The National tribune., 1883-05-03

In the little caSket which on TUESDAY even
ings was always to be seen ON the library table
Aunt Helen found card from Mrs. Anterior.
1t contained the following: Borro,ced-l Words
of wisfom, for a young Do not begin
housekeeping in the style in which you should
end it, but begin on plain and simple scale,
and increase your expenditures as your means
and experience are increased. Be determined
to live within your income, and in such style
that you can secure time to improve your own
mind and impart some of your own advantages
to others. Try to secure symmetry in your
dress, furniture, style of living, and charities
That is do not be profuse in one direction and
niggardly in another. Cultivate a taste for
intellectual pleasures, home pleasures and the
pleasures of benevolence. Have some regular
plan for the employment of your time, and in
this plan have chief reference to making home
pleasant to your husband and children. 1t
will save them from numberless snares and
you from many sorrows" And the hour ended
with Tabbie's menue and recipes:
OUR TABLE.
Family Dinncrs-Spring.
Scotch Broth
Broiled Halibut Aatre dhotcl Butter French
Tongue. Rice Ground Rice Pudding.
Scotch BroM.-Two pounds of the scraggy part of
q neck of mutton. Cut the meat from the bones,
and cut off all the fat. Then cut meat in small
pieces and put into soup pot with large slice of
turnip, two of carrot one onion, and stalk of
celery all cut fine; half cup of barley, and three
pints of cold water. Simmer gently two hours.
Over the bones pour one pint of water; simmer
two hours and strain upon the soup. Cook a
tablespoonful of flour and one of butter together
until perfectly smooth; stir into soup, and add
teaspoonful Of chopped parsley. Season with salt
and pepper
Broiled Huttbut toih Mditre d. Hotel Buter.-But-
ter both sides of the broiler. Season the slices of
halibut with salt and pepper, place them in the
broiler and cook over clear Goals for twelve min
utes, turning frequently. Place on hot dish, and
| spread on them the sauce, using one spoonful to
each pound. Garnsh with parsley.
| Maitre d. Hotel Butter Four tablespoonfuls of
butter, one of vinegar, one of lemon juice, half
teaspoonful of SALT one-quarter of teaspoonful of
pepper, one teaspoonful of chopped parsley. Beat
/ the butter to a cream, and gradually beat in the
seasoning. This sauce Is spread on fried and
broiled meats and fish instead of butter 1t is par
! ticularly nice for fish and beefsteak.
French Fried Potatoes. - Pare small uncooked
| potatoes Divide them in halves and each half in
three pieces Put in the frying basket and cook in
boiling fat for ten minutes. Drain and dredge with
| salt Serve hot with chops beefsteak. Two
| dozen pieces can be fried at one time.
Braised Tongue-Wash a fresh beef tongue, and
| with trusting needle run strong Irvine through
the roots and end of it, drawing tightly enough to
| have the end meet the roots; then tie firmly.
Cover with boiling water, and boil gently for two
hours; then take up and drain. Put six table
spoonfuls of butter into the brasing PAN and when
hot, put in half a small carrot, half small turnp
and two onions, all cut fine. Cook five minutes
| stirring all the time, and then draw to one SIDE
Roll the tongue in flour, and put into the pan. As
soon as Drowned on one side, turn and brown the
other. Add one quart of the water in which it was
boiled bouquet of sweet herbs, one Glove, a
small piece of cinnamon, and salt and pepper.
Cover, and cook two hours in slow oven, basting
often with the gravy in the pan, and salt pepper,
| and -four. When 1t has been cooking an hour and
half, add the juice of half lemon to the gravy.
When done, take UP. Melt two tablespoonfuls of
glaze, and pour over the tongue. Place in the
heater until the gravy is made. Mix one table
| spoonful of corn-starch with little cold water,
and stir into the boiling gravy, of which there
should be one pint Boil one minute; then strain,
and pour around the tongue. Garnish with pars-
ley, and serve.
Rice, boaed.-one cupful of rice, quart of
boiling water, scant tablespoonful of salt.
Wash the rice in three waters, and put in the dou-
bic kettle with the salt and boiling water. Boil
rapidly fifteen minutes; then pour Off all the water.
Cover tightly, return to the fire, and cook twenty
minutes longer. The water in the under boiler
must boil rapidly all theitiine. Rice cooked in this
manner will have every grain separate
Ground Rice Puddinge-One quart of milk, five
tablespoonful of ground rice, four of sugar, one
teasp2onfui of salt six eggs half a eupful OF but
half cupful. Mix the rice and cold milk together,
and stir into the milk in the boiler when this is hot
| Stir constantly for five minutes. Add the salt,
butter and sugar, and set away to cool. When
cold, add the eggs, well beaten. Bake one hour in
moderate oven. Serve with creamy sauce.
COLOR IN DRESS.
Harmonious combinations with black: Black
and white form perfect harmony Black and
orange rich harmony. Black and maize har-
monte. Black and scarlet harmonic. Black
and lilac harmonic. Black and pink harmon
ize. Black and slate-coior harmonic. Black
and brown dull harmony. Black and drat
Tor buff harmonic. Black, white Tor yellow,
and crimson harmonic. Black, orange blue
and scarlet harmonic.
OUR LETTER. BOX.
!. To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
From q cookbook so old that its leaves are
yellow and the color has faded quite out of it:
cover, we copy these homely items of advice: = l.
you keep an account of your stores, and the date:
when they are bought, you can know exactly how
fast they used, and when they are wasted o.
stolen Stale bread is improved by steaming i
= half an hour or more. Crate up dry cheese anC
! cheese crust, moisten with wine or brandy, ano
keep in jar for Cheese thus treated is bette
= than at first. TO cleanse old earthenware soaked
| with grease, boil it in ley. When you clean house
begin with the highest rooms first, so that clear
rooms be not soiled when done. REPAIR house
linen, turn sheets, and wash bed-clothes in sum
mer. Use coarse apron and gloves when clean
ing CRATES. Have coal cinders sifted and save thu
I coarse part to burn again. Buy wood IN Angus
: and September, when it usually is cheapest ant
plentiful. Have your chimneys Kept clean b,
sweeping. Never try dish for company. II
purify water, when you have no filter put com
mon charcoal, pounded, into a common Hover POT
put fine sand over the charcoal and let the waite
triclle through; or, take an old sieve and fill /
: | with sand and pounded charcoal, and strain TIL
water, and then cool 1t withice Keep recipe-bool
for yourself and write in it the results OF your owl
= to use rs paste to extract grease nom carpets
+ foors and broadcloths When a stovepipe o
other iron is cracked make cement with WOO
, ashes, salt and water, and 1t Will stop the open
ing. Faded colors often are improved by stron
T salt and water. Spirits of hartshorn viii restor
: colors taken out by acids Eggs may be preserves
@ by packing them close, standing them on thei
small ends or, pack them in fine salt, small en
down. Still another way is to pack them, small
end down, and then pour on them n mixture mad
= with four quarts of cold water four quarts of un
Stacked lime, two ounces of salt and two ounces
r cream tartar. This mixture will serve for min
dozen eggs"
: FRIEND TO You've HoUsEKEEPERs.
J. To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
: AS supersttions concerning days are foun
4 among all nations have thought that the sub
= joined rhyme sayings which have found in
. wise book, might merit place III your letter
/ box. The first is a Northamptonshire rhyme, an
r
h Monday wealth.
Tuesday health,
= "Wednesday Tor good fortin',
. Thursday losses,
), Friday crosses,
j. Saturday signifies northin.
y From the county of Devon we have this
Mondays BARN is fair o. face;
Tuesdays BARN is full o grace;
;, Wednesday IS bairIs the child o woe;
IL Thursdays BARN has far TO go;
E Friday BARN is loving and giving
, Saturdays hairn works hard for N living;
;, But the BARN that's born on Sunday,
u Is brisk and bonny, wise and gay.
l. SAN JOSE. ANEErTA II.
= To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
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