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Show 1WomansPage four Italian Recipes An Appetizing Meat Loaf Perfect Mashed Potatoes Helps for Housewives How to Make Brass Lacquer Very Thin Coat Sufficient How to Remove Paint from Glass Dressing J for Linoleum. I FOUR ITALIAN RECIPES. Spanish Puree. Wash and boil till tender two pounds of fresh spinach; drain chop fine and place In a saucepan in which one-quarter of a pound of butter has been melted. Let It simmer, stirring it till thoroughly mixed, and adding salt to taste. Remove then from the store: add a pinch of nutmeg, a ta-bjesnoonfiil ta-bjesnoonfiil of grated cheese and two beaten eggs Have ready some simple sim-ple broth (from meat or chicken gtock, or milk and water in proportion propor-tion as wished), and when colling pour into it the spinach preparation lt all simmer together fnr three or I four minutes, then remove and place uncovered, on the top shelf of a very hot oen for five minutes, watching to see that it does not scorch The Italians use a salamander for r-lan-ping over the top of the soup pot. but the heat "f a brisk oven will answer an-swer the same purpose The eggs will coagulate and the puree will be .- a delicate green substance. Serve with croutons. Sp:nach Pudtfing. Wash some spinach thoroughly he (about two pound;-) boil it ten mill-he mill-he utes. then drain and squeeze the wa-ec- ter out of it with a cloth and pound ce in a mortar till fine enough to pass ty, through a siee. When pressed out. ve put it in an earthen pot with, a lump J ax of butter the size of an egg and half ; as a teaspoonful of lemon juice; let boil, id a few minutes, remove to a bow!, and rl i - uhen it is cold mix In it the beaten is- volks of two eggs. (Three may he id used.) Put rhen into a buttered mold, ty leaving a hole in the middle, and cook es slowly an hour In an outer vessel of ig boiling water, with good steady heat j ta above and below In the oven When o- done, turn out on a platter and fill th the cavity with cooked mushrooms. le ;h One Form of Polenta Into three pints of fast-boiling ua-n- ter put a tablespoon! ul of olive oil and a pinch of salt, sprinkle In grad-e- uallv one pint of corn meal; stir smooth and cook for an hour or more s longer (from two to three hours) will be all the better, and if a fire e- less cooker is avallaHe the long, slow cooking raav be quite as convenient, e- If cooked on the stove, however, the corn meal must be put in a double ,t boiler and the water in the outer ves- e sel kept at a gallop for an hour at least Stir frequently. Have ready some thick gravy and a half pint of i strained, thickened tomato. Fill up 3. a baking dish with the cooked mush n gravy and thickened tomato, alternat- . ing them In layers Sprinkle the top I e layer well with grated cheese; place In the oven and let cook until brown-1 Creamed Macaroni. Have a good-sized saucepan of fast- j s boiling water well salted, drop into it i Y three-fourths pound of macaroni and I cook fast for forty.flve minutes, add-Mlg add-Mlg at the start an onion stuck with two cloves, also a generously heaped I teaspoonful of butter. Remove the onion, drain the macaroni and replace in the saucepan with four ounces each ot grated Parmesan and Swiss cheese, a pinch each of pepper and nutmeg and a half pint of hot meat broth (preferably (pre-ferably veal or chicken ) and four ta-blespoonfuls ta-blespoonfuls of cream or rich milk Cook five minutes, stirring thoroughly, thorough-ly, and when the macaroni is "ropy1 serve it hot. AN APPETIZING MEAT LOAF. When I make a meat loaf 1 place three hard-boiled egcs in the middle, end to end When the meat is served a slice of egg is in the center of each Piece This makes a verv attractive luncheon dish "PERFECT" MASHED POTATOES. When making mashed potatoes add the cream and seasoning and whip them until light Tjjien add two tea-spoonfuls tea-spoonfuls of grated onion and juice and whip again. They aro simplv perfect per-fect served in this way. HELPS FOR HOUSEWIVES. TO Keep a Waxed Floor ,:n Order. Co over th.? floor once a week with a mixture o!" equal parts turpentine sweet oil and vinegar, using a soft cloth. Polish after this with a soft rag which may be wrapped around a floor broom. Cleaner for Brass An ounco of alum, put in a pint of boiling water and allowed to cool and bottle for usp at any time, will remove re-move nil stains and' tarnish from brasq and will not Injure the skin on the hand, or the metal itself. It only requires to be rubbed on the surface and wiped off Home Made Brass Lacquer. A line finish may be made for brass dooi knobs, candlesticks, bowls and even the brass rods on the enamel beds, to say nothing of articles made entirely of brass. These may be preserved to look like new if coercd with a thin coat of lacquer Dealers make you pay well for this fmi?h if ordered, after the first purchase of the article and. Incidentally, Inci-dentally, ig is almost universally applied ap-plied to all brass and silver now sold for toilette and decorative use. The following may be kept on hand and used at any time that a. fresh piece needs to be covered. DissoJ-'e two ounces of gum copal in one pint of denatured alcohol and one-fourth one-fourth pint of amyl alcohol Since the cum is slow in dissolving, it Is well to get it powdered and shake it occasionally for a few days, and then let it settle for a dav r so. The clear liquor should then be poured off into another bottle. Polish your brass or silver first and then apply with a small brush. A very thin coat is all that Is needed. Cane Seat Cleaner. A rapid and practical method of removing re-moving stains and discolorations from the cane seats of chairs and wicker-work wicker-work is to use oxalic acid and pow-deied pow-deied pumice. Dissolve the oxalic crystals in hot water nnd saturate a .-mall stiff brush with it, then dip the brush in the powdered pumlec and rub the discolored cane briskly with the brush. Removing Paint From Glass. Take acetic acid and dilute It one lialf In hot water then apply to the paint spots on the glass while It Is warm. Repeat if It gets too chilled The hot acid will not hurt the hands, fabrics or the glass, but it must be kept from the children The acid is inexpensive and may be purchased at any drug store Dressing for Linoleum. Tho following dressing will makr the linoleum soft and will increase the length of its life Melt on a steam bath qne ounce of palm oil with IS ounces of paraffne, afterwards thin with four ounces of kerosene oil. Rub it on the linoleum wth a soft woolen cloth. Wax polish is also good for this purpose, using either the commercial com-mercial article or mixing some from beeswax and turpentine to form a paste. This, however, only brighten the surface and helps to keep clean longer than the ordinary way of cleaning, clean-ing, and it will not keep the linoleum soft as will the dressing. |