Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1929, Page 43

FOOD PAGE. FOOD AND THRIFT IN THE HOME Spring Household Duties ‘All Around the House With Brush and Paint and i Mending Materials. Varnish, shellac, wax, oil and paint re used in finishing floors, and they wary not only in appearance, but in the WAy they wear and the amount of work needed to apply and keep them in order. Study these points before choos- ing the finish for a floor. Wax and varnish are more suitable to use in a lvingroom, dining room and bedroom, while oll and pain®, being less likely to be damaged by water, are better for kitchens, pantries and other places where water is liable to be spilled. Make.the floor a darker tone than the wall finishings. 1f the floors and walls of & room are kept in good condition the rest of the work in the room will be easy. Fin- ished floors can be kept ln good condi- tion with little time and strength if the method is adapted to the kind of finish that is used on the floor. Often an expensive and carefully applied floor finish is spoiled by negleci or lack of knowledge of the Lest methods and ma- terials to use in cleaning. For instance, varnished floors will retain their color and luster better if no water is used on them, but if very dirty they may be .wiped with a cloth or mop wrung out of warm, soapy water, then wiped ary | at once, then polished ein an oiled | cloth or mop. White rpots made by water and light scratches can usually be removed by rubbing with a cloth moistened with floor ofl, kerosene or furniture polish. As soon a8 & var- nished floor can no longer he revived by this method a fresh coat of varnish should be applied, for if the finish wears down to the bare wood it can seldom be patched successfully. ‘To remove old varnish or stain from ‘woodwork, paint the wood with house- hold ammonia undiluted. Leave for ten minutes, then wash with very hot water, using a nail brush. Repeat until the varnish is removed, then give a final and very thorough washing with hot water. Take care that no trace of am- monia 18 left on the wood, or it will affect coats of paint or varnish used ter. Have a set of durable, carefully ehosen tools for cleaning floors and floor coverings. ‘They will save time and the result will be satisfactory. The problem of thoroughly dusting the usu- ally inaccessible corners of a stairway and floors under or behind radiators and furniture, without at the same time sofling the hands, is solved by using & amall ofled mop. Best Floor Coverings. Plain and simple designs in all floor coverings aré best for general use—the kinds that do not show footprints and are not easily solled. Linoleum is sat- isfactory to use on kitchen, pantry and bathroom floors. It should be placed over a smooth floor and cleaned with a damp cloth wrung out of suds made with a mild soap. Strong soap or too much watér will ruin linoleum. Much better than using soap at all is to use & solution made with one cupful of strong Vinegar to one gallon of hot water. Linoleum treated this way will Tetain its brightness and look like new. g small rugs with braid, binding rugs and carpete and sewing on fringes can be done better on the sewing machine than by hand. A sel- ‘vage like that on Orlental rugs can be made by laying two or three rather heavy cords along the edge and darn- ing them to the rug or carpet with over-and-under stitches, set so close together that the cords are entirely 18 If the edges are badly worn Tagged, they should first be made firm by overcasting them or by whip- braid to the under side. Do not befi;tumblml over & Tug that is always curling up at the corner. This can be easily remedied by sewing an L-shaped of buckram on the under side of curling corner. Moths and Beetles. Carpet beetles are difficult to exter- minate once they become established in & house in which the floors have car- pets tacked over them. Bare floors with Tugs do not offer them the same ad- vantages for hiding and breeding, If these pests are found, the carpets or rugs should be taken up, th hly cleaned outdoors, sprayed with or bengine and aired and sunned. floor should be thoroughly scrubbed with soapsuds, special aitention being iven to cracks and crevices along base- ds, and sprayed with gasoline, ben- gine or kerosene, Before the carpet or is replaced the cracks should be ed with a crack filler. fested with beetlés should be scrubbed and sprayed in the same way as floors. Carpets or rugs to be stored should first be thoroughly cleaned, then spread out, covered with clean newspapers that have been sprinkled with a moth pre- ventive, then rolled tightly, tied securely, wrapped in heavy paper and the over- 1apping edges of the paper sealed with lquid glue. Store in a clean, dry, cool place. All effective methods of control for clothes moths and other fabric pests must take into consideration the fact that woolen lint and hair accumulate in floor cracks, behind baseboards and in similar places. In such dust carpet beetles and clothes moths flourish and then move on to other parts of the house. 1f the room is fumigated, beetles, | moths and other pests will be destroyed. Furs and woolen materials and gar- ments should be thoroughly cleaned, brushed, aired and sunned before they are put away in order to dislodge any moth eggs or larvae on them. Sealing furs and woolen garments in clean, heavy paper bags will keep moths out. ‘Tobacco, cedar, camphor, naphthalene and tar are all repellents for moths and are of value if garments are put away when entirely free from moths and moth egss. | Furniture and Windows. ‘To make a dustless dust cloth, place & large plece of cheesecloth in hot soap suds to which has been added a little turpentine. Let it soak for two hours, Wring out tight and let dry. ‘To rémove scratches from furniture, int the scratched places with fodine. hen dry rub well with sweet ofl, then with furniture polish, Clean and re move spots from white enamel or paint- ed furniture with warm water with a little bakirg soda added. $ Cracks in furniture may be filled in with beeswax. Soften the beeswax until it becomes like putty, then press it firmly into the cracks and smooth the surface over with a thin knife. Sand- paper the surrounding wood and work some of the dust into the beeswax. This gives a finish to the wood. and when it is varnished the cracks will have dis- appeared. To clean paint from windows, get & package of the finest steel wool from & hardware store. Take warm water and any good soap that lathers well, rub a jece of the steel wool well filled with he s0ap on the paint spots on the win- dow and they will quickly disappear. Hardened putty may be removed from a window sash. Heat a curling iron or poker very hot and run it over the utty. This will soften it so that it can very easily removed with a knife. ‘Those discolorations on sinks and bathtubs néed not longer offend your eye. They can be whitened by rubbing briskly with a cloth saturated with ker- osené oil and afterward rinsing first with hot and then with cold water. Helpful Suggestions. An excellent mending glue may be Mnade by soaking ordinary glue in water until soft, but not dissolved. Then dis- the glue has become thoroughly hard- can easily make a new chair seat at home. Cut two rounds of stout cardboard from an old Box and a round of stout cloth large eneugh to lap over ardboard for the under side of the seat. For the top side, cover with cre- tonne and tack down with brass- headed tacks. The seat will be very durable and costs practically nothing to make. Another way to make a chair bottom is to take a tow sack and color it any bright color you prefer. Then cut it in strips 4 inches wide, then turn in the raw edges on each side, bringing the edges together, and stitch them on the machine. Now you have your strips ready to work in as chair splints are worked in and out. This will make a beautiful chair bottom. Paste oilcloth on the kitchen table instead of using the bare top, and it will be much easier to clean. Take & little flour, mix with cold water to the right consistency to spread on the back of the oilcloth and smooth it down on the table top, carefully pressing out all air bubbles. Press down well around the edges, and when dry you will have a table top that will give almost the same service as porcelain. Place under the oflcloth a piece of heavy brown paper and the oilcloth will wear much longer. To avoid soiling window curtains by frequent handling, use a light cane or bamboo rod to draw the curtains back- ward and forward night and morning. ‘This method also enables one to reach over tables, plants and other things that may be in the . If the cur- tains are delicate or easily marked, pad the top of the stick with velvet, Keep the rod handy behind the door. ‘When Moving. Much of the confusion associated MENU FOR A DAY. . BREAKFAST. Stewed Prun Hot Muffins, Coftee, LUNCHEON. Baked Beans, Chili Sauce, Brown Bread. Hot Oh‘llfl‘bfil}xfl‘. ‘Whipped Cream. ‘ea. DINNER. Thin Soup. Hnmburfinsu-k. Brown Gravy. Deimonico Potatoes. Dandelion Greens. Orange and Walnut Salad. Coffee. £ HAM OMELET. Beat four very light, whites to stiff froth, yolks to mfi: batter, u‘fd to nma”‘i: espoons milk, pepper and sal and one-half cup cooked emp&d ham. Add whités last. Put piece butter half size of egg in frying pan; be careful not to scorch, ‘when sigsling turn in egg mixture and cook on back of stove until done. Fold over and serve. GINGERBREAD. Cream together one-half cup sugsr and one-third cup butter or beef drippings. Add one cup Porto Rico molasses, one cup strong black coffee, one teaspoon soda dissolved in one tablespoon hot water, one teaspoon each gin- ger and cinnamon, one-half tea- spoon salt and two and three- fourths cup bread flour. Beat hard and bake in moderate oven. ORANGE AND WALNUT SALAD. Peel oranges with sharp knife, cutting deep enough to remove all white skin; then cut fruit in small pieces and discard any seeds. Add one-third the quan- tity of broken walnut meats, place on tender lettuce leaves and dress with thrée tablespoons oll, one of lemon juice and dash each pep- per and salt. quick energy!. lve the glue in linseed oil over & slow fim until it is like jelly. Apply to the article 1o be mended and Jet stand unti} THE EVENING with moving may be overcome by thought and care in packing. Dishes are best packed in barrels, every dish being wrapped in newspaper. After wrapping, the smallest ones should be placed in the larger ones to make for corapactness. Use excelsior or crumpled newspaper for packing around the dishes. Heavy pieces of china should Dbe placed in a separate barrel. Cards tacked to every box and trunk, listing the contents, eliminate the trouble of searching for things. If| there are two floors in the home you are moving into, tags of different colors may be used to help the movers in carrying the boxes, rugs and other fur- nishings to the right floors. If there is time, the rooms may be numbered and the tags can be given the right num- bers, 80 that the furnishings will get to the right rooms. The room numbers should be pinned over the doors. AR D You Can 1‘é§t Your Own Eggs| A convenient and quite easy method | of testing eggs for freshness before breaking them is to place them in a pan of cold water. The pan should preferably have a flat bottom. If the egg is perfectly fresh—in fact, newly laid—it will lie on its side on the bot- tom of the pan. An average so-called strictly fresh egg may tip up slightly at the large end. The staler the egg the more upright it will stand, and if it floats clear of the bottom beware of it, for it is sure to be unfit for use. Strawberry Ice Cream. Wash and hull one quars cf ripe strawberries, then mash thoroughly and mix with one cup of powdered sugar. Scald three cups of milk. Beat two eggs and mix with one-half cup of sugar and one tablespoonful of corn- starch, Add the scalded milk gradually to this and cook for five minutes, stir- ring constantly. Remove from the fire, ud: one cup of cream or undiluted _evaporated milk and let stand until cold. ‘Then stir in the strawberries and freeze. This makes almost two quarts of ice cream. e American breakfast foods are being eaten in Brazil. Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. There is something about daffodils or tulips in a basket which seems es- pecially appropriate and very pleasing, and in the accompanying illustration is shown a basket made just for this purpose. Of course, hyacinths or any other plants might be used in this, but somehow they are not so definitely as- sociated with baskets. Inside of the basket is & metal con- tainer, painted green, which holds the dirt and takes care of the water from the plants. The outside, which is made of split white oak, may be had in either of the two finishes, brown or gray. ‘The basket 18 only 3'4 inches wide, but it is 1715 inches long, which makes 1t & very good size for ‘windowsill. In the sun room one of these in each window would be a very delightful ation. The breakfast room would also be enhanced by the addition of this basket filled with bulbs, for it is such joy to watch them grow from d:f to day, and they are not too informal to place in 4 dining room. (Copyrisht, 1929.) Ask for this “Uneeda Bakers” \—/ feature this week 0-SO-GUD BUTTER PRETZELS How long since you've eaten a pretzel? They’re just as good as ever. Shiny brown twists with a dry salty flavor. Fine for soups, salads and iced drinks. Buy these by the pound. NATIONAL BISCU DEAL BREAKFAST for warm weather—the Wake-up Food, Post Toasties! So rich in the energy you need, yet so light and tempting to appetite. And so easily digested that it releases its rich store of energy quickly for either work or play! That’s why it is called the Wake-up Food. During these warm days serve it for breakfast or luncheon or supper. The family of yours can’t help but like it —tender hearts of choice white corn, delicately flaked and deliciously flavored and toasted crisp. And how they’ll benefit by its Remember, there’s just one way o get the Wake-up Food— ask for Post Toasties in the red and yellow, wax-wrapped package. POSTUM COMPANY, INC, BATTLE CREEK, MICH. | POST © 1929, P. Co., IT~COMPANY Bakers” Post Troasties lsc STAR, " WASHINGTON, ' D.” C..” FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1929.° FOOD PAGE.” 43 Efficiency BY JESSIE A. KNOX. More and more are women taking on the running of two jobs by combining 2 business career with housekeeping. That this is being done, however, with varying success most of us know, and the business woman who wants to be a good homemaker, too, will have to learn to apply system and business principles to her home that are very similar to the ones she employs in her office. Hit-or-miss planning ends as| d:;n.strously in one place as in the other. 1t is perhaps in the planning of meals that most trouble comes, for without a background of knowledge in how to buy and in the preparation of foods that can be quickly cooked and at the same time be appetizing, nourishing and satisfying, meals are too often apt to be sketchy. Nutritive requirements must be as carefully considered, or, if anything, even more 80, by the business woman as by the average housekeeper; for the former is frequently working under an added nervous strain, an food must be supplied that will meet and take care of this. A great deal of nervous energy can be saved by working out a regular schedule for household tasks that must be done in the morning and after busi- ness hout Simplify these by applying The easiest way to kill moths Expello in the closet . ..moths die! ExpeLio kills moths—not only . the flyinr moths, but the worms that really do the damage. Spray- ing seldom reaches these worms which are destructive in both summer and winter. They hide in folds and paddings, deep in furs and woolens. Just hang a can of Expello in your closet. Easier than setting an alarm clock. Close the~door. Your clothing is safe. The heavier- than-air vapor works downward —through all fabrics—kills the worm. Special container with ten handy bags_ for cedar chests, trunks, etc. Easiest, safest, sur- est moth-insurance ever sold. That’s guaranteed. The Expello Corporation, Dover, N, H. Get Expello at your drag or department store today KILLS MOTHS Re: Besides having an unusually delightful flavor, an appetizing appearance and a texture of velvety smoothness, this new Kraft product, Velveeta, has ex- ceptional food value. Greater food value in fact than we ever have been able to put into a cheese product before. Several things contribute to this. In the first placeVelveeta is a secret blend of choice American and fine old Canadian cheddar cheese, and made with the most painstaking care with every safeguard, including pasteurization, for its purity. But Velveeta is an exceptional product in other respects, Velveeta represents a new idea in cheese making, We extract from the pure whale milk more Vitamins, Lactose (milk sugar), Calcium and other T modern business methods to them, and | try not to waste your time and try your temper by fussing over unimpor- tant details. Plan your marketing in advance, and, if possible, shop for three or four days at a time. A well stocked pantry shelf might almost be considered an essential from the standpoint of time and labor saving. Take advantage of the many housekeeping conveniences offered by the excellent varieties of canned and ready-to-serve foods. The necessary green and raw foods can be easily got- ten into such menus by the use of let- tuce, raw_celery, etc.. and fresh fruits. It is a good plan to study how to use leftovers appetizingly, and to cook & large enough piece of meat, or perhaps & chicken, over the week end, when one is home and has the time to devote to dt. This will form the basis for sev- eral meals that can be prepared during the week wi inimum of effort. he Can't Make oast Fast Enouqh/, ow the Favorite Bread Plain or Toasted In More than Ten Million American Homes By ALICE ADAMS PROCTOR DO you like crisp toast? Deli- catelyand evenly browned? Then in big letters at the top of your grocery list write ‘WONDER BREAD. It’s that new bread, as you may knDW, ml! $O many women are adopting. For toast it knows no equal. And eaten plain it amazes with its delicate flavor. The millions who buy it today con- sider it the most delicious bread baked in America. 1It's splendid, too, from the housekeeper's point of view. It slices without crumbling. It keeps fresh for days. If eaten daily, it promotes family health to a marked degree. It restores burned-up energy and fosters growth. This because of its high calorific value. Also its remarkable protein content. To maintain its quality day after day, we go to SEVEN QUICK FACTS about Wonder Bread 1. Slo-baked to seal in delicate flavor, prolong freshness. 2. Toasts quickly to an even golden brown. 3. Rich in food elements for growth and energy. 4. Made of speciall: short patent flour. of the wheat berry. 5. Double the usual quantity of milk, P-sunrin's.l 6. All ingredients tested for purity and nutritive value. 7. At grocer’s, oven-fresh, in the afternoon. milled eheart you and yours. evenly it toasts. great lengths. We specify a specially milled short patent flour. Only the heart of the wheat berry is used. We use double the usual amount of milk. ‘We employa special method of baking. Slo-baking, it is called. A method that seals in the dietetic value of our in- gredients and improves their flavor. Hence when you get ‘Wonder Bread you get the best. Millions havefound thisto beso. So please try it at once. Simply to prove what it offers Note its dainty flavor. See how How easily it slices. But remember! Ordinary breads are not like this. Avoid them. Insist on Wonder Bread always. CORBY BAKERY Continental Baking Company /ONDER BREAD ITS SLO-BAKED BAKED BY THE BAKERS OF HOSTESS CAKE d Value comparison. For new and original recipes, send to Home Economics Kitchen, 401 Rush Street, Chicago. milk minerals in greater quantities than ever was possible by old methods, and these we add in making Velveeta. The result is purely a milk product that looks like cheese, tastes like cheese, but which becagse of its enhanced food value should be called a super-cheese. Use Velveeta wherever you would use any cheese. It spreads like butter or will slice when chilled. It melts, dissolves and blends so readily with other foods that for cooking purposes there is no And however used it is as digestible as milk itself. By all means try a package of this re- markable product, Its appetite appeal is universal. And it is sure to grace your table often thereafter. Your dealer has it. “Philadelphia” Cream Cheese Serve “Philadelphia” in any one of the innamer- able ways possible. It never fails to tempt the childish appetite. * And now that “Philadel- phia” is known to be so rich in Calcium and Vita- min A, and recommended because of the impor- tance of these two pre- cious food elements by Child Specialists, Doctors and other food experts, rudent mothers make ‘Philadelphia” a re, part of the child’s diet. Calcium and Vitamin A are now recognized as most potent agents in the proper development of straight bones, sound teeth and sturdy growth. “Philadelphia”is a whole- some dairy product, pas- teurized for purity and wrapped in small tinfoil packages that protect its creamy richness till served. Itisnever sold in bulk. Your dealer has it. KRAFT-PHENIX CHEESE CORPORATION