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Selected Recipes. Johnny Cake.â€"0ne cup of cornâ€" meal, one-half cup of flour, one tea- spoonful soda, salt, two tablespoonfuls molasses, one tablespoon sugar. 50‘1" milk to mix. milk to mix. Oatmeal Cookies.â€"â€"Mix one tea- spoonful butter with one cup granu- lated sugar, add two eggs. two 811d one-huif cups of rolled oats (raw), two teaspoonfuls bgking‘ppwder. Pu}: a teaspoonful of the mixture on a greased and heated pan. Bake about five minutes, or until a light brown in color. Potato Special.â€"â€"-Mash several cold boiled potatoes, add butter, one egg, pepper and salt. Mix, shape into balls, roll in flour and fry in butter. Arrange on platter with slices of cold roast chicken. Garnish with lettuce leaves. Missionary Cakeâ€"One cup brown sugar, one cup cold water, two cups raisins, one-third cup lard, oneâ€"quar- ter nutmeg, one-quarter teaspoon cloves, one teaspoonful cinnamon, pinch of salt;- Boil all together about five minutes; let cool; then add one teaspoonful baking soda dissolved in water, one-half teaspoonful baking powder. Sift with two cups of flour and bake in medium hot oven about thirty minutes. White Taffyâ€"Four cups of gran- |ulated sugar, one cup of vinegar, one quarter cup of water. Boil and do ,not stir or move until it is done. _When it hardens in water pour onto 'buttered plates, then flavor with van- illa last, pouring on plates of taffy, :but don’t stir. Then, when enough lacsen from plates, take up and pull into taffy. Then cut it off and place on smaller plates to cool. Rout-Drop Cakes.â€"-Mix two pounds of flour, one ditto of butter, one ditto of sugar, one ditto of currants, clean and dry; then wet into a stiff paste with two eggs, 8. large spoon of orange flower, ditto rose-water, ditto sweet wine, ditto brandy; drop them in a tin plate floured, a very short time bakes them. Corn Breadâ€"One and one-half cups corn meal, quarter cup flour, one tablespoon sugar, 1/2 teaspoonful salt 2 tablespoons baking powder, one table- spoon butter, one and one-quarter cups milk, one egg. Mix and sift the flour, corn meal, baking powder, salt and sugar together twice, then into these dry ingredients cut the butter with a fork until in fine bits. Beat the egg slightly and add the milk to it, then add this milk-and-egg mixture to the dry ingredients and beat all well toâ€" gether. Pour into a shallow well- greased cake pan and bake in a hot oven for about thirty' minutes. Prune Cake-â€"One cup of sugar,’ two-thirds cup of butter, yolks of three eggs, one cup of cooked and chopped prunes, one-h‘alf teaspoonful’ of nutmeg and an equal amount of‘ cinnamon added to the flour; one and one-half cups sifted flour. the grated rind of half a lemon and a teaspoon-; £111 of the juice, three tablespoonfuls‘ of sour cream or, milk, one level tea- spoonful of baking soda dissolved in a tablespoonful of hot water and added to the cream. Mix in order given and bake in moderate oven. When nearly cool cover with icing made from one cup of confectioner’s sugar mixed to a soft paste with lemon juice or orange and lemon mixed. fl‘he cake should be baked in a shallow cake tin about ten inches sqilare. Boiled Noodles.-â€"One egg, one-half teaspoon salt, grating of nutmeg, dash of cayenne and flour. Beat egg, add seasonings and enough flour to make stifl’ dough. Work on floured board until smooth and elastic. Cut off small portions and roll each as thin as a wafer. Slash into strips with sharp knife and cook in boiling water or soup stock twenty minutes. May be dried before cooking and stored un- til wanted. Serve sprinkled with breadcrumbs which have been brown- ed in hot butter to golden color. Cak\With Custard.â€"Moisten with lemon Juice enough stale cake to cov- er bottom of glasa dish holding one quart. Make soft custard by scald- ing two cups milk and pouring slow~ ly over two beaten egg yolks, mixed with three tablespoons sugar, one tea- spoon butter, and a little salt. Cook in double boiler until it thickens. Strain, and when partly cool add one- half teaspoon vanilla and pour over cake. When ready to serve, beat whites into stiff froth. add one table~ Fruit is a more economical dessert than puddings, when eggs are so high. 2 If you use sour cream for butter making, it should be soured quickly. Fresh air and plenty of rest and 'water will go a great way towards I curing a cold. Garments that are soaked in hot Discarded rubber garments may be cut up into mittens to be used when blacking the stove, etc. 3 It is wise to once in a while take tout the rollers of the carpet sweeper ‘and wash them thoroughlj' They will sweep much cleaner. spoon sugar and a little lemon juice when beating. Drop lightly, by spoon- fuls, on top of custard and put bits of jelly on meringue. " "A_£..I,~ 1- Jvu; vu ---v-._r,,r V Spice Cake.-â€"Boil four cupfuls sugar, one-third cupful lard, eight cupfuls raisins, four cupfuls water, one nutmeg, one and oneâ€"half tea- cpoonfuls ground cloves, four tea- spoonfuls cinnamon and level tea- spoonful salt, three minutes, then cool and add eight cupfuls flour, two tea- spoonfuls baking powder, four tea- spoonfuls soda dissolved in warm water, one and one-half cupfuls nut meats and a small piece of citron. Put in a deep round baking pan and bake in slow oven. Frost with maple frosting and mark eyes, nose and mouth with raisins or nut meats. §C.P.R. Steamer Will Make Three Trips for Tourists. As was the case during the past season the C.P.R. steamship Princess Charlotte will make three round trips‘ Iin the Alaska tourist service next year, which becomes effective June 8, 1917. . ‘ The list of tourist sailings between Victoria, Vancouver and Skagway, (which has just been announced by the BC. Coast 'Service, provides for three ‘round trip sailings for the Princess Charlotte, seven for the Princess Alice iand seven for the Princess Sophia. 1making 17 round trip sailings all told «for the summer season of 1917. Salt or soda and a damp cloth will remove stain from dishes. A trofiug‘fifléhicken can be made tender by steaming it\ for three hours before roasting. GaÂ¥ments that are soaked in hot soapy water for a time before they are washed will be snowy white. A little cold boiled potato added to the filling for fowl will prevent it from being too dry. To freshen stale loaves of bread, moisten slightly with cold water, just merely running the wet hand over sur- face, then place in hot oven a short time. The advent of the palatial steamship Princess Charlotte in the Alaskan tourist trade last summer was such a pronounced success that the company had no alternative but to arrange for her return to the northern run next year, when it is expected tourist travel north will break all records. The schedule has been arranged earlier with a view to giving plenty of time for the arrangement of advance bookâ€" ings. If when frying fish the pieces are put in the hot; fat with the skin side up‘permost and allowed to brown be- fore turning they will not break. Using coarse threads for stitching does not insure longer service, as the thread stands out on the surface of the cloth, causing it to receive con- stant rubbing and thereby wearing away before the garment. Attention is Drawn to China“ as a Future Purchaser. Capt. Robert Dollar, of San Fran- cisco, in a recent address before the Vancouver, B.C., Rotary Club, stated: “The Russian trade is an unknown quantity just at the present time. The Russians will likely have but the one port of Vladivostok to offer as theronly certain port, and that might be shut at any time the Russians so wished. It is to China that you must look for your futurertrade, and I de- sire to emphasize this fact right now‘ that China will be your mainstay in the future in foreign trade relations just as soon as the Chinaman learns his own purchasing power. “China has only been scratched for trade,” he said, “and when you stop to consider that one-fourth of the population of the world is living there, an immense population which is awakening to ‘ civilization as we see it, then you may be able to grasp the immensity of the situation. The day is coming when the Yang Tse Kiang valley will be the greatest steel-producing section of [the entire world." Useful Hints and General Informa- tlon for the 305! Housewife SERVICE TO ALASKA. CHINA'S POSSIBILITIES. Things To Remember. NEWS FRGM ENGLAND Occurrences In the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Com- mercial World. VV'HO for a quarter of a, century chased the grouchy gorilla and the more amiable chimpanzee to their lairs in the Congo, is now on his way {0 West Africa, where he expects to remain a year or two collecting spo- ‘clmens for the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, D.C. We have Dr. Garner as the authority for the state- iment that gorillas. when caught up td the age of two years, can be made as docile as any household pet by kind- ness and firmness. but that the let; 'male of the species is fiercer than th male. The chimpanzee. continues th professor, can be taught to 5135an several words. and he expects to bring home halt a dozen live speci- mens. as well as a. couple of gorillas, NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. the east end fever. ‘ Percy Woodland, the famous steepleâ€" chase jockey, is now a prisoner of war in Turkey. Three women doctors are now em- ployed in the London Hospital. This is a new departure. An ex-mayor and magistrate of Stafford, named Peach, died recently from inhalation of gas. g. v... . ......-. "v , Women willihg tow work as roadâ€" men are offered one pound a week at Buckley, Flint§hi1‘e_. . __- . 1,7“ v.-._.,, __ , AflThe Odoi Chemical Works, Mar- shalâ€"sea-road, have been purchased by Sir R. Qoop_er, M.P., for £3,300. ‘11 .1; ~.- -.. - A local di’s’tiii’cic' council fined a shell factory 21 shillings for not depositing plans of their _new buildings. umxr willie Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Company have ordered a large high powered steamship to be laid down immediately. Six thousand smokes have been sent to “Islington’s Own” Battalion at the front by the Highbury Patâ€" riotic Platform. The council of Wandsworth has de- cided to erect a permanent memorial to all citizens of the borough serv- ing in the war. J. and J. J. Mellor. of Bury, have presented Corporal Hutchinson, V.C., one of their employes, with £50 in war savings certificates. The rector of Foston, Leicester- shire, Rev. W. 0. Stocks, met his death by falling down a well at Vic- toria Station Hotel, Nottingham. On a charge of forging and utterâ€" ing, Archibald Eyles, a school teachâ€" er, was sentehced to nine’months’ im. prisonment at the Old Bailey. . 1 A batch of those convicted for takâ€" ing part in the recent rebellion in Ire- land have been removed from Dart- moor to the new prison at Lowes. Percy Backbarrow has returned to England. He was the last of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s party who had been marooned on Elephant Island. Derby Prison has been set aside as military detention barracks. One death has been recordedqin Prof. Robert L. Gamer (IENLOIIdVéH érom spotted set aside as He was too ill from h‘ostbites to come back with the rest of the party. Constable Charles Dednum of the Vine Street station was presented with a cheque for £10 at Bow Street for bravery at a fire in Frith Street, Soho. To form the basis of an endow- ment fund for scholarships for teach- ing the Russian language to Hull stu- dents, Captain H. Samman has made a gift of £10,000. Disabled soldiers are to be allowed to enter firee of charge the evening classes of the Dudley Art School so as to eauin themselves for civil em- as to equip themselves for ci plcyment when they are able. The Duke of Westminster’s offer of Eaton Hall as a military hospital for officers has been accepted by the Cheap fertilizers are always more expensive in the long run. If they are not well mix-ed, for instance, they may produce uneven plant growth, because the fertilizer is weak in some places and strong in others. Make sure of first» class results by using ewes They are very finely ground and perfectly mixed by the most thorough method known. One pf these fertilizers is the right one for your soil. It will increase your crops. hasten maturity, improve the quality and make more money for you. 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