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The Exeter Advocate, 1916-8-31, Page 3out the House Useful Hints and General Informa- tion for the Busy Housewife Quick Bread Recipes. inch thick and cut, into small rounds. Twentieth Century Bread: To Bake in a quick oven 15 to 20 min- utes. If sour milk or buttermilk is used instead of sour cream, use two tablespoons shorbening in place of one tablespoonful. In cases of constipation either of the following are very advisable: Bran Bread.—Three cups. white flour, three cups bran, one teaspoon =Hake four box loaves of bread scald one pint of milk, add one pint of water, and when the mixture is lukewarm add one small compressed yeastcake dissolved in half a cupful of warm water, a level teaspoonful of salt and sufficient whole wheat flour to make a batter; beet. continuously for five salt,;half cu molasses, one teaspoon., place, minutes; degreescoveand stand in a warm fui aking soda, two cups sour'milk or place, 75 Fahrenheit, for two hours and a half. Then add flour buttermilk. Mix all together, put in- slowly, stirring all the while, until. to greased bread pan and bake one and the dough is sufficiently hard to turn !one-half hours in a slow oven.. on a baking board Kneel until its 1 Bran and Graham Biscuit—One cup PRUSSIAN GUARD PRIDE OF U S IT IS AN ARMY CORPS OF 50,000 PICKED MEN. But a Few More Blows Like Conte], 'liaison Will Shake German Faith, apparently, that he was not at Con- ta}maison, else his "citadel" might a have fallen in on him, crushed by the "contemptible little British army." 1 PETROGARD IN EARNEST. To All Russia the War is Considered a Crusade. "The war," saki a friend of the writer, just returned from a visit to Russia, "has wrought no such change in any capital of Europe, not even in Paris, as in Petrograd. From a city of careless pleasures it has become 'a On the morning of May 21, 1913, I city of the deepest- seriousness and a was standing in Lehrter Station, Ber- grim and deadly earnestness. It is lin, awaiting the arrival of King possessed of one thought only—to win George and Queen Mary, who had the war; and on that object all its ef- come to Germany. for the wedding of forts are concentrated, says London Princess Victoria Luise of Prussia, , Answers, writes Frederic William Wile, late ; "It is a city, too, of profound piety,. Berlin correspondent of the London and this piety is universal. You will see the tau =h t t' b elriver rid the ' Daily Mail. Presently the iron raft- es a - a Drs of the barnlise old Bahnhof shook most high -placed officer alike rt move with a mighty hubbub The "honor their hats and cross themselves rev - loses its stickness; divide it in loaves; ! sterilized bran, two cups graham company of the Fixst Regiment of Ever Russian regiment has its awn put each loaf in a greased square pan; flour, one cup milk, one egg, two tea- the Infantry of the Guard was tramp - A he same warm ; spoons butter, four teaspoons baking ing down the platform to the train, spatia! ikon, which to it is a real li:- place for one cover and nhour, d in for until it has . powder. Mix the dry ingredients to- preceded by its thunderous band and ing thing, the' v cry body or the saint doubled its bulk. Brush the top with gather, beat the egg slightly and add fife-and-drtim corps. With deafening whose spirit dwells in it; and every to the milk. Stir the liquids into the thud the phalanx of young giants, soldier carries a cross as his most; water and bake in a moderately oven •dryingredients the same as for cream gaoseste ed precious treasure and consoler: Toe No doubt, most of us are feeling g six-footers to a man pp for three-quarters of an hour.all Ruseia the war is a crusade—a that our summer wz elro see are iceedn- The next is a little quicker, as the ` biscuits, Turn upon a slightly flour- past the Imperial welcoming party, ]fol war waged for the little brother ning to look a litt,e the wore for ed molding board and roll to one-half • leaving in their wake a cloud of dust bi, entire process only takes three hours inch in thickness. Cut into shape and a rumble that might had a been i Ser' nt1 for this holy wear. The dainty v oil��s at id r ^a; nel- from beginning to end. ;with tlhe biscuit cutter and bake in a made by a cavalcade. great and hay cru-' i.es that were so crisp and fresh at the Ilanko Bread. --3?(: cupfuls. sifter hob oven. "Na, mein Lieber Wile," quoth my side everyone is working, The very beginning of June :fuel .inky when we bread flour. 2 tablespoonfuls short- Lastly, bora is a> very nourishing old friend Schmidt of the Berliner boys are always busy rollingband- started the season with them. are ening. 1 cupful water. 1 teaspoon- , nut pawl raisin bread that is paxtieu- "so was gibt's in ages, mal:ir:g `swoles,' or sarin;; strips havelooking limp and £a :eel sins they Zeitung am 111itta,,,�+ of bombazine together, which the sal- been pressed into service all fol of salt. 2 tablespoonfuls sugar. ]arty good for the children's school England wohl nicht! (Well, my clear diers prefer to sock; �. At the hospital through the warm weather. 1 cake compressed yeast. Sift and luncheon, but it is well to chop the Wile, that's something` you haven't of Tsarskoe Selo the Czarina, her measure the bread flour; rub the fat raisins so as to make them more eas- got in England). j ,, Taffeta the Leading Silk lightly into the flour with the tips of fly digested: Schmidt was right. There is noth dau„hters, and Coast ladies. the are min - fingers; divide the water into , Nut and Raisin Bread.—One cup ing like the Prussian Guard; there is . r:alexin i tai;tht and day tthe w iediat t By far the most pe,pte'h :illy, for three cups. Add the salt to one cup, white flour, two cups graham flour, something better. And a few more ,and dying; and in all the intermediate dresses just now are the taffetas. the sugar to another and soften the social stages everyone is equally hard They are e;pecialiy smart in s:•If (cines quarter cup sugar; one cup chopped smashes at the Prussian Guard, such • at work• and in thu many striped, checked and yeast in the third cup. Combine nuts, quarter cup small raisins, half as the British army delivered at Con-' "In the streets of Petrograd the war blocked effects seen. Navy blue and these liquids and add them to the teaspoonful salt, half cup molasses, talmaison, and that ``internal col-1meets you everywhere. Wherever never the rich, dark tones predominate. In flour, mixing the dough lightly with two teaspoonfuls socia, two cups sour lapse" in Germany urian which many you go you encounter collectors — ;ell- some very striking tieeigne both the fingers. When the dough will milk, Mix and sift the dry ingredi- people in England have built promo, - ling metal eros: es for the Red C•ross, checks and stripes are combined. Fele form a ball raise it from the bowl; ents, add nuts and raisins, then mol- ture hopes will be materially hasten - hold it high in the air, and strike it asses and mix. Bake in a Moderate ed. For the Guard of Prussia, in . postcards for a fund to help the I'cale;-, with force upon the table four times. oven 46 to tiO minutes. Hun tradition, is invincible. To de - the sacred name of charity. g y• erently when passing a streete-shrine• TITFAS'ES or relies from the battlefield—all in Replace in the bowl and allow it to feat it decisively in action is visibly . ,,fist 1 street earner you will see a 3 time turn the dough under the centertory.” somas •'' is - four times. Place in a greased bread ten while . eon reads aloud the . The "Super" -Army Corps. latest news of the fighting frim the pan and let the dough rise for a half y "What is the Prus fan Guard'" I leaflet-, poeted up on the walls. Here ' and hour. Then bake the dough in a have been asked a scare of times. Lan- : you pause to watch a regiment of stal- hot aver a. 450 degrees Fahrenheit for like our Guard., which in peace tom- a wart, grim -faced soldiers march past, 80 to 3;.i hinutes. When the bread prise Household Cavalry and Foot 'with eeo slow, rhythmic tread peculiar come; free from the sides of the pan, Guards (in all about 10,000 men), the to the Russian fighter. A little farth- tap, it, A hollow sound sheave that it Guard of Prussia is an army corps ; er on a bund of students passes along is done, Cool the bread and keep in which takes the field as a separate singing—to your astonishment-- * tin or air -tight box. unit and is made up on a peace foot-, `Tipperary; while very onlooker re- rheire Wheat Bread.—Two cups s g ing of some 50,000 troops of all arms. moves his hat in tribute to. England, scalded milk, le cup sugar or 1-3 cup molasses, 2 teaspoons salt, 1 yeasb cake dissolved in le, cup lukewarm water, and 2 2-3 cups coarse entire wheat flour. Add sweetening and salt to milk, .,nl; and when 1•ikewaam add `dissolved yeast cal?. and flour; beat well. cover and let rise to double its bulk. Again beat, and turn into greased bread pans, having pans half full; let rise and bake. Entire wheat bread should not be quite double its bulk during last rising. This mix- ture may be baked in gem pans. Entire Wheat and White Flour Bread.—Use same ingredients as for entire wheat bread, with deception of flour. For flour use 3bi cups entire wheat and 21. cups white flour. The dough should be slightly kneaded, and if handled quickly will not stiek to the board. Loaves and biscuits should be shaped with hands instead of pour- ing into pans, as in entire wheat bread! Whole Wheat Bread.—One and one- half pints whole wheab flour, 1 tea- spoonful soda, 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, 1 teaspoonful of salt, % pint of cold water. Exceptionally simple and inexpensive is this recipe for bread, made without sweetening, shortening or yeast, yet it is sweet, rise for 1?> hours; at the end of which to undermine German's hopes of "vie- paticn.t, crowd gathered Things to Remember. A portable fire extinguisher should be in ever • home. It is sail that an omelette is the true test of civilization. Peas and corn should always be canned a few hours after they are gathered. A high cutting table, such as tailors !use, is of the greatest service in the ewin room. When a worn place or hole appears It embraces thirteen regiments of in-; the great ally who is making victory in the matting it can be darned with fantry, eight regiments of cavalry,assured." ' strands of raffia. To remove ink stains, dip the stain - in boiling water, rub wibh salts of i sorrel and rinse well. I When using a double thread, draw • it over a piece of laundry soap and you will never have a snarl. i The cloudy look on a piano can be removed by a cloth dipped in soap and water and wrung very dry. Always, if possible, have your din- ing room light and bright in the win- ter, and cool and shaded in the sum- mer, Left over corn and tomatoes can be made into an excellent chowder with an addition of sliced potatoes, milk and seasoning. To preserve the flavor of the olives when a large bottle has been opened pour a little olive oil on the top and keep well corked. Fine linens and pieces of lingerie will last much longer if they are wrung out by hand and not put through the wringer. It is nob safe to eat mushrooms after they have been allowed to get cold. They develop injurious quali- ties and becomes poisonous. An old magazine kept on the kitch- tender and wholesome and the entire en table is good to set hot pans on; process takes less than two hours. the outer leaves can be torn off as Sift the dry ingredients together fast as they get soiled. (having the teaspoonful of soda, A Russian salad is made from one rounding—and the salt and cream of onion, two apples and four cucumbers tartar level) then add the water, stir pickles, all chopped fine and seasoned thoroughly, place in a well -greased, with salt, cayenne and vinegar. round tin, cover wibh a buttered paper When some one has knocked a and steam for one hour over constant- white place in the wall paper. copy the proper coloring of the figure with crayons and the spot will not show. When a kettle is badly burned, do not fill it with water, bub set is aside to cool, then put in a handful of washing soda and water and allow it to boil for an hour or more. Painb, no matter how hard and dry, can be taken out of woollen clothing •by using a solution of equal parts of ammonia and turpentine. - Saturate the spot two or three times, then wash out with soap suds. Instead of folding tablecloths after they are washed, roll them, folded once or twice, lengthwise on mailing tubes of cardboard. This makes a smoother cloth with fewer creases, which is, of course, to be desired. When potting plants, put a piece of coarse muslin over the hole in the pot before putting in the bits of stone and soil, which keeps the drainage good. The muslin prevents the earth from washing away. - - A scant teaspoonful of boiled vine- gar beaten into boiled frosting •when the flavoring is being added will keep it from getting brittle and 'breaking when the cake is cut. It will be as moist and nice in a week as the day it to ly boiling water. Remove from the steamer and bake for three-quarters of an hour in a slow oven. If cut, when cold, into slices and browned slightly in the oven it has a crisp, nutty flavor, which is both appetizing and delicious. Corn Bread. -2 cups cornmeal. 1 cup flour. lee cups sour milk. Fe teaspoon baking soda. 11/1 teaspoon salt. 3 tablespoons melted drippings: ee, cup sugar. Mix and sift dry in- gredients, mix thoroughly and quickly turn into hot, well -greased, fiat pan. Bake about 30 minutes. Cub into squares and serve hot. Corn Butter Bread.—Two eggs, half pint cornmeal, half pint milk, one • tablespoonful of butter, melted; half cup white flour, half teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful baking powder. Melt the butter over hot water; sep- arate the eggs; beat the yolks sight- ' ly; add the milk, then bhe butter, corn- meal, flour and salt. Beat thorough- ly, add the baking powder; beat again ej- and fold in, carefully, the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth. steam for an hour or so. Out into squares and serve warm. Sour Cream -'Biscuits.—Mix two ,cusps flour, half teaspoon soda, two teaspoons baking powder and half tea- spoon salt and sift several times. With the bips of the fingers work into the flour one tablespoon butter, or, if desired, half tablespoon each butter and lard. Stir in lightly with a fork enough sour cream to make the dough just stiff enough . to handle, probably about one cup. The dough can be left In Russia. very soft if the board is well floured. "He who steals my good .name"— Pat the 'dough. out 'quickly one-half "Gets a 1oAd' " - was made. - Serving green vegetables on toast is an economical as well as a palatable method. It makes. the vegetable "go farther," adds, considerably to. the total food value of the dish, and is one more good way of using stale bread, and four regiments of field artillery. ( :..'----- When we speak of the "Prussian! VALUE OF SAVING. Guard," therefore, we mean foot, rifles, Uhians, dragoons, cuirassiers, Some Good Advice to the Young hussars and even sappers. In the ; People, war the "Guard" may be augmented i The opinions of William II, Osborn, to as many as 60,000 troops, so that United States Commissioner of Inter - even if 5,000 have fallen the {`Guard" national Revenue, on saving, are' is by no means "wiped out." i quoted in the August American .. The men of the corps are the sup-' Magazine, -• j posed super -troops of the Kaiser's , " People get rich in two ways,' he army, hallowed by jegend with un -'ray,, `The minority through skill conquerable prowess. Their officers are exclusively noble, and the rank and file must be at least 5 feet 10 inches and 108 poends. Unlike other Prussian regiments, the Guard is not a territorial unit, recruited from the particular local district in which it is raised or has its headquarters, but consists of men from all parts - of, `I think you can get on your feet the kingdom. Two qualifications are again,' she told him. 'I'm willing to essential — the physical standard take a chance.' mentioned and "better -class" origin, "'All right,' he said, 'get into the As a rule, the Guards belong to the boat with me: older farming stock of the Prussian Provinces. To have performed his two or three years• of military ser- vice with Guard regiments in Berlin or Potsdam, where they are ex- clusively quartered, is for every young Prussian a badge of distinctionenough to furnish a home. which serves him well in later life. "But she didn't quit saving. She • Three Generations. kept rigl.: on until she had $2,000.. The First and Second Regiments I With this she bought a piece of land, of the Infantryof the Guard are the fund she later sold for $3,000. The fund kept growing, and she kept mak particular pets of the Hohenzollerns. ing more investments. To -day she , All Prussian royal princes serve in has money and property in her own them by tradition, formally entering name valued at upwards of $40,000, their ranits in their tenth birthdays, "I know of many more cases just as "the littlest Willie," the Crown like that. It's a law of business that Prince's eldest son, did the other day, invariably succeeds. completing what' I heard some one - "My advice to every young man is call "three degenerations." The to start a savings fund and put into princelings go through the form of it a definite part of what he makes. "earning" their promotion by succes- When the total runs to $500 or more sive stages, beginning as subalterns he should invest it in something and graduating to a colonelcy. Napoleon once called his guard "a moving citadel which protects the Emperor wherever he may be." The Kaiser on a spectacular occasion early in his reign stole the aphorism and applied it to the Prussian Guard. It is well for the Supreme War Lord, and success in investments and trade' ing; the majority through systematic saving of small sums. I know a man who just before he was to be mar- ried, twenty years ago, lost all he had, and went $11,000 in debt on a business deal. Ile gave his intended bride a chance to release herself. 1 "The bride got a cigar box and cut a hole in the top of the lid. She call- ed it her 'furniture box,' and into it went all the dimes and quarters she didn't really need. Soon she had which brings more interest than he can• get from a savings bank, yet is safe. If he keeps on in this way, he will be independent when he gets old. enough to quit work. A successful blacksmith can either shoe a horse or make a horseshoe. The Fingers of Fate—The Grip Begins to Tighten. —From "John Bull." Dress of Checked Taffeta lowing closely in the lead of taffeta are messaline, faille, figured and dot- ted foulard, crepe de Chine, silk voile, chiffon, crepe and Georgette crepe. The two illustrations shown here are typical of the simplicity of the present styles. The dress of check- ed taffeta has a gored skirt with panel front and back, and of course, it would not be complete without the large patch pockets on either side of the front, for pockets are as popalar the panel. The color harmonizes with the dress. That the vogue for combining plain and figured materials has not by any means diminished, is shown in the dress of plain and figured• foulard re- Gently seen. It is trimmed with with ribbon arranged in bands on the un- deT 'Jrt and cuffe, and in plaiting which finishes the neck and hem. Note the gathered poekees and the stritight tunic plaited at the tem. These are two prominent style fea- , tures of the season. TVs model is one which at first sight may seem intricate, but on closer inspection one discover, that the novel teuehes ! which make it so very chic are, in reality, easily carried out, • Parasols and Sport (lathes At all fashionable resorts, parasols of bright hates and fancy shapes are strongly in evidence, They are in all etelore, both in sell tons and in effective combinations.; of two henn- anizin'i colors. One of the ,;oveities which ch has been taken up is the Jape ? ails, a para: el with its mine colorings harmenieu ely blended.. Sport clothes continue to be largely feattured. The erune for salt sweat- ers leeep: teu dile on the invreas , Gold, bright green, purple, blue Geld res: a and gray are aro coag the met favored colors. The , weater, as a rule, is in eenie gay color and hats and stockings to (naeeh enhance the ,,harm of this: rithah-fav„rc;l costume. Smocks and middy talon: els are now me eie not only of linens and heavy cottons, but are very frequently developed in taf- feta an crepe de Chine, also silk and wool Jersey cloth. The smock of taf- feta worn with a Jersey skirt is one o fthe latest combination,. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall Dealer or from The McCall Co., SO Bond Street; Toronto. 73X7 -7a69 . . Ribbon -a Fashionable Trimming • as ever in spite of their having been in fashion so long. In the waist, the panel gradually tapers uptoward the neck, where it is met by a collar of Georgette crepe, which tipples at the back though the front is quite" fiat Chiffon, net or organdy is often sub- stituted for Georgette crepe in fash- ioning collars for this type of dress. The only trimming in this model is HONEYSUCKLE FROM JAPAN. Fragrant AI'AN- Fragrant Vine Was Originally Japanese. Years ago Japan sent to this coup• try a vigorous green vine which wor favor through its lavish display of fragrant white flowers in late spring. For a time the vine and flower;; were kept within the bounds of gardens lawns and parks. Then it ran away, To -day you'll find it roaming along the roadside, climbing stumps and hedges. It needs no gardener, for it can take care of itself. It's the honeysuckle. The Japanese variety which ran away joined some of its American cousins, who are just as pretty and just as fragrant. There's the coral honeysuckles, for example, a famous porch climber in the Southern States, with trumpet -shaped flowers, red outside and scarlet within. In England they, have the woodbine, a creme colored, fragrant relative of the honeysuckle. Recently there came a new variety from China, where it vias •:o'•ind on the tops of mountains ii3OCO feet above the sea. Its foliage is almost evergreen, and the flowers are 0 reddish bronze. Another variety has red flowers, with yellow and buff markings. There's no need to hunt for the honeysuckle. Its fragrance will an- nounce it before you're near enough to see it. TRAVEL IN COREA. Ice Cream and Biscuits on, the Re- staurant Cars. A Baldwin locomotive whisked ue through the green hills and past the quaint thousand -year-old villages of Corea. It was odd to see the white swaddled Coreans, with their bare feet and flytrap hats, riding in this most modern of trains. We fled at forty miles an hour over trails where a few years ago these same Careens doubtless joggled -donkeyback at twenty miles a day. Any American road, says the Chris - tion Herald, would have been proud of the dinner on that train. It was vastly better than the dinners on the roads in Japan. The tiffin (luncheon) was table d'hote and cost only one - yen (fifty cents). It comprised seven courses, and its main features, - re- lieved of their. French disguises, were soup, fish, chicken salad, beefsteak, brown potatoes, succotash, ice cream and lady fingers, apples, oranges, ba- lianas and coffee. Pleinty of every: thing and everything good. • Electric bell at every table. Speedy service. Eternal politeness. • And as if this were not.enoagh,.ice cream and nabiscos were served at 3 p.m.! That was the last straw. Restitution if made would often seen in the buttons on either side of 'prevent destitution.