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This is a pped crea dainty dessert and wil serve bout eight people. scalloped Corn.--Butter: a bak: ing dish, and in the bottom of fhe dish put a layér of rolled ud dots of butter; then a layer of canned corn,. salt, pepper, and but- 'ten; then cracker crumbs, galt, pep- per, and butter, and so on. 'Have cracker crumbs for last layer, salt, pepper; and: butter; then over all peur plenty of rich milk, as the crumbs absorb a good den). Bake . three-quarters of an hour in a mod: erately hot oven, until "a. light brown. This is. a delicious dish; and one can of corn will serve ten pecple. Whipped Cream' Hint. --Excellent sublstitute for whipped cream: Beat white of egg until 'stiff, slice' one banana, add to egg and beat until ditsolved ; sweeten. The richness of 'color and nutritious contents combined making it it desirable as whipped cream und much easier _ prepared. Mayonnaise Dressingi~Yolks of three eggs; beaten light, two cup- fuls vinegar, one cupful water if vinegar is very sour, making three oupfuls in all, two teaspoonfuls' of ground mustard, one cupful of vine- gar or more, 'according to taste, ove-half cupful cornstarch, two even teaspoonfuls of salt, butter size of an egg, boil together three minutes. This makes one.quart. Will keep a month or more, and is fing for all kinds of salads, cab- bage and beets. Baked Ham with Mushrooms, -- Take a choice cut of ham weighing about two and one-half pounds and parboil for one-half hour in cold water into which: has been added cone tablespoonful sugar and three whole cloves. Take from water and d & with bits of butter and put in hot oven to brown for about a half au hour. Rub one tablespooniul of ficur into two tablespoonfuls of + warm milk and all the ham gravy in baking pan. Let come to a boil, then add one can drained mush: rooms, season with salt and pepper, and boil for ten minutes. Arrange ¢n platter and garnish with curled celery. Pour over mushroom sauce. Chocolate Cookies.--One cupful of brown sugar, one-half cupful of butter melted (large), one-half cup- ful of sour milk, one egg, one-half teaspoonful of soda, three squares of chocolate melted, one and one- half cupfuls of flour, one-half cup- ful of nuts, one-half cupful of rai- sins, . Do not roll out; but drop from a teaspoon. CANNING. To Can: Asparagus.--Tie in bun- dles, each the size to fit in a jar, and cut off the stem end so that the bundles are an inch and a half shorter! than the jar. Lay them in A sauce pan, putting in the cut .off ends 'also. Boil until they begin to be tender, but not soft. « Take oul, untie, 'and fit into the jars, stem end down.' Bet each jar on dark, ary place. crumbs, a little salt, pepper, and ! apple and sprinkle' you grate it, so a8 to Keep { turning dark. Add to it the brandy and unbeaten egg whites; and: with a wire egg beater, beat until it is riff and fluffy. * Take the orange cups and with a' sharp scissors cut small geallops near the top and tie them together inipnirs, using baby ribbon for dying: | When ready to gerve fill the orange cups with the prepared fruit and heap the dress: ing on top, Put a large strawber- ry on each half orange. Place a pair of cups on a salad plate on the table between each' couple. They ca" untie them oF not, as they please. Cuban Salad.--On lettuce leaves piace bits of string beans, aspara- gus; raw onion, 'green sweet pep- pers, 'sliced 'boiled eggs, and rad- ishes. "Pour over all a dressing 'of oil, salt; pepper, and lemon juice. Tomato Jelly Salad.---Put a bor- der mold into a pan of ice water. Dir chilled slices of egg which have been boiled" hard into half a tea- spoonful of gelatin softened in.a little cold water; and melted over the tea kettle, and put them at equal distances upon the sides of the mold, holding, each in place till it becomes "get." Then fill mold with tomato jelly made as follows: One 'rcal- tomatoes, two - whole cloves, two bay leaves, one-half cup water, one tablespoon sugar, one snltspoon. celery seeds. Boil ten minutes and then add two round: ing 'tablespoonfuls gelatin dissolv- ed in 'a half cup of cold water. Strain when cold into mold." "When ready to serve turn from mold and fill the. open center with crisp let- 'tuce leaves. Serve with mayon- naise or boiled dressing in a sep- arate dish. Sn. THE SEWING ROOM, Apron Hangers.--A two inch piece of linen tape or fold of same material 'sewed to the center of band on wrong 'side mukes 'a fine hunger for aprons. Keeps them fresh much longer. ! Shirtwaist Trimming.--~An effec. tive trimming for a shirtwaist is ob- tained by purchasing a round or square doily having the torchon or cluny lace shaped around it. Re-|! move the lace and applique on a waist fastened in the back and cnt out the linen underneath." Twenty- five or fifty cents will buy doilies, according to' size. For more elab- crate trimming two of sizes to fit, ih i ah ady plas; one' beneath the. other, could 'be used, To Protect k Petticqat. .--To protect | ti from the dir a perforated board in a boileri Pub} in the small pieces cut off; add a}; teaspoonful of Salt for each bunch |; tv the water in which they 'were boiled and divide it among the jars filling © mp with boiling 'water Hl oll, ® pus oti the bids, | but not the rubbers, ur: around Li under ater to the neck of the jor. 8 boil and then with Tess heat 1 roy ph half an hour. Take as Sosy 10. Rupes will find ar of the When so place in a|® : Fe 1| Wien making it up, in the yard for this. 4 boiled leg of mutto! sent a far better appearance on table if 'it has' been wrapped 5 bh 1b entirely spoils the col people rinse it finally kim mil ; Hi y 12 give it'the exact shade; useing. 'Cut it into' piece pile; up in @ dry place so. th the: air oon get to it. A joint of theat 'may Ye: kept sweet for many days if WIAD; a fire cloth wring outiin' DERE and hung in the air. In case of fire a wet silk handker-| : chief tied over the nose and ther is a complete security agains} focation from smoke. salt and lemon-juice and lay the stains, and they 'will soon -- 3 appear. i, Cotton dresses and' p ard other starched go not be put' away till next the starch in" them. ard rough dry them, a: will not rot. «Jabots Hints. Dissolve of granulated sugar in'a water and wring the articles out ia it. © Roll them 'in' a cloth "and them lie 'for half an hour." When 4 ircned they will look like new; An' inexpensive disinfectant for a sick room can be. m a8 follows : Put some ground co in a saucer | and in thé middle place a small}, piece of camphor gum. Light the | gum with & match. = As the gum 'al lcws the coffee to burn with it the sie] is most refreshing and healthy |, To keep light colored summer. dresses and stockings pretty. fresh looking, purchase packages! ol any standard dye, as many 015 as you have different col dresses. ~ Dissolve each dye about a quart of. boiling water; an when! cool bottle." When washing | your pink or blue dress add a few drops; or sufficient to prin as the case may be, to the last ring- ing water. of bluing added to the rinsing water, will benefit white goods, so y 'compound will" restore the or dress to ite original brightness. |: The dresses must be hung to dey ea : TUNING A BELL. 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