Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07
THE HOUSEHOLD.

has furnished forth a charming room at
comparatively small expense and suffic-
emily esthetic to please the most fastidi.
GUS person. The floor, painted by her own
hands, is dark walnut shade, partly COW
cred by large rug made of cheap ingram
carpet in a small pattern of cream and
olive, bordeied up a broad band of plain
olive felt. The inexpensive wall.p paper is
plain olive, fecked with pink, finished by
a narrow olive frieze, terminatin ut the
corners with a cluster of four tiny pink
fans. One window faces dingy brick
wall, and she painted the window panes in
bright water. colors, following a pretty
traced pattern. which gives bit OF stained
glass quite effective in the pretty room
The other window is draped gracefully
with long, full folds of sprigged muslin,
depending from rings on a PLAN pine roll,
to be replaced in the winter with heavier
curtain of olive cotton flannel. The furni
ture is light wood, and lamp with rosy
Transparency stands on q five o'clock tea.
table of unvarnished wood, and throws
soft light over the room, which also con-
tains books, shelves OF pine, a couple OF
second-han easy chairs and small dry.
goods box for shoes, covered by her own
hands with pink and olive cretonne. A
large clothes horse, on which she pasted
the story of Cinderella in Walter Cranes
pictures over olive paper, shuts off the
washstand and bedstead from view. The
toilet accessories, set of with sprigged
muslin over pink lining are pink aud
white washbowl and large pitcher of
the quaint shape that comes now in the
cheaper grades of china; a second. hand
wardrobe, draped with a port:ere of olive
Canton flannel, contains the unesthetic
dust-pan, brooms, and other homely arti.
cles necessary to neatness and comfort, all
trities of that description bought at the 5.
cent counters. A pretty willow rocking.
chair, ornamented with olive and pink
| ribbon, and knitted hassock to match,
the two latter Christmas gifts, stand on
the rug. On the olive-draped mantel are
| grandma's Nankin teapot, two tall silver
candlesticks, and a large ginger jar, not
| decorated, and spoiled with gunmed- on
pictures, ut left il its pristine blue and
white beauty, filed with white daisies
| gathered on Sunday afternoon walks.
Two or three photographs of good subjects,
that are better than chromos and cost
less, hang on the wall and complete the
pretty refuge of this proad and industri-
ous girl, who is self-respecting enough to
earn her Ogn living rather than to be de.
pendent upon her rich relations. i Hart
ford Times.
SPONGE CAKE Beat the yolks of eight
eggs thoroughly, add one pint of sugar lit.
tie by little, and the grated rind of one
lemon beat the whites of the eggs to a
stiff froth, and add them alternately with
three gilis OF -four, beating very gently and
barely loDg enough to mix well when
part OF the flour is in, add the lemon Juice.
Bake twenty minutes in small loaves. To
make dominoes, bake the sponge cake in
long pie tins 1.-TWO such tins will make
| twelve dominoes, and if no more are re-
quired, the rest of the batter may be
baked IN leaf. The batter in the pie.
tins should nos be more than one-third of
an inch deep; spread il evenly and bake
in quick oven. Have brown paper
! nearly twice the size of the cake on the
table, and the moment one of the cakes
comes from the oven turn it upside down
IN the center of the paper. Spread il with
| thin layer of currGns jslly and lay the
other cake on it upside down cut it with
a hot, sharp knife lengthwise, directly
through the center, then divide it across IN
Six equal parts, push them with the knife
about an inch apart, and ice them with
ordinary white icing, putting large desert.
| spoonful on every piece the heat of the
cake will soften it, and with little hello
the edges and sides will be smoothly COW
cred. All of the icing that runs over on
the paper may be carefully taken up and
used again. 1t will then dry, which it will
do very quickly. Make horn of stiff white
paper about five inches long, one and half
inches across the top, and one-eighth of an
inch at the other end put in it desert
! spoonful Of dark chocolate icing, c'ose the
! horn at the top, and pressing out the icing
| from the small opening, draw a line of il
across the center of every cake, and then
make spots ike those OF ivory dorliuoes ::
keep the horn supplied with icing.
PEACH SHoRTCAKE Take two heapipc
teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifsed into
one quart OF -four, scant half teacup o..
butter, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, little
salt. enough sweet milk Tor water TO make
a soft dough; roll out almost as thin as
pie.crust, place one layer in a baking. pan,
and spread with very little butter, upon
which sprinkle some -four, then add another
layer or crust al d spread as before, and SO
/ on until the crust is all used. This makes
four layers in a pan fourteen inches by
seven. Bake about fifteen minutes in a
quick oven, turn out upside down, take off
the top layer 1.-THE bottom when bakiucl
place on dish spread plentifully with soft
ripe peaches previously sweetened with
pulverizel sugar, place layer upon laye-,
treating each one in the same way, and
when done You will have a handsome cake,
| to be served warm with sugar and cream.
The secret of having light dough is to han.
die as little, and mix as quickly as possible.
Shortcake is delicious served with Char
lotte.russe or whipped cream.
| WALLED Oysters Make a wall one and
half inches high and three quarters wide
of one quart of nicely-mashed and well.
seasoned potatoes just inside the raised
edge of platter, glaze it by covering with
beaten egg and placing in the oven for
few minutes. Place the liquor from one
quart OF oysters in a porcelain kettle, let
boil, skim well; then add the oysters sea.
soned with salt, boil up once, skim ous the
! oysters this liquor can be used for soup)
and add them TO cream dressing made by
putting tescup of rich cream, butter size
OF half an egg, and little pepper and
salt. in a pan placed within a vessel of boil.
ing water Tor double boiler). When hot.
add two ounces of flour mixed smooth in
some cream or milk, and LEI cook till thick.
ened. and then place oysters and dressing
within the potato and serve imme lately
! EBoNIzING To initiate black ebony,
first wet the wool with solution Of log.
wood and copperas, boiled together and
laid on hot For this purpose two ounces
of logwood chips, with one and one-half
ounces OF copperas, to a quart of water,
will be required. When the work has be.
come dry wet the surface again with a
mixture of vinegar and steel filings. This
mixture may bs made by dissolviug two
ounces of steel filings in one hall pint OF
vinegar When the work has become dry
again saudpapsr down until quite smooth.
Then oil and fill it with powdered drop
black mixed in the filler. Work to be
ebonized should be smooth and free from
holes, etc. The work may receive light
coaS of quick drying varnish, and then be
rubbed with finely tulver;z4d pumice stone
and linseed oil until very smooth
CABBAGE SALAD.-Two quarts of finely
Oh 2pped or sliced cabbage, two tablespoon
| fu's of salt, two of white sugar, or of
black pepper and one of ground mustard !;
rub the yolks of four hard. boiled eggs I'M.
til smooth, and add cup of butter slightly
warmed; mix thoroughly with the cab.
bage, and add a teacup of good cider
vinegar. Serve with the whites of the
eggs sliced and placed on the cabbage.
Fresh, crisp, new cabbage sliced fine and
eaten with good vinegar is easily digested,