^■jsy Lessons
RCooking
Rj Baking
ReMU-YMESSNEERG
B .rLKE~COO° BREAD.
m -c better than a good loaf
BinS 1 bread, and once the sim
r bread baking have been
Wl S^oOB. and all kinds of
■red’ llg“ be baked at home.
■Cakehaking with compressed
mea -a well to immerse it in a
U 13 „ter over night, or at
m Enough to dissolve. This
■S the strong odor without im
Bat strength, as the yeast germ
B8 while under water. When
' i Off the water; the
I will have settled in bottom of
■ N-0w add a spoonful of sugar.
■ L -ens the process ot fermen
Band when yeast is added to the
■ “ id you have a reliable, sweet
WZtr which it treated right
feer fail you. All ingredients
■ be ukewarr, and dough kept in
E place while raising. AH meas
■Ls are level. Use a graded half
asuring cup and sift flour be
■ Luring DO not pack flour
■ cup, just slide it in lightly and
| MILK bread,
ifr/ltu'capm* Of sifted
R four.
Re teaspoonful ot salt.
Re tablespoonful of lard and butter.
Rree cupfuls of milk and water
Ral portions).
Re cake of compressed yeast.
Re tablespoonful of sugar.
Kak yeast in cold water over night,
at least long enough to dissolve,
en ready to use, pour off water and
sugar, rub salt and shortening Into
r add yeast to liquid and beat into
j Cover the raising pan and keep
noderately warm to raise until
nge bas doubled in bulk and is full
nibbles.
thod for Second Raising,
lave ready four and one-half more
ifuls of sifted bread flour; begin to
this into the light sponge until
igh clears from sides of pan, then
e onto a well floured board and
ead in the rest of flour. From time
time raise the dough and let it drop 1
I board. This breaks me mue
b cells and makes the bread fine
ed and light. When dough is
tli and elastic place back in pan,
■ and let raise again until double
Ik. Now have ready well greased
1 pans and divide the dough into
! small or two large loaves, ac
ng to the pans you have, as pans
be only two-thirds full to allow
aising. Knead each loaf lightly
f air bubbles form, slap the loaf
;ak them. When nice and smooth
the loaves in pan. with your hand
a slight cleft down center of
tr score top a very little with a
inife, cover with a towel and let
again until near top of pan. Now
in moderate heat until a golden
and a toothpick when inserted
i out clean. Bread must be light
it and sound hollow when tapped
sure to bake long enough. As
as done remove from pan and set
re rack to cool.
DIVIDED BREAD.
en baking milk bread divide the
ig of one loaf into small portions,
ze of half an egg, roll them into
lengths, and set close together
jreased bread pan. When light,
as bread and when ready to serve
apart at each intersection. This
good way if fresh bread is to
'ved warm, as the divisions when
n apart are much lighter than if
! is cut. i
graham bread.
Ilents.
8e cupfuls of finely milled gra
lour.
teaspoonful of salt,
teaspoonftfl of lard,
cupful of warm water,
cake of compressed yeast.
• tablespoonfuls of sugar.
_d.
Rub salt and ^ard into flour (which
Jist not be sifted). Soak yeast in
water as directed for milk bread,
oft wat^ *nd add sugar, stir in
h 'varm wa*ei and beat into flour;
d.„,, ard’ then cover and let raise to
m e lts bulk, then beat down once
P0U1 illt0 greased pan, and let
Until pan is almost full,
a tmtf 6 !n raodcrately hot oven until
a toothpick comes out clean.
b'ow ro bake german coffee
cake.
ed h,!?1 i k°asi-‘keepers have accept
or excels im Soods as tlie standard
the fact hDC6 that Uley lose sight of
er the rpin'V rauck Seiler and cheap
ls. Est)p ■ y ',00d home-made article
rni alhf- f0r a family with sev.
'will pav th CT gro'ving children, it
twice a * C00k t0 bake once or
the best that °ffer her family
expen Cl 6 Produced for 010
it with compressed yeast
wld water ’mmerse 11 in a cup of
’ter over pight. or at least
long enough to dissolve This elimi
nates the strong odor without impair
ing its strength, as the yeast gv?rm
lies dormant while under water. When
ready to use pour off the water; the
yeast will have settled in bottom of
cup. Now add a spoonful of sugar.
This at once awakens the process of
fermentation and when yeast is added
to the warm liquid you have a reli
able, sweet raising power, which if
treated right will never fail you. All
ingredients must be luke warm and
dough kept in a warm place while
raising. All measurements are level.
Use a graded hall-pint measuring cup,
and sift flour before measuring. Do
not pack flour into cup, just slide it
in lightly and level off.)
PLAIN BREAD ROLLS.
Method.
Take a part of the bread dough and
divide into small pieces, roll these in
to little balls, and set side by side in
a flat greased pan. When quite light,
bake until well done and light, brown.
Rub tops with a little butter before
breaking apart. These are best eaten
fresh.
ALMOND LOAF CAKE.
Ingredients for Sponge.
Two and one-half cupfuls of sifted
bread flour.
One teaspoonful of salt.
One cupful of warm milk.
One-half cupful of warm water.
One cake of compressed yeast
One teaspoonful of sugar.
Method.
Soak yeast over night, or long
enough to dissolve in cold water.
When ready to use pour off the water
and add sugar to yeast, add salt to
flour, add yeast to warm liquid and
beat into flour, cover and set aside
until it has raised to double its bulk.
Ingredients for Second Mixing.
One-half cupful of butter or good
butterine.
One cupful of fine granulated sugar.
Three eggs.
One-half cupful of blanched and
shredded almonds.
One-half teaspoonful of lemon ex
tract.
Two and one-half cupfuls of sifted
flour.
Method.
Stir butter, sugar and eggs togeth
er for ten minutes, add to sponge
and beat live minutes. (This is im
portant as success depends on the
beating.) Now add the almonds,
lemon and flour gradually, beating
until light and fluffy; cover and let
raise to double its bulk. When Ilgirt,
pour into one large or tw-o smail, waU
greased tube molds and let stand half
an hour; bake in moderate heat until
a golden color and toothpick comes
out clean. As soon as done invert on
Dlate and sift confectioner's sugar
over.
GERMAN CINNAMON CAKE.
Ingradients for Sponge.
Three cupfuls of sifted bread flout
Two cupfuls of warm milk and wa
ter (three-fourths milk).
One teaspoonful of salt.
Two cakes of compressed yea3t.
One tablespoonful of sugar.
Method.
Prepare yeast and set sponge as
directed for almond cake.
Ingredients for Second Mixing.
One-half cupful of lard and butter.
Two-thirds cupful of sugar.
Two eggs.
Three cupfuls of sifted flour.
Method.
Stir sugar, shortening and eggs to
gether until well creamed, beat into
sponge, then beat in the flour little by
little. When all is in, stir hard with
a big perforated spoon, cover and let
raise to double its bulk. Have flat
tins well greased. When dough is
light, dip a spoon in water, then take
up portions of the dough and spread
one-half to one inch thick in the pan,
pressing dough smoothly along sides.
Let this stand about one-half hour,
then dip a thin covering of melted
butter over, strew liberally with
sugar and sift a little cinnamon on
that, and make as any other coffee
cake. For small quantity use only
half recipe or bake some German
tarts with part of the dough.
APPLE CAKE.
Method.
When dough Is ready for pan,
smooth a very thin covering into a
flat, well greased pan, pare and core
good tart cooking apples, cut es«h
quarter Into two or three even slices,
lay them in overlapping rows, close
together to cover the dough, strew
sugar and cinnamon over, then bake
until apples are tender and crust la
done.
CUSTARD FOR APPLE CAK&
Ingredients.
One whole egg or two yolks.
One cupful of rich milk.
Two tablespoonfuls of sugar.
Method, .
Beat egg well, add to rest of in
gredients and beat smooth, then pour
over apples after they have been
sugared. Omit cinnamon.
PEACH CAKE.
Skin and stone good tender
peaches, cut into quarters and pi ess
the round side of fruit well »to
dough, sugar and bake plain or with
custard.
BLUE PLUM CAKE.
Stone but do not skin blue free
stone plums, place skin down on
dough and sugar very heavily. Bake
as directed for peach cake.
(Copyri&ht. 1913, by Joseph B. BowleeJ
KINDERGARTEN FOR HOTEL CHILDREN
.....
The manager of one of the big New York hotels, appreciating that no provision is made in such hostel ries
for the children of guests, has established a completely equipped kindergarten and play room, prettily decorated
and in charge of an expert.
NEW YORK A CITY OF FLATS
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First Modern Apartment House
Built 43 Years Ago.
Rutherford Stuyvesant Got the Idea
From Paris and Other Realty
Owners Took It Up—Bring
Very High Rentals Now.
New York.—It might have been cen
! turies instead of forty-three years
since the first apartment house was
j erected in this city, so great has been
I the improvement in this popular type
of dwelling. Rutherford Stuyvesant,
a member of the old Stuyvesant fam
ily, was the first to introduce the
| apartment in this country. He had !
| seen apartments in Paris. They were
I popular there with the best of peo
I pie. Besides, it increased the ability
of the owner to pay his tax bills and
' other expenses.
The tax problem interested Mr.
! Stuyvesant, as he owned considerable
I property about the city. Probably this
: w'as the reason for his interest in
; Paris apartment houses. After con
vincing himself that they would go in
New York, he erected the Rutherford,
at 142 East Eighteenth street, soon
after the Civil war. It was known as
; the French flats, and was the talk of
j the town. The Rutherford Stuyvesant
! house is still standing, and according
j to brokers, has comparatively few va
cancies. It is five stories high, 11U
I feet wide and ninety-two feet deep.
There are four apartments of seven
rooms each to a floor. It has steam
] heat and hot w'ater and is absolutely
| soundproof.
The reception that met the apart
i ment house was so great that many
builders entered the apartment house
field. Of lata years the number has
increased considerably. These build
ers have given up the construction of
all but apartment houses, which has
got to be a science requiring constant
attention and application. Through
this specializing New York has been
forced in the last ten years into the
front rank as the apartment center
tVwa world
Many of our apartments here rival
palaces in grandeur and fittings.
Scores of such houses may be found
on Park avenue, Fifth avenue, Mad
; ison avenue, Broadway, West End av
enue, Riverside drive and crosstown
i streets to the east and west of Cen
tral park. A private dwelling fitted
in the fashion of many of the suites
; in houses along these streets would
; rent for figures many times that which
is asked for these apartments. Many
families have learned this and are giv
ing up costly dwellings to live in
apartment houses, in which they are
deprived of nothing that they had in
the dwelling, yet are saving several
thousand dollars a year by the change,
enough in many cases to maintain the
latest in motor cars.
Rents have increased, but the great
improvement that has been made in
apartment houses warrants the in
crease. In other words, the increase
in rents has not been as great as the
increase made in the construction and
I appointment of t-hese houses.
! South of One Hundred and Six
teenth street there is not an apart
ment house where a suite may be had
: ror less than $15 a room. In many of
the best apartment houses $50 a room
is nothing unusual. Apartments of
two and three rooms bring compara
tively more rent than the large suites,
a room being the lowest rental
that a small size apartment can be
1 had for. They run as high as $60
' and $70 a room. In some of the ex
pensive small suite apartments to the
west of Park avenue and on the side
streets along the west side, $75 a room
is often received. Up to two years
a„0 there were kitchenettes attached
• to small suite apartments. This year
t builders have not been Pcrm.Ued to
> bund kitchenettes; instead miniature
kitchens have been Introduced.
Park avenue has usurped the honor
of being the leading apartment street
of the city. It is only a few years
since builders of apartments gave any
attention to the east side of the city.
All their operations were along Broad
way, Riverside drive and West End
avenue. It is only a few years since
the first apartment house was erect
ed in Park avenue, yet most of the
blocks on either side of the avenue
from Fifty-second to Eighty-third
street, are lined now with tall apart
ments, which are sa-id to be the best
in the city. Though Park avenue is
considered the leading apartment
house avenue in the city, rentals
there are not exorbitant—in fact,
apartments in new buildings may be
got to fit almost any purse. Six rooms
and two baths can be had for $1,700
a year. Suites can. be had even for
less rent than this. From $1,700 rents
range gradually to $10,000, which is
about the highest rental paid on the
avenue. This rent is obtained in the
seventeen story apartment at Seventy
ninth street. Prices in this house are
from $9,000 to $10,000. '
About two blocks away, at the cor
ner of Fifth avenue and Eighty-first
street, as high as $5,000 a year may
be paid for apartments. This prob
ably is the highest-priced apartment
house in the world.
West End avenue has been the scene
of most of the apartment house build
ing on the west side since last sea
son. Half a dozen fine houses have
been erected there.
SOUNDED JUST LIKE SNEEZE
A Story From San Francisco About a
Former Corporal of Impossible
Name.
San Francisco.—Corp. Mieczyslaw
Smialkowski, quartermaster corps,
Fort Greble, R. I., war department or
ders have it, has just been discharged
from the army by purchase, which re
minds us that Corp. Mieczyslaw Smial
kowski formerly served in the quar
termaster corps at the Presidio of San
Francisco under Maj. K. J. Hampton.
One day Major Hampton had a bad
cold and sneezed frequently, and that
day Corporal Mieczyslaw went into
Major Hampton’s office about ten
times and asked that officer if he
hadn’t called him when he hadn’t.
A man with a bad cold isn’t apt to
be in the best of humors, and the
eleventh time the corporal appeared
without being called the major was
mad clear through.
“Doggone it, corporal,” he snapped,
‘Tve got a holy terror of a cold, and
if you persist in coming in here every
time I sneeze because you think I’m
trying to pronounce your fool name,
I’ll have you up before a summary
court, if it’s the last act I do before I
sneeze myself to death.”
LEAVES $500 TO CHINAMAN
Miss Edith Rebecca Lord Also Willed
$150,000 to Blind Who Have
Never Begged.
New York.—Miss Edith Rebecca
Lord, daughter of John Taylor Lord,
who died at Cannes. France, on July
7, 1909, left an estate valued at $379,
481. One-half of her estate was left
to heirs of John T. Lord.
One of Miss Lord’s bequests was
$500 to You Kee, “a faithful China
man, of California.” She willed $150,
000 to the Gordon Fund for the Wind,
London, for pensions to blind persons
who have never begged alms.
Has Discarded Suitor Arrested.
Garfield, N. J.—Following Miss Anna
Solla’s refusal to wed him, Vincent
Nenchia nailed a cross draped in
crepe on the door of the Solla home
here. The girl declared it was the
sign of a vendetta threatening death.
Nenchia was arrested.
ART MARVELS FROM THE SEA
Ancient and Valuable Relics Removed
From Sunken Ship Off Tunisian
Coast.
Paris. Nows has been received of
an archaeological find of the greatest
interest. At Madhia, on the Tunisian
coast, five or six years ago some
Greek sponge fishers noticed a strange
mass of wreckage lying at a depth
of 130 feet to the north of Madhia
lighthouse. Amid a jumble of timbers
lay splendid marble columns, bronze
statuettes, a superb life-sized boy’s fig
ure and other treasures, which they
succeeded in bringing to the surface.
It has now been ascertained that
the sunken ship was a vessel of about
400 tons, 100 feet long and 25 feet
broad. She was laden with an ex
traordinary, heterogeneous cargo, not
only blocks of marble, but bases and
capitals for columns, effigies, statues,
furniture, tiles, leaden piping, lamps,
amphorae, etc. Among the fragments
were found figures of a demigod and
a maiden and faun which correspond
almost exactly with those upon what
is known as the Borghese vase du.j'
up in Rome and now in the Louvre.
The bottom of the hold contains
about sixty columns of bluish white
marble thirteen feet high, which were
probably one of the causes of the
wreck of an evidently too heavily
freighted ship. All the inscriptions
deciphered relate to Attica and per
sonages of tlie middle fourth century
B. C., and it might have been thought
that the vessel dated from that period
but for the Boethus statue and a lamp
of a pattern only imroduced into At
tica at the end of the second century
B. C. Some writing on lead ingots
also is in the Latin of that epoch and
experts have concluded so far that
the vessel was loaded in Attica for
Rome and probably the cargo was the
spoil after the taking of Athens by
Sulla in 80 B. C.
STUDIES TO HELP HUSBAND
Mrs. Friely Taylor First Co-Ed to En
ter Engineering School of North
western University.
Chicago.—Mrs. Friely Taylor is the
first co-ed to enter the engineering
school of Northwestern university at
Evanston. She plans to gain a theo
retical knowledge of engineering, so
she may help her husband, who Is
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Mrs. Friely Taylor.
working as a practical engineer, but
who never had the advantage of a
college course. Twice a week Mrs.
Taylor goes out with the class in sur
veying and does her share of “finding
corners.” “stake driving." and "sight
In*."
HORNS OF FANTASTIC SHAPE
East African Tribe Have a Peculiar
Method of Dealing With
Their Oxen.
A tribe of East Africa, called the
Stih... hammer and twist the horns
of their cattle into all kinds of fantas
tic shapes. An ox with on. horn that
points forward and the other back
ward, writes M. \\ . II. Ileech in "The
Suit." is an object of envy and admi
ration to all; it is railed kamar.
The; be!I, \.■ that t urh an ox has
exceptional properti -s. Every lighting
man should have his kamar. those
who do not poss. ss one are objects o!
derision. When they prepare to start,
on a raiding expedition, the men gath
er the kamars together, bedeck them
\t1th ostrich-feathers, and lead them
to the river. Then^ Hie warriors ure
assembled: they dance round the sa
cred oxen, llap their hands tit them,
and kneel on one knee; they hold up
their shields in attitudes of defense
and brandish their spears, while they
utter weird war-cries, which are sup
posed to excite in the faint-hearted the
desire for battle A captured kamar
is a coveted prize, and the Stilts
slaughter and eat it with much cere
mony.
The Suits we re originally an agricul
tural people. In every plantation they
build little shelters on piles, whereon
sit the women and children whoso
luty it is to give warning of the ap
proach of elephants, and to scare
away birds. Of the members of tho
tribe who do other than agricultural
work there is a saying, “God gave
them no sheep, so he gave them clev
erness instead.’’—Youth’s Companion.
PRETTY HARD TO EXPLAIN
Little Slip Made by Mr. Jones That
He Probably Found It Hard
to Square.
Jones usually caught tho 5:30 train
sut of tho Grand Central for New Ro
chelle. This day, however, he had
met a friend and remained over to re
new acquaintanceship, lie was plain
ly up against it, but finally managed
to get the following wire off to Mrs.
Jones:
“Missed the 5:30. Don’t keep din
ner waiting. Will be a little lute to
night.’’
It was long after midnight when he
left the train at New Rochelle and
Len minutes later before he reached
home.
Mrs. Jones inet him at the front
door.
“You got my message, darling?" he
asked, pressing a box of bonbons into
her hands.
“Oh, yes!" quickly returned Mrs.
Jones, "1 got it all right, liut I v/ould
like to know why you sent a wire at
4:30 telling me you had missed the
5:30 train.”
Jones couldn’t.—Judge.
Does an Injustice to Canines.
“1 never could see,” captiously re
marked Kipling Daft, who often cogi
tates deeply, “why a low saloon should
be called a ‘doggery.’ Dogs do not fore
gather In such places and put their
ieft hind paws up on the footrail and
toll Mike to settemupagain. Neither
does a dog linger along till a late
hour of the night, bragging about how
lie was just going to hit the feller
when he left, or telling funny stories
deftly interspersed with hiccoughs,
and then go winding home full of
choice liquors, fine cigars and seven
kinds of billy-hell. Then, let us not
speak of a saloon as a ‘dodgery,’ even
If the men who congregate there do
at times recite more doggerel than is
good for them; but be truthful and -
denominate it as a ‘mannery,’ If
nothing will do us but that we must
call it out of its name.”—Kansas City
Star.
Extermination Not Feared.
“Do not believe all you read about
‘the extinction of fur animals,’ ” writes
a statistician to a Paris paper. “With
the exception of a few—seal, chin
chilla and American lynx—‘fur animals’
are no less numerous than they v/ero
30 years ago, when the prepared pelts,
now popular lor outer garments, were
used for lining purposes. The high
prices are caused by the increased
demand. The fur-bearing animals will
uot. be exterminated because the fash
ions change. While one animal, tem
porarily popular, is being hunted the
the other has time to recuperate. Na
ture helps also in this way: The over
hunted animal instinctively abandons
its habitat, often seeking refuge where
the hunter cannot follow.”
Knew He Was Safe.
After the League of Public Safety
became active in Broklyn some time
ago lectures were delivered in the
schools and buttons were given to all
pupils. Teachers thought the scheme
for safety had been well theorized by
the lecturers, but one boy recently
showed that everything had not been
made plain. In crossing a street he
narrowly escaped being hit by an au
tomobile, the driver of which took the
opportunity to admonish the lad. “Ah,
go on!” yelled the boy; “nothing can
hit me!” and he pulled back his coat
and revealed his “safety” button.
Sweetly Unreasonable.
“There is no use of trying to deny
that women are sometimes a little un
reasonable,’ said the mild-mannered
i man. “My wife made me do my best
1 to explain about a writ of habeas cor
i pus to her.”
[ “Did you make it clear?”
j “I’m afraid not. She went around
! to a lawyer next day and tried to ob
tain one that would get me away from
the ball game in time for dinner.”
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