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1921

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Presented as published in 1921. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
JUNKET. Warm one pint milk to blood heat, dissolve in it one tablespoon sugar and one-fourth teaspoon salt, flavor with one teaspoonful vanilla or one tablespoonful wine, or strong coffee; stir in quickly one junket tabletJunket and turn into a dish for serving. When firm and cold serve with sugar and cream, or with any fruit whip made by beating one egg white and one cup of mashed or grated fresh fruit, or stewed fruit, slowly still stiff. — Mrs. M. F. Markham. 69 USE DAN VALLEY SUPERLATIVE FLOUR Simply add water and sugar to the KNOX ACIDULATED package Household Hints * A well-beaten white of egg added to mashed potatoes^ whipping the potato hard before serving, will add to the looks and taste of the dish. The whites of eggs will whip more readily if a pinch of salt is added to them. If the eggs are placed in cold water for a time before being broken, they will whip easily. To get the meats of pecan nuts whole, soak the pecans overnight in water. Next morning crack them on the end. The meats will come out without breaking. Slices of lemon, skin and all, eaten with sugar or salt, will kill the odor of onions on the breath. If you have no ice, and wish custards, gelatines, etc. to ' ' set " in a hurry, cover the mold with a dish and place it under the hydrant, allowing the cold water to run over it. If the cream seems too thin to whip, place the dish containing it in another dish of cold water, leaving it there until it is well chilled. Then put it into a pan of hot water. It will whip without difficulty. An egg well-beaten, added to rhubarb pies, will thicken the rhubarb and improve the taste. Try mixing ginger cookies with cold coffee instead of water. If a cream pie or meringue is set at once into a cold place it is apt to become watery. Keep it in the kitchen until it is cold. Cream that is too thin to whip may be made to do so by adding the unbeaten . white of an egg before beginning to whip it. If the white porcelain of the sink becomes stained, wet it and sprinkle chloride of lime into it. Let stand about half and hour and it will become white. White lead mends china. Keep a pot of it at hand, and as soon as a dish is broken daub the cracked pieces with the white lead, using a match to put it on. Press the edges firmly together and put away for two or three weeks to harden. After a week remove the extra lead sticking to the outside, but do not use the dish until perfectly hardened. Before tacking down linoleum, let it lie in place and be walked on for a few days. This will make it lie perfectly smooth. If boiled eggs are to be sliced, put them over the fire in cold water and let them remain fifteen minutes after the water begins to boil. Let them cool in the same water. If they are cooled by dropping them into cold water they will not slice smoothly. To prevent fruit pies from boiling over while baking, add a tablespoonful cornstarch to the fruit. Sweeten the fruit to taste, add cornstarch and heat before adding the crust. To keep mayonnaise from curdling, add a teaspoonful of cold Avater to egg and beat thoroughly before adding any oil. — Mrs. Geo. S. Watkins. TO EEMOVE TAR. Put pure lard on spots before laundering. — Mrs. D. F. Parker. 70 USE DAN RIVER SELF-RISING FLOUR For Dainty Delicious Desserts use KNOX GELATINE