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Just for a Change. 
The sharp, tingling days of Winter stir 
our blood and whet the family appetites. 
After a man has been doing Winter 
chores, a good hot boiled dinner tastes 
good, and hot desserts are also in order. 
The house mother gets a little weary of 
the same old round, and if she is like me 
4879 Evening Coat, 34 to 42 bust. 
tries a few experiments now and then. 
Some time when you are going to serve 
Indian pudding make it this way: 
One pint of skim-mi\k scalded. While 
hot stir in smoothly two cupfuls of In¬ 
dian meal, add a little salt, a teaspoonful 
of cinnamon and half a cupful of mo¬ 
lasses, also the same of sugar. Stir well. 
Now add a quart of cold skim-milk, and 
mix lightly as possible. Bake slowly for 
two hours. Your finished product will 
be fragrant, rich, golden, trembling in 
its sweet jellied whey. Now add the last 
touch. When you serve it, put a heaping 
spoonful of nice apple sauce flavored with 
nutmeg over the top, and if you like 
another spoonful of whipped cream over 
that. I’m sure it won’t go begging. Al¬ 
ways use skim-milk. 
If you like onions, try this. Get a 
pound of juicy steak or beef. It need 
not be tender. In fact, some of the best 
and most nutritious beef is nearly always 
tough. Stew gently in water to cover, 
after searing quickly in a very hot spider 
or kettle of iron. When nearly done cut 
fine two mediumm onions and add, also 
two teaspoonfuls of vinegar, more if the 
vinegar is not quite sharp. I hicken with 
two or three tablespoonfuls of flour. Add 
a generous lump of butter, some salt and 
pepper to taste and serve piping hot with 
boiled potatoes. 
Sunday Dessert.—Four ripe bananas, 
two crisp sweet apples (Hubbardstons are 
4724 Circular Skirt with Flounce, 
22 to 30 waist. 
just right), two oranges and a handful of 
plumped seeaed raisins. (Pour boiling 
water over the raisins a minute to swell 
them.) Make a quart of gelatine, or any 
of the various jellies on the market. Pour 
over the fruit and set to harden. Stir as 
is cools to mix the fruit through the jelly. 
Serve with whipped cream or soft cus¬ 
tard. A good substitute for whipped 
cream is apple snow. For this Baldwin 
apples are best. Grate one very fine after 
peeling it. Select a large, perfect fruit. 
Break over it the white of an egg and 
whip the whole mass until it is foamy, 
stiff, and white as driven snow. You 
must work quickly or the apple will turn 
dark before you add the egg, and the 
result will disappoint you. You should 
beat until perfectly stiff. 
Sour Milk Cake.—This is cheap and 
toothsome. Most fruit cake is a very ex¬ 
pensive article: One egg; 1 (4 cupful of 
sugar; one cupful corn-beef fat, drip¬ 
pings or half butter and the rest lard 
(the beef fat is the thing to use if you 
have it); 1(4 cupful of sour milk; two 
cupfuls raisins; a handful of currants and 
a little citron or preserved ginger; a cup- 
fid molasses; half a cupful of sugar; one 
teaspoonful of soda; flour to make quite 
stiff, about four or five cupfuls. This 
amount will make a large and small loaf. 
Bake slowly as you would sponge cake 
and keep in the pans for two or three 
days before cutting. A piece of bread in 
the cake box is a good thing. When eggs 
are 40 cents a dozen, I omit the egg, and 
have excellent results, by adding a bit 
more soda. Milk that is almost “cheesy” 
answers as well as anything if you beat 
it thoroughly before using. 
A good way to prevent boiled onions 
from distressing tired or weak stomachs, 
and to overcome the disagreeable odor 
of the breath, is this: When the dish of 
onions is all ready for the table, seasoned 
with butter, salt and pepper, pour a few 
spoonfuls of milk or cream over it and 
toss lightly to prevent mashing the vege¬ 
table. This is positively a sure thing, 
and the only way I ever attained these re¬ 
sults. 
Hot Slaw.—Cut a head of cabbage fine. 
Have ready enough dressing, half vine¬ 
gar and half water, and one-fourth sugar, 
with a lump of butter to cover it. Simmer 
until done. It is good cold. It is well 
to salt the dressing a little, to taste. 
ADAH E. COLCORD. 
The Rural Patterns. 
A loose evening coat, that can be slipped 
over a light dress, is a convenient extra 
garment. No. 4879 is a very graceful 
model. As illustrated the material is 
champagne colored broadcloth with collar 
and facing of cream cloth and trimming 
of fancy braid and lining of white silk, 
hut all materials in vogue for cloaks of the 
sort are correct. The coat is made with 
fronts, backs, side-backs and the cape 
portions that serve as big sleeves, their 
front edges being included in the under¬ 
arm seams. When liked, openings can 
be cut at the under portions of these 
through which the hands can be slipped 
when needful. The neck is finished with 
a big collar that tapers to points at the 
front. The quantity of material required 
for the medium size is 9 yards 27 inches 
wide, 5(4 yards 44 inches wide, or 4^j 
yards .72 inches wide, with 2(4 yards of 
silk or 1(4 yard of cloth for facing. The 
pattern 4879 is cut in sizes for a 34, 36, 38, 
40 and 42 inch bust measure; price, 10 
cents. 
For a soft, clinging material, No. 4724 
is a very suitable model. The skirt is 
made with an upper portion and flounce, 
the upper portion being cut in two sec¬ 
tions, front and back, so avoiding the 
center back seam, and is laid in pleats 
at the upper edge which provide graceful 
folds below. The flounce also is circular, 
but is gathered at the upper edge to give 
additional fullness and joined to the skirt, 
the seam being concealed by the ruffles. 
Any trimming that may be preferred can 
be used, but the little bias ruffles are al¬ 
ways attractive. The quantity of material 
reuired for the medium size is 13 yards 
21 inches wide, 11 yards 27 inches wide, 
or 6(4 yards 44 inches wide. The pattern 
4724 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 28 and 
30 inch waist measure; price, 10 cents. 
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