Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-22
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1t Will help 1t very much. little ginger put into
sausage meat improves the flavor. In icing
| cakes, dip the knife in cold water. In boiling
| for meat soup, use cold water to extract the
| juices. If the meat is wanted for itself alone
| plunge 1t In boiling water at once. You can
ges DOYLE t or or barrel OF oil OIL any carpet or
NeVerp put water to such grease spot, or liquid
| of any kind. Bron steak without salting Salt
a 9eaM sb 1ae Juices IN cooking 1t Is desirable to
turning frequently, soaring both sides, Place
on a platter; salt and pepper, TO taste. Beef
having a tendency to be tough, can be made
very palatable by stewing gently for two hours
With salt and pepper, taking out about pint of
the liquor when half done, and letting the rest
After taking up. make gravy OF the pint OF
liquor saved small piece OF charcoal in the
pot with boiling cabbage removes the smell.
Clean olclothS with milk and water: a brush
and soap will ruin them. TumberS that have
milk In them should never be put In hot water.
spoonful OF stewed tomatoes in the gravy OF
either roasted or fried meats Is an improvement.
The Skin OF q boiled egg is the most efficaciouS
remedy that can be applied to a boil Peel it
carefully, wet and apply to the part affected.
1t will draw out the matter and relieve the sore
ness In a few hOurs.-[SDf'ihqEeld Union.
How TO DEAL WITH RATs.-We clean our
premises OF these detestable vermin by making
WhiteWash yellow with copperas. and covering
the stones aud rafters in the cellar with it. In
every crevice where a rat may tread we put the
crystals OF the CopperaS, and scatter the same
In the corners of the floor. The result was a
perfect stampede OF rats and mice. Since that
time not football OF either rats or mice has
been heard about the house. Every spring a
coat OF the yellow wash is given the cellar. as a
purifier, as a rat exterminator, and no typhoid,
dysentery, or fever attacks the family. Many
persons deliberately attract all the rats in the
neighborhood by leaving fruits and vegetables
uncovered in the cellar, and sometimes even
the soap is left open for their regalement. Cover
up everything eatable in the cellar and pantry
cautions, Joined to the service of good cat,
Will prove as good rat eXterminatOr as the
chemist can provide. We never allow rats to
be poisoned In our dwelling, they are so liable
to die between the walls and produce much an
[C0rTespOnient Scientific american.
How TO Cook WILD FowL.-As this is the wild
fowl season 1t may be charity, considering the
horrid connections often served up with such
birds. to give the excellent recipe for sauce
published by Mr. Haywood in his admirable and
interesting essay on the cart Of Dining:n-One
cayenne, one desert spoon of lemon Juice one
desert spoon of pounded sugar, two desert
be well mixed heated and poured over the bird,
1t hav1rg been previously sliced in several
places, so that the sauce way mix with it's own
gravy. The bird to be put in the dish without
neutrality-suspicious. Truth.
THE VELVET PURsE.-The shopping basket is
growing common IN spite of the efforts ma lie to
keep It exclusive By CELEBRATING its decorations;
and now comes the velvet purse, made on the
pattern OF the old-fashionel net pu 'ses, but
long enough to fling over the arm and hang to
a graceful length on either side, 1t NAV be
brown, with one or two stripes of gold wrought
| cashmere ribbon, and gold rings and tass,ls Of
| brown and cashmere tintS; or it may be OF
scarlet and navy-blue stripes, or in Roman or
tartan colors, as one pleaSes, and very pretty it
is i OStOR Transcript.
OLIVE GREEN.-The customary white so gen.
| orally uSt d on the woodwork OF houses is Civ
ing place to paint of an olive green hue. This
color Tor years past has been popular in England
Tor similar purposes, and only recently is intro
dGced here.
OLD STYLE REvIvED-Dresses that button in
trent instead of the back are coming into fash
| Ion again The readers earliest recollections
| vived.- [Phiddelphin Press.
| AN INnICAToR.-It is becoming quite fashion,
able In oSton to place weather vaneS on tops
| Of houses, which record upon an indicator In a
| room below the prevailing wind.
DISCUSSION ON MEAL TIAE.-A writer in bib
! liophique Universelle" suggests as a curious
| subject of inquiry why the hours of meals in
| Paris become later by an honr or so every
| twenty or thirty years. The word diner is
etymologically the same as ''dejeuner,' which
| meal Of the day. From a. m 1t was gradually
| postponed to 10 a. m. Under Louis XII, there
| was popular rhyme which ran thus "Lener
a six, diner dix, souper six, coucher dix, fat
| vivre fhomme dix fo1s diX'' (RiSe at SIX dine at
! ten, supper at six, to bed at ten, will make
man live until ten times tenn Then people got
| Is 1:3O p. m. AS the dinner became later supper
| disappeared and new meals appeared in the
early part of the day. The dejeuner first, which
| now replaces the old diner, so that it has be-
| come necessary to have recourse to first de-
| jeuner. There seems no reason why the pro-
cess should cease, and as the day can not be in
| twenty years hence peoplewill go to the theater
before dinner. The fashion OF .'matineeS dra-
! matique" 1t the first symptom Of this transfer
nation
| To Boil ONIoNs.--SOme years ago read In
an English Journa! contribution OF Mr. Frank
| auckland, where he stated that after mental
| fatigue, and occasional sleepleSsneSS he was
greatly benefited by eating onions at his dinner.
How soporitic or sleep-inducing the onion, the
| much despised vegetable, is, am not prepared
| to state. but know that many persons who
| are troubled with sleeplesSness use them. II
| properly boiled, so as to get the ..twang out of
them, the onion Is most delicate vegetable. To
| with half tablespoonful of salt. Boil not too
fast for two hours. Drain in colander thor
oughly and allow to get cold. Make sauce
| -four, and one-half pint Of milk; rub butter and
hour perfectly together, with pinch OF black
| pepper. Boil milk, which pour over flour and
| butter, and stfr.all the time to keep smooth
Put onions In sauce and let them heat until the
same boils Ought 10 be served rather dry
| I'd, c'Or's Wife
GRAHAM BREAD, Lone pint water, one
| quart Graham flour, one pint wheat flour, one
yeastcake dissolved in half pint water, half a
| gill Of molasseS one teaspoonful of salt. one
| teaSpoonrul OF soda, mix at night; in morning
| pour in deep bread-pans and bake about one
! hour; it is too moist to kneed with the hands,
but requires to be thoroughly stirred with a
| strong spoon.
GRAHAM BREAD, 11.--Take one cake OF dry
| yeast, such as you get at the grocers-I like it
| better than the compressed yeaSt-diSSoive In a
| cupful OF warm water, and make a batter of
| wheat flour in bowl about O'Clock, and set In
| warm place until evening; then take one
| quart of warm water, large spoonful of salt,
| and make your batter or sponge, also with
| wheat flour, and cover In a warm place until
| morning; then put in two tablespoonful Of mo-
| lasses and make up your dough with your
| hands with Graham flour; now stand again to
Use until light, when it is to be made into Oaves
| and let stand until very light and bake.
| FRENCH Observation-Disclosures: Two eggs.
| one-half pint milk two ounces granulated sugar,
| two ounces butter, flour, and jelly. ~ Beat
| the butter and sugar to cream; (2) beat the
| eggs separately, the yOlllS to cream, and the
| whites to froth, and add the yolks to the but
ter and suger 80 stir the milk into these ingre-
dents; az butter six tin pie-plateS; 5) sift two
| ounces Of flour with a teaspoonful OF baking
| powder, and stir it quickly into the above
| named mixture, with the whites of the eggs.
put the butter quickly upon the buttered plates,
| and bake the pancakes brown In quick oven:
| (6) dust them with powdered sugar. lay them
| one over the other, with little jelly between;
| dust the top With sugar, and serve them hot
| [Jt,iet COrSOn, Cooking school Textbook.
| PUMPKIN-P1E MADE OF SQUAsH-Take good
| sized crooked-necked squash, a of pound of
| butter to milk-pan of squash. SWeeten to
taste. A bottle Of cream; one quart of milk,
| unless too thin. Season with mace a little nut
| meg, brandy, and rose-water. One dozen eggs.
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