Boil one quart of water and one pint of sugar with the yellow rind of two oranges twenty minutes, counting the time after the mixture begins to boil. Let cool, then add the juice of two oranges and one lemon, with two cups of peach pulp and juice. Boil one cup of sugar and one-third a cup of boiling water to the soft-ball stage, then pour in a fine stream on the whites of one or two eggs, beaten very light, beating constantly, meanwhile; then beat occasionally until cold. When the first mixture is nearly frozen and the meringue is cold, add the merigue to the partly-frozen mixture and finish freezing. The rind of the oranges, cooked in the syrup, takes the place of the curacoa or orange cordial.

Plum Sherbet

Make a syrup, as for peach sherbet; in it cook about a quart of plums until soft, then press through a sieve; add the juice of a lemon and when cold freeze.

Peach Salad

Cut the peaches in halves, remove the skin, and cut in even quarters, lengthwise, eight pieces to a peach; at once squeeze over the prepared peaches a little lemon juice, to keep them from discoloring. Mix paprika and salt, a few grains of each, with choice olive oil. Set the peaches on heart-leaves of lettuce, and sprinkle a little of the seasoned oil over them. A teaspoonful of strained honey may be added to each three tablespoonfuls of oil, if desired.

QUERY NO. 4004. "Cookies made by the following recipe are hard and tough, what is the trouble with it?

"1 cups butter, 2 cups sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cup buttermilk, 1 teaspoonful soda, nutmeg, flour enough to roll out thin."

Fault in Preceding Recipe

Probably too much flour is used. The recipe should make good cookies, if the dough is kept soft and only a small portion of it handled at a time. Half a tea

spoonful of soda to sweeten the buttermilk (if sour) and four teaspoonfuls of baking powder would be preferable to the one teaspoonful of soda. A magic cover and a spatula are of great assistance in

shaping cookies. To lift the cookies from the board or cloth, slip the side of the spatula under it, rather than the end.

QUERY NO. 4005 "Recipes for cookies using substitutes for wheat flour and sugar in whole or part."

Cookies with Substitutes,
Molasses Nut Drop Cookies

Cream one-third a cup of shortening; beat into it half a cup of corn syrup, half a cup of chopped nut meats, one egg beaten light and two-thirds a cup of molasses. Sift together one cup and a fourth, each, of wheat and rye flour, one-half a teaspoonful, each, of salt, soda, and cinnamon, and one teaspoonful, each, of ginger and baking powder. Beat the two mixtures together thoroughly. Shape a teaspoonful in a place, on tins rubbed over with fat, to make symmetrical rounds, some distance apart; set half a nut meat above each shape and dredge with granulated sugar, if at hand. Bake in a moderate oven. The recipe makes about thirty cakes.

being put through a food chopper, add twelve, each, of green and red peppers, put through the food chopper, after the removal of stems and seeds; sprinkle the whole with two tablespoonfuls of salt, and let simmer until the celery is tender, then drain and add one pound of seeded raisins. Make a syrup of two pounds of sugar, one quart of vinegar, one pint of

Soak the gum arabic in cold water one hour. Stir over boiling water until melted; strain into a double boiler; add the sugar and let cook thirty minutes; add the beaten whites and vanilla, and beat until the mixture is stiff and white.

QUERY NO. 4009. - "Suggestions for Church Suppers for fifty cents."

Spiced Celery

(F. M. F.)

Cut off and discard the roots and leaves of six bunches of celery. Separate the stalks, wash, dry and chop. Peel and chop fifteen tomatoes; wash, wipe and chop one red pepper, discarding the seeds. Mix two cups of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of salt, one teaspoonful of mustard, one teaspoonful of clove, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one teaspoonful of celery seed; add one cup and a half of vinegar. Put all the ingredients in an agate (white lined) saucepan, heat to the boiling point, then let simmer one hour and a half. Store hot in fruit jars, as in all canning.

QUERY No. 4007. "Recipe for Beet and Horseradish Relish to serve with fish."

SUBSTANTIAL DISHES FOR CHURCH
SUPPERS

Creamed Haddock, Cabbage Salad

Fresh Fish Chowder, Tomato Jelly Salad Boned Filets of Haddock Baked with Bread Dressing, Drawn-Butter Sauce

Hot Macaroni with Cheese and Tomatoes Succotash Lima Beans, Corn (chopped) Hot Macaroni with Sliced Tongue (cheese and tomato) (one dish)

Baked Mexican Rabbit (War Time Cook⚫ Book)

Hot Macaroni with Hamburg Steak (one dish) Hamburg Roast, Mashed or Franconia