Answer. Try reheating them. This makes the crust a little crisper, and the crumb drier, and less pasty to be digested. Then, this saves work at the time of the meal, often. If they seem too dry, moisten the crust a little before reheating in the oven. Question, I used some canned molasses with soda for my gin- gerbread, and the bread was Reavy. What was the matter ? Answer. Canned molasses has no acid in it, and you should use baking powder with it. The exhibit was ended by serving the quick breads and simple cakes with cocoa for refreshment. Some of the biscuits were used for little shortcakes ; that is, were split and filled with some fruit that the girls had canned. Thin baking-powder biscuit make very nice sandwiches to serve at any entertainment. EXERCISES AND PROBLEMS 1. Try the experiments on page 298. 2. Explain how baking powder makes a batter light. 3. Explain why puffovers do puff over. 4. Make tests with pieces of white paper, and paste them in your cook book, with the time against each one. 5. Explain why an oven for cookies can be hotter than for a loaf. i86 FOOD AND HEALTH Lesson 21 the kitchen How can we make the kitchen comfortable and pretty, pleasant to work in for breakfast, dinner, or supper ? One warm, pleasant day, when the girls' club had its meeting at Marjorie Allen's home, one of the members who yent into the kitchen to help make the lemonade, exclaimed : " Isn't this the pleasantest room in the whole house ? " Is our own kitchen at home so comfortable and at- tractive that our friends can say something like this ? The Pleasant Valley girls had the chance to furnish a kitchen, beginning with the walls and floor, in the Ellen H. Richards House (page 289) ; but at home we seldom can do so much as this. However, if we have a plan, we can do one new thing at a time, and make changes slowly. If our kitchen is small, it saves steps ; if it is large, it is airy ; and in either case we will make the best of it. " May-haves " and " must-haves " in the kitchen. We may have the kitchen pretty and we must have it clean ; and it ought to be convenient in saving steps and in making the work easier to do. A pretty kitchen. Marjorie Allen persuaded her mother to let her help plan the doing over of the kitchen. They put a soft shade of buff paint on the wall, because paint is cleaner than paper ; and the THE HOME BREAKFAST 187 \ Drawn by La Mont A. Warner. Fig. 82. — " Isn't this the pleasantest room in the whole house ? " A corner of Mrs. Allen's kitchen. floor was painted brown. Mrs. Allen had made a braided mat, in the winter days and evenings, of soft brown and buff with a touch of blue in it. There was a Draum bu La Mont A . Warner. Fig. 83. — Another corner of Mrs. Allen's kitchen. Mrs. Allen made a braided mat in the winter days. 1S8 THE HOME BREAKFAST 189 dull blue-and-white cushion in a rocking chair, and some old-fashioned blue-and-white dishes on the shelf. The window shelf at the south window held some plants ; and they planned to have a vine outside this window for shade in summer. A clean kitchen. In speaking of beauty, we are not able to leave out the thought of having things that are easily cleaned, you see. A woven " rag,"" or braided, mat can be taken outdoors, scrubbed with a brush and soapsuds, and rinsed with clear water thrown on from a pail or hose ; or can be washed in a tub.^ It is a good rule to have nothing in any part of the kitchen that is not washable.

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Answer. Try reheating them. This makes the crust a little crisper, and the crumb drier, and less pasty to be digested. Then, this saves work at the time of the meal, often. If they seem too dry, moisten the crust a little before reheating in the oven. Question, I used some canned molasses with soda for my gingerbread, and the bread was Reavy. What was the matter ? Answer. Canned molasses has no acid in it, and you should use baking powder with it. The exhibit was ended by serving the quick breads and simple cakes with cocoa for refreshment. Some of the biscuits were used for little shortcakes ; that is, were split and filled with some fruit that the girls had canned. Thin baking-powder biscuit make very nice sandwiches to serve at any entertainment. 1. Try the experiments on page 298. 2. Explain how baking powder makes a batter light. 3. Explain why puffovers do puff over. 4. Make tests with pieces of white paper, and paste them in your cook book, with the time against each one. 5. Explain why an oven for cookies can be hotter than for a loaf. Lesson 21 the kitchen How can we make the kitchen comfortable and pretty, pleasant to work in for breakfast, dinner, or supper ? One warm, pleasant day, when the girls' club had its meeting at Marjorie Allen's home, one of the members who went into the kitchen to help make the lemonade, exclaimed : " Isn't this the pleasantest room in the whole house ? " Is our own kitchen at home so comfortable and attractive that our friends can say something like this ? The Pleasant Valley girls had the chance to furnish a kitchen, beginning with the walls and floor, in the Ellen H. Richards House (page 289) ; but at home we seldom can do so much as this. However, if we have a plan, we can do one new thing at a time, and make changes slowly. If our kitchen is small, it saves steps ; if it is large, it is airy ; and in either case we will make the best of it. " May-haves " and " must-haves " in the kitchen. We may have the kitchen pretty and we must have it clean ; and it ought to be convenient in saving steps and in making the work easier to do. A pretty kitchen. Marjorie Allen persuaded her mother to let her help plan the doing over of the kitchen. They put a soft shade of buff paint on the wall, because paint is cleaner than paper ; and the \ Drawn by La Mont A. Warner. Fig. 82. — " Isn't this the pleasantest room in the whole house ? " A corner of Mrs. Allen's kitchen. floor was painted brown. Mrs. Allen had made a braided mat, in the winter days and evenings, of soft brown and buff with a touch of blue in it. There was a Drawn by La Mont A. Warner. Fig. 83. — Another corner of Mrs. Allen's kitchen. Mrs. Allen made a braided mat in the winter days. 1S8 dull blue-and-white cushion in a rocking chair, and some old-fashioned blue-and-white dishes on the shelf. The window shelf at the south window held some plants ; and they planned to have a vine outside this window for shade in summer. A clean kitchen. In speaking of beauty, we are not able to leave out the thought of having things that are easily cleaned, you see. A woven "rag," or braided, mat can be taken outdoors, scrubbed with a brush and soapsuds, and rinsed with clear water thrown on from a pail or hose ; or can be washed in a tub.^ It is a good rule to have nothing in any part of the kitchen that is not washable.

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