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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