"The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies through their mouths, or I mistake mankind."

Dr. Wolcot.

A Good Laxative

Put through a food chopper twice

1/2 pound seeded raisins 1/2 pound of dates 1/2 pound of prunes

1/2 pound of figs 1/4 pound senna leaves picked over

After grinding, roll out on bread board 1/4 or 1/2 inch thick, and cut into inch squares. Keep in a jar.

Dose - 1 square at bed time.

Mrs. M. McLeish,

Riverside, Calif.

Dates In Cereal

Cut dates, and cook with any kind of cereal. This makes the cereal sweet enough so the use of sugar is not necessary. Mrs. A. G. Proctor,

Coachella, Calif.

Dates With Cereal

Dates chopped, or cut coarsely in a meat grinder, and sprinkled, uncooked, on hot oatmeal or other break-fast cereal to be served with honey and cream, make a delicious dish, Mrs. C. E. Cook,

Indio, Calif.

Dates With Rice

Wash 1 cup of rice through several waters, drain, and sprinkle into 2 quarts of boiling water. Let boil

One cup means 1/2 pint. Cup, tablespoon and teaspoon all mean level measurements.

twenty minutes, then pour into a sieve, and allow cold water to run through the rice to harden it, drain, salt, and place in the oven or on back of the stove in a dish covered with cheese cloth, until grains are dry and flaky. Cover with ground or chopped dates just before taking to the table. Mrs. c. E. Cook,

Indio, Calif.

English Chutney Sauce

1 pound of apples 1/2 pound raisins 1/2 pound dates

1 dozen ripe tomatoes (canned ones may be used)

2 red peppers

1/4 cup mint leaves (fresh or dried)

6 small onions

1 ounce of white mustard seed 1 1/2 quarts vinegar, boiled and cooled (do not have too strong) 1 pound of granulated sugar

It requires no cooking. Put everything through the meat grinder. Salt and sugar heated with the vinegar, and let cool before pouring over rest of ingredients.

Pour all in a crock or jar, and let stand ten days, stirring each day, then it can be bottled. Nice with meats. Mrs. S. S. Logan,

Denver, Colo.

Mu'asal Of The Persian Gulf

(One of the best preserves of that region.)

Remove the seeds from the dates and replace with walnut meats. Boil down some date syrup (any other good syrup would do), add sesame seed to taste, and a little rose water for aroma; boil until thick, add dates, put over the fire, and let it come to a boil again; then put into glass jars.

Pickled Dates

Dates may be pickled in vinegar just before they are ripe, when they much resemble pickled walnuts.

Sweet Potatoes and Dates

1 cup dates cut in quarters 1/2 cup cream

2 cups mashed sweet potatoes A little salt and cinnamon (boiled in skin till done) 2 eggs well beaten

Mix, folding eggs in last. Drop heaping tablespoons on pie pans, well greased, and bake one-half hour, or till brown. Mrs. B. A. Teagle,

Coachella, Calif.

Syrian Method Of Preserving Dates

Take the largest dates obtainable, preferably before they are entirely ripe; peel them with a sharp knife, put them in a pot, add a little more than enough water than to cover them, boil until they are soft; then slip the seeds out and put an almond or pistachio, with a clove, in the cavity; boil dates in syrup with a little lemon peel until the proper consistency; take them off the fire and let them stand over night; then bring to a boil again and put in glass jars.

Tamarind Chutney

2 pounds of dates

1/2 pound of green ginger root

1 pound of layer raisins

2 tablespoons of salt

1 pound onion 1/4 pound chillies 1/4 pound brown sugar 1/2 pint vinegar

A 1/2 pound jar or bottle of tamarinds

Remove stones from tamarinds, chop fine, the same with dates; stone and cut the raisins into quarters; chop fine the onion; pound the chillies and scrape and slice the ginger.

Mix all the ingredients together, bottle and seal.