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Serve hot.awith apple sauce; Sponge Caks.--Six eggs, one cup r, one tablespoon lemon juice, ana"cup flour ; galt." 'Separate cggs, he: bad yolks add gradually the fhgnr and seasoning. and: half: the ! Then sift in gradually the salt; Add the remainder whites. and bake as a loaf 8 in small cakes. This recipe is péd for ladyfingers also. | Potato Apples <Pwo- cups mash: #l potatoes, one tablespoon melt- jl butter, two tablespoons hol Wilk, one dozen whole old t-over mashed potatoes used, oat thoroughly in a double boil » When warm beat until thors ghly mixed. Divide into eight portions, form inte a ball; dent the top and insert-a clove, pushing well down, to represent the bloom end of thevapple, Dent. the opposite end" and insert 'a clove as a: stem cinnamon 'sticks nigy be ribed iF pre- ferred. = Brush®apple' with melted butter sprinkle one side with 'pa- prika or cinnamon to give: a red k. . Bake ten minutes in' a me- oven. Serve hot. Cereal . with <Fruit.--One - eup 3 one-quarter cup dereal, one: rter cup: chopped dates," one- quarber' I Joaspoon salt, one-quarter on raisins. Cook the ce- ol ED 'in boiling salted water five A lace: 'over water and hours as directed i oat neal. Before i the cooker add 'the fruit and miter tilly. Mold. and serve with Veal oa ide to pss real chops (about), one bunch parsley. two ounces bacon, one-half onion, pehalt oup. bread orbs, one ts J 8. until creamy. To: Baste with warm water 1 shapi hit Bu eh 8 ro i od Hoole fr i or under gas flame rol bacon is crisp and bananas well cooked i ten minaies) If coals are bl HOUSEKEEPING HELPS.T Don't tryito save coal at the ex pense of the viands; always have : prea 'and suffivie i gre ¢. fot. cool A stock "pot bould oid be handy; 'and 'bores noid bipoos of meat' putin' for © ma Ing soups and gravies, § Every drop of dripping atid bacon fat, etc., ought to be saved. 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