Ingredients
1 egg
1 tablespoon milk or water
1/2 salt spoon salt
Few grains of pepper
Method--Beat the eggs slightly and add liquid and seasonings. Pour into
a warm buttered pan and cook slowly over water. As the egg coagulates on
the bottom and sides of the pan lift it with a spoon. Continue until
thickened and creamy but not dry. Serve immediately.
ONLY A FEW BOTTLES
of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound are needed to give surprising
results, as so many women tell us.
"HAD NO AMBITION"
"I suffered greatly from weakness, seemed to be tired all the time, and
had no ambition to do anything or go any place. My nerves were in bad
shape, I could not sleep at night and then came a breakdown. I read of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in the newspapers and several of
my friends advised me to use it. It surely put new life into me and now
I am quite able to do all my own work."
MRS. CHAS. WAKELIN,
272 Christie St., Toronto, Ontario.
SWEET MILK GRIDDLE CAKES
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Ingredients
3 cups flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons baking powder
1 egg
2 cups milk
2 tablespoons melted fat
Method--Mix and sift dry ingredients. Add beaten egg, milk and fat to
make a thin batter. Drop on a hot oiled griddle and brown on both sides.
SAVINGS
Save all the waxed paper that crackers and bread come wrapped in. It is
very handy to roll out pie-crust or biscuits on, also doughnuts and
cookies, and saves washing the pastry board.
IF YOU HAVE TO WORK
you must have good health in order to do your work well. Besides this,
you want to be able to play afterwards and both work and play require
good health. It is a great handicap to be lacking in energy when you are
young and should be strong. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will
help that tired feeling which many girls have.
"I HAD TO STAY IN BED"
"I suffered for three years with troubles women often have. About every
three weeks I had to stay in bed four or five days. I nearly went crazy
with pains in my back, and for about a week at a time I could not do my
work. I saw Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound advertised in the
'Hamilton Spectator' and I took it. Now I have no pain and am quite
regular unless I overwork or stay on my feet from early morning until
late at night. I keep house and do all my own work without any trouble.
I have recommended the Vegetable Compound to several friends."
MRS. EMILY BEECROFT,
16 Douglas St., Hamilton, Ontario.
VINEGAR
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A spoonful of vinegar added to the water when cooking corned beef will
make it more tender.
To make pie-crust flaky try adding one-half a spoonful of vinegar to the
cold water before mixing.
Add vinegar to the water in which you soak wilted vegetables and they
will revive quickly and any little bugs in them will come out.
Add vinegar to the water when washing windows or paint or cleaning
floors.
If paint or varnish is on a window, wet it with hot vinegar and rub it
off with a cent.
To take the shine from clothing, sponge the shiny places with boiling
hot vinegar, rubbing vigorously, then press as usual.
IT IS PERFECTLY SAFE
for any one to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound whenever such
a medicine is needed. It contains no narcotics nor harmful drugs and is
made in the most accurate and sanitary manner. Can a medicine be a fraud
that is compounded from nature's own remedies, the roots and herbs of
the fields, that has stood the test of time by restoring health and
happiness to thousands of suffering women?
"FOR WOMEN'S TROUBLES"
"I saw Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound advertised for women's
troubles, and when a friend recommended it to me I tried it, and it has
done me so much good in the two years in which I have been taking it
that I find I am a different woman since then. I recommend your
Vegetable Compound as much as I can and you may use my letter as a
testimonial."
MRS. WM. J. THOMAS,
Melaval, Saskatchewan.
CASSEROLE OF RICE AND MEAT
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Ingredients
2 cups steamed rice
2 cups chopped seasoned meat
1 cup gravy or tomato sauce
1/2 cup buttered crumbs
Method--Place in a baking dish a layer of rice, over this sprinkle a
layer of chopped meat and repeat until the dish is nearly filled; then
pour gravy or tomato sauce over the meat. Cover with the buttered crumbs
and bake until brown.
HELPFUL HINTS
To keep the daily paper from blowing away when it is left on the porch,
get the carrier to snap it into a spring clothes-pin which is tied to
the railing.
WHEN A WOMAN KNOWS
that a certain medicine is good she wants no substitute or makeshift.
The women who take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound are of this
class. They know what they want and they will take nothing else.
"COULD NOT SLEEP"
"I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for weakness of the female
organs. I had pains in the back and bearing-down pains in the abdomen
and was in a general run-down condition. I could not sleep, rest or
work, and was quite unfit to do even light household tasks. A friend
told me about your Vegetable Compound and I in my turn truly recommend
it, as my severe symptoms vanished and I am better in every way. I do my
own work, look after my children and see to chickens, a cow, and my
garden. I also recommend it for young girls who are weak and rundown, as
my 16-year-old daughter has taken it and is quite her own gay self
again."
MRS. FRED. WILEY,
Viscount, Saskatchewan.
FILIPINO ROLL
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Ingredients
1 sweet green pepper
2 onions
1 lb. Hamburg steak
1 cup bread crumbs
1 egg
2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce
5 or 6 slices of bacon
Sauce
1 cup tomato soup
1 tablespoon flour
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 cup water
Method--Wash the pepper and remove the seeds, add onions and chop
together. Mix with meat, breadcrumbs and well beaten egg. Add seasonings
and form into a roll. Cover with bacon and bake 45 minutes in a
moderately hot oven. Remove to platter, add water to make gravy and
strain into it the thickened tomato soup. Let it boil a few minutes then
pour around the roll.
A FEW MINUTES
of any woman's time is well spent if she will read what Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound does for sick and ailing women.
"ONE OF YOUR LITTLE BOOKS"
"I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for weakness and female
disorders. I was so weak at times that I could not stand up. I had been
this way for nearly three years, and the different medicines I had taken
had not done me any good. I found one of your little books at my door
one day and thought I would give your medicine a trial. I am now on my
fifth bottle and it is wonderful the way it has helped me. I am feeling
much better, have no weak spells, and can do all my work now. I am
recommending your Vegetable Compound to all I know."
MRS. CASEY LEMERY,
176 Abbott St., Brockville, Ontario.
MOCK MEAT CAKES
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Ingredients
1/2 cup dried peas or beans
5 medium potatoes
1/2 cup grated cheese
1/2 cup fine breadcrumbs
1 egg (beaten)
1 tablespoon melted bacon fat
salt and pepper
Method--Soak peas or beans over night, then boil until very tender. Boil
and mash potatoes. Add mashed beans, grated cheese, bread-crumbs, beaten
egg, bacon fat and seasonings. When cool shape into cakes, dip into
cornmeal and fry.
WHY ARE SOME WOMEN
happy, beloved, and successful, while others drag out a negative
existence, of no use to themselves or anyone else? Except in a few cases
the answer is to be found in a state of freedom from the troubles known
as "female." The well woman radiates cheerfulness and serenity, while
the ailing one repels you with her despondency. It is not necessary,
however, to harbor aches and pains, and the "blues," which make one a
detriment to society. The use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
has brought relief to such women, and given them a new lease of life.
"A GENERAL RUN-DOWN CONDITION"
"I was in a general run-down condition, with a weak back and tired
feeling, so that I did not feel like working. My mother was taking Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and recommended it to me, so I have
taken it, and my back is better and I am now able to do my work. I
recommend the Vegetable Compound to my neighbors and you may publish
this letter."
MRS. JOSEPHAT A. GRENIER,
Hesketh, Alberta.
DRY BEAN CHOWDER
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Ingredients
1 cup dried beans
2 slices bacon (diced)
1 can corn
1 can tomatoes
salt and pepper
cracker crumbs
Method--Soak the beans over night and boil until tender. Drain into a
fire-proof casserole. Try out the fat from the bacon until it is
perfectly crisp, care being taken that it is not burned. Then add corn,
seasoning and tomatoes. Mix all and add to beans. Sprinkle cracker
crumbs over the top and bake twenty-five minutes. Serve from the
casserole.
IN THIS GENERATION
it is 'the style' to be healthy. Our heroines no longer languish and
faint. They are all healthy girls and women who do a day's work or play
just as a man does. If some of us are not so healthy as this, we try to
be and take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound when we feel the need.
"I WAS A TOTAL WRECK"
"Before using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I was a total wreck.
I had terrible pains in my sides and was not regular. Finally I got so
weak I could not go upstairs without stopping to rest halfway up. I saw
your medicine advertised in the newspapers and gave it a trial. I took
four bottles of the Vegetable Compound and was restored to health. I am
married, am the mother of two children, and do all my own housework,
milk eight cows and do a hired man's work and enjoy the best of health.
I also found the Vegetable Compound a great help for my weak back before
my babies were born. I recommend it to all my friends."
MRS. HENRY JANKE,
Marmion, Ontario.
COOKING HINTS
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Never throw away the feet of a fowl as they are excellent for making
soups, broths and jellies. You can buy extra feet from the butcher. Dip
them in boiling water for a few seconds and they may be readily skinned.
Boil with the chicken until they fall to pieces, then strain the broth.
Before baking potatoes let them stand in hot water for fifteen minutes.
They will require only half the time to bake.
Pour boiling water on oranges and let them stand for five minutes. This
will make the white lining come away from the skin and they will be
easier to prepare for a pudding.
ANY HOSPITAL EXPERIENCE
is painful as well as costly and frequently dangerous. Many women have
avoided this experience by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
in time, thereby relieving the present distress and preventing the
development of conditions that might require an operation.
"THEY SAID I NEEDED AN OPERATION"
"I suffered from the time I was a schoolgirl until I had taken your
medicine with pain in my left side and with cramps, growing worse each
year until I was all rundown. I was so bad at times that I was unfit for
work. I tried several doctors and patent medicines but was only relieved
for a short time. Some of the doctors wanted to have an operation, but
my father objected. Finally I learned through my mother of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and how thankful I am that I tried it. I
am relieved from pains and cramps and feel as if it has saved my life.
You may use my letter to help other women, as I am glad to recommend the
medicine."
MRS. H.A. GOODMAN,
14 Rockvale Ave., Toronto, Ontario.
HINTS AND HELPS
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The common nut-cracker makes a splendid little household wrench for cans
and bottles with screw tops. Even glass stoppers will yield to it.
A pair of scissors in the pantry to cut up raisins, suet, citron, etc.,
is easier to use then the chopper. A metal shoe-horn that has a hole in
the top to hang it up by, makes a good kettle scraper.
Use a bicycle pump to clean such parts of the sewing machine as you
cannot reach with a cloth or with an old tooth brush.
Save the sand-paper which comes on the match-boxes and use it for
scraping, cleaning, etc.
Ammonia water will remove the cloudy appearance from the preserve jars
in which vegetables have been canned.
THE BEST ADVERTISED MEDICINE
in the world is the medicine which has the most friends.
"It HAS DONE SO MUCH FOR WOMEN"
"I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for years, and it is the
only patent medicine I ever recommend. I am a nurse, and if I find a
woman is in poor health I always tell her to take it. Although you know
doctors and nurses do not use patent medicines I must say that I think
there is nothing better than your Vegetable Compound. When I first took
it many years ago, I was that tired when I got up in the morning that I
was weak and I could not eat nor sleep. My mother-in-law told me that
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was just what I wanted, so I tried
it, and only took two bottles when I felt better. Since then I have
found that there is nothing that makes me feel so well, for it seems to
build my system right up. I don't know any other medicine that has done
so much for women."
MRS. W.H. PARKER,
19 Wellesley Ave., Toronto, Ontario.
DUTCH CHEESE
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Ingredients
1 quart sour milk
1/3 to 1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup sour or sweet cream
(or 1 large tablespoon butter)
Method--The milk should be freshly sour to get the best flavor. This is
best obtained by adding a little sour milk to five or six times the
amount of sweet milk. It should be kept in a warm place (the back of the
stove) until the curd of the milk is thick and smooth and the whey is
watery and has risen to the top. Drain in a cheese cloth bag until dry.
Add cream (or butter) and salt. If the process needs to be hurried stir
into the milk a cup full of nearly boiling water. Leave to settle before
draining. As the cheese is very rich in protein it easily becomes tough
by overheating. For the same reason it is very nourishing.
THE CONTINUED SUCCESS
of a medicine depends entirely upon its merit. For nearly fifty years
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been demonstrating its worth
among women as a valuable medicine for the treatment of female ills, and
the tremendous volume of letters on file in the Pinkham laboratory at
Lynn, Massachusetts, from grateful women in all parts of the United
States and Canada is ample proof of its merit.
"A LOT OF GOOD"
"I had female troubles for two years. I always had a headache and a pain
in my side, and sometimes I felt so weak that I could not do my work. A
friend advised me to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and I
have taken six bottles of it. It has done me a lot of good and I am
still taking it. I will tell my friends of your medicine and hope they
will try it."
MRS. CAMILLE DesROCHE,
Miscouche, Prince Edward's Island.
CAKE-MAKING
Success in cake-making depends on careful combining of ingredients,
accurate measurements and careful baking. To make cake light and close
in texture, thorough beating is necessary.
Baking--Small and layer cakes require a hot oven for 10 to 20 minutes.
Loaf cakes need a moderate oven from 40 to 60 minutes. In the beginning
the oven should be hot enough to cause the cake to rise and then to form
a crust which holds the gases. When the cake has risen to its full
height decrease the heat so that the cake may finish baking without
becoming too brown. If the oven is too hot at first a crust will be
formed before the cake is risen. If not hot enough, gas will not be
retained in the cake. Either of these conditions will make the cake
heavy.
Testing--The cake is baked if, when pressed lightly upon the top in the
middle, it springs back again. It usually shrinks from the sides of the
pan. A deep cake may be tested with a clean straw.
Methods of work--First grease and flour the pans. Collect all materials
and utensils needed and make sure that the oven will be ready. Do this
before combining any materials.
WE READ
a good deal about "Pre-Natal Care"--the care of the mother before her
child is born--and we all agree that a healthy and happy mother is the
one to have the best babies.
"SO SMART AND HEALTHY"
"When I would get out of bed in the morning I could hardly stand on my
feet for weakness and a bearing-down pain. I heard of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and tried it with Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills and
used Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash for the white flow, and was doing
fine. This was before my little girl was born. She is so smart and
healthy and good-natured that I think the Compound must have made her
that way."
MRS. RICHARD WILLIAMS,
Milltown, New Brunswick.
PLAIN CAKE
for Loaf or Layer Cake
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Ingredients
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
3 teaspoons Oleo or butter
1/2 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 cups flour
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Method--Beat eggs light, add sugar, butter, milk, salt and all but 2
tablespoons of the flour. Beat well, add vanilla, then add the remainder
of the flour with the baking powder, sifted together. Bake in loaf or
layer cake pans.
BROWNSTONE CAKE FILLING
Ingredients--1/2 cup sugar, 1 square of chocolate, 1 tablespoon
cornstarch, a few grains of salt, 1/2 cup of milk.
Method--Mix dry ingredients. Add liquid gradually. Cook in double boiler
until thick and creamy.
WEAKNESS MAY SHOW
in early girlhood and if attended to at that time and not allowed to
develop into serious troubles by carelessness or overwork, girls will
grow stronger as they grow older. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
is what many mothers give their girls in these early years.
"MY MOTHER-IN-LAW TOLD ME"
"I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female troubles. I
would have headaches, backache, pains between my shoulders and under my
shoulder-blades, and bad feelings in the lower parts on each side, in
the groins. I was sometimes unable to do my work and felt very badly. My
mother-in-law told me about the Vegetable Compound and I got some right
away. It has done me more good than any other medicine I ever took, and
I recommend it to my neighbors."
MRS. EDGAR SIMMONS,
R.R. No. 2, Pine Grove, Ontario.
SPONGE CAKE
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Ingredients
2 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cold water
1/2 tablespoon lemon juice
1 salt spoon salt
1/2 cup flour
Method--Beat yolks until thick and add sugar gradually. Add water and
lemon juice. Sift flour and salt into yolk mixture and beat thoroughly.
Fold in the stiffly beaten whites of eggs and bake in a moderate oven.
CRISPETTES
Ingredients--2 eggs, 1/2 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup
chopped walnuts or cocoanut, 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2
teaspoon salt.
Method--Beat eggs very light, add sugar and remaining ingredients. Beat
well and drop by tablespoonfuls on a buttered pan 2 inches apart. Bake
in a moderately hot oven. Always use a tin pan.
A LITTLE CARE
when one is young is not much to pay for good health afterwards. Take
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for any weakness you may have.
This well-known medicine is recommended by mothers to their daughters,
by sisters to one another, and by friends and neighbors to the woman
whose loved ones are far from her when she needs them most.
"AM PERFECTLY SATISFIED"
"When my husband was called back to England in 1914, I took Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to strengthen me so that I could work. My
periods were twice a month and used to make me so weak, but I am able to
do my work now and am perfectly satisfied with your medicine. I still
get it at the chemist's, and strongly recommend it to any one I hear of
suffering as I did."
MRS. E. HORNBLOWER,
899 Yonge St., Toronto, Ontario.
WAR CAKE
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Ingredients
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
2 cups raisins
1/3 cup fat
1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground cloves
few grains salt.
Method--Boil the above ingredients together for three minutes. Let cool.
When cold add 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 2 tablespoons hot water. Add
2 cups flour in which 1 teaspoon baking powder has been sifted. Bake in
a moderate oven.
PANTRY HELPS
If butter is too hard to serve, heat a bowl with boiling water and turn
the empty bowl over the butter. This will not waste or impair the taste
of the butter.
ARE YOU INTERESTED
in a letter from a woman in South Africa who takes Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound?
"ONE OF YOUR LITTLE BOOKS"
"I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for weakness and because I
felt run down. I tried a lot of medicine before I tried yours. One day I
was standing on my stoop when a boy came up to me and handed me one of
your little books. I read the book, and the next day my husband went to
a chemist and bought me a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. I have taken the medicine ever since and I feel quite strong
and well now as I am on the sixth bottle. I have written to my sister
and told her all about the wonders it has done for me, and I am quite
willing for you to use my name, as I cannot thank you enough for what it
has done for me."
MRS. W.F. RUSH,
128 6th Avenue, Mayfair, Fordesburg,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
CHOCOLATE CAKE
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Ingredients
5 tablespoons butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1-1/2 cups flour
2 squares chocolate
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt
2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder.
Method--Cream butter and sugar. Add yolks of eggs beaten until thick,
then milk, and all but 2 tablespoons of the flour. Beat thoroughly, add
melted chocolate and vanilla. Add remaining flour, salt and baking
powder sifted together. Fold in stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Bake in
moderate oven.
A PROPRIETARY MEDICINE
like everything else that comes before the public, has to prove its
merits. The law of the survival of the fittest applies in this field as
in others. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been used by women
for nearly fifty years.
"I KNOW WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN HELPED"
"My mother had taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and when I
needed something for my periods I took it and got good results. I
recommend it to women with any female troubles, and I know other women
who have been helped by it."
MRS. MAX RETZER,
Lumsden, Saskatchewan.
"I used to have very bad pains in my back and sides and often was not
fit for work. I tried many medicines before I took yours. I saw Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound advertised in the 'Toronto Globe,' and now
that it has helped me I recommend it to all my neighbors."
ELIZABETH CAMPBELL,
13 St. Paul St., Lindsay, Ontario.
CHOCOLATE FROSTING
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Ingredients
1-1/2 squares chocolate
1 cup sugar
1 cup boiling water
Method--Cut chocolate into small pieces, add sugar and water and stir
until blended. Boil until a soft ball forms when dropped into ice-water.
Cool. Beat until creamy and spread on cake.