Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-14
The HOusekeePer.
DOMESTIC REBEIPfS


INDIAN CAKEs.-One pint OF meal, one pint OF
milk, sour preferred; one teaSpoonful OF soda
one-half teasoonfui OF cream OF tartar, il the
milk is sweet. one tablespoonful OF mOlaSSeS or
sugar, small piece Of butter, two eggs.
CALFsHEAD SoUP.-Take a skinned head. one
set OF feet well-cleaned, put into pot and cover
with water, let 1t boil until all the bones fall
from ii, about four hOurs) then take out the
head and feet, chop very 6ne and put back into
TIE pot with sweet marjoram, cloves and black
pepper to your taste: add to this before taking
from the fire, some forced meat balls; should
The soup be too thin, add little flour and butter
rubbed together. When done. have ready in the
tuIeen two eggs, boiled hard and chopped fine,
one teacup OF wine and lemon sliced; pour the
soup over them.
TO DRESS TERRAPINs.-Roil them until YOU
can rub off the skin: to each terrapn one wine
glass OF Madeira and one OF cream. season with
cay enne and salt; rub the butter and flour to-
gether, drcdge little flour in the stew-pan; to
six terrapinS one pound Of butter.
STEW CARROTS.-BOil them. then nicely Scrape
them. slice them into a stew-pan, put to them
half teacup OF butter, a little pepper, salt and
half cup OF cream, simmer until very tender,
Hour in it.
SOFT G1NGERBREAD.-Two cups of butter. two
cups OF sugar, two OF molasses, six of flour, six
eggs, two tableSpoOnfullS OF ginger half cup OF
milk, three teaspoonfulls of yeast powder.
A DELTGHrrUL WINTER DIET.
One quart OF milk, six eggs, reSerying the
whites Of two which beat to stiff frOth, and
when the milk boilS drop in in spOOnfullS; In a
beating the eggs light pour the boiling milk
slowly into the egg, stirring the egg quickly the
While: SWeeten 1t and place over the fire, stirring
it all the time until it SINNERS. 1t must not boil
If 1t should curdle pour 1t Immediately into an
other pan and stir until cool. Place sponge
cake, mofStened with Madeira wine land on
which preserved strawberries or other fruit has
been spread,l in the bottom or sides of glass or
china bowl, and when the cuStard is cool, flavor
with vanilla, and pour into the bowl, placing
tie white balls carefully on top; then surround
the bowl with ice, or stand 1t into cold water IN
Ill required.
MINCE PIES.
Take q pound of beef free from skin and
strings and chop it very fine then two pounds
of suet, which likewise pick and chop; then add
three pounds of currants, nicely cleaned and
perfectly dry; one pound and a-half of apples
tie peal and juice of a lemon, half a pint of
sweet wiIe, half nutmeg and a few cloves and
mace, with pimento in fine powder; have ctron,
orange and lemon peel ready. and put some in
each OF the pies when made,
SEASONING SACSAGE-MEAT.
| saw receipt for seasoning sausage in the
7elegraph recently. Twill write down here mine:
1Weigh, instead Of measuring. For forty pounds
Of meat | use one pound OF salt, One-fOurth
pound Of sifted sage, and two ounces OF black
pepper, Buy the pepper-corn and grind it, it is
much stronger than the ground found in the
market. Ihave used this receipt for many years.
All who eat OF my sausage pronounce 1t good
IGermaHt0,cn Ietegfaph.
How COMMON LAMPS WASTE LIGHT-Did it
ever occur to the reader that most OF the COM
mon lamps actually waste one-half or more of
all the light produced, ana are therefore doubly
expensive? The flame gives off rays from its
surface: but If we half cover the flame, half of
the rays are Intercepted and lost. This is just
what Is done in MA 0rlty of lamps. In several
OF the lamps now made this loss is saved by
emitting the metal cap. and having the glass
chimney set down below the bottom of the lame.
such an arrangement Is equivalent to saving
half the expense OF Oil. The Argand principle
is Of great utility. This is an arrangement for
having current lof air pass up through the
center OF a circular flame, furnishing oxygen to
its interior The combustion is much more in
tense, and the light cOrreSpondingly greater
[Ag,icritnfist.
A FICTITIOUS CABLE DISPATCH of fnordinate
length. purportng to e1nanate from staff cor
respondent who has been sent across the seas to
find Mi. Edison, is an amusing jeu d'esprit in
Saunders Irish Ners. When the correspondent
iEg down Broadway to the Battery in an open
carriage, drawn by six cream colored horses,
and preceded by number OF outriderS In scar
let and gold, and a squadron Of siege artillery
in full gallcp. AS they approached, the Presi-
dent descended from his carriage, saluted the
correspondent on both cheeks, and Immediately
his party ana repeated from the Battery to the
Central Park. The President carried his guests
OF to the White House, where they had birds
nest soup, blue fish, bread-f fruit pilaff and oys-
tiers In every style. After lunch the President
drove the correspondent out without the artil-
lery1 to see the sights in the immediate neigh
uOTNOCu-tEe FdlS VI NldSdld, tuc pIdiIlcS, ZIG
Yosemite Valley, and giant trees In MartpOsa
county. Wien he learned that the Ir1Shman
ad crossed the seas to talk with Mr. Edison,
| the President urged him to do nothing OF the
| sort. He remarked that the inventor was hard
| ly ever at home, being generally In the Patent
| Office registering some new discovery, and be-
| sides he was so highly charged with electricity
| that it was dangerous to approach him. The
| President remarked that the inventor was fire.
| Quenty seen with regular nimbIS around his
| head, a sort Of domestic aurora borealiS and
! one man who shook hands with him In a casual
| way. went home, took to his bed, and was pros
! trated by the violence of the electrical shock
| Killjngsly, Conn.,, and was badly Scalded by hot
water that she was carrying in a pail. Her cries
brought neighbor, who fell througl the cellar
| opening and broke three ribs; Then Mrs.
| Graves little boy tumDled after the others and
| was seriously injured.
sE-There is a sect in India tae members of
| " hich worship the late Brigade General John
Nicholst n, the hero Of Delhi, as a deali-god
They ale called the NickplSenS = ~