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American Agriculturist, May 17, 1924 
The Help-Each-Other 
Corner 
Some Cooking Inquiries 
“Kindly tell me how some one in your 
lists of home cooking makes steam candy, 
a lso how they do up pickled onions so 
that the vinegar does not give them a 
tang- Also spiced beets and canned 
f 0 rn.” — Mr. C. G. W., Pa. 
“I wish some one would tell us how to 
use suet in making other things than 
steamed puddings.”— Mrs. E. M. A., 
New York. 
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Yeast Recipe Wanted 
H AS any one of our readers a reliable 
recipe for home-made yeast? Mrs. 
C. I. P. of Pennsylvania asks us to help 
her find one as she says hers does not 
seem to succeed. Mrs. P. has another 
suggestion to make which is as follows: 
“I wish some of the women readers 
would write and describe their day’s 
work. I like to know what other farm 
women are doing—what they have for 
meals—how they make bedding, etc. It 
is more homelike to hear them tell, than 
it is to read or hear the Home Economics 
teachers always. I get tired of hearing 
everything scientifically described.” 
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Braided Rugs 
Can any American Agriculturist 
reader send me directions for making 
braided rugs from ordinary carpet rags? 
Would woolen ones be much better than 
cotton or can I mix them just as well? 
I also would like to know if there are 
any plants beside. ferns that grow well in 
a cool, shady place.—J ane. 
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Editors Note.—If any of our readers can 
help in answering these questions we should 
he glad to have them write to the Household 
Editor, who will forward the letters to the 
afferent readers who have asked for help 
For the Pie-lover 
jV/TAN is known to be the pie-eating 
S ex. If you have in your home a 
boy, big or small, whose favorite food is 
pie, you can not reach his heart more 
readily than with a 
California Lemon Pie 
l l 4 cups sugar Yi cup flour 
l /i teaspoon salt 1 cup boiling water 
grated rind of 1 3 egg yolks 
lemon 1 tablespoon butter 
4j/2 tablespoons lemon juice 
Mix sugar, flour and salt, add boiling 
water, stirring constantly. Allow to 
come to boiling point directly over the 
teat, then cook over boiling water in 
double boiler 15 minutes. Add butter, 
egg yolks, lemon juice and rind and mix 
thoroughly. Pour into a baked pie 
crust. Make a meringue by beating 3 egg 
whites until stiff and adding Yi cup of 
sifted powdered sugar and 1 teaspoon of 
lemon juice. Beat until smooth and 
glossy and spread over top of pie. Bake 
in a, moderate oven 8 minutes or until 
brown, and serve cold. 
Grandmothers 
H AS being a grandmother ceased to be 
an occupation and become merely an 
incident? Mrs. Elliott Cheatham, of 
Atlanta, who is director for the National 
League of Women Voters in a region 
made up of nine southern *States and the 
District of Columbia, believes so. Airs. 
Cheatham says she can remember when 
grandmothers were expected to help 
bring up their grandchildren as soon as 
fney had finished bringing up their own, 
a nd if they lived long enough, a third 
generation offered them occupation. 
“Wherever I go,” says Airs. Cheatham, 
w ho travels over many States, “I am 
struck by the number of middle-aged 
a nd elderly women who are taking up 
various kinds of work, studying for 
professions or crafts or fitting themselves 
‘°r political activity. It will mean the 
utilization of one of the nation’s most 
There are millions of kitchens 
which are literally prisons. Three 
meals a day, 365 days iri the year, 
represents a stupendous work 
program, yet millions of house¬ 
wives do it efficiently and un¬ 
complainingly. 
But there is a way to lighten 
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valuable and neglected assets—the 
trained, experienced, thoughtful minds of 
grandmothers. 
“In the old days, many a woman who 
would have graced a President’s cabinet 
sat at home rocking her grandchildren 
and for variety, knitting. There will be 
fewer heels turned hereafter but the skill 
that turned the heel will help the nation 
to turn a corner. When I see grand¬ 
mothers coming out into the world I 
know the world will be better for it. 
The country needs grandmothering even 
more, perhaps, than it needs mothering.” 
The Canary Bird Flower 
W HERE you want a dense covering 
of pretty foliage not bothered by 
insects, the canary bird flower will serve 
well. It grows fast and twines closely by 
clasping the support with its leaf stems. 
The flowers are not showy but odd, 
resembling tiny yellow birds in flight. 
from which it gets its name. The seeds 
germinate readily and can be planted 
after the soil is warm. It is a type of 
tropaeolum closely related to the nastur¬ 
tiums but a much stronger grower and 
having finely indented foliage. I have 
had them climb to the second story 
window and become so thick that sunlight 
would not penetrate, and for a window or 
porch vine they are excellent.— Bertha 
Alzada. 
Marshmallow Cake 
C REAAI 1 cup sugar with Yi cup but¬ 
ter. Add % cup milk, 2 well-beaten 
eggs, 2 cups flour sifted with 2 teaspoons 
baking powder. Flavor with Yi teaspoon 
each vanilla and lemon extract. Bake in 
two layers. Dissolve 2 tablespoons gela¬ 
tine in 8 tablespoons boiling water, stir 
in 1 lb. confectioner’s sugar, flavor to 
taste, beat half an hour, and spread gener¬ 
ously between layers and on top of cake. 
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