Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-07-07


Hints and Helps Tor the Household.
The shaded reds in ever new and at
tractive combinations have the vogue
once given the pink and garnet for dress
or furnishings. Some dull, silky mate
rial, of hue like raspberry in the sun, is
draped over vivid, darker red, or brocad-
ed with it like the antique court damasks,
where the ground shows boldly between
large, fourishing patterns of low color.
But little of the darker color is used,
enough to make the contrast intense,
with results pictorial and stylish
Dresden china is the favorite ornamen-
tai ware for mantles and dressing tables,
drawing-rooms and articles of dress,
chatelaiurs, parasol and screen handles,
buttons and pendants. Exquisite min
lature scenes on porcelain disks are let
into the velvet binding of choice books,
but the most expensive trinkets are per-
fume fountains, thirteen inches high for
the centre table, where jet of stephauo-
tbs or jasamine water falls into a shallow
basin heaped with garlands of porcelain
flowers whose petals seem to quiver I'M
der the mimic spray, for they are OF china
SO delicate that one may say there are
nerves to it.
Since it has been recognized that car
pets and wall papers are properly to
serve us ground for the portable furni-
ture of rooms, the labor of design has
been greatly simpliiied. Manufacturers
are sending out deep-piled rugs of one
color, dark red, peacock blue and tawny
brown, with wide borders, gorgeous, yet
controlled in effect, and choice pieces of
furniture appear better on such fields of
| rich color.
of the best quality, need but little decora-
tion to render them very handsome but
a spray of flowers embroidered on one
articles on the tray arrange them so that
the flowers will not be covered. A stem
of h'rh"' .-..at,on is particularly
pretty decoration.
Mothers who have taste, time, and n
little skill can make pretty and sugges-
tive things for the baby. Danask spreads
for the little bed are lovely il the pattern
is outlined with crewel, either blue or
pink ; choose pattern with reference to
t'us work. The square patterns are pret-
ty, outlined with little stars in the centre
iPi"p wnitc spreads may be ornamented
with border Of buttercups or daisies, or
with simply one little carefully careless
bunch in one corner. Torchon is not only
pretty but durable to trim the pillow
cases for the baby's bed.
An Economical Splasher for every day
Use behind the washstand is made of en-
amelled cloth; the edge may be prettily
finished with scallops of scarlet flannel !;
these may be pasted to the edge with a
little mucilage. This is so easily kept
clean that it is a very successful append
age to the washstand
| MlsccllnncOUsR Recipes.
a sauce made of dried peaches is eX-
cellcnt with cold meats of all kinds. Soak
the peaches all night, after having washed
them in two or three waters, SO that the
water in which they are soaked can be
used to stew them in. When they are
stewed tender cut them perfectly smooth
with II spoon, sweeten, and flavor with Il
very little ginger
Many cooks nowadays prefer steaming
boiling it, even when it is included in II
'boied dinner" 1t takes longer to
steam it, but the flavor is better. To the
gravy add some capers, or cut some Gu
cumber pickles in very small pieces and
stir in. 70 my taste there is no way so
satisfactory to serve mutton MS to roast
it.
A delicious ctron pudding is made OF
one cup and n half of sugar, a small half.
cup of butter, four eggs, and as much
citron as your taste demands the citron
should be cut in very thin slices, or il
may be chopped. Make puff paste, and
line the bottom and sides OF deep pie.
plate or of shallow pudding dish !; fill
with the mixture, and bake The whites
of the eggs can be reserved for merin-
que, if you please.
To clean stained woodwork which is
also vanished, an old housewife recon-
mends saving tea-leaves from the teapot
for few days Drain them, and wher
you have a sufficient quantity put them
III clean soft water let them simmer fol
half an hour: when almost cold strait
them out, and, dipping flannel cloth ii
the water, wipe off the paint, drying il
with another flannel cloth One cup oi
tea-leaves to one quart of water is the due
allowance.
To fry halibut successfully, first fry
few slices of salt pork. To the fat OBJ
tained from the pork add enough lard ST
that the slices of fish will beiat least hal
buried in it. Dip the slices of fish il
fine Indian meal before frying. Hav,
the fat hot, but let the fish cook slowly II
first, 30 that it will be dsne through, theI
it is an easy matter to give the outsid,
the delicate brown longed for by the cpl
cure.
Old fashioned caraway seed cookies art
made OF half a pound of butter, and hal
pound of sugar, stirred together til
they are light MS cream, three eggs beat
On very light, one ounce of caraway see,
mixed with a oup OF flour; kncad this in
and then add as much more -four us i,
needed to make rather stiff dough rol
thin, cut iY fancy shapes, and bake in +
moderate wen; while hot they may b,
dipped in sugar.
, A kind OF bread which is very popula
, Mt the South, and in some pnrts of til,
| North also. is made in this way: Tw,
, cups of Indian meal, one cup of col,
| boiled rice, three well-beaten eggs, On,
} tablespoonful of melted butter, two cup
and half of milk, one teaspoonful o
salt, pinch Of soda. Mix the ingre
} dents thoroughly, putting the rice in las
i of all; bake in hot oven, in round
: shallow pan. The top should be a darl
brown.
/. Rice waffles, which are simply deliciou
9 for breakfast, must be started the da
q before You wish to eat them; that is, til
4 rice must be boiled. A good way to ac
& complish this is to make rice puddin
h to-day and reserve half cupful of til
4 cooked rice for to-morrow's waffles. Il
!. this quantity add a pint of sweet milk
1 the yolks Of three eggs, two ounces c
I butter Tor good-slzed lump, and littl