Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-04
THE HOUSEHOLD.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND HOME DECoRA-
TON AND FURNISHING.
The Parlor, Kitchen, Store-room, Studio.
Library, Nursery, Sewing room,
Garden and Poultry Yard.

ing is an extract from Miss Juliet Corsonl
cooking lecture in Chicago: The nex'
dish-cantons de Rouen-was very IN
teresting one, the little ducks being made
from the legs of chicken. Select
chicken, said Miss Corson, which mas
an unbroken skin. Cut the legs oil IN the
usual way, only be careful to leave as nucn
skin as possible. OF course take out the
feathers. and SINCE the legs and wipe thenl
with wet towel. Then remove the thigh
homes without cutting the skin-not dit
ficnlt thing to do. Replace the bones with
some stufing of bread and herbs, or mush-
rooms. if YOU wish. After the thighs are
stpfei cut of the lower bones about an
inch below the Joint. Then truss into
shane. Roast or bake the little ducks
and serve them with green peas, or salad,
or mixed vegetables. If you want
To make them very nice, season the
stufing with salt, and pepper, and
spices, and add the white of an egg
and about a teaspoonful of butter. To
make dry stufing, break up the soft part
of bread fine, soak the crusts and squeeze
them dry, and break them up fine, and
then season in any way you like, only don't
put in any liquid. Before baking the can.
tons you can tie on their backs thin slice
of salt fat pork. That is called Harding.
They look pretty when they have some
thing on them-ieaves of parsley. water
crosses, or anything of the kind" The
third dish prepared was macaroni. "To
boil macaroni," said Miss Corson, put it
into boiling water and salt-enough water
to cover it, and a tablespoonful of salt to a
quart of water. Boil it until it is Just
tender enough to break easily between the
fingers without being boiled in pieces Then
drain it and put it in cold water, and keep
it there just long enough to cool it. It
will then be ready to dress with any
kind OF sauce or cheese" She would
dress one portion of what she
boiled7with Parmesan cheese and another
with cream. She recommended the use of
Italian macaroni, because it would not
break in boiling, and, besides, had very
mild, pleasant taste, and was more nutri-
tious, since it was made of better wheat
than the American, German or French
said, "before it is boiled. If it is dusty,
wipe it off with dry cloth" DEPRESSING
a little, Miss Corson told the class how to
boil rice SO that all the grains would be
separate and the mass perfectly dry.
IS Pick it over, she said, "and take out
any husks there may be in the rice wash
it in cold water and drain it, and then put
it into plenty of boiling water and salt.
Boil it for twelve minutes then drain it
and cover it with the lid of the kettle or a
thick towel. Let it stand ten or twelve
minutes longer, until it is dry and the
grains crack just little. Then it will be
ready to use"
THE CURSE oB SMoKE.-Innumerab
are the complaints that are made of OBJ
noxious tobacco smoke. Some of them are
published in the newspapers others, SO
vigorous in language as to be unfit for pub.
LEGATION, find their way into editorial waste
baskets, but most are made verbally, and
many are by men who themselves enjoy an
occasional cigar or pipe. 1t is not the use
of the weed that is objected to, but the
general lack OF taste and sense as to the
proper times and places for indulgence.
There are many virtues that would be an
noying to beholders if practiced in public. |
What can be said, therefore, in defense Of
petty but general vice that thrusts itself |
under the noses OF everybody? Every place |
out OF doors where half a dozsn people |
chance to meet is almost sure to be redo |
lent OF tobacco and the dozens of other |
things that are hidden inside of cigars and |
never noticed by smokers themselves. A |
lady can hardly stand on an elevated |
station platform without getting an
occasional Whit of burning weeds,
paper, grass, bark, tow, hemp, licor;ce /
saitpeter, arsenic or opium, and the niy'
""t always improved by the human
ture '''ted cigars are
smucgled into cars or omnibuses even =
the smoker is mannerlY enough TO throw
away his weed before entering public con-
yeyapce he takes more or less OF the
aroma with him. Tobacco smoke makes
one of the two cabins of every ferryboat
smell worse than Barren Island or one OF
the Street-cleaning Bureaus most sue
thoroughfares. Even
drawing .rooms do not escape the curse
men whose dress is accepted as proof of
good manners often carry into the parlors
of their lady acquaintance sickenipg sug-
positions ct after-din cigars or cigar
cites. while half the men who 60 out of
theater or opera house between the ac...s
come back again to breathe vie odors
towards people who never did them any
harm. There is much to be said IN favor
of an occasional cigar, but the habit OF
smoking should be kept within decent
bounds. Apples are offered for sale as
freely as cigars, and their favor generally
is pleasing, but if one man OF every three
or four were to MUNICH apples whenever or
wherever he were to find few moments of
leisure. and were to make all places redo
lent of apples, the public would denounce
the custom is an intolerable nuisance. |
When a smoker finds that the tobacco |
habit impels him to burn his favorite IN
cense under his nose whenever he Is not
strictly prohibited from doing so, it Is time
for him to sacrifice his habit to save his
York Herald.
Foop A CURE IN DISEASES OF IKE
NERVOUS SYsTHM.-If the nerve centres do
not get proper food, the nervous system
must suffer. The constant feeding on
aour. deprived of nutritious matter and
starches, however excellent these are IN
their way, is supposed to be great cause
of the increase of imbeciles and idiots, and
DR.. Cutter says here: True feeding con-
sists in giving the human body allment
that contains all the elements found IN the
human body in proper proportions and IN
assimilable forms. Then the nerve force
is supplied that runs, so to speak, the
body, and all the various parts get theu
normal amount of legitimate nourishment.
DR.. Salisbury explains the change of the
red corpuscles of the blood, which are COW
cred with neurine or nerve food, when
they have no proper nourishment and be-
come sticky and adhesive. The muscles
can only act under nerve food, and what
food must not be required il the blood has
to travel throughout the body distance
of 1900 miles.
FooD AS A CURER IN CATARRH OR
THROAT DIsEAsE.-Dr. Cutter believes
that these are diseases Of weakness, caused
by malnutrition from faulty respiratory or
stomachic food, and that the ulcers, in
Aammation, ETC., will disappear Of them
selves when the system is strong enough
to regain its normal powers of action. He
gives US an instance, the case of lady,
,,.Lo bad fbroaf disaaea had heen living