalks celery, one quart oysters (drain off some liquor). Cut celery in small pieces, boil till tender in salt water. Let oysters come to a boil; season to taste. Make a rich cream sauce, quite thick. Mix all together, oysters, celery, and cream sauce (season). Fry slices of bread in hot butter and serve on same. _E. L._ CALVES’ BRAINS À LA VINAIGRETTE Wash the brains carefully in lukewarm water, rejecting all the small membranes, then soak for an hour in cold water to which a tablespoonful of vinegar and a good pinch of salt have been added. Then drop into boiling water or veal broth, seasoned with a little onion and a blade of mace. Simmer about eighteen minutes, drain, and serve with sauce vinaigrette. This consists of the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs chopped and pressed through a sieve, a tablespoonful chopped parsley, and a tablespoonful chopped pickles, a teaspoonful shallot pressed through a sieve, two tablespoonfuls Tarragon vinegar, four tablespoonfuls olive oil, a teaspoonful salt, a teaspoonful dry mustard stirred in a tablespoonful cold water, and a dash of pepper. Mix thoroughly in a bowl and serve in a sauce-boat with the brains. _Mrs. Frank_ MINCED CHICKEN ON TOAST Have ready slices of hot toast spread with butter and covered with a well-seasoned mixture of minced chicken and mushrooms moistened with a little white sauce. Cut the slices in rounds with a biscuit-cutter, and on each place a poached egg that has also been cut round. Over the whole turn a cream sauce thickened mainly with the yolks of eggs. For the sauce cook together a level tablespoonful of flour and a tablespoonful of butter, and add a cupful of hot milk. When the sauce is limpid stir in the yolks of two eggs. Season with salt and pepper. _Mrs. Leon E. Weill_ CHICKEN TIMBALES Take the white meat of a chicken and chop very fine; use a little cream to dampen. Heat one pint of milk, add to this a small piece of butter, thicken with flour, add the chicken, take from the fire, add cream, a little bread crumbs, pepper, salt. Line the forms with truffles or mushrooms, and fill with the mixture. Bake one-half hour. Serve with either cream or tomato sauce. _Mrs. H. A. S._ STUFFED PEPPERS One roasted chicken, one and one-half cup of cracker crumbs, one cup of Edam cheese grated, one onion, six tomatoes, slice of butter, one can mushrooms, one pint olives; chop all fine; season. Remove seeds from twelve large peppers, then stuff. Bake slowly for one hour; serve hot with potato chips. _Mrs. H. A. S._ ENTRÉE SURPRISE Make a puff paste; roll out thin; fill with brains, oysters, shrimps, or sweetbreads; fry in hot fat until a light brown; season meats first before filling dough. Serve hot with slices of lemon. _Mrs. H. A. S._ SCALLOPED TOMATOES Pare and slice some large tomatoes. Put in a pudding-dish, a layer of bread crumbs, season with bits of butter, pepper, salt, and a little sugar. Put on this a layer of tomatoes. Repeat the process until the dish is nearly full with tomatoes on top. Strew with bread crumbs, cover, and bake one and one-half hour. Remove cover and brown before serving. _Miss Ray Mayer_ TO CHOOSE AND PREPARE SWEETBREADS In picking out sweetbreads choose the larger, plumper, and fleshier. Be careful that they are perfectly fresh; of all meats they stand keeping least well. Rinse and put them in lukewarm water to lie fifteen minutes, then cover with slightly salted cold water. The sudden change of temperature blanches them. Cut the sweetbreads apart, cut out the pipe, and take off the skin. They are now ready for creaming or other cooking. _Mrs. J. I. Asch_ CREAMED SWEETBREADS Carefully choose a pair of fresh sweetbreads, trim off their fat, and follow the above directions for parboiling. Cut them in small pieces, and simmer twenty minutes in only enough water to make a steam. Then add a cup of rich milk, rub smooth a tablespoon of flour and a tablespoon of butter; moisten with some of the milk from the saucepan, add a pinch of salt; stir all together over a moderate fire until the flour thickens. Serve with French peas. _Mrs. Sig. Sondheim_ SWEETBREADS WITH OYSTERS Wash free from skin and pipes; blanch them according to directions in foregoing recipe. Take three dozen oysters, three pair of sweetbreads. Put the sweetbreads in a saucepan, add the liquor from the oysters, add also two tablespoons of butter, and set to simmer till the sweetbreads are done. When done pour in half a cup of cream into which a tablespoon of flour has been stirred. Bring to a boil, drop in the oysters, and heat through or until the edges curl. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ SWEETBREADS WITH TOMATOES Stew a quart of tomatoes. When they are cooked put through a sieve; you will then have a thick sauce. Have your sweetbreads prepared according to foregoing directions. Lay them in the tomato sauce, add salt, pepper, and nutmeg to taste, and set over fire. As the sauce heats add half a cup of butter into which you have stirred a tablespoon of flour. Let the sweetbreads cook in a gentle simmer in the tomatoes about forty minutes. Serve on buttered toast or without, as you prefer. _Mrs. M. Lichtenstein_ FRICASSEED SWEETBREADS Cut sweetbreads into slices and let them simmer in rich gravy for three-quarters of an hour. Add one well-beaten egg, two tablespoonfuls of cream, and one teaspoonful of chopped parsley. Stir all together for a few minutes and serve immediately. _Mrs. M. Cohen_ WELSH RABBIT Put one pound of fresh American cheese cut in small pieces in the chafing-dish over flame or hot-water pan. As it melts press and stir with the back of a spoon. When nearly soft add two tablespoons of butter, red pepper, salt, and mustard to taste; then add half a cup of cream; stir until smooth. Add two well-beaten eggs, stir hard for a moment. Put cover on the dish. Let mixture rest with flame turned on for two or three seconds, then put out the flame; leave a few seconds longer without stirring. Serve on buttered toast. Beer or ale may be used instead of cream or eggs. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ FONDUE Mix together seven ounces of cheese cut fine, two ounces of rolled cracker or bread crumbs, two ounces of softened butter. Pour over this one pint of sweet milk which has come to a boil, and stir. Next add yolks of three eggs beaten and a little salt. Keep warm till dissolved, then add beaten whites of eggs stirred in lightly with a fork. Grease a pudding-dish, pour the mixture into this. Bake twenty minutes in an upper oven. Serve at once. _Mrs. J. Bauman_ RAMEQUINS Beat three eggs into an ounce of melted butter, that is, butter should be soft, not brown. Then add two ounces of grated American cheese. Bake in small individuals and serve hot in ramequins. _Mrs. R. De Lue_ SPANISH OMELET Add a little finely chopped onion, squares of tomatoes, and Chili peppers cut in small pieces. Use as many eggs as wanted. Season to taste. _Mrs. H. H. Dittenhoefer_ JELLY OMELET Omelets spread with jelly, currant, grape, or crab apple are all tasty and wholesome. _Mrs. F. Hurtig_ STUFFED EGGS Boil six eggs hard; when cold cut in halves. Remove yolks. Cut a small piece from the bottom so they will stand; put the yolks in a bowl, mash into a paste, and season with salt, a pinch of cayenne, a little mustard, a little sugar, vinegar, cream, and olive oil. Be careful not to add too much vinegar. Fill the whites and pile on top. Serve on crisp lettuce leaves with mayonnaise. _Miss H. Asch_ EGGS À LA FRANÇAISE Make a cream sauce with a small piece of butter, a little flour, and milk. Season well. Break an egg in a custard cup, pour the sauce over the egg and sprinkle the top with grated Swiss cheese. Bake au bain Marie in an even oven until a light brown. _Mrs. D. Strauss_ EGGS WITH TOMATO SAUCE Melt three tablespoonfuls of butter. Cook in this two slices of onion, a little parsley, and a small piece of green pepper. When browned slightly add two tablespoons of flour. Cook until frothy. Add a cup of tomatoes (cooked). Stir until it boils, then strain. Put one or two tablespoonfuls of sauce in each ramequin. Break an egg over the sauce. Cook in a hot oven for five minutes, or until the egg is set. Put a little of the sauce kept hot over the eggs and serve at once. _Mrs. H. A. S._ CHICKEN AND MUSHROOMS Melt two tablespoons butter. When hot add two tablespoons of chopped onion and one-half can of mushrooms finely chopped. Let cook five minutes, add one cup of milk into which one and one-half tablespoon of flour has been stirred. Cook all together. When thick and smooth add one cup of chicken meat, cut into small pieces or dice. Heat through, season with salt and pepper. Serve on buttered toast or in ramequins. _Mrs. Strauss_ SALADS SUGGESTIONS FOR SALADS To keep the salad-oil cruet clear and sweet add a tablespoonful of salt to a quart of oil. The oil will not taste of the salt, as the latter will not dissolve but will sink to and settle at the bottom of the cruet. In mixing salads the oil should be added first and thoroughly spread before adding the other ingredients and mixing. Salads which are very moist and cooling--particularly cucumber--should have an extra pinch of pepper added to counteract the chilling effect on the eater’s stomach. Cold string-bean salad should have a double dose of vinegar, as beans possess in great degree the nutritious and healthful food salts which develop to perfection in acid. Whenever it is possible pure lemon juice should be substituted for vinegar as being far more wholesome than the latter. Endive--the pale, cool, succulent, curly chiccory--salad should be scalded and then chilled to make it more digestible for elderly folk, children, or weak-digestioned invalids. LOBSTER SALAD Remove the meat of a lobster, reserving the creamy fat adhering to the body shell and coral. Shred the lobster with a silver fork. Cut the tender white part of celery into pieces the same size, allowing one-third as much as the amount of meat. Arrange the crisp leaves of lettuce in an oval platter with the larger green on the outer edge decorated with the claws. Mix the meat and celery with enough mayonnaise to moisten and heap in the centre the coral, pounded and passed through a sieve and mixed with remaining mayonnaise. Pile this red dressing on top and put on ice. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ VEGETABLE SALAD Take cold vegetables which have been boiled, such as cauliflower, asparagus, beans, peas, and potatoes; cut into small pieces, season well with salt, paprika, and a little mayonnaise; serve on lettuce leaves with mayonnaise; garnish with hard-boiled eggs; cut into quarters and olives. _Mrs. M. Wolff_ SARDINE SALAD Boil one-half a dozen eggs for half hour. Take from fire and let stand in cold water until cold. Remove shells and cut in half; remove yolks, put into a bowl, and rub to a cream; add one-fourth teaspoonful dry mustard, dash of cayenne, salt, and a little lemon juice and twelve sardines scraped fine, after removing skin and bone. Mix smooth and fill empty shells or halves of eggs. Cover sides and bottom of salad dish with crisp lettuce leaves and lay the half eggs on top with mayonnaise in the centre. _Violet Sondheim_ WALNUT SALAD With a silver fork rub a cream cheese and a tablespoonful of butter to a paste, add salt and cayenne; if not soft enough, a little sweet cream. Make into small flat balls; on each press the two halves of an English walnut; lay on the white heart leaves of lettuce and put on ice. On the instant of serving pour over French dressing and serve with thin buttered bread which has been put in the oven and crisped. _Edna Asch_ HERRING SALAD Two herring; skin and soak until salt is out; take meat off the bones; cut into small pieces, with one cold boiled potato, one pickle, one-half onion, one small apple, and a little chopped almonds. Mix well one tablespoonful vinegar, a little water, sugar, pepper; pour into salad and mix well. Dressing of salad: beat the milcher with a little pepper, vinegar, and very little sugar; chop two hard-boiled eggs, the white and yellow separate, and a little parsley. _Mrs. S. F. Breslauer_ OYSTER SALAD Cook the oysters in their own liquor, allowing them to boil up but once; then let get very cold, cut into small pieces (do not chop). Cut up bits of celery and about one-half cup of capers; add same to the cut-up oysters; mix all with mayonnaise. Serve on lettuce leaves with mayonnaise spread on top; garnish with olives. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ OYSTERS IN GRAPE-FRUIT BASKETS Cut grape-fruit so as to form a basket with handle on one side. Scoop out the pulp and clip edge into points with scissors. Place eight small oysters in each basket and cover them with a sauce made of equal portions of lemon juice, grated horseradish, tomato catsup, and speck mustard. Place on shaved ice on plate and serve. _Mrs. M. Mathias_ CABBAGE SALAD One head white cabbage chopped very fine, three hard-boiled eggs; add two tablespoons salad oil, two teaspoons white sugar, one teaspoon salt and one of pepper, one tablespoon made mustard, one teacup vinegar. _Miss Ray Mayer_ COLD SLAW Cut out core of head of cabbage and chop it quite fine. For dressing break two eggs into small saucepan. Put into them one heaping teaspoon salt, one heaping teaspoon sugar, one small teaspoon mustard, two dashes of pepper. Stir this together and beat the egg a little. Add gradually (stirring all the time) a little less than one-half cupful of vinegar. Stir all together. Put in double boiler and let come gradually to a boil. Stir constantly; cook until quite thick. Take from stove. Add dash of cayenne, pepper and one scant tablespoon olive oil, one teaspoon butter, and one and one-half tablespoon rich milk or cream. Stir all together. Pour over two full teacups of chopped cabbage and mix. Celery makes a nice addition when sliced thin and mixed with cabbage. Let stand few hours before serving. TOMATO SALAD Strain one pint of tomato juice. Add one teaspoon salt, saltspoon pepper, one teaspoon onion juice. To this add one-fourth box gelatine. Put aside for half an hour to dissolve. Stir all together, put on stove, let come to a boil, take off, and pour into small cups. Set it in a cold place to harden. Arrange two or three small lettuce leaves on a plate, turn the tomato jelly in the centre of the leaves, and use French or any other dressing. WALDORF SALAD Sour crisp apples cut in thin slices, finely chopped celery, blend lightly with a fine oil mayonnaise; garnish with feathery tops of celery and scatter with halves of English walnuts. SAUCES EGG SAUCE Boil two eggs from eight to ten minutes; lay in cold water. Now chop egg very fine. Beat two heaping tablespoons of butter into one tablespoon of flour and one teaspoon salt. When butter and flour are well mixed pour over them a cup of boiling water. Cook two or three minutes until flour thickens, stir in the chopped eggs, and serve. _Mrs. Stern_ MAÎTRE D’HÔTEL SAUCE Beat three tablespoons of butter till it creams; add the juice of a small lemon, salt, a dash of cayenne, three tablespoons of minced parsley. This sauce is nice with either broiled chicken or fish. _Mrs. Jenny Lichtenstein_ HOT HORSERADISH SAUCE In an earthen dish put four tablespoons of fresh grated horseradish, four tablespoons of finely powdered cracker crumbs, add half a cup of cream, a teaspoon each of sugar and salt, two dashes of pepper, two teaspoons of vinegar, and one teaspoon of made mustard. Set over a kettle of boiling water when you have stirred all together. Heat and serve hot with plain boiled beef. _Mrs. Jonas_ MAYONNAISE DRESSING Six eggs, one cup vinegar, juice of two lemons, two tablespoons of mustard meal, one-half tablespoon of flour, two teaspoons sugar, one-half teaspoon salt, one-fourth teaspoonful cayenne pepper, one cup cream. Boil in double boiler, put in a mason jar. It will keep for months. _Miss Ray Mayer_ JELLY SAUCE FOR MEATS In an earthen saucepan melt over a slow fire a tumbler of some jelly, either currant or grape. When it is melted and warm, stir in a tablespoon of butter. Let all come to a boil, pour into a hot dish, in which it is to be served, add a tablespoon of claret or red wine and serve at once. This sauce goes well with mutton or lamb. _Mrs. Katz_ SAUCE TARTARE After you have made a mayonnaise add a tablespoonful of chopped cucumber pickles, a few capers, a few chopped olives. Stir or beat; if too thick thin with a little vinegar, or lemon juice. _Mrs. I. Harris_ BOILED MAYONNAISE Two eggs, ten tablespoons vinegar, one tablespoon water, two pinches of salt, one-half scant teaspoon mustard, one and one-half teaspoons sugar, one tablespoon oil; mix yolks with oil and other ingredients; let boil; beat whites of eggs and mix. _Mrs. Shipley_ TOMATO SAUCE Take one pint of canned tomatoes, add an onion well minced, one-half a teaspoon of salt, a little pepper. Put together in a saucepan over the fire. After cooking gently for twenty minutes add two tablespoons of butter into which you have worked a heaping tablespoon of flour until it has become smooth. Let it cook gently for a few minutes; rub through a sieve or fine colander, and serve hot; nice for meats or fish. _Mrs. H. Kline_ RUM SAUCE Boil one cup milk with one cup sugar; add one teaspoonful cornstarch wet with cold milk. Just before removing from fire add one teaspoonful rum. Serve hot. _Mrs. Wolff_ FRENCH PUDDING SAUCE Four ounces of butter, one-fourth ounce brown sugar, yolk of one egg, one gill of wine, nutmeg. Beat butter to a cream, stir in sugar, add yolk and wine. Place on stove, stirring until it simmers. Grate nutmeg over sauce before sending to table. _Mrs. Goldberg_ FOAMING SAUCE Beat one-half cup of butter to a cream; add one cup of granulated sugar and stir until it is white and foaming; just before serving pour over it one cup of boiling water or milk; stir one minute; flavor to taste. _Mrs. Wolff_ VANILLA SAUCE The whites of two eggs and yolk of one, one-half a cup of powdered sugar, one teaspoonful of vanilla, three tablespoonfuls of milk. Beat the whites of eggs to a stiff froth, next beat in the sugar and then the yolk of the egg and the flavor. Serve immediately for light puddings. _Mrs. A. Brown_ CREAM SAUCE One-half a cup of butter beaten until very light, one cup of powdered sugar, one-half a cup of cream. Set the dish in hot water and stir until it is all creamy. It will only take a minute or two; flavor to taste. _Miss Eva Sternberg_ EGG SAUCE The whites of two eggs beaten to a stiff froth, one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, four tablespoonfuls of sweet milk; flavor with vanilla. _Mrs. Sternberg_ CREAM SAUCE (COLD) Stir to a cream one cup of sugar and one-half cup butter, add one cup cream (cold); flavor to taste. Stir well and set in a cool place. _Mrs. M. Cohen_ LEMON SAUCE One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one egg (beaten light), one lemon (juice and grated rind), one-half cup boiling water. Cook in double boiler until it thickens. FRUIT SAUCE Two-thirds cup of sugar, one pint raspberries or strawberries, one tablespoonful melted butter, one cup hot water. Boil all together, slowly removing the scum as fast as it rises. Strain through a sieve. To be eaten with dumplings or apple pudding. _Mrs. M. Cohen_ CHEESE-SALAD DRESSING Work two tablespoonfuls of soft grated cheese until it is smooth. Season with salt, paprika, and moisten thoroughly with vinegar and oil. This is delicious on egg or lettuce salad. _Mrs. Goldberg_ PUDDINGS CARROT PUDDING One cup grated carrots, one cup grated potatoes, one-half cup butter, one and one-half cup flour, two cups raisins or part currants, one teaspoon cinnamon, one of cloves, one-half teaspoon nutmeg, one and one-half teacup sugar, one teaspoon soda dissolved in the potatoes. Mix above together, and put in a greased covered can to steam in hot water for three hours. Serve with wine sauce. _F. Baron_ PLUM PUDDING Three-fourths of a pound of chopped suet, one pound flour, one pound dark brown sugar, one pound of raisins, one pound currants, one-half pound citron cut fine, six eggs, tablespoon of allspice (ground), one whole nutmeg (ground), one wine-glass of brandy or whiskey. Steam six hours. This is large enough to serve for ten. Serve with hard or soft sauce. _Mrs. M. N. Heckscher_ DATE PUDDING One cup of brown sugar, one cup of suet minced finely, one cup of fine bread crumbs, three eggs, one teaspoon salt, three-fourths pound of dates chopped fine, one-half tumbler brandy or whiskey, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon. Steam in a buttered mould for two hours. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ MACAROON PUDDING Two glasses of milk, one-fourth box of Cox gelatine. Boil together, stirring yolks of two eggs beaten together with one-half cup of sugar. Mix with the above. Boil ten minutes, stirring constantly. Take from fire and add one teaspoon vanilla and the whites of two eggs beaten stiff. Put in mould and drop in ten cents’ worth of macaroons (broken). Serve with whipped cream. _Mrs. J. Levy_ DELICIOUS PUDDING Take stale sponge-cake; slice. Put a layer of the cake in a pudding-dish and put a teaspoonful of jelly or preserves on each piece of cake, then another layer of cake. Repeat until dish is full, then pour fresh berries of any kind over same. Make the following custard and pour overall. Bake in a hot oven until light brown. Custard: Three eggs, one-half cup of sugar, beat well; add one teaspoon vanilla, two cups or more of milk. _Mrs. K. L. Simon_ MARROW PUDDING Extract one-fourth pound marrow from marrow bones. Take this, add one pound flour, a little water, one pinch salt, form a batter, which divide into four very thin layers. Each layer to be separated by fine-chopped apples, raisins, citron, cinnamon, chopped walnut, or almonds, sugar, preserves, and juice of a lemon, according to taste. Then bake in a moderate oven. If desirable, a chocolate icing may be used on the top layer. _Mrs. M. Harris_ STEAMED PUDDING One cup molasses, one cup suet, one cup brown sugar, one cup raisins, one cup milk, one egg, one teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves, and allspice, three cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a little salt. Steam three hours. Sauce: ten tablespoons milk, one-half cup sugar, yolks of two eggs; put this in double boiler, and let boil until it thickens. Beat whites of eggs and stir in custard just before using; add two tablespoons brandy or any flavor you prefer. _Miss Ray Mayer_ CABINET PUDDING Ten cents candied cherries, one cup chopped almonds, one tumbler claret wine, one dozen macaroons, seven eggs, two tablespoons gelatine, sugar to taste. Put claret on to boil; stir in yolks of eggs and sugar. Soak gelatine in cold water about ten minutes and add all ingredients to wine; add lastly beaten whites. Line dish with macaroons and cherries and pour mixture over them. _Miss Ray Mayer_ COTTAGE PUDDING One cup sugar, one cup of milk, one egg, a lump of butter the size of an egg, one pint flour, salt, one heaping teaspoon of Royal baking powder. Bake in hot oven. Sauce: one cup sugar, one egg, one teaspoonful flour, a small piece of butter; mix, add boiling water, and let come to a boil; flavor with vanilla. _Mrs. S. Newburger_ STEAMED SUET PUDDING One-fourth of a loaf of stale bread soaked in water and squeezed dry, one-fourth of a loaf crumbed, one-fourth pound suet chopped fine, one cup seedless raisins, one cup of currants, one-half wine-glass whiskey, two eggs, one-half pound brown sugar, one-fourth cup molasses, one teaspoon cinnamon, one of allspice, enough flour to make it like a ginger-cake dough; add teaspoon Royal baking powder, add fruits last, dredged with flour. Boil three hours. Can serve with hard sauce or brandy sauce. _Hattie Bondy_ PLUM PUDDING One pound bread crumbs grated, one pound carrots grated, one pound flour, one pound suet chopped fine, one pound raisins, one pound currants, one pound brown sugar, one-half pound citron, one cup molasses, one teaspoonful of all kinds of spices; mix with brandy and water; salt to taste. Boil eight hours. _Eva Bernstein_ APPLE TAPIOCA DURKEE’S FLAKE TAPIOCA. Soak one cup tapioca in one quart water over night. Cut up greening apples into quarters and halves, fill dish; one cup sugar, flavor with nutmeg or vanilla, one pinch of salt, mix in tapioca with this, and put little bits of butter on top. Bake; serve with sugar and cream. _Miss Ray Mayer_ FROZEN PUDDING Beat the yolks of three eggs with three-fourths cup of powdered sugar to a cream; add the three whites stiffly beaten, one-half pint of sweet cream whipped, two tablespoonfuls of rum, one-fourth pound of grated macaroons; mix all together, put in a mould, and freeze. _Mrs. J. Muhlfelder_ MOCHA ICE-CREAM PUDDING Yolks of two eggs, three-fourths cup of powdered sugar, one pint cream whipped, five cents’ worth each of preserved cherries and pineapple cut-up, one tablespoon of mocha essence; grate four macaroons, and after the mixture is in form sprinkle same over top. Beat the eggs, sugar, and mocha essence up light, stir in whipped cream and fruit; freeze four hours. This is enough for a two-quart melon. _Miss Ray Mayer_ ROTHE GRÜTZE Raspberries, currants; boil together, then strain through cheesecloth; put back to boil with sugar to sweeten; thicken with cornstarch and let stand to harden. _Mrs. Fragner_ DESSERTS SHERRY DESSERT Four eggs, powdered sugar to taste, three-fourths tumbler of sherry wine, one-half pint of cream whipped, one-half pound macaroons. Beat eggs, yolks and whites separately. To beaten yolks add sugar and sherry. Cook this in a double boiler until thick, stirring constantly; when thick let cool. Add whites of eggs beaten stiff, mix with yolks, sugar and sherry, break macaroons and mix with above; flavor with vanilla, sweeten to taste. Serve with whipped cream, flavored, on top. This may be served in punch glasses with a cherry added to each glass. Very rich dessert. _E. L._ BLOW BALLS One pint of milk; when boiling stir in one cup of flour to thicken, take from the fire; when cool add one tablespoon sugar, a little salt, and five eggs to thin to a batter. Drop with teaspoon into hot fat or butter; fry until a light brown. Serve with vanilla sauce or cream. _Mrs. H. A. S._ STRAWBERRY CHARLOTTE Take eight lady-fingers, one quart strawberries, one-half pint cream, two cups of sugar; mash one cupful of the berries, split the lady-fingers, moisten with the juice of the crushed berries, and use to line a serving-dish; place in the bottom of dish a layer of berries, season with fine sugar. Whip cream to a froth, add a layer of it, then another of the fruit and sugar, and so on, until all the fruit and cream is used. Place on ice and serve very cold. _Mrs. S. F. Breslauer_ FRUIT TAPIOCA Soak over night in cold water two tablespoons of small tapioca; next morning drain and cook in a double boiler with four cups of boiling water. Let boil until tapioca is transparent. Then add one-half teaspoonful of salt, one pound of dates stoned, one cup of raisins seeded, one-half pound figs, and one cup of sugar. Cook one hour and fifteen minutes; lastly add one teaspoon vanilla; pour in a mould. Let cool; serve with whipped cream. _Miss Violet Sondheim_ RICE CREAM Boil ten ounces of rice for ten minutes, pour off the water, add one quart and a half of fresh milk; cook slowly until rice is tender. Reduce the rice to a pulp by beating or pass through a press. Dissolve an ounce of gelatine in a little water, add to the rice; stir all together. Place on fire, sweeten carefully. When mixed set to cool. Then stir the beaten whites of two eggs, flavor with vanilla, sherry or brandy; pour in a mould and chill for eating. _Mrs. M. Mathias_ BAKED BANANAS Remove one side of peel from each banana and lay lengthwise in an earthen dish, the exposed side up. Stick fruit with a fork; squeeze over each banana a little lemon juice, and on each place one teaspoon of sugar, a lump of butter, and a little grated nutmeg. Add a little water in the bottom of pan to keep from burning, add one teaspoon sherry to each banana. Bake half an hour in a moderate oven. _Mrs. J. Ottenberg_ RASPBERRY SAGO Wash one-half pint of sago, cover with one and one-half pint cold water; soak one hour. Cook in double boiler until sago is clear and transparent. Have carefully picked red raspberries half filling a glass dish. When the sago is cool pour over the raspberries. Set away to cool. Serve with sugar and cream. Other fruits, such as strawberries, peaches, etc., may be used in place of raspberries. _Mrs. F. L. Levy_ ITALIAN CREAM Soak one-half box of gelatine in cold milk for one-half hour. Let one quart milk come to a boil in double boiler. Beat yolks of eight eggs and one and one-half cup of sugar together. When milk boils pour same on eggs, sugar, and gelatine; return to boiler and let boil until it begins to thicken; then pour this on the beaten whites. _Miss Ray Mayer_ A DELICIOUS COMPOTE Make a rich syrup of sugar and water and add one spoonful of port wine, and a few thin slices of lemon with the rind on; drop in pears that have been peeled and quartered. When soft remove fruit, then add in same syrup plums, when soft remove them, then add peaches, and when soft turn all over fruit that had previously been cooked. Cool and serve together. _Mrs. A. Kiersky_ JUNKET Take two quarts of new milk and warm it until it is about blood heat. Pour into a glass or china bowl. Stir into it two tablespoonfuls of prepared rennet, two tablespoonfuls powdered loaf sugar, one small wine-glass pale brandy. Let it stand until cold and eat with sugar and rich cream. Half the quantity can be made. _Mrs. M. Cohen_ BROMANGELON FRUIT SALAD Dissolve one package of orange bromangelon in one pint boiling water. Let cool to a thin syrup. Cut oranges shapes of tiny baskets. Scrape out pulp of orange and use in salad, also one-half cup nuts and figs, candied cherries, bananas, and pineapple if desired, all cut fine. Stir all into the bromangelon, which has been partly congealed; place in baskets. Serve with whipped cream. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ PINEAPPLE FRAPPÉ Dissolve one package lemon bromangelon in one pint boiling water. Let cool to a consistency of a syrup, then whip with an egg-beater to a consistency of whipped cream, add one teacup shredded pineapple and one teacup candied cherries cut fine. Stir all together and congeal on ice in mould; serve with macaroons. _Mrs. K. F. Soloman_ MINT JELLY Dissolve one package of lemon bromangelon and juice of one or two lemons to taste in one pint boiling water. Cool to consistency of syrup. Add the strong tea of one cup of fresh mint, pour in individual moulds, and set on ice to congeal. Serve with roast lamb. _Mrs. L. S. Rosenberg_ CELERY SALAD Dissolve one package lemon bromangelon in one pint of boiling water; when cool place on ice. Chop fine one cup of celery and one cup of walnuts together. When bromangelon is of syrup thickness, pour into a square pan the depth of one-half inch; on this place a layer of celery and nuts. Fill the pan, alternating, having the bromangelon on top. Set on ice to congeal. Serve with mayonnaise dressing. _Mrs. M. Levy_ WINE BROMANGELON One package lemon bromangelon, one package orange bromangelon, one pint boiling water, one pint Rhine wine, one pony glass cognac, one-half pony glass fine Jamaica rum, a little cinnamon bark. Boil the bark; with the water in which the bark has been boiled dissolve the bromangelon. When perfectly dissolved add the wine, brandy, rum. Set away to cool. _Mrs. H. Frauenthal_ CHOCOLATE BROMANGELON WITH RICE Cook one teacup rice in steam cooker, sweeten, and season well; add small piece of butter. Pour in mould or dish and let cool. Dissolve one package chocolate bromangelon in one pint boiling water according to directions on package; pour over rice when same begins to thicken. When congealed serve with whipped or plain cream. The rice receives a very delicious flavor from the chocolate. _Mrs. J. Silvester_ CHOCOLATE BROMANGELON PIE One package of bromangelon (chocolate) dissolved in one pint of boiling water. Cool, add one-half pint cream; whip with egg-beater; pour into a baked pie crust and cover with whipped cream. _Mrs. E. F. Cohen_ CHERRY HILL FRUTTI Dissolve one package of cherry bromangelon in one pint of boiling water. When cooled to a thick syrup whip to a consistency of whipped cream and add one cup of nut meats, figs and cherries cut fine. Stir all together. Set on ice to congeal. Serve with cream and lady-fingers. _Mrs. D. Baum_ PIES AND PUFF PASTE PUFF PASTE One cup flour; mix in water with knife until about the consistency of a soft pie dough; roll out; take suet and spread on with a knife; fold dough, but first sprinkle with flour. Roll again, and spread with butter quite thick; sprinkle flour, fold again and roll; then a fourth time roll, and spread with butter; then roll and put in dish. _Miss Ray Mayer_ PUFF PASTE One-half pound butter, one-half pound flour. Blend half the butter with flour and mix thoroughly. Add one-half cup ice water. Dredge board with flour and roll out mixture. When rolled add remainder of butter in little pieces; fold and roll lightly and thin. Fold again and place on ice four hours. _R. L. S._ PIE CRUST One cup fat or butter, four cups flour; work fat well into the flour until fine as sand; sprinkle over a teaspoonful salt, and bind together with ice water. Water should be poured in slowly and carefully, and in quantity only enough to work flour into a stiff paste. Handle lightly, and when mixed roll out to a one-fourth inch thickness. _Miss Ray Mayer_ PREPARING FRUITS FOR PIE Apples should be peeled, sliced thin, and sugared to taste before being put in pie crust. Peaches should also be peeled and sugared. Raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, cherries, and currants should be dusted with flour as well as sweetened before being put in the crust. Gooseberries and cranberries should be stewed and sweetened before being put in the crust. To all fruits one to two tablespoonfuls of water should be added. In the fruit pie use fruit generously; that is, have plenty of the fruit filling, which wholesomely serves as an antidote to the rich pastry. _Mrs. O. Newman_ ORANGE PIE Grate two good-sized oranges (yellow pulp, all except the leathery centre skin); add to this a cup of sugar, the yolks of three eggs, and three tablespoons of thick cream. Bake with only one crust. Make a meringue of the whites of the eggs beaten stiff with a little sugar; spread over the pie and set in a moderate oven for a few minutes. _Mrs. Israel_ PUMPKIN PIE One heaping cup pumpkin strained, one cup milk, one egg, a pinch of salt, three-fourths teaspoon ginger, three tablespoons molasses, three-fourths cup brown sugar. Mix ingredients and pour on partially baked crust, then bake. _Miss Ray Mayer_ LEMON MERINGUE PIE Stir one heaping teaspoon of flour into one cup of sugar. Into the yolks of three eggs stir the juice and grated rind of a lemon; then add the lemon and sugar and half a cup of cold water. Put in the crust and bake. When baked cover with a meringue made of whites of the eggs beaten with a little sugar. After putting on the meringue let the pie stand a few minutes in a moderate oven. _Mrs. R. Kohn_ COCOANUT PIE One-half cup desiccated cocoanut soaked in one cupful of milk, two eggs, one small cupful of sugar, butter size of egg. This quantity makes enough for one small pie. Nice with a meringue on top. _Mrs. M. Cohen_ PASSOVER DISHES DISHES TO BE MADE OF A. GOODMAN & SON’S MATZOTH AND MATZOTH MEAL MATZOTH SHALET Soak two matzoths, squeeze out, add one cup of sugar, cinnamon, sliced apples, a few raisins, almonds, four eggs, one-half cup of matzoth meal. Mix well, grease pan well, and on top of shalet put small pieces of butter. Bake until light brown. _Mrs. A. Herz_ MATZOTH BALLS Soak one or more matzoths according to amount of balls wanted; when soft squeeze out. Now cut into small pieces or chop one small onion. Let brown in one large spoonful of fat; then add your matzoths, which have been squeezed out; remove from fire; add salt, pepper, two eggs, and one-fourth cup meal. Mix well; when cold make into balls. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ MATZOTH CAKE Twelve eggs, separate them; take yolks of eggs, beat with one tablespoon powdered sugar to each egg, one cup matzoth meal, one-half cup chopped almonds, grated rind and juice of one lemon. After mixing well, add the beaten whites of the eggs. Bake in a slow oven. _Mrs. S. Neuburger_ MATZOTH PANCAKE Soak two matzoths in milk until soft, a little salt, four eggs. Mix well. Fry in butter. PANCAKE NO. 2 Take one cupful matzoth flour, mix with boiling water, four eggs, a little salt. Fry in butter. _Mrs. Albert Soloman_ FILLED MATZOTH KLOESSE Prepare a dough as for soup balls. Make round flat cakes with your hands and fill with seeded prunes; place one flat cake over the filled one; press edges firmly together and roll until perfectly round. Boil them in salt water. Let water boil hard before putting in kloesse. Heat goose fat, cut up an onion, and let brown; pour this over the kloesse and serve hot. The kloesse are nice without any filling. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ MATZOTH FRITTERS Soak two or three matzoths in water, when soft squeeze out, add four eggs, a pinch of salt, one-half cup sugar, one-half teaspoonful cinnamon and one apple sliced very fine. Have your fat or butter very hot and drop in a tablespoonful at a time to brown. They are very nice served with any stewed fruits. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ BREAD, FRITTERS, ETC. BOSTON BROWN BREAD One cake Fleischmann’s yeast, one and three-fourths pint water, two cups graham flour, one-half cup sifted rye flour, two and one-half cups sifted wheat flour, one and one-half cup sifted corn meal, one tablespoonful butter, one teaspoonful salt, three-fourths cup molasses. Heat one pint of the water to boiling, and pour it over the corn meal and salt; let stand to scald a few minutes. Then add the butter, melted, one cup of water (cold), molasses, graham, rye, and wheat flours, and lastly the yeast, previously dissolved in the remaining half cup of lukewarm water; mix thoroughly; half fill well-greased baking-tins having covers, and set to rise for about two hours, or until within an inch of the top. Then grease and put on covers, and bake in moderate oven for three hours and a half; take off covers and bake for another half hour. This recipe, carefully followed, makes the original Boston brown bread. An ordinary three-pound lard-pail makes a good baking-tin for this purpose. This recipe makes sufficient for two pails. The entire process takes about six hours. _Mrs. Shipley_ ENTIRE-WHEAT BREAD One cake Fleischmann’s yeast, one cup lukewarm water, one cup lukewarm milk, three pints entire-wheat flour, two teaspoonfuls sugar, one teaspoonful salt. Put milk, salt, and sugar into bowl; add to it water in which the yeast has previously been dissolved. Then add the flour gradually, reserving a little for use in kneading. This dough should be kneaded thoroughly, but must be kept soft. After kneading set in a warm place to rise for from two to two and one-half hours. When light, turn out on a floured kneading-board, divide into two equal parts and knead again thoroughly. Place in well-greased pans and set to rise for from three-quarters of an hour to an hour. When well risen bake for one hour in a slower oven than is required for white bread. After bread is baked, remove from pans, and cool by contact with the air on all sides. One tablespoonful of butter may be added with the sugar, if desired. If set over night, use one-half cake of yeast. In summer, use the liquid cold; in winter, tepid. The entire process takes four hours. NOTE.--Entire-wheat bread may be made by following any good bread recipe and substituting whole-wheat flour for the ordinary wheat flour. _Mrs. Shipley_ WHITE BREAD--QUICK METHOD Two cakes Fleischmann’s yeast, three and one-half quarts sifted flour (equal to three pounds unsifted flour), one quart lukewarm water, one teaspoonful salt, two tablespoonfuls sugar, one tablespoonful lard or butter. Dissolve the yeast in half of the water, and in the other half dissolve the salt and sugar. Mix thoroughly the water containing the yeast, salt, and sugar, then stir in gradually three quarts of the flour. Now work in the lard or butter, and make a moderately stiff dough. Knead well for ten or fifteen minutes; then set aside in a warm place, free from draught, to rise until light, which will be in from two to two and a half hours. Cover with cloth or paper to prevent crust forming on top. When light, make into loaves with the hand, place in well-greased pans and set to rise again for forty-five minutes. When light, bake in a hot oven for from three-quarters of an hour to an hour. The extra pint of flour will be needed to keep kneading-board well floured while kneading and forming into loaves. This makes three one-and-one-half pound loaves. The whole process takes about four hours. Half milk and half water may be used instead of all water, if a richer loaf is desired. Young housekeepers who have never done any baking have been eminently successful by following this recipe. _Mrs. Shipley_ ORANGE, APPLE, OR BANANA FRITTERS Yolks of four eggs, beaten with four tablespoons of sugar. Stir into this the juice of half a lemon; add enough flour to thicken like a batter; add beaten whites. Dip in one slice of fruit at a time. Take up with a large spoon and lay in hot fat. Fry a nice brown. Sprinkle pulverized sugar on top, and serve with a vanilla sauce. _Mrs. Sig. Sondheim_ POPOVERS One egg well beaten, one cup of sweet milk, one cup of sifted flour, one teaspoonful baking powder, one teaspoon salt; beat all lightly. Drop in buttered gem pans, and bake quickly in a hot oven. _Mrs. H. A. S._ WAFFLES Two cups flour, two cups milk, one-half cup melted butter, two teaspoons sugar, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one teaspoon salt, two eggs with whites and yolks beaten separately. Have iron hot and well buttered. _Mrs. Joe Newman_ CREAM WAFFLES Three tablespoonfuls of cornstarch and one cup of flour stirred smoothly, then add one teaspoon salt. Gradually mix in one pint of sour cream, one well-beaten egg, and a small teaspoon of soda dissolved in water; pour on buttered irons. _Mrs. J. Newman_ CORN FRITTERS One pint grated green corn, one egg, small cup of flour, one-half cup butter, salt and pepper to taste. Bake on a griddle. _Miss Ray Mayer_ POTATO PANCAKES Six raw potatoes grated, two slices of bread soaked in milk and let boil one minute; two eggs, salt, thicken with flour. Fry in hot butter. _Miss Ray Mayer_ QUICK BISCUITS Two cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, butter the size of a walnut, pinch of salt, enough milk to make a soft dough to drop off of spoon on buttered pan. Hot oven. _Mrs. H. A. S._ DOUGHNUTS Two eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of milk, flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, and salt. Beat eggs and sugar well, add the milk and flour alternately and enough of the latter to make a light biscuit dough. Roll out and shape. Fry in plenty of butter or lard. _Mrs. Mack_ PLAIN MUFFINS Four cups flour, four teaspoonfuls baking powder, two teaspoonfuls salt, four tablespoonfuls butter, two cups milk. Sift flour, salt, and baking powder into a bowl; add butter, and knead with the back of a fork until it becomes mealy. Add milk and stir until it becomes a batter. Bake in greased pans in a hot oven twenty-five minutes. _Adele J. Strauss_ SIMPLE HOT CAKES One cup of flour, one egg beaten very light, milk enough to make the flour light, one-half teaspoonful salt, one and one-half teaspoon baking powder, one tablespoon sugar. _Mrs. Preston_ CAKES _It is recommended that Royal baking powder be used where any is required._ FRUIT CAKE Brown one pound flour; cream together one pound of sugar and one of butter, then add eight beaten eggs and one cup of molasses, one-half cup whiskey, one cup sour cream, a tablespoon each of mace, cinnamon, cloves, allspice and grated nutmeg. Stir in one pound of browned flour and one-half teaspoon of soda dissolved; gradually add one pound of seeded raisins, one pound of washed and dried currants, one pound citron cut in small pieces, all fruit being lightly dredged with flour. Bake in well-buttered paper laid in deep pans. This cake should be baked in large loaves. Be careful your oven is not too hot. Bake three to four hours. _Mrs. S. Bornstein_ PLUM CAKE One pound powdered sugar, one pound butter, one pound flour, five pounds raisins, one pound currants, one pound citron, ten eggs, two teaspoonfuls cloves, one teaspoonful mace, one-half glass brandy or whiskey, one-half glass cider, wine-glass curaçoa, one-half cup molasses (small). Cream butter and sugar together; beat yolks and whites separately. Line pans with buttered paper. _R. L. S._ DELICATE CAKE Mix well together two cups of sugar and three-fourths cup of butter, stir in one cup of milk and the whites of eight eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Stir together three cups of flour and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Flavor with vanilla. Beat ten minutes after putting all the ingredients in. Pour in a loaf tin in which you have laid buttered paper. Bake one hour in a carefully heated oven. _Mrs. E. M. Loeb_ POTATO CAKE Mix one cup of butter and two cups of sugar and one of cold mashed unseasoned potatoes; add one-half cup of grated chocolate, four eggs, one cup of chopped walnuts, one-half cup milk, teaspoonful each of nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. Sift two teaspoons of baking powder with two and one-half cups of flour. Stir all together. Bake the cake in square tins. _Mrs. B. Manheimer_ CHEESE CAKE The dough to be made the same as pie crust. Two cups of flour, one teaspoon baking powder, a pinch of salt (sift), butter the size of an egg, one egg, one-half cup powdered sugar, little milk; all of the above beaten together, which will form the dough. One pound pot cheese, one cup of cream, one tablespoon melted butter, one cup granulated sugar, one tablespoon flavor; separate yolks and whites of four eggs, dropping each yolk separately in the ingredients, stirring; beat whites and add last; stir in a little cinnamon and a few currants. Bake three-quarters of an hour in a moderate oven. _Mrs. D. Sine_ JELLY ROLL OR LAYER CAKE Take eight eggs and two cups of sugar; beat for half an hour, then add two cups of sifted flour, with one-half teaspoon baking powder; also add two tablespoonfuls of cold water. Bake in large tins, spread with jelly while hot and roll; or bake in jelly tins and spread with jelly. Cover with sugar or boiled icing. _Miss L. Mayer_ POUND CAKE Rub one pound of butter and one pound of powdered sugar to a cream. Add the grated peel of a lemon, a wine-glass of brandy, and the yolks of nine eggs, one at a time. And last one and one-fourth pound of sifted flour and the beaten whites of the nine eggs. Bake slowly. _Mrs. I. O. Stern_ QUICK CINNAMON CAKE Two tablespoons butter, pinch salt, one and one-eighth cup granulated sugar, three eggs beaten lightly, one-half cup milk, one and three-fourths cups flour, teaspoon vanilla, one teaspoon baking powder. Before putting in oven mix some butter and cracker crumbs together; sugar, cinnamon and chopped nuts may be added. Bake in flat roasting pan. _E. L._ DEVIL’S CAKE One tablespoon butter, one scant cup sugar; mix together. Yolks of two eggs, two squares of chocolate dissolved in one-half cup hot water; add to the above. Mix two cups of flour with two scant teaspoons baking powder, one-half teaspoonful soda dissolved in one-half cup sour milk or one-half cup hot water, one-half teaspoon vanilla; mix well. Frosting: whites of two eggs, one teaspoonful cold water, one teaspoon lemon extract; whip together; add enough confectioner’s sugar (not powdered) to spread over cake while cake is still in pan, although cooled. _Minnie A. Lardan_ SPONGE CAKE Four eggs, one full cup sugar mixed; one cup milk, let come to a boil; two cups flour mixed with four teaspoons baking powder added, with eggs and sugar; then add hot milk and vanilla flavoring. Chocolate filling is fine if cake is baked in layers. _Minnie A. Lardan_ CHOCOLATE CAKE Cream one-half cup butter with one and one-half cup sugar, then add gradually yolks of four eggs, one at a time. Beat mixture thoroughly, then add one-half cup milk, beating all the time. Next two squares Baker’s bitter chocolate in five tablespoons boiling water, when dissolved add to the batter, stirring constantly. Now add slowly one and three-fourths cup of sifted flour; give, all a vigorous beating, add beaten whites of four eggs; stir carefully into mixture, then teaspoon vanilla, and lastly one heaping teaspoon baking powder. Bake in moderate oven one hour. This cake should be baked with one flame, and do not light oven until cake is almost ready for baking. It should rise slowly. _Mrs. S. F. Breslauer_ CHOCOLATE CAKE One-fourth cup butter, one and one-half cup granulated sugar, four eggs beaten quite a while before mixing with sugar, three-fourths cup milk, one cup cocoa and sugar mixed, two cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one teaspoon vanilla. _Mrs. L. S. Firetag_ GINGERBREAD One cup dark cooking molasses, one cup sour cream, one egg, one teaspoonful soda dissolved in a little warm water; one teaspoonful salt, one heaping teaspoonful ginger. Use enough flour to make about as thick as cup cake. To be eaten warm. _Mrs. M. Cohen_ MOCHA CAKE Four eggs separated, beat yolks well with one cup powdered sugar, beat in whipped whites, one cup flour, one teaspoon baking powder, two tablespoon coffee extract. This makes two layers. Filling: one-half pint cream flavored with coffee extract and sweetened, to which add chopped nuts. _F. B._ ANGEL CAKE The whites of eleven eggs beaten to a stiff froth, nine and one-fourth ounces sugar, five and three-fourths ounces flour, one teaspoonful cream tartar sifted with the flour. Don’t butter the cake-form. Bake about forty minutes. _Mrs. D. Sine_ SCHLOSSER CAKE One-half cup butter, one cup sugar, three eggs, two teaspoons baking powder, two cups of flour, flavor with vanilla and bitter almonds. This makes a very stiff dough. Flatten out, then take a quart of blueberries, cherries, apples, or any fruit is nice. Heat fruit and thicken with cornstarch. Place half of the dough in a pan, then spread with the fruit, then dough and fruit, etc.; lastly, add chopped almonds. _Mrs. F. C. Mock_ ALMOND CAKE Four eggs, beat whites to snow; one cup of grated almonds, three-fourths cup matzoth meal sifted, three-fourths teaspoon baking powder, rind and juice of one lemon. Bake in slow oven one-half hour. Serve with whipped cream. _H. M._ FRENCH CRACKERS Six eggs, twelve tablespoonfuls sweet milk, six tablespoonfuls butter, one-half teaspoonful soda. Mould with flour, pounding and working half an hour. Roll thin, bake in rather quick oven. COFFEE CAKE (BLACK) One cup brown sugar, one-half cup strong cold coffee, two cups of flour, one cup of raisins, one-fourth cup nuts, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one-half cup molasses, one-half cup butter, one cup currants, one-half cup citron, one teaspoonful soda, two eggs, and a little brandy. Mix well all together. _Mrs. M. Wolff_ CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE Beat together the yolks of four eggs with two cups of powdered sugar. Then take one-fourth pound of grated chocolate and one cup of milk; boil this together. When cool mix with the egg and sugar, add one cup of sifted flour, one teaspoon baking powder, flavor with vanilla. Beat the four whites and mix all together. This makes two layers. Filling: One cup of chopped walnuts, one whole egg, one cup of milk, one tablespoon of granulated sugar; boil together until thick, when cool spread between layers. _Mrs. J. Muhlfelder_ BREAD TORTE Yolks of eight eggs, two cups of granulated sugar, one-fourth pound grated almonds, one wineglassful wine and brandy mixed, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful cloves, one cup of grated bread crumbs, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, eight whites beaten very stiff. Grease pan or oil paper. Bake slowly. _Mrs. G. B._ CRACKER TORTE One cup powdered sugar, one tablespoon melted butter, three yolks of eggs, whites of six beaten to a froth, one-fourth teaspoon cloves, one of cinnamon, one cake of sweet chocolate, one cup of chopped almonds, one cup of cracker meal, one teaspoon baking powder. Bake in layers. Filling: one tablespoon flour, two of sugar, yolks of three eggs, one-half pint sweet cream; beat eggs with flour, stir into it cream; boil up, add one-half cup chopped almonds. Bake day before using and cover closely. _Mrs. M. Kohn_ NUT TORTE One cupful nuts grated, six eggs, six tablespoons powdered sugar, not quite one-half cup grated bread crumbs, one-half teaspoonful baking powder, one teaspoonful vanilla. Beat yolks of eggs with sugar until light; add nuts, then crumbs, then beaten whites and vanilla. Bake in spring form. Spread with whipped cream. _Miss Ray Mayer_ ALMOND TORTE Yolks of eight eggs, eight tablespoons of powdered sugar; beat for about one-half hour; one-half pound almonds blanched and grated, rind of a lemon, juice of one-half lemon, two tablespoons of cracker meal sifted; add one teaspoonful Royal baking powder, add whites stiffly beaten, pinch of salt. Bake in moderate oven in a spring form. This can be cut in half and filled with whipped cream. _Mrs. S. M. Bondy_ SACHENTORT One-fourth pound sugar, one-fourth pound sweet butter, one-fourth pound grated almonds (with peel), yolks of six eggs beaten for one-half hour; then add four cakes of Huyler’s sweet chocolate grated, and last the six whites beaten. Frosting: one-fourth pound granulated sugar, small lump of butter, four cakes chocolate, four tablespoons water. Let it boil well. _Mrs. R. L. Dannenberg_ NUT TART Nine eggs; beat whites and yolks separately. Beat yolks with one tumbler of sugar, add rind and juice of one-half lemon, also of one small orange; add one-half pound ground almonds, add whites and almonds alternately a little at a time. Put in a well-buttered spring form. When finished cover with a chocolate icing. Icing: three tablespoons cocoa, one cup sugar, seven tablespoons milk, a few drops vanilla, one teaspoon butter, put on fire in double boiler, stirring constantly for ten minutes. Then put on cake. This quantity makes a large cake. _Mrs. S. Brown_ LEMON TART Make a sponge of two eggs, one-half cup of sugar, one-half cup of flour, one-half teaspoon baking powder, one of vanilla; bake in a spring form. Filling: the juice of three lemons, one cup sugar. Let boil to a syrup, separate eight eggs; mix yolks well with two tablespoonfuls of cold water. Beat whites stiff; now stir yolks into the boiling syrup, stirring until it thickens. Remove from the fire and add the syrup to the beaten whites; pour over the cake and put in a hot oven until a light brown. _Mrs. H. A. S._ FIG TARTS Put one pint figs in one pint hot water; let stew gently for three hours. Use porcelain-lined dish. If water boils down, add enough to keep figs stewing; when nearly cooked add one cup of sugar; remove from fire; add juice of a good-sized lemon. Have ready some tiny shells of puff paste and fill with the figs. A teaspoonful of whipped cream added to each tart makes it very rich. _Mrs. B. Sondheim_ ALMOND STRAWS OR TARTS Sift together and thoroughly mix one pound of pastry flour, one teaspoon of salt, one teaspoonful baking powder, blanch and pulverize one-half pound of almonds; mix the almonds with the flour ingredients and work in one-half cup of butter and lard mixed. Mix with ice water as in making pastry; cut in the shapes you wish and bake in a hot oven. _Mrs. E. G. R._ SCHAUM TORTE Whites of six eggs, two cups of sugar; stir one-half hour; one teaspoon vanilla, one tablespoon vinegar. Bake in very moderate oven. Whip cream very stiff for top or cut cake, put cream between layers. _Mrs. F. C. Mock_ POTATO TORTE One and a half cups of sugar, nine to ten eggs, one cup of potato flour, one-half a lemon; beat whites of eggs very stiff. _Mrs. F. C. Mock_ DAINTY FINGERS Beat together one-half a pound of sugar and one-half a pound butter; add five eggs, the whites and yokes beaten separately; one teaspoon of mace, one-half wine-glass of brandy, and one-half pound flour. Stir well together and drop in lady-finger pans for baking to a delicate brown. When done and while warm fasten the fingers together, painting with the white of an egg upon the flat side. _H. A. O._ OATMEAL COOKIES Stir one cup of butter in one cup of sugar; add a beaten egg, one teaspoon of salt. Stir in gradually two cups of white flour, two cups of oatmeal, adding also one teaspoon of soda dissolved in two tablespoons of milk. When you have the dough well mixed, roll it thin, cut into shapes, and bake in a moderate oven. _Mrs. J. J. Asch_ HONEY CAKES One cup of honey, one cup sugar, four pieces of chocolate grated, five eggs, one-half teaspoonful each of cloves, allspice, and cinnamon. Thicken dough with three cups of flour and three teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in a moderate oven. _Mrs. M. Wolff_ CINNAMON DROPS Stir one-half pound of brown sugar with two eggs till well beaten; add one ounce of cinnamon, quarter teaspoon of salt, and then flour very finely sifted; enough flour to make the dough stand. Stir all thoroughly and drop from a small spoon upon a pan which you have dredged with flour. Bake a few minutes in a well-heated oven. _Mrs. A. Monheim_ SUGAR COOKIES One-half pound butter, one cup sugar, four cups flour, four teaspoons baking powder, two eggs. Mix butter, sugar, and the flour with baking powder, and add one egg at a time. Beat two eggs, spread thinly on top of cookies, and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. _Mrs. L. S. Firetag_ GINGER WAFERS One-half cup of butter, one-half cup of sugar, one-half cup molasses, one-half cup cold coffee, one teaspoonful soda dissolved in a little water, one tablespoonful ginger, flour enough to make a stiff dough. Roll out thin; bake in quick oven. _Mrs. A. Ottenheimer_ WALNUT COOKIES One cup of brown sugar, two eggs, one cup of chopped walnuts, one cup of flour, one-half teaspoonful baking powder. Drop with a teaspoon in a buttered pan. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ MANDELHAUFCHEN One-half pound almonds cut lengthwise, not blanched, fifteen dates cut lengthwise (remove pits), whites of three eggs beaten to snow, one cup powdered sugar, vanilla to taste. Mix all well together. Bake in a moderate oven on tins which have been well buttered, and cracker-dusted. Drop dough with a teaspoon about one inch apart. _A. G._ LEBKUCHEN Four eggs, one large cup of granulated sugar; cream well together. One-half pound almonds cut fine, not blanched; one-half teaspoon each of cinnamon, cloves and allspice; vanilla to taste, one-half pound citron cut fine, one and one-half cup of flour, one-half teaspoon baking powder. Bake in a moderate oven. _A. G._ DATE AND ALMOND CAKES One-half pound dates, one-half pound almonds cut lengthwise, whites of four eggs, one cup of granulated sugar. Beat whites of eggs very stiff, add sugar, dates, and almonds. Grease pan with butter, sprinkle with cracker dust, drop with teaspoon. Bake in a very slow oven. _Mrs. Langstadter_ CITRON SQUARES One-fourth pound raisins, one-half pound almonds, one-half pound citron chopped fine; four whole eggs, one large cup granulated sugar, ground allspice and cinnamon, flour enough to make stiff batter. Beat eggs and sugar together, add almonds, citron, raisins, spices, last of all flour. Grease pan with butter, spread batter rather thin, bake in slow oven. When finished and while hot cut in diamond shape. _Mrs. Langstadter_ CHOCOLATE DROPS Two cakes (one-half pound) sweet chocolate, whites of four eggs, one-half pound almonds. Beat whites of eggs very stiff, add chocolate (which has been grated) and almonds chopped fine. Grease pan with butter, sprinkle with cracker dust and drop with teaspoon. Bake in slow oven. _Mrs. Langstadter_ COOKIES Rub to a cream one-half pound sweet butter and one glass sugar, add two eggs, one tablespoon whiskey, two heaping tumblers flour, one-half teaspoon baking powder. Mix well, and leave on ice over night. In the morning roll out dough very thin, cut into shapes and place in buttered tins. Brush the top of each with yolk of egg and place a blanched almond in the centre. Bake light brown. _Mrs. R. Paris_ ICINGS AND CAKE FILLINGS TUTTI-FRUTTI ICING Boil one pound of sugar in a gill of water until the syrup hairs. Take from the fire, add slowly the beaten whites of two eggs; beat all together, adding also one-half pound of blanched chopped almonds, quarter of a pound of fine raisins swelled in hot water, and quarter of a pound of citron cut in little pieces. _Mrs. J. I. Jonas_ MAPLE FILLING Boil a cup of maple syrup until it threads from the spoon. Then beat until cool, beating in the white of an egg. NUT FILLING Boil together one cup of water and one cup of sugar until it makes a heavy thread. Take from the fire and add little by little and with constant stirring the whites of two eggs. Beat till cool, stirring in one cup of chopped nuts, walnuts, hickory, or mixed nuts. _Mrs. A. M. Soloman_ CARAMEL FILLING Mix two cups of heavy brown sugar with three-fourths cup of butter, then add one-half cup of cream. Boil until it becomes ropy, then add one tablespoonful vanilla. Put the pan in cold water and stir until the filling thickens. Spread between layers of cold cake. _Mrs. Cohen_ CHOCOLATE ICING Mix the yolks of four eggs with one square of chocolate grated, one tablespoonful of cream or milk, and one cup sugar. Boil until it grows hard. _Mrs. N. Greenabaum_ CLEAR ICING Stir together one-half pound of powdered sugar, the whites of two eggs, then add the juice of one-half a lemon. Stir till clear; use at once. _Mrs. A. J. F._ SOUR-CREAM FILLING Add the white of one egg to a cup of thick sour cream; to keep the cream from turning to butter while whipping. Whip, sweeten to taste, and flavor with vanilla, spread upon cool layers of cake. Chopped nuts, as butternuts, pecans, or hickory, are nice mixed with the filling. _Mrs. Hyman_ LEMON FILLING Yolk of one egg, small cup of sugar, rind and juice of one lemon, half cup of shredded cocoanut, a little milk. Boil about ten minutes, stirring constantly. Spread between layers after it has cooled. _R. L. S._ FILLING FOR ORANGE SHORTCAKE Peel and seed two large oranges and chop fine; add one-half peeled lemon, one cup sugar. Spread between layers of shortcake while it is hot. _Mrs. M. Cohen_ ICES FROZEN LADY-FINGER PUDDING Beat together three heaping tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar and yolks of six eggs. When beaten to a froth beat in one pint of cream, add one dozen lady-fingers cut in pieces half an inch long sprinkled with or dipped rapidly in some wine like sherry. When all are stirred together put in a mould, cover tight, and freeze. _Mrs. Sondheim_ PEACH CUSTARD FROZEN In a double boiler heat one and one-half quarts of rich milk; when hot stir in one and one-half cups of sugar, the beaten yolks of six eggs. When the custard thickens, set aside to cool. From a quart of fine ripe peaches take the skins and stones; crush with sugar to sweeten to your taste, stir into the cool custard and freeze. _Miss Edna Asch_ BURNED-ALMOND ICE-CREAM Sweeten to your taste a custard of four eggs and one pint of milk. Take half a pound of blanched almonds and brown them in a saucepan with six tablespoons of sugar. Pound to a paste, and add little by little one quart of cream. Mix with the custard and put in a freezer. After it is frozen pack in a mould or serve without moulding. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ CHOCOLATE PARFAIT Add one cup of thick boiled chocolate and half a cup of sugar to one quart of thick cream. Whip to a froth, pour into a mould, and freeze. _Mrs. W. Reinstein_ CAFÉ FRAPPÉ Strain a quart of strong black coffee into one quart of cream, sweetened to taste, and freeze half stiff. Serve in glasses with a tablespoon of whipped cream on each glass. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ BISCUIT GLACÉ One-half pint cream, whipped, six eggs; beat whites to a stiff froth; five scant tablespoons sugar boiled in same amount of water slowly for twenty-five minutes. Stir hot syrup into stiff froth, then beat yolks well and mix; then boil in double boiler for ten minutes, stirring all the time, and doing the same while cooling by placing pot in basin of cold water. When cool add one teaspoon of vanilla, mix with cream; place in freezer and pack with salt and ice. Let stand from five to six hours before serving. _Mrs. Shipley_ CREAMED ICE One pint cream whipped, one pint milk boiled with a pinch Irish moss and one cup of sugar. Let this stand until cold, then strain and mix together and freeze; flavor with one teaspoon vanilla. Freeze slowly at first. _Mrs. R. L. Dannenberg_ CHOCOLATE ICE-CREAM Add four ounces of grated chocolate to one cupful of sweet milk. Mix it thoroughly with a quart of thick sweet cream. Flavor with vanilla; sweeten with a cupful of sugar. Beat again and freeze. _Mrs. M. Cohen_ MOCHA BISQUE One pint of cream whipped to a stiff froth, add yolks of two eggs and half a cup of powdered sugar, flavor with one tablespoon mocha essence. Mix into the above grated macaroons. Sprinkle a few grated macaroons into the bottom of a buttered melon mould, and freeze. MAPLE MOUSSE One cup maple syrup, yolks of two eggs beaten. Boil eggs and syrup together and stand over night. Beat one-half pint cream with whites of two eggs, add to cold mixture and pack in ice and salt for four hours. Chopped nuts may be added. _R. L. S._ PICKLES, PRESERVES, ETC. MUSTARD PICKLES For six gallons: one hundred large pickles, cut two hundred small ones, three heads cauliflower, one peck white onions peeled, two quarts beans, one-half dozen corn, two red peppers; put each in salt water over night separately; dry all, put in layers. Two pounds best mustard, four ounces mixed spices, two gallons vinegar; let boil twenty minutes with spices and pour over the vegetables. Next morning pour over a little salad oil and cover with cloth and cover. _Miss Ray Mayer_ CHILI SAUCE Thirty large ripe tomatoes peeled and cut, ten onions cut, six red peppers, seven tablespoons sugar, three tablespoons salt, ten cups of vinegar. Boil two hours. _Miss Ray Mayer_ INDIAN CHUTNEY Put together two quarts of chopped apples, two quarts of green tomatoes, one pound of raisins, three cups brown sugar, one cup lemon juice, one small onion chopped, three cups vinegar, one-half a cup salt, one teaspoon cayenne, one tablespoon ginger. Mix and let stand in an earthen dish over night; next morning boil till tender. _Mrs. Freeman_ CHOW-CHOW PICKLES Have four large cabbage-heads, one peck of green tomatoes, one quart of onions, one dozen cucumbers, and three green peppers. Chop fine, mix in two handfuls of salt, tie in a strong cheesecloth bag, and drain over night; next morning add one ounce of celery seed, one ounce of mustard seed, half a box of mustard, one pound of sugar. Put in a preserving-kettle, cover with cider vinegar, put over fire, and cook slowly till the pickles are tender, but not till they lose form. If needed, add more vinegar while cooking. _Mrs. I. Lesser_ SWEET BEET PICKLES Cook the beets till tender, slip off the skins, and cut into slices; place in glass jars, fill up with spiced syrup boiling hot, and seal. _Mrs. Silverman_ CITRON-MELON PRESERVES Peel and slice the melon thin or in small quarters and remove the seeds. To every pound of citron allow one pound of sugar and one-fourth of a pound of ginger-root. Put the melon in water enough to cover; add to this two teaspoons of soda, boil until tender, set to cool. When cold soak in a strong alum water one hour. Make a syrup of one pint of water and two pounds of sugar. Beat the white of one egg to a stiff froth; add this to the sugar and water, stir, let boil, and skim off the egg. As the egg clears the sugar and water, add the ginger-root and melon and cook in this syrup till clear. Put in glass jars (not too full) and cover with the syrup. _Mrs. I. J. Gordon_ TOMATO CATSUP Wipe with a damp cloth and core one bushel of ripe tomatoes. Place over the fire with three pints of water, two handfuls of peach leaves, and one dozen onions cut fine. Boil two hours. Strain; add one-half gallon of vinegar, two ounces each of ground allspice, black pepper, and mustard, one ounce of ground cloves, two grated nutmegs, two pounds brown sugar, and one pint of salt. Boil two hours longer, stirring all the time. Bottle when cold. _Mrs. J. T. Asch_ CRANBERRY CATSUP Cook together ten pounds of berries, one quart of vinegar, five pounds of brown sugar, three tablespoons of cinnamon, two of allspice, one tablespoon each of salt and cloves, and one-fourth of a teaspoon of cayenne. Boil slowly till thick, then strain and bottle. _Mrs. M. S._ CUCUMBER CATSUP Peel and chop three dozen cucumbers and half as many onions very fine, add one teacup of mustard seed a quarter of a teacup of black pepper, and one ounce each of cloves and allspice. Mix well and cover with vinegar. _Mrs. A. Rosenthal_ PICKLED CAULIFLOWER Wash, soak, and take off the leaves of the cauliflower. Break the flowers into small twigs. Parboil the twigs in brine, drain, lay in a crock, and pour over boiling spiced vinegar. _Mrs. Kaufman_ BRANDIED CHERRIES Have perfectly ripe and sound sweet cherries. Keep stems by cutting short. Drop the cherries a few at a time in a boiling syrup made of one pint of water and one-half pound of sugar. When they have boiled three to five minutes, lift out and lay on plates; allow to cool and dry as they cool. They should be perfect in form. Make a second syrup twice as sweet as the first; use a pound of sugar to a pint of water. When syrup boils clear, set aside to cool. Carefully pack the cherries in glass jars. To the cool second syrup add the same amount of the best brandy. Pour the mixed syrup and brandy over the cherries in the jars, seal, set in cool fruit-closet. Other fruits may be brandied by this recipe. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ MIXED MARMALADE Crush two and one-half pounds of currants and pitted cherries, add two pounds of seeded raisins, the yellow peel of four oranges chopped fine, and three pounds of sugar. Cook gently till the fruit is a marmalade, adding a little water if needed; add the juice of the oranges just before the marmalade is ready to leave the stove. Cook ten minutes after putting in the juice. _Miss E. Asch_ CRANBERRY JELLY Two quarts cranberries. Soak over night, then take water to cover; boil and strain; to each pint of juice one pound of sugar, let boil down, put in wet moulds, and let stand twenty-four hours. _Miss Ray Mayer_ SPICED PEARS Take two teaspoons of whole cloves, one tablespoon of allspice, one tablespoon of cinnamon. Crush them slightly and boil one minute in a quart of vinegar and a pint of sugar mixed. Take a fine variety of pear, halve, take out seeds, boil in water until tender, finish the cooking in the spiced syrup, cooking not too soft. Place in small stone jars and cover well with syrup. Tie a cover over the jar. Spiced peaches are made the same, except do not cook first in water. The syrup will cook them sufficiently. _Mrs. B. B. L._ BOILED CHESTNUTS WITH PRUNES Scald the chestnuts. Heat a little goose-grease, put in the chestnuts with a few prunes and an onion, a little cinnamon, considerable water, and let boil until tender, then stir in a little sugar, flour, and vinegar, and let boil. _Miss Ray Mayer_ TUTTI-FRUTTI One quart best alcohol, equal amount fruit and sugar; that is, one pineapple cut in small pieces, four large oranges, four lemons (both peeled). These cut into slices or small pieces; weigh, and the same amount of sugar, add alcohol. Uncooked other fruits, such as strawberries, cherries (pitted), plums, apricots, peaches, may be added; always use as much fruit as sugar. Put in a large stone jar. Mix as different fruits are added. By Christmas it will be fine. This is fine added to grape-fruit during the winter, and as a rich dessert served over ice-cream. _E. L._ SANDWICHES CREAM CHEESE AND RIPE OLIVES Stone and chop the olives fine and beat in with a little cream or Neufchâtel cheese, adding sweet cream to moisten and salt and paprika to season. Green olives or pimentoes may be used in the same way. Spread on slices of whole-wheat or brown bread and press together. NUT-AND-CHEESE SANDWICHES Mix with a half roll cream or Neufchâtel cheese a quarter cup chopped or pounded nuts. Add salt and pepper to season and spread. CREAM CHEESE, CURRANT JELLY, AND NUTS Blend cream cheese with a spoonful currant jelly and spread one slice of bread with this. Spread a second slice with chopped nuts, and press together. OTHER CREAM CHEESE COMBINATIONS Among those frequently noticed and used are cream cheese and crisp lettuce leaves, cream cheese and sliced tomatoes, cheese and chopped dates or figs, cheese and chopped spinach, seasoned with lemon juice and mayonnaise, cheese and the yolks of hard-boiled eggs rubbed through a sieve, cheese and sliced cucumber, cheese and minced preserved pineapple, cheese and preserved ginger. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ PRESERVED-GINGER SANDWICHES Chop preserved ginger very fine, moisten with some of the syrup of cream to a consistency for spreading and put between small rounds of bread. EGG SANDWICHES Remove the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs and rub smooth. Season with a little salt, paprika, mustard, and lemon juice or vinegar to stiffen. Mayonnaise is still better. Add the chopped whites and spread between slices of buttered bread. TONGUE-AND-TOMATO SANDWICHES Cut tongue in delicate slices, or mince fine, and place with thin slices of raw tomato seasoned with salt and pepper, between thin rounds of buttered bread. OYSTER SANDWICHES Cook the oysters in their liquor about two minutes, stir into a stiff mayonnaise and spread between slices of sandwich bread. Another way to make these hearty yet dainty sandwiches is to fry large oysters, placing one between bread slices. SANDWICH À LA MARS Take equal quantities of almonds and walnuts and chop them fine. Moisten with a little French dressing, then spread on thin slices of buttered bread. Add a crisp leaf of lettuce to each slice, cover with the other buttered slice, press together gently, trim off the brown crust and cut diagonally in two. _Mrs. William Reinstein_ CELERY SANDWICH Chop and then pound to a paste the yolks of five hard-boiled eggs, a small piece of butter, a little salt, a teaspoonful of anchovy sauce, a teaspoonful of curry powder, a teaspoonful of bread crumbs, and a tablespoonful of French dressing. The paste should have the consistency of butter. Spread it between thin slices of buttered bread, placing a lettuce leaf in each sandwich. Trim and cut in the usual manner. FISH SANDWICHES Any cooked fresh fish picked into bits, well seasoned with salt and pepper and moistened with mayonnaise, makes an excellent filling for a sandwich. A little chopped pickle is also an addition. NASTURTIUM SANDWICHES These are dainty and appetizing. Cut your bread in thin slices, and butter. Take nasturtium leaves or blossoms that have been laid in cold water a few moments to crisp, sprinkle with salt, bruise lightly with a wooden spoon, and place between the slices of buttered bread. LETTUCE SANDWICHES An entire leaf of lettuce is seldom used nowadays in a sandwich. Instead the leaf is cut into ribbons with scissors, put between thin slices of white bread, well buttered, and seasoned with mayonnaise, French dressing or salt only as preferred. Lettuce should be crisp before using. _Mrs. William Reinstein_ A delicious sandwich is made by creaming together equal parts of American cheese and butter, seasoning it well with paprika, spreading it on bread, and sprinkling the layer with minced watercress. A tasty picnic sandwich is spread with cress, a few thin slivers of Spanish onion, and a trace of horseradish for zest. Carry these sandwiches in a box by themselves or they will flavor the entire luncheon. For tasty sandwiches, rub the green part of Roquefort cheese to a cream with butter; add salt and a dash of paprika, moisten with olive oil and spread between very thin slices of bread. Serve on lettuce leaves. Cold-lamb sandwiches--very thin slices of the meat nicely salted between thin slices of bread--are appetizing for a picnic luncheon. If a glass of currant jelly goes along they will be more popular, however. Cucumber, green pepper, and lettuce minced and moistened with mayonnaise make a delicious sandwich filling. Cream cheese and sliced olives moistened with mayonnaise are an excellent filling for thin-brown-bread sandwiches. _Mrs. William Reinstein_ BEVERAGES GRAPE WINE Pick grapes from stems, wash, and put through sieve. Then take pulps and skins, pour on as much water as you wish wine, and let stand a few days to ferment; then strain. Pour this water on juice and let stand ten to twelve days to work. Then remove the foam. Take to one gallon two pounds sugar. Place in jug and let ferment. _Miss Ray Mayer_ CHERRY SYRUP Have ripe, juicy, acid cherries; stone them and pound and break one-eighth of the stones. Cook all together until cherries are soft and juice free. Squeeze through a bag. To every pint of juice add one heaping cup of sugar; let boil fifteen minutes. Put in bottles or jars; seal for use. Keep in a cool place. _Mrs. P. Levy_ CIDER CUP One quart of cider, two bottles of soda water, one bottle of lemonade, one heaping tablespoonful of granulated sugar, a sprig of mint, and two inches of cucumber. Cut the cucumber into slices without peeling it. Place it in a pitcher with the sugar, cider, and mint. Allow it to stand, on ice if possible, for two hours. Then add the lemonade and soda water and a few pieces of ice, removing the mint. _H. J. S._ CIDER CUP Have in a pitcher cracked ice. Over the ice pour a quart of sweet cider and a bottle of club soda; drop in a few pieces of mint, and, if you have them, a few thin slices of such fruits as bananas, apples, pears, etc. Serve at once. _Mrs. E. O. G._ EGG-NOG Beat the yolk of one egg very light; add one wine-glass of whiskey drop by drop until the egg is cooked; next put in one tablespoonful of rum, one glass of rich milk or cream, and last the white of the egg beaten to a stiff froth. Nutmeg to taste. _Mrs. H. J. Sower_ GINGER PUNCH Chop one pound of ginger, then add two cups of sugar, and one pint of water. Boil together fifteen minutes. When cool add one cup of orange juice and strain. This will flavor eight or ten cups of water. _Mrs. A. Horwich_ STRAWBERRY PUNCH Stem one quart of ripe strawberries, crush them with half a pint of raspberries, and strain the juice through a sieve. Make a syrup with two cupfuls of sugar and one and a half cupfuls of water. Mix with the juice and syrup a large glass of port wine and keep on ice for several hours. Serve in small glasses with lady-fingers. _H. J. S._ MILK PUNCH To a pint of new milk add two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Stir and dissolve the sugar; lastly add two tablespoons of wine. _Mrs. M. Soloman_ CURRANT WATER One pound of ripe red currants, half a pound of lump sugar, half a pound of granulated sugar, and six cupfuls of water. Stalk and pick over the currants, then mash them with a wooden spoon, adding as you do so one cupful of water. Now put the fruit into a preserving-pan with the granulated sugar. Stir it over the fire until it begins to simmer, then rub it through a sieve. Put the lump sugar into a saucepan with one and a half cupfuls of boiling water; let the sugar dissolve slowly, then boil it to a syrup; pour this onto the fruit juice, adding one and a half pints more water. Serve cold. _Mrs. Max Freid_ CANDY TAFFY One cup molasses, one cup granulated sugar, piece of butter size of an egg, teaspoon vinegar, pinch bi-carbonate soda, peanuts, cocoanuts, or nuts of any kind may be added to this. Boil molasses, sugar, butter, and vinegar together until same cracks in cold water. When nearly finished, add soda and nuts; pour in buttered pan. _E. L._ BUTTER TAFFY Two cups of white sugar, three-fourths cup of vinegar (not too strong), three-fourths cup of butter. Boil until brittle; pour into buttered pan. _Miss Ray Mayer_ CHOCOLATE CREAMS Dip plain creams shaped from fondant into melted sweet chocolate and they become chocolate creams. This dipping must be done quickly. Nothing is better for holding the creams while dipping than a long hat-pin. Place on oiled paper to harden. _Mrs. H. Goodman_ RAW FONDANT The white of one egg, add an equal quantity of ice water (this may be exactly ascertained if the white of egg is first measured in a glass); one teaspoon of extract. Beat until the mixture is light, then add gradually one pound or more of confectioner’s XXX sugar. Work with a spoon until smooth and firm. _Mrs. Hirschberg_ COOKED FONDANT Place over the fire four cups of XXX sugar, one cup of water. Stir with a wooden spatula until the sugar is dissolved--no longer. Boil ten minutes or until it threads. Remove saucepan. Test the fondant by rubbing a little between the fingers. If it balls, turn into a bowl. When partly cooked, add flavoring; then beat until stiff enough to knead with the hands like bread. The fondant may be shaped into balls, squares, or any form. A little experience will enable one to do this readily. If vegetable colorings, which are harmless, be used, the French candies may be more perfectly imitated. For flavoring use extracts or fruit juice. _Mrs. M. Soloman_ NOUGAT To make the most delectable of candies, melt over the fire in a porcelain-lined dish one pound of fine white sugar with two tablespoons of water. Have ready one-half a pound of almonds blanched and chopped. When the syrup begins to turn yellow, add the nuts. Stir for five minutes; add a little grated lemon peel and pour at once into a well-oiled flat pan. When partly cooled, mark with a greased knife into bars. _Mrs. J. H. Sower_ PEANUT CANDY Melt slowly in a saucepan one pound of heavy wet brown sugar; add no water. Shell one quart of freshly roasted peanuts and chop them a little. When the sugar is cooked to a thick syrup, shake a little salt over the peanuts, and stir them in. Pour in shallow buttered tins, and let cool. _Mrs. A. Cohen_ MENUS MENUS FOR DINNER GRAPE-FRUIT RELISHES CREAM OF ASPARAGUS SOUP BAKED BLUEFISH--SAUCE HOLLANDAISE ROMAN PUNCH TURKEY--CRANBERRY JELLY POTATOES SPINACH LETTUCE SALAD CHARLOTTE GLACÉ CAKES FRUITS BLACK COFFEE _E. F. S._ OYSTERS ON HALF SHELL SALTED ALMONDS OLIVES BOUILLON EN TASSE STUFFED TOMATOES ON LETTUCE LEAVES DRESSED SQUAB POTATOES PARISIENNE CAULIFLOWER ASPARAGUS--MAYONNAISE NUTS SMALL CAKES ICES FRUITS BLACK COFFEE CLARET OR WHITE WINE _Mrs. H. J. S._ HORS-D’ŒUVRE RADISHES OLIVES CELERY SAUTERNE FISH TIMBALES POTATO BALLS CLARET SWEETBREADS WITH MUSHROOMS FILET DE BŒUF PETIT POIS LETTUCE SALAD NESSELRODE PUDDING FRUITS COFFEE TOASTED CRACKERS FROMAGE _Mrs. H. Siegel_ MENUS FOR LUNCH LAMB CHOPS BAKED POTATOES SALAD CHEESE CRACKERS NUT CAKE TEA _E. F. S._ FRIED FISH POTATO BALLS OMELET FRUIT CAKE, JELLY, OR JAM TEA OR COFFEE _E. F. S._ COLD MEATS OR POULTRY PICKLES FRIED POTATOES PRESERVES COOKIES TEA OR COFFEE _E. F. S._ BREAKFAST MENUS FRUIT OATMEAL BOILED EGGS BREAD BUTTER COFFEE _Mrs. Joe N._ FRUIT OMELET ROLLS BUTTER COFFEE _Mrs. Joe N._ FRUITS HOT CAKES FRIED FISH TOAST COFFEE _Mrs. Joe N._ MENUS FOR RESTRICTED WHIST CREAM CHEESE ON LETTUCE LEAVES FRENCH ROLLS BUTTER BALLS FRUIT CAKE COFFEE _H. I. S._ TONGUE SANDWICHES OLIVES FANCY CAKES COFFEE _H. I. S._ LOBSTER À LA NEWBURG IN RAMEQUINS HARD-BOILED EGGS SERVED IN LETTUCE NEST CHEESE STRAWS SALTED ALMONDS ORANGE LAYER CAKE COFFEE _H. I. S._ HOUSEHOLD HINTS ITEMS OF INTEREST AND VALUE There is nothing like spring sunshine for bringing out scratches and blemishes on the furniture and marks of wear and tear on carpets and upholstery. Possibly the housekeeper’s eye is quickened by the approach of housecleaning paraphernalia, but certain it is that the room that has worn a respectable air through the winter with the first ardent glance of old Sol will suddenly reveal no end of defects. For restoring furniture there are several excellent preparations to be found in the market, and nearly every housekeeper has her own preference among them. With one of the good oil polishes, a soft cloth, and plenty of what is popularly known as “elbow-grease,” very obstinate scratches will disappear. A vigorous rubbing with a clean flannel cloth should follow the application of the preparation in all cases. A mixture of oil and turpentine is the best of restoratives for wood that has become grimy and dull. The usual formula is three parts of paraffine oil to one part of turpentine. Be sure that all dust is removed before the work begins. Moisten a flannel cloth in the mixture, and apply it to all parts of the wood. In obstinate cases let the preparation remain on the wood for a time then dust with rottenstone, moisten again with oil and rub quickly after the oil is applied. Do not let the rottenstone become dry, or it will still further blemish the wood. When the work with the rottenstone and oil is over, follow it up with rubbings with a clean, soft cloth and then with a polishing with the oil and turpentine described above. There is no objection to mixing the rottenstone and oil in a dish before the work begins. To clean furniture that may have come from the second-hand store or store-room, where it has been badly soiled, make a mixture of beeswax and kitchen soap--an ounce of the wax to a quarter of a pound of the soap. Dissolve the two together over the fire and then stir in half an ounce of sal-soda. Stir the mixture until it is cold and then mix with it an equal part of turpentine. A little of this on a soft cloth will work wonders with old furniture. The dark fumed oak of the Mission and other popular furniture shapes sometimes gets marred below its stain. In such cases common oil paints sold to amateurs for 10 cents and 5 cents a tube may be rung into service. Burnt umber and lampblack will give the fumed-oak shade. Drop the umber in a saucer and mix to the desired shade with lampblack, thinning with linseed oil. Burnt sienna and lampblack toned with yellow ochre will give mahogany color. Burnt sienna, burnt umber, lampblack, and yellow ochre mixed in the right proportions give black-walnut tone. Burnt sienna is about the color of cherry. Raw umber will answer for most light woods such as ash, oak, and maple. Use brush or cloth in putting on the colors, according to convenience. * * * * * Natural finished willow furniture may be cleaned with soapsuds in which borax has been dissolved. It should be applied with a scrubbing-brush. The pieces should be dried very speedily in the sun. Before the cleaning with water begins, the piece should be thoroughly dusted. This rule holds good with any article at all that is being washed. All loose dust should be shaken or brushed off or out before water is applied. * * * * * Natural wood should be freed from all loose dust before cleaning and then may be wiped off with a woollen cloth moistened with oil and turpentine or with wood alcohol. This treatment should be followed by a rubbing with a dry woollen cloth to bring out the polish. A woman who found several dents in the hardwood of her dining-room wainscoting restored it by laying over each dent a thick pad of wet brown paper, a wet cloth folded several times over that, and then applying a hot iron over all. When the pad was about dry it was removed, and if the place still showed a mar the treatment was repeated. * * * * * One housekeeper who is successful in keeping her furniture in polish washes the varnished-wood frames twice a year with potato water and then rubs them dry and bright with woollen cloths. The piano receives the same treatment. The potato water is prepared by soaking uncooked potatoes sliced thin in cold water for two or three hours and then straining the water. * * * * * An old housekeeper who has several choice Oriental rugs, some of light color, sees to the cleaning of them herself. They are first swept thoroughly on both sides on the grass of the back yard. Then, if they are light-colored, they are covered with cornstarch which has a small mixture of prepared chalk, and are left for several hours. At the end of that time they are brushed free from the powder, shaken well and beaten carefully. Dark ones are covered with hardwood sawdust and left over night. The next day they are swept with a stiff clean broom, and then wiped off with a towel wrung out of hot water. * * * * * The silver desk furnishings, vases, etc., will retain their gloss with little extra cleaning if they are polished with a piece of soft silk several times a week. * * * * * Silver should always be thoroughly washed after any cleansing powder or liquid is used on it. * * * * * To clean copper kettles, rub the kettle with a cut lemon dipped in powdered bath brick. When all stains are removed, wash in warm soapy water; then dry and polish with powdered bath brick and a soft cloth. * * * * * To polish brass trimmings, such as hinges, handles, and other ornaments of furniture, without marring the wood during the work requires that the polish shall be beneficial to the wood as well as to the metal. A mixture of half as much naphtha as paraffine oil and enough powdered rottenstone to make a soft, thick cream will accomplish the purpose. It should be applied with wool and should be followed by a rubbing with a soft cloth. Before polishing the last time it is well to make an application of dry rottenstone powder to remove all traces of the naphtha. Unless this is done, the brass will tarnish soon. * * * * * White wax packed with white silk or satin will keep the material from yellowing. It is an old custom to put away the wedding gown in this way. * * * * * To take out a blood-stain, cover the spot with cold raw starch, just wet enough to make a paste, and leave it until it is dry. * * * * * To remove wine-stains, spread the blemished fabric over a bowl and pour boiling salt water through it from a height. * * * * * Machine oil should be washed out in cold water before the article stained with it goes to the laundress. * * * * * Javelle water is an antidote for iron rust. * * * * * Valuable plaster casts are best cleaned by professional plaster-workers. Small pieces that have become soiled may be made more sightly by covering them with whiting and fuller’s earth, wrapping them in a cloth and leaving them for two or three days. When the powder is brushed off much of the grime will go with it. TO PREVENT BREAKING GLASS In opening a jar of fruit with a knife always insert the blade between jar and rubber. Prying against the thin edge of the cover bends it out of shape, perhaps ruining it for future use, and is likely to break the glass. TO CUT PLATE GLASS To cut a piece of plate glass it is thought a diamond-cutter is necessary, but it is not. If the glass is not very thick it can be cut with a pair of scissors, a large pair being preferable. While cutting hold the glass beneath half a foot or more of water, and it can be readily cut any shape desired. A round piece of glass has been cut out of a good-sized pane in just this manner. The scissors do not have to be extra sharp. “_Success._” TO REMOVE FRUIT-STAINS Stained table linen follows the return of the fresh-fruit season as surely “as night follows day.” For removing such stains there is nothing more effective than the sulphur bleach. Lay a spoonful of sulphur on a plate, and sprinkle with a few drops of alcohol. Over this place a tin funnel with the point upward. Touch a lighted match to the alcohol; wet the stained linen, and hold the spot over the opening in the point of the funnel. The sulphur fumes will remove the most obstinate stain, seldom requiring more than one application. Rinse and wash the linen at once, to prevent rotting the material. _“Woman’s Home Companion” for September._ SICKLY PLANTS Nitrate of soda will rapidly improve the appearance of house plants that have become sickly. A piece about the size of a marble is enough for a plant taking a twelve-inch pot. TO KILL INSECTS A good solution to kill all insects is to take two pounds of alum and dissolve it in three or four quarts of boiling water; let it stand on the stove until the alum is all melted, then apply it with a brush while very hot to the wainscoting and floor and wherever the vermin abound. It is also good to use on pantry shelves and bedsteads, and is a sure cure for the pests of fleas that are apt to swarm a closed house after a damp spell in the summer time. FINE DARNING In darning a shirtwaist or other garment where it is important that the place shall not be seen, do the work without putting a piece under the hole and use very fine thread. If the darning is done well, the spot will be as strong as the fabric around it and when it is ironed will be scarcely noticeable. The edges of the material, of course, must be drawn together in their original position. In mending any fabric, the direction of the threads should follow, as much as possible, the lines of the warp and woof. It is advisable sometimes to ravel a thread from the fabric itself and use it in darning. At other times, when silk is to be used, it is well to split silk in order to have a flat thread instead of a round one. It is an old-fashioned idea worth remembering to use a hair in darning fine wool. THE SAND-BAG AS A WARMER A sand-bag as a warmer is said to be greatly superior to a hot-water bottle, which many people prize so highly. Get some clean, fine sand; dry it thoroughly; make a bag about eight inches square of flannel, fill it with dry sand, sew the opening carefully together, and cover the bag with cotton or linen cloth. This will prevent the sand from sifting out, and also enable any one to heat the bag quickly by placing it in an oven or on top of a stove. The sand holds the heat for a long time. “_Health._” USES FOR TURPENTINE There are few housekeepers who are not familiar with some of the numerous uses of turpentine, and as its odor is clean and wholesome it has the advantage over many remedies whose odors are offensive. Turpentine and soap will remove ink-stains from linen. A few drops added to water in which clothes are boiled will whiten them. It will exterminate roaches if sprinkled in their haunts. Turpentine will remove wheel-grease, pitch, and tar. A few drops on a woollen cloth will clean tan shoes nicely. Clean gilt frames with a cloth moistened in turpentine. Carpets can be cleaned and colors restored by going over occasionally with a broom dipped in warm water in which a little turpentine is added. An equal mixture of turpentine and linseed oil will remove white marks from furniture caused by water. THINGS TO AVOID Avoid biting the thread; it is harmful to the teeth. Never leave matches where rats can get at them. To remove ink-stains from clothing, soak the spot in sour milk. Salt and vinegar will be found excellent for scouring copper kettles. Keep an oyster shell in your tea kettle to prevent the forming of crust. Delicate glass can be safely washed in very hot water if slipped in edgewise. Fill vases one-fourth full of sand to prevent them from being knocked over and broken. A little powdered charcoal put in the sink occasionally will keep it clean and free from odors. Rubbing chilblains thoroughly with paraffine oil every night for a week is said to effect a cure. A little kerosene added to the water with which you wash your windows will make them much brighter. A few drops of oil of lavender poured into a glass of hot water and set in the sick-room will purify it greatly. Soaking new brooms in strong hot salt water before using them is said to toughen the bristles, making the brooms more durable. IN CASE OF FIRE If smoke is seen pouring out from under a door, do not rush and open that door. Remember that by so doing you cause a draught which will fan smouldering timbers into flame. Shut and keep shut all doors and windows, or other air-channels. If you have not a hand pump or fire grenades handy, collect as many pails or jugs of water as possible outside the closed door of the room which is afire. Meantime, remember that smoke is almost as dangerous to life as fire. A soaking-wet towel knotted round the face and nostrils is an excellent rough-and-ready protection against breathing smoke. So is a wet sponge. Remember also that smoke rises. Therefore, it is least thick near the floor. If the smoke be very thick, crawl with your face close against the floor. The commonest cause of fire is the upsetting of an oil lamp. Water will only spread the flames of burning oil, but a hearth-rug will extinguish them promptly, says “Home Chat.” Milk will also extinguish burning oil. Sand or earth or common salt are useful aids to fire-fighting. The contents of an ordinary flower-pot will stop the spread of the flames of oil. WOMAN It takes a hundred men to make an encampment, but one woman can make a home. I not only admire woman as the most beautiful creature that was ever created, but I reverence her as the redeeming glory of humanity, the sanctuary of all the virtues, the pledge of all perfect qualities of heart and head. It is not just nor right to lay the sins of men at the feet of woman. It is because women are so much better than men, that their faults are considered greater. A man’s desire is the foundation of his love, but a woman’s desire is born of her love. The one thing in this world that is constant, the one peak that arises above all clouds, the one window in which the light forever burns, the one star that darkness cannot quench, is woman’s love. It rises to the greatest height, it sinks to the lowest depths, it forgives the most injuries. It is perennial of life and grows in every climate. Neither coldness nor neglect, harshness nor cruelty, can extinguish it. A woman’s love is the perfume of the heart. This is the real love that subdues the earth; the love that has wrought all miracles of art; that gives us music all the way from the cradle song to the grand closing symphony that bears the soul away on wings of fire. A love that is greater than power, sweeter than life, and stronger than death.--_Robert G. Ingersoll._ A WOMAN’S HOUSEWORK AS A PHYSICAL-CULTURE SCHOOL America possesses thousands of girls who find a large part of their physical culture to perfection in “helping mother,” and they are not blushing because they do so. For them the vista of possibilities is long and alluring. For the arms, fingers, and wrists, they find washing and wiping dishes admirable; perhaps water helps to make supple the joints, which is an advantage that dish-washing has over the drying. However, there is a fine elbow movement in the wiping, too. Bed-making is still taught in the homely physical economics and cannot be too highly recommended. With the folding of the counterpane and sheets, the arms are stretched to their utmost, and while standing erect, with chest thrown out, breathing is bound to be correct. Shoulder, torso, and limbs are developed in mattress-lifting, but it requires a strong woman to do this easily; any hint of spinal affection is an embargo on the exercise. Sweeping gives much the same motion as is used in handling golf-clubs. For perfection of arms and shoulders there is nothing better. Scrubbing, like lawn tennis, is rather violent and not to be attempted unless one is sure of the heart. In the beginning it will be as severe on the knees as is paddling a canoe, but so soon as one becomes familiar with the work it affords a subtle satisfaction all its own. Running up and down stairs when mother needs anything is a first-class exercise; and an interesting diversion, as well as an upper-arm developer, may be found in egg-beating. Dusting should have a chapter by itself. First you are down on all fours, then on tiptoe to see how far the cloth will reach. The tiptoeing for calf-development is superb. You twist yourself into all sorts of positions to get at the corners of the carved furniture. You are on one knee, then on the other. Every muscle, every tendon is brought into service before you have finished. KEEP YOUNG A beautiful woman, who combines in her person a greater number of charms than do most fascinating women, gives her formula for keeping young and handsome in spite of a life of constant study, hard work, and comparatively no play: “Vigilance and determination and perhaps a little self-sacrifice are the price I pay for being considered a good-looking woman,” she says. Remember, this beauty can act and is entitled to be called a star of the first magnitude. “I am ever on the alert and when I discover traces of fatigue or any destroying symptoms, I set about at once to eradicate them. During the theatrical season I don’t attempt to be anything but a professional woman. I don’t receive, nor do I go to other people’s houses. I simply haven’t the time and I don’t make it. “My mode of life is very simple. As a rule I sleep nine or ten hours out of the twenty-four, never less than eight. I eat regularly and avoid everything that will give me indigestion. You know that indigestion is one of beauty’s most powerful foes, a greater enemy than age, as great even as worry. “I walk every day, rain or shine, wear a short skirt and low-heeled shoes. I keep the French heels for the stage. I try not to worry, no matter what happens, and never tire myself unnecessarily. My method has no frills or isms; perhaps few women would care to try it. As Turkish baths agree with me, I am devoted to them, and I consider a good complexion cream as important, almost, as cold water.” On Sunday, she explained, she was not obliged to go to the theatre. “Yet I do not spend that day in idleness nor in receiving visitors. When one’s hair is five feet long and very thick, it is not an easy task to have it shampooed, so I am almost ashamed to confess the entire day is quite given over to self-preservation. “How do I keep the same weight all the time? Why, by vigilance, determination, and a good pair of scales frequently consulted. If I gain a pound I immediately stop drinking at meals and give up sugar and sweets absolutely. Yes, even water is tabooed. This all sounds very simple, but, of course, it precludes much pleasure and relaxation.” There, mesdames, you have the beauty régime of a woman who always pleases her public and who possesses the love and admiration of countless friends. She is no longer in her girlhood, yet gives not the faintest indication of maturity. Her figure is slender and svelte, a succession of soft curves, with not a bone to disfigure its surface. Her skin is fresh and pink as a small child’s and her hair shows vigorous health. While all women may not be beautiful, cleanliness and fine grooming and an ordinary amount of exercise will render them most attractive. Stout women should bathe oftener than lean ones, but let them avoid the use of hot water; it has a tendency to produce headache with the full-blooded individual. Always follow a warm bath with a dash of cold water--it contracts the pores and inspires circulation. For persons with weak nerves, sponging is better than tubbing or the shock of the shower. Cold water must be used with judgment. A hot foot bath accompanied by vigorous rubbing is often beneficial in cases of insomnia. In bathing be careful to “go beneath the upper layer of the skin, get down to the underlying tissues,” and give them the benefit of the friction. The mere exercise attendant upon rubbing the body is salutary and helps in a great measure to keep circulation at top notch. Laxity or downright laziness in home bathing is one of the sins of the age, though one may not deny that this century is the apotheosis of cleanliness as compared to the methods adopted by the beauties of long ago. A flick of the wash rag constituted their daily ablution, and the weekly bath was looked upon as a function. Lean persons should be wary of the Turkish bath, while the victim of corpulency must avoid the Russian. The Roman bath, in reality an oil bath, is productive of flesh, therefore beneficial to badly nourished bodies. Bathing should never be indulged in directly after eating and never carried to the point of over-exertion. After a fatiguing day a woman can do nothing which will more quickly restore tone to throbbing nerves, rob strained, tense muscles of their aching weariness, and refit her for the duties of housekeeper and hostess, than to take some kind of aromatic bath or to follow the ordinary warm bath by spraying the whole body with eau de cologne. If the head aches, bathe the face in hot, perfumed water, do it slowly, rubbing the forehead and temples in a rotary motion and let the hot cloth linger behind the ears and on the nape of the neck. This treatment will do as much for you as an hour’s sleep. A salt rub is also a tonic and should be taken in the morning, after a tepid bath; take a handful of damp sea salt and rub it vigorously upon the body. Follow this with a rapid sponging of the stinging spray. Oatmeal bags are pleasant and easily prepared. At home you can make a dozen for the price of one. They whiten the skin and give it a velvety softness, besides imparting a delicate fragrance. Make the bags of cheesecloth, about four inches square, and fill them loosely with the following mixture: Five pounds of oatmeal, one pound of powdered Florentine orris, one pound of almond meal and half a pound of pure castile soap scraped to a powder. One bag will be sufficient for a bath. THE CARE OF THE HANDS Many a woman who gives time and thought to the art of pleasing, who bemoans natural shortcomings or physical defects, is unconscious of the power and fascination that a well-developed and well-cared-for hand wields in a most subtle fashion. Very often the soul speaks through the hand when a halting tongue refuses speech. Conceal natural instincts as you will, the hands ofttimes betray them. Hide them, transform them, the hand, still true to nature, defies your efforts. Lavater says: “The hand, whether in motion or repose, has an expression of its own that is not to be mistaken. When in perfect rest it shows what are our traits of character; its flexions betray what are our actions and our passions.” In all ages homage has been paid to the hand, and its study was held in honor by the wisest philosophers of ancient Greece. Italy’s great poet Petrarch confessed that Laura’s “beautiful hand made captive his heart.” To the student or one blessed with natural discernment, the shape, texture, and color of the hand reveal the secrets of the soul. Good blood and breeding are to be discovered, and, though the poise of head and grace of carriage be acquired, the contour of wrist, palm, and finger remains obstinately natural. What the mind conceives the hands put into execution, and what the heart wills the hand makes possible. Upon the palm are found more or less indications of the physical and mental attitudes of men--their appetites, instincts, and ambitions. A narrow palm suggests feeble temperament, lacking force of imagination, while too broad a one denotes egotism and sensuality. A nature capable of great enjoyment and the possessor of a lively imagination develops a supple and fairly generous expanse of palm; but the hard, thick hand ofttimes lacks intelligence. Knotty fingers, when not the result of gout, indicate originality; the smooth taper finger means love of art and a predominance of sentiment over reason. Square fingers denote method, and the spatulate show ability, tact, and action. Very rare is the psychic hand with its slim tapering fingers, its snowy texture and wonderful softness. Well for the world that it is uncommon, lacking as it does usefulness and industry. That the hands are capable of improvement, so far as texture is concerned, is demonstrated by the secrets of my lady’s boudoir. There are different exercises for relaxing and contracting the muscles, which unite in imparting suppleness and expression. Given over to contact with everything that can spoil, soil, and deform them, how shall one keep their beauty? Cleanliness is the first and most important factor, and pure castile soap is always reliable, but frequent washings are unnecessary for softening the skin. The hands should be washed only when necessary, in neither very hot nor very cold water. Avoid all extremes of temperature. Soft water is imperative, however, and wheat, bran, or almond meal thrown in the basin will be found beneficial; after which rub the skin with almond oil, cold cream, or some simple lotion. There is an old-fashioned but safe method of whitening the hands. Take some horse chestnuts, peel, dry, and then pound them in a mortar until they become a fine powder. A pinch of this flour thrown into a pint of water and stirred will make it white and milky, a delicious substitute for soap on a cold day, when the skin is apt to chap unless great care be given to drying the hands. Milk is also marvelous for bleaching, but it is a luxury not suited to all purses. Lemon juice may be used to remove stains from the hands. Tomatoes will produce the same effect. For a stubborn mark, rub gently with a piece of fine toilet pumice; but beware of injuring the texture of the skin. After a thorough cleansing comes the manicuring of the nails, which with a little experience may be accomplished at home with excellent results. The flesh surrounding the nails should be pressed back very gently to its proper place. Be careful not to tear or bruise it, else a jagged appearance will result, necessitating clipping, which always encourages growth. An orange stick is a necessary adjunct to the toilet; by its aid the nails can be probed and cleaned without fear of injury. A white crescent at the base, a rosy tint in the middle, and a white transparent border with a polished (not too highly) surface are the marks of well-cared-for nails. Do not have them too long, else they are liable to break; curve on either side, with the deepest portion projecting just far enough to protect the ball of the finger. Do not scrape with pointed instruments of steel. It takes a long time for a bruised surface to resume normal conditions. Gloves, worn when unpleasant work is necessary, should be loose. Before putting them on it is a good idea to cover the hands with a light layer of oil of sweet almonds or vaseline. This prevents callous spots, and the process of softening will be in progress during the occupation. YOUR “LAUGH” LINES It was long the popular belief that wrinkles are caused chiefly by sorrow and care. Up pops somebody in this twentieth century to denounce that theory and to declare that the merry folk are far oftener afflicted than the sorrowful and that laughter more frequently furrows the face than tears. It is a rather happy suggestion; not that wrinkles are welcome, but that cheerfulness is a heaven-sent gift and should be received with grateful hearts. Let laughter ring out loud and long. It is infectious. It uplifts those who hear it. If it brings wrinkles, you may be sure it displaces more hideous lines. If home were made more cheerful, the law would clutch less often at the throats of criminals and the institutions would open their doors to fewer refugees. We know, when night comes, mothers are tired and husbands fractious with bile and business. The good woman would like to sit down to an interesting book and the man to his newspaper and silence, each feeling the comfort is well deserved from duties well performed. But have they the right and is it safe to follow the natural bent? Boys and girls will have fun; they will have room and place for noise and laughter and the irresponsible bubbling of youthful spirits. If these be not accorded to them in their home they will surely seek and find diversion outside. She is the wise mother who, in addition to her deeper anxieties and solicitude, draws and holds with her own largeness of spirit the expanding natures of her laughing girl and rollicking boy. To do this she must be as quick to laugh as to cry with them, recognizing the drollery of their wit and giving it welcome. There is the cheerful woman who puts herself out to be pleasant to her friends. Meet her on the street and she will treat you to a cheery smile and a soft greeting that has a sweet little melody all its own. Such a woman makes the nightingales sing in one’s heart. She doesn’t send souls into deep mourning as does the whiny woman or the grouchy person or the suffering sister with woes that bury you like an avalanche. Plenty of persons have troubles, but they don’t shake them out and beat the dust out of them and hang them up in the air all the time and display them for the entertainment of their acquaintances. There is no such thing as being without troubles, and when you run across a woman who gives you a smile and a bright little word don’t tell yourself that it is easy for her, that she hasn’t anything to worry about. One never knows. She may have, all buried in the depths of her heart, more trouble to the square inch than you have ever heard about. It doesn’t pay to be grumpy. Not a bit of it. It doesn’t pay to be a member of the Tearful Society, either. The only thing that counts is a brave heart filled to the roof with simple, honest charity. You have seen those awful parlors, haven’t you, in the country districts, where the shades are always drawn and Mme. Moth has garden parties in every corner of the carpet and funereal pictures hang from the wall, and when you open the door you are struck deaf, dumb, blind, and senseless with the frightful mustiness that finally chases you out in the free air? Some persons shut up their hearts just the same way. Open up the windows. Let sunshine fairies mob the place. Scatter the moths of mortal mind helter-skelter and dig out the bad-conscience corners. You will have a nice, clean, hygienic feeling after your heart housecleaning. Suddenly you will find you are having a garden party there; you will find yourself entertaining beautiful thoughts, and you will wonder how you ever lived under the old régime when you displayed so little hospitality. It is a fine thing to know how to welcome the big feelings of life. Don’t forget that laughter is a good tonic and a near-panacea for many ills. LOTION FOR THAT “TIRED” FEELING Take one-quarter pint of alcohol--the recipe can be doubled or tripled if desired--one ounce each of spirits of camphor and ammonia, two and a half ounces of sea salt and one pint of boiling water; mix thoroughly and always shake before using. If a woman comes in tired from a day’s shopping, a long walk, or any other wearying exertion, apply the tonic to the face and arms, and it will magically remove all of that “tired” feeling and put one in fine condition for the evening. Another delightful and refreshing bath water, which is said to come from Portugal, is made from two and one-half ounces each of eau de rose and eau fleur d’orange, one and a quarter ounces of eau de myrte, one-half drachm of essence of ambergris and one-quarter drachm of essence of musk. After thoroughly commingling the ingredients, keep closely corked in a bottle for a week in the dark--it were better if it remained even two weeks--then pour off the clear liquid. A little poured into the basin of water in which the face is washed will revive and freshen the complexion wonderfully. ONE SIDE OF THE FINANCIAL QUESTION BETWEEN MAN AND WIFE The philosophy of clothes is a serious study, and instead of being frowned upon by men, who invariably associate it with wild extravagance, it should be incorporated as first among the bylaws of home life. Women in many cases are largely responsible for the troubles and misunderstandings which arise, brought about, as they often are, on the very threshold of married life. When a husband admires the stylish appearance of his bride’s traveling gown she is apt to be tempted by the irresponsible imp of mischief to answer, “It cost but a trifle.” In fact, she may burst out with the fiction that she “never spends money on gowns.” This small and unnecessary explosion may win her a tithe of praise at the moment; but it also paves the way for an embarrassing future if she proposes to live up to the fairy tale. It is curious that the most honest, frank, and truthful women will often hesitate or even fib when asking for domestic expenses, and the most generous and loyal fellow in the world, who lives to spend his dollars like the farmer sows his wheat, looks “concerned,” to be mild in our expression, when the woman whom he loves and trusts looks to him for the weekly stipend. The wife of a millionaire, who never made anything but her own complexion, boasted that her husband was under the impression that she designed and made her own gowns and bonnets. This she had told him on their wedding journey, and she could never pluck up courage to undeceive him. A little honesty at the start would make the financial side of matrimony much more pleasant; hence it is difficult to understand why a woman prevaricates when the broad way of truth is easier--unless, indeed, she be tied to a man who “rows” every time money is mentioned. Perhaps he doesn’t mean it. So few of them understand that the very need of asking hurts and humiliates, even grieves, a proud woman. A fine, jolly man rallied his wife once on her diffidence in this manner: “Ashamed to come to me for anything? Nonsense! You can come to me as you go to God.” And he never realized the supreme egotism of his speech. So long as she did not smile over it, all went well. Women hesitate to discuss unpleasant matters with their husbands, and at an early stage they are made to feel that money is an extremely unpleasant subject. Hence they resort to all sorts of foolish subterfuges to obtain possession without open speech. This does not class them among deceivers. A woman is simply more careful than a man in her methods, fearing she will give offence. Nature sets us an example for “all things new.” She never wears the castaway leaves of past seasons. There is no remade foliage on the trees, no flaunting of spring colors in November. The late skies are veiled in tints the summer never saw and the earth in her old age is as changeful as a merry maid in her teens. The influence of dress is greater than we will acknowledge. We feel better, act better and bring more honor to those who love us when we are properly gowned. An ill-dressed woman may possess the wisdom of a sage, or the beauty of a goddess; but among her sisters she is at a tremendous disadvantage unless she is like unto them in the glory of her raiment. SHOULD HE MARRY? The Man-- Who goes home to grumble and growl; Who thinks he can keep house much better than his wife; Who cannot remember his wife’s birthday nor the anniversary of their marriage; Who believes that no one below the status of an angel should be his helpmate; Who decides his wife is “fixed” for the season if she has one new gown; Who imagines a woman’s bonnet should cost about $1.95; Who fancies that his wife exists for the comfort and convenience of his mother and sisters; Who provides himself with a family and trusts in providence to produce a home and something to eat; Who labors under the delusion that his wife’s money belongs to him; Who advises his sick wife to be up and doing and she will feel ever so much better; Who doesn’t know what a woman wants with ready cash when she has credit at a dry-goods store; Who forgets his manners as soon as he steps across his own threshold; Who thinks a dining-room carpet should last a lifetime; Who constantly talks about supporting a wife, when she is working fourteen hours a day, including Sunday; Who declares it all nonsense for a woman to want a ten-cent bunch of violets when she hasn’t seen a flower for five months; Who quotes the Apostle Paul on the “woman question” and firmly believes the mantle of the holy man has fallen upon his shoulders; Who looks upon his wife as a mental waste-paper basket into which he dumps the chips of ideas he has collected during the day. SHOULD SHE MARRY? The Woman-- Who buys for the mere pleasure of buying; Who expects a declaration of love three times a day; Who anticipates in married life a good easy snap; Who thinks it cheaper to buy bread than bake it; Who would rather die than wear the same bonnet the second season; Who wants to refurnish her house every spring; Who stays at home only because she has no other place to visit; Who would rather nurse a pug dog than a baby; Who thinks she can get $5,000 worth of style out of a $1,000 salary; Who does not realize how many pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and halves there are in $1; Who marries in order to have some one pay her bills; Who thinks embroidered centre-pieces and doylies are of more importance than sheets, pillow-cases, and blankets; Who buys bric-à-brac for her drawing-room and borrows kitchen utensils from her neighbors; Who cares more for the style of her winter furs than she does for the health and comfort of her family; Who thinks the cook and nursemaid can run the house; Who weeps over the woes of the heroine in a trashy novel while ignoring domestic tragedies directly under her own nose. DON’TS UP TO DATE FOLLOW RULES AND BE HEALTHY AND WISE, IF NOT OTHERWISE Don’t exercise after you feel exhausted. Don’t fail to laugh at your husband’s jokes. Don’t treat your family to a morning view of hair-curlers. Don’t neglect the daily bath if you want a radiant complexion. Don’t forget that diet, quiet, and sleep are the hand-maidens of beauty. Don’t be afraid of sunshine and fresh air; they give bloom and color. Don’t wear the high collar. It ruins the line and curve of the neck and hardens the flesh and often leaves its mark. Don’t talk when you are hoarse. Your voice may be permanently lost or difficulties of the throat result. Don’t ride in an open carriage or near the open window of a car after playing golf or exercising in a vigorous way. Don’t exercise one part of the body too much and another not at all. Let the development be symmetrical. Don’t become so burdened with the accumulation of knowledge that you cannot spare time for a good hearty laugh. Don’t think any “old dress will do for home.” Always wear a pretty and becoming gown. Don’t tell your husband you wish you hadn’t married him. The chances are that you don’t wish it any more than he does. Don’t believe you can get rid of wrinkles by filling in the crevices with powder. Instead, give your face a warm bath and good scrub, night and morning. Don’t take a long walk or undertake much household work before breakfast. Vitality is not at its best early in the morning. Strength increases as the sun rises and one is stronger about midday. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Archaic or variant spelling has been retained. *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 68909 ***