Simplicity Is Keynote When Guests Arrive
Practical advice for unexpected guests from canned meats to ready salads and desserts. Tips include pantry staples, quick combinations like grilled ham and asparagus, coconut banana snow, baked beans with chili and veggies, and simple chicken loaf and frankfurter dishes for speedy entertaining.
Pick Your Kind of Mending Then Set Out to Perfect It
A reader explains turning daily mending into a creative craft. Techniques cover darning, embroidery, and decorative patches for sweaters, gloves, and dresses. The piece includes practical tips for disguising repairs on dark fabrics and fashioning bands on torn sheets for towels and linens.
Creative mending ideas for worn garments and accessories
The guide suggests transforming torn towels into hand or guest towels with appliques and decorative trims. Save usable fabric for washcloths or pot holders, patch knees with padded animals, add pockets, patches, or embroidery, and repair gloves by overcasting seams with matching thread and concealing tears with trims.
Leftover Egg and Poultry Ideas From Lynn Says
Practical uses for leftover eggs and poultry include mashed potatoes with egg yolk fried crisp, rarebit with yolks and cheese, thickened egg yolk sauces on toast, and scrambled eggs or custards from beaten yolks. Yolks can garnish salads canapes spinach and soups. Chicken mixed with cream sauce yolks bread crumbs fried until crisp yields a main dish.
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Egyptian cotton organdie in turn of the century style
The article highlights fine Egyptian cotton organdie sheets as summer fashion. It notes the blend of old charm with modern smartness and showcases a model with embroidered bands echoing early 1900s styling.
Cool Summer Frock for Girls Scallops Finish Design
Pattern No. 8330 creates a pretty girls frock in sizes 4 6 8 10 and 12 with two fabrics and tiny ruffles along a curved yoke and pockets. Suggest eyelet in white or pastels. size 6 requires 2 yards of plain fabric and % yard contrast.
Home Gardener Tips From A Weekend Kitchen
Powdered sugar should be kept in tightly covered glass or tin containers to prevent lumping. Cook potatoes and other root vegetables in their jackets to preserve vitamins. Slice leftovers and top with white sauce and cheese then bake. Add nuts or dessert sauces to bread pudding.
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