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Some Kitchen Kinks: Pour

Pour the water over the cinnamon and let it steep in a double boiler for ten minutes, add the sugar, beat the egg stiff, pour over it the flavored water, lifting out the cinnamon, add the wine, pour it all into a shaker and shake hard till the drink is thoroughly blended. If liked cold, add a bit of ice to it; if hot, set the shaker in boiling water for a few minutes.

Flaxseed Lemonade.-2 cupfuls of cold water; 1 tablespoonful of whole flaxseed; 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar; juice of 1 lemon.

Wash the flaxseed, put in a double boiler, pour the water over it and steep for an hour. Sweeten, add the lemon juice, and strain. This is a valuable remedy in a case of hoarseness or inflamed throat. Slippery-elm Tea.-4 teaspoonfuls of slippery-elm powder; 2 cupfuls of boiling water; 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar; juice of 1 lemon.

Pour the boiling water over the slippery elm; when cool, strain, sweeten, and flavor with the lemon juice.

Ice Chocolate.- cupful of milk; cupful of Apollinaris; 2 tablespoonfuls of chipped ice; 2 tablespoonfuls of chocolate sirup; ful of whipped cream. cup- Put these ingredients into a shaker and shake till frothy. Strain into a tumbler.

Kumiss.- cake of yeast; 4 cupful of sugar; 1/4 cupful of water; 3 quarts of milk.

Boil the sugar and water for a few minutes, dissolve the yeast in 2 tablespoonfuls of water, heat the milk till lukewarm, add the yeast and water, and stir. Put into thoroughly clean beer bottles, set them upright for twelve hours in a warm room, then lay on their sides in a refrigerator.

When the kumiss is twenty-four hours old it is ready to drink.

Rice Milk. - 2 tablespoonfuls of rice; 2 cupfuls of scalded milk; 1 teaspoonful of sugar; dash of salt. Soak the rice over night in cold water. Next morning put in a double boiler with the milk and seasoning, stir occasionally, and let it steam for an hour and a half. Rub through a sieve, grate a scraping of nutmeg over it, and, if desired, put a tablespoonful of whipped cream on top. Serve hot or cold.

PROVEN "HOME REMEDIES" Gruels are more tempting to the sick if whipped to a froth with an egg beater before serving in a pretty cup.

Beef tea is wanted frequently when there is little time to prepare it. It can be made quickly in the following manner: take a lean piece of beef, run it through a food cutter, using the finest cutter; cover with cold water and set at the back part of the range to heat. Do not let it boil, as that coagulates the albumen. Stir thoroughly, strain, and squeeze dry in a potato masher. This will extract all the juice of the beef quickly and easily. a As As a pick-me-up," nothing is more nourishing than the white of a fresh egg beaten to a froth, slightly sweetened, and blended with the juice of a sweet orange.