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butter; put back into the oven and roast 
and stir for 15 minutes. When finished 
it should be rich dark brown. Grind in 
coffee mill. A heaping tablespoonful be¬ 
fore grinding makes two cups. If en¬ 
closed in clean cloth sack it will be set¬ 
tled. Use cream and sugar to your lik-' 
ing. Invalids and children can drink this 
with no barm to them. 
M.v son hand-picked one bushel of 
wheat and ran it through the feed mill. 
It was the best whole wheat flour we 
ever had for muffins, for pancakes and 
bread. For the bread, take one egg. one 
cup sour milk, half-cup sugar, one tea¬ 
spoon soda, one of salt, one tablespoon 
butter, one and one-half cups whole 
wheat flour; finish with white flour. Stir 
a little stiffen than cake, bake one hour 
in a moderate oven. Nuts or raisins can 
be added for a change. Wheat can be 
bought from farmers or at grain mills. 
MRS. A. L. C. 
Apple Butter Without Cider 
Not everyone has boiled cider to make 
old-fashioned apple butter. This method 
will be found nearly as good, and it re¬ 
quires very little sugar: Cook a large 
kettleful of well-flavored apples, the same 
as you would for apple sauce, using as 
little water as possible. As it cooks down 
so much it may be better to cook it in two 
kettles, and then put all into one that 
can be put into the oven; or it may be 
put into a crock of convenient size—one 
that will stand the heat. Put this into 
the oven and let it cook down. When it 
begins to show good color, sweeten it to 
taste. The amount of sugar will vary 
when different varieties of apples are 
used. Some will take more sugar than 
others, but. any kind needs very little. 
After putting in the sugar continue to 
cook it down till thick, and of a good 
brown color. When nearly done a little 
of your favorite spice may be added if 
you wish. This needs very little stirring. 
Se.t. a rack under the kettle to prevent 
the butter from burning on bottom. Busy 
housewives should try this oven method 
for any kind of “fruit butter,” as it does 
away with constant stirring. It also im¬ 
proves the flavor. The above is fine with¬ 
out spice. MRS. w. D. 
Muskmelon Butter 
Someone asked how to make muskmelon 
butter. Take seeds out, peel, cut up in 
fettle you will cook it in. Do not add 
any water, as it makes plenty of liquid 
of its own. Cook all the juice out. thick 
as you want your butter or jam; weigh. 
Having weighed the vessel, subtract the 
difference; this gives you an idea how 
much sugar to use. half or more, to suit 
the taste. Cook sugar down. It is fine. 
We cook tomatoes same way, only we 
prefer lemon in the tomatoes. Some use 
spice. MRS. i. s. w. 
Sweet Apple Ways and Jelly Com¬ 
binations 
Apples are an abundant crop in our 
county this Fall, and we are using the 
sweet ones to fill our empty cans, as ber¬ 
ries of all kinds, with the exception of 
strawberries, are a complete failure here. 
This is due to the heavy snowfall last 
Winter, which broke down the canes of 
the wild berries, as well as the culti¬ 
vated ones. Sweet apple© combined so 
well with other fruits in making sauce 
that the family all vote for the apples in 
place of berries any time. 
Sweet apple combined with quince is 
an old standby, and I will give my rule 
for the benefit of those who have not tried 
it. To seven pounds of apples, quartered, 
take three quinces; pare and cut in small 
pieces, add three pounds of sugar, cook 
until the apples are tender and can. We 
cannot always find the quinces in our 
small town market, and so we sometimes 
use lemon instead. This makes a de¬ 
licious sauce, and I think the secret of 
success with these sauces is long, slow 
cooking. 
We have a quantity of plums this year, 
but they require so much sugar that I am 
using sweet apples with them to make 
the sugar go farther. I take eight pounds 
of plums, eight pounds of sugar and five 
pounds of sweet apples; this makes a 
nice lot of sauce, and fills quite a few 
more cans than the plums alone, and is 
really better. 
1 have a delicious cake filling which 
may be made with sweet apples and put 
away in jelly glasses, and it will keep 
any length of time. It is nice for mak¬ 
ing sweet sandwiches too: One pound, 
figs, one pound raisins, three pounds sweet 
apples, peeled and cored, two and one-half 
pounds sugar. Place apples on stove, 
cook imtil tender, take a large spoon and 
mash smooth or put through potato ricer. 
Add the other fruit and sugar and con¬ 
tinue cooking until thick, stirring fre¬ 
quently to prevent burning, l'ut in ©mall 
glassas. cover with paraffin. An extra 
pound or two of raisins used in place of 
the figs makes a filling almost as good 
ai >d a little less expensive. 
Elderberries are ripe; this humble 
Perry ls qu ito despised by the good house¬ 
keeper© of the neighborhood, but we think 
i 'Vi i s exce H eil t pies, quite as good as 
uiekleberry. Canned by mother’s recipe 
j. t'J ac 'kberry pickles, it is a welcome 
addition to our pie mate mil for Winter. 
k e\ on pounds elderberries, three pounds 
Higar. one cup vinegar, spices, cinnamon, 
auspice, cloves, tablespoon of each, tied 
in a small bag and placed.' in the kettle 
with the fruit. Let come to a boil, con¬ 
tinue the cooking 10 minutes and ©eai. 
Elderberry juice combined with apple 
juice makes nice jelly; tastes very much 
like blackberry jelly. 
Small wild grapes, which so many 
housekeepers think worthless, make fine 
jelly when combined with an equal 
amount of apple juice. We think these 
combinations much better than either 
used alone. mrs. gardener. 
A Dark Picture of Hospital Care 
Having heard so much in favor of hos¬ 
pitals for expectant mothers, I think it 
is time for someone to speak up on the 
other side. I have had my babies, two 
at home, and two confinements at the hos¬ 
pital. Doubtless it is as good or better, 
and possibly cheaper when everything is 
normal, to be away from home, and if one 
can add the cost of a trained nurse, in 
case of need, the hospital is all right, 
but much more expensive than home. 
But unless you are sure that you will 
have a husky baby, find out just how well 
prepared the hospital is to care for a 
delicate or premature infant. Have they 
an incubator and a way to warm the 
nursery on the raw days that come in 
Summer? Remember hospitals do not 
use woolen band©, shirts and petticoats, 
and have no soft, little knit blankets; 
and many hospitals do not allow your 
baby things to be used unless you have a 
private nurse. 
My third confinement was premature, 
seven months, and twin boys. Both were 
living and one seemed husky enough, 
though tiny; the other was not quite so 
©trong. Remember. I was in one of the 
more expensive rooms, in a big hospital 
in one of our larger Eastern cities. The 
day was raw, as days so often are in the 
middle of September, but there was not 
a warm spot in all the hospital. Prob¬ 
ably if I had insisted on a private nurse 
then, and that the babies should be in 
my room. I might have been allowed that 
privilege. Then they could, at least, have 
been wrapped in my ©oft little blankets, 
instead of the folded cotton bed blankets 
which were used. It is a rule there that 
the baby stays in the nursery 12 hours, 
and I trustingly let them go. only telling 
them to spare no expense to save them 
both. I never saw my babies again. Per¬ 
haps the result would have been the same 
at home, but I do not feel that they had 
a fair chance. Why they were not rolled 
in cotton batting instead of tlioee big 
blankets and why the stronger one was 
never given a chance to try at the breast, 
I do not know. I was too heartbroken 
to demand the reasons after it was too 
late. At home they could have had warm 
air. as well as hot water bottles. No 
doubt there are other hispitals better pre¬ 
pared for such cases, but I imagine that 
mine was a typical case, in the average 
hospital, and so long as I can get a good, 
practical nurse my future babies will be 
born at home. But that will never give 
me back my so-long-hoped-for twins. 
MRS. b. p. s. 
Cleaning an Angora Rug 
How can I clean an Angora rug? I 
have tried gasoline, but that fails to ac¬ 
complish the desired result, r. a. m. 
The “Scientific American Cyclopedia of 
Formulas” says that one washing with 
warm (not hot) suds will not harm the 
skin itself. The washing should be doue 
quickly, the skin well rinsed in cold 
water, and dried in only moderate 
warmth, being frequently turned and 
shaken. The skin may not be quite as 
soft after the washing, but there will be 
little difference. We ©hould prefer a 
ends made with borax chips or some other 
flake soap that is specially recommended 
fur delicate fabrics, making a good suds 
and doing the work quickly on a bright, 
windy day, free from frost. 
Batter Pudding with Fruit 
A simple, whole©«mo dessert, easier to 
make and to digest than pie. is made 
thus: Cream one tablespoon of shorten¬ 
ing with two tablespoons of sugar, add 
one cup of sweet milk, a little salt, and 
two cups of Hour which has been sifted 
together with two teaspoons of baking 
powder. Bake in a square cake tin. 
Serve individually with either canned or 
fresh fruit, on squares of the pudding. 
This is also excellent served with lemon 
or orange dressing, and is delicious when 
split or baked in thin cakes, but’'.d. and 
put together with fruit like shortcake. 
It has long been our favorite pie substi¬ 
tute. I have thought of naming it “Lib¬ 
erty pudding” or “twentieth century des¬ 
sert.” GENEVIEVE. 
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