The Portland daily press., 1883-09-18
Honna Tonnes.

Useful Hints. An excellent pudding is
made of tart apples. stewed, and then put in
layers with fine cracker or bread crumbs.
While the apples are still hot, stir sugar and
little butter in with them. This should be
baked for half an hour. A little sweet cream
Is great addition, but it is good without
any sauce.
The late peas are sometimes thought to be
improved if, when cooking, small piece of
ham or bacon or of corned beef is cooked
with them. Remove the meat before serv-
ing, and thicken the soup with -four or ar
row root.
One way to cook summer squash is to cut
It in slices about an inch thick, and boil in
sailed water, using just as little as will an
swer. When done, drain it well, and with
out MASKING. Serve it with butter and pep
per and salt.
to q mixture of cold boiled ham, mustard,
etc., for sandwiches.
IL nutmeg is grated and mixed with the
ginger In hard gingerbread, apiquant flavor
Is given to 1t.
So many of the small fruits, such as black
berries, plums, etc., are delicious picked
that q general rule for making sweet pickle
is desirable. To seven pounds of fruit al
low two pounds of sugar, one quart of vim
egar, and spices to your taste. Cassia buds
make very delicate flavor, but are some
what expensive when compared with other
spices.
A nice way to cook piece of the round of
beef is to line saucepan with thin slices of
bacon; then lay the beef in. Cover it with
water. Cover the saucepan, and let the
meatcook slowly for several hours, or until
1t is perfectly tender. As the water boils
away, add more, so that plenty will be left
for gravy. Season highly with salt, pepper,
celery salt or curry, and some small onions
sliced.
Send the Girls Out of Doors How can
girls get chance to live out doors more?
when they are little children, their fathers
and mothers must provide them with oppor-
tnnities. This is sacred duty of theirs,
which they should no more omit than to
provide them with food and clothing; 1
have found that the daughters of poor people
get out of doors more than the daughters of
rich parents, and that as a consequence they
are generally healthier and stronger, and
often more beautiful. After girls get larger
they must go out of their own accord, and
seek out-of-door amusements. There are
many kinds of outdoor sports suited to
them, and more can be invented. Archery
Is one of them; rowing. riding, skating and
walking are others. Then there are out-of-
door labors. There is flower culture and
gardening. Some years Ego l published a
book called '"The School Garden advocat-
ing that every school should have piece of
ground where girls and could study horti-
culture and agriculture. / am sorry to say
the idea did not take very well in this coun-
try, but in France and Germany it has be-
come popular, and already they have thous-
ands of school gardens where the boys and
girls work and get out-of door life, even
while at school. Betanizing and all similar
out-of-door pursuits should be engaged. To
study botany, geology, minerology and nat
ural history ont doors is worth million
times as much as to study them in books in
the house. What can you learn about birds
unless you go and live with them?-Dio
Lewis's Monthly.