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Show (). 1527. Western Newspaper Union.) i The heights- by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight: But they, while their companton slept. Were tolMng upward tn the. night. Longfellow. WHOLESOME GOOD THINGS Now that fresh eggs are plentiful, we enjoy all the tasty dishes which i may be prepared from them. j Mexican Scrambled j Eggs. Roast one doze? i fresh green peppers, remove re-move the skin and seeds and chop, then boil In a very little water until tender; season well with butter. Beat six eggs, add seasoning and the peppers and cook for a moment in a little butter. Spanish Meat Dish. Arrange a layer lay-er of thinly sliced potatoes in a well buttered baking dish, add a thinly sliced onion, over this a layer of sliced cold roast beef, steak or hamburger. Cover with a cupful or two of thick tomato and place In the oven to bake; when ready to Berve garnish with two or three tablespoonfuls of cooked peas over the top. Mexican Sauce. Cook one onion finely chopped In two tablespoonfuls of butter for Ave minutes. Add one red and one green pepper, one clove of garlic, each finely chopped ; add two tomatoes peeled and chopped. Cook fifteen minutes, add one tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of Worcestershire sauce, a few dashes of celery salt and salt to taste. For Sunday night supper a bowl of popcorn and milk is delicious. It may be ground if preferred. Popcorn Biscuit. Sift four teaspoon-fuls teaspoon-fuls of baking powder, one teaspoon-ful teaspoon-ful of salt, the same of sugar, one cupful cup-ful of wheat flour, one-half cupful of corn flour, four tablespoonfuls of shortening aud one cupful of freshly ground corn. Add enough mlik to make a mixture to roll out. Cut into rounds and bake on a hot griddle, turning turn-ing when one side is brown to brown on the other. They may be baked in the oven If preferred. ' This recipe makes one dozen biscuits. Popcorn Soup. To one quart of milk brought to the scalding point add two ' tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour well, cooked together. Add one cupful cup-ful of finely ground popcorn and serve garnished with a spoonful of freshly popped whole kernels. Stuffed Onions. Prepare as many onions as there are persons to serve. Parboil until tender but unbroken. Drain, remove the centers aud mis with butter, chopped ham and seasoning, season-ing, a little cream and the yolk of an egg. Fill the onions with this, mixture and place in deep dish and bake, basting bast-ing with cream during the baking. Cook covered until nearly done, then remove the cover and put a spoonful of well buttered crumbs on the top to brown. Food We Like. If the turkey Is not at hand, any fowl may be used for the following sandwiches : Turkey Sandwiches. Sand-wiches. Chop fine three h e si ri s of crisp celery. Take . three cupfuls of cold cooked turkey I from the breast, or light meat. Blanch and shred one and one-half cupfuls of nlmonds. Mix all lightly together, season with salt and pepper and moisten with mayonnaise. Cut thin slices of white bread and spread with pimento pi-mento butter. Spread half, the slices wirh a thick layer of the mixture and the remaining slices with crisp lettuce, let-tuce, spread with mayonnaise. Put together In pairs, press edges together and cut Into three-Inch strips. Garnish each sandwich with stars cut from plmentoes. At the point of the star place a tiny pearl onion. Tea Sandwiches Spread thin unsweetened un-sweetened wafer crackers with quince, f orange marmalade, or any fruit lam. Set another wafer over the one spread with fruit and arrange In a dainty basket or a plate covered with a lace paper doily. Serve with tea. cocoa or chocolate Orange Meringue Pudding. Slice three oranges In a pudding dish, sprinkle with sugar to taste Make o custard from Ihe yolks of three eggs one tablespoonful of cornstarch, one-' one-' fourth of a cupful of sugar, salt, va- nllli and one cupful of milk. Ook In a double joiler until smooth and well i cooked, then cool ami pour over the ' oranges. P.eat the whites of the eggs until stiff, add one tahiespooiiful of orange Juice and one tahiospoonftil of ! sugar Heap lightly on the pudding ' ! and set into the nvm to brown the I I ' meringue. I Banana Cream Pie. I'.ake n rich ! j pastry shell, place on a chop piatp and j till with sliced hananas; m t r this spread sweetened and flavored whipped cream Rolled Jelly Cske. 1'enf three eggs until light, add one rrpful of sugar, i two tahiospoor.fals of ePl water, n i pinch of salt, s'ir In one rtipfnl of j flour sifted with t-vn tea-poonf::s of baking powder. ad''''r:g -ihe :' e;r g-a - j nally. Pake in a dripping p:;n wcil greased. Turn out on a elnlh wrune out of cold water, sivead with .'.-liv I and roll; sprh.kie with powdered j St: gar. |