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Show and molasses. Mix raisins and nut meats. Mix and sift flour and soda. Sift over raisin mixture. Add graham flour and cornmeal to egg mixture and mix well. Stir in sour milk. Add raisin and flour mixture and stir until mixed. Turn into oiled and floured pans and bake 1 hour in a moderate oven, 350 degrees F. If you haven't cylindrical bread pans use pound baking powder cans. This recipe will make two loaves if you use bread pans and three if you use baking powder cans. If you took a gift with you, you knew your hostess well enough to know what she would like. If you're in doubt about her hobbies, immediate needs and preferences, it's a good idea to send your gift with your bread-and-butter letter. She may collect hob-nail instead of your pet saw-tooth and while she'd love a hob-nail cruet, a sawtooth saw-tooth compote wouldn't add much to her collection. If your hostess doesn't garden she won't care much for garden gadgets even if she lives in the country. Every guest has an obligation to her hostess. It does mean extra work to have company, so the guest must do her full share to make the extra work well worth while. Here's a recipe for a. brown bread it will pay the summer hostess hos-tess to have on hand over the week-end. Filled with cream cheese, it makes delicious sandwiches. sand-wiches. Brown Bread Two eggs, 1 teaspoons salt, 4 tablespoons light brown sugar, cup molasses, 4 tablespoons softened soft-ened shortening, 2 cups graham flour, 1 cup white flour, cup corn meal, 2 cups sour milk, 2 teaspoons soda, 1 cup seedless raisins, 1 cup nut meats. Beat eggs until light with sugar su-gar and salt. Beat in shortening HOUSE cmxfl HOME i Author of Sl.ter Maty'. Klichtn" We hear about the "perfect hostess" hos-tess" but what about the "perfect guest"? Seldom if ever do we hear the guest mentioned in terms of praise, while the hostess is lauded for her hospitality. If you are a week-end guest in a maidless house you will find that there are innumerable small jobs you can do for your hostess. Take along an apron and wear it when you offer your services for table-setting table-setting and salad-making. There's dusting and bed-making to be done, too, and you can help with both these tasks. Naturally, your hostess has made extra preparations for your visit so do be appreciative. She has enjoyed dressing your bed with her best linen sheets in anticipation an-ticipation .of your pleasure in them. She has planned her meals in the hope that you will find them delicious. Some hostesses plan every minute min-ute of their guest's visit. If your hostess has done this, then it's apparent ap-parent you must enter into the activities ac-tivities with enthusiasm. If she's arranged to take you to a neighborhood neigh-borhood picnic don't say: "Oh, you just go on as if I weren't here and I'll stay at home and read my book." Would you want your guest to do that if you were the hostess? |