Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-23
TIE HOUSEHOLD.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND HOME DEcoRa-
TIoE AND FURNISHING.
The Parlor, Kitchen, store-rcom, Studio
Library, Nursery. Sewing room.
Garden and Poultry Yard.

Tossed PorAToEs. Boil some potatoes
in their skins; peel them and cut INTO
small pieces. Toss them over the ire IN a
| mixture of cream, butter rolled IN -four,
| pepper and salt, till they are hot. and well
| covered with the sauce.
| RASPBERRY JAM.-Threefourth pound
| sugar TO every pound of fruit. Pat the
fruit on alone, or with the addition of one
pint currant juice to every four pounds
raspberries. Boil half an hour, MASKING
and stirring well add the sugar and cook
twenty minutes more. Blackberry jam Is
very good made IN the same way, only
emitting the currant juice.
| CARAMEL FOR CoLoRING. Half pound
of brown sugar ;one tablespoonful OF water;
put into frying-psn, and stir steadily
over the fire till it becomes deep dark
brown in color then add one cup of boiling
| water and one teaspoonful of salt. Boil a
| minute longer, bottle and keep corked.
One tablespoonful will color clear soup,
and it can be used for jellies, grayies and
sauces.
CARROT SALAD. = Select very tender
French carrots and cook them in fast boil
| ing water till tender; cut into very thin
slices, put them into a glass salad bowl,
and sprinkle with sifted loaf sugar; add the
Juice of large, fresh lemon, and wine
glassful of olive OIL By way OF garnish,
place round tAe margin Of the dish an
onion cut in exceedingly thin slices, and
small punches of any fresh, green salad
leaves.
QUEEN PUDDING. Take half pound OF
apples, weighed after they are peeled and
cored chop them very fine the juice OF
three lemons the thinly grated rind OF
two lemons three-quarters OF pound OF
pulverized sugar one-quarter OF pound
OF butter six we'll beaten eggs, the yolks
and whites separate, the whites not to be
added till the padding Is ready for the
oven line your baking dish with thin
/ slices of stale sponge or lady fingers; wet
| with wineglassful of sherry VINE bake
IN quick oven.
APPLE CHEESE CAKES. Take one pound
Of apples, boiled and pulped through
sieve, one pound powdered white sugar,
the Juice and grated rinds of three large
fresh lemons, and four eggs well beaten.
Mig these Ingredients carefully, and put
them into q saucepan in which you nave
quarter of pound of fresh butter melted.
| Stir it constantly over a slow fire Tor hall
an hour. and let it cool. Line pie dishes
With fine puff paste, pour in the apple mix
ture. and bake, without upper crust, IL
quick oven. Sprinkle with powdered
sugar, and serve when perfectly cold.
French BEANS. Choose small, young
beans, and strip off the ends and stalks,
throwing them as prepared into dish full
! of cold water, and when all are finished,
wash and drain them well. Boil them IL
! sal6ed boiling water, in large saucepan,
and drain them; after which put them into
| an enamelled stewpaD, and shake them
over the fire until they are quite hot and
dry; then add about three ounces OF fresh
butter and tablespoonful of veal or
chicken broth; the butter must be broken
IN into small Jumps. Season with white
peDper. salt, and the juice of lemon,
| strained. Stir them well over fire for
| five minutes, and serve them IN vegetable
dish very hot.
MAYoyEAIsE SAUCE. Coed for lobster
or any kind OF cold boiled fish. The yolk
of an egg, a light teaspoonful of dry
mustard, a pinch of cayenne pepper, a
| saItspoonful OF white pepper, saltspoon-
| full Of pulyerized sugar, a tablespoonful OF
cold water; rub smooth, and then with
your left hand drop in, drop by drop, a
/ balf-pint of sweet-oil, rubbing steadily
ali the time with your right hand when
all the oil is rubbed In, and your dress
| inc smooth and thick, add a Light tea
spoonful Of salt and three tablespoonfuls
of vinegar Must be kept on ice until 1t
is ready to serve.
LOBSTER Soup Take five.pound lob
ster and wash it and kill 1t. | take a
kitchen knife and with q malleb drive 1t
through the tail of the lobster, just at the
Joint where it unites with the body. Ii
YOU do it right in the middle the lobster
| dies in a very few minutes. Boil the
lobster and pick it if there are any eggs
separate them put the meat IN a
mortar and pound smooth, adding a
little milk or cream from time to time
when the MIXTURE is smooth then add two
teaspoonfuls OF salt, half saltspoonful OF
red pepper, and blade of mace and half a
bunch Of finely-chopped parsley; take out
enough Of the mixture to make dozen
small balls incorporate the meat for these
balls with the yolkof an egg, and Try them
in hot butter now mix what You have
left of your lobster with two quarts OF
milk and pass it through sieve if you
have any OF the coral, boil it separate in q
spoonful of milk now let your lobster and
/ milk simmer: it ought to be smooth, and
does not require -four add the eighth OF a
pound of batter, say ten minutes before
serving; keep stirring all the time; put
the balls il your tureen, then pour the
SCUM on, and on top add the coral. 1t
ought not to be highly favored. When
properly cooked and smooth, though 1t was
lobster, l have fed invalids on It's.
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| OATMEAL WATER AS A BEVERAGE =
On board steamships the firemen employed
about the furnace are sometimes greatly
exhausted by the heat. The proiuse per-
SEPARATION renders large quantity of water
necessary to supply the waste. The IN
pestion of clear water under these clrcum-
stances appears to answer very imperfectly
the wants of the system. It seems to pass
through the circulation TO the skin, perco-
late as through a sieve, and flow over the
snrface in streams. a large drink of cold
water. or even cool water, under these
circumstances, on an empty stomach is
very dangerous and liable to produce death
with almost the suddenness OF an electric
shock. Great practical advantage has been
obtainedEby mixing farinaceous substances,
particularly oatmeal, with the water to be
used by the men employed at this kind
of labor. The oatmeal Is mixed In the
proportion OF three or four ounces to the
gallon of water, and used according to
inclination by the iiremeD and coal beavers.
1t might be difficult to determine why
oatmeal. for. this purpose, should be bet
ter than cornmeal or buckwheat, or
rye, wheat, millet, etc., but the fremen
themselves seem to think it has the effect
of making them as strong as horses. We
may safely allow something for this sort OF
prejudice, which we know to be very pc.
tent among the influences on health and
disease. The peculiar aroma OF the oats is
probably associated with a pleasant degree
of stimulation of the alimentary mucous
surface in such way as to produce Its
complete digestion. 1t seems to fill the
blood vessels without increasing the