Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-23

BANANAS may be stewed and canned They
make in this form an excellent fiavorng for ap-
pie pies.
BRASS ORNAMENTS may be cleaned by wash
Ing with rock alum which has been dissolved in
boiling hot water.
MUSTARD as a relish is rendered still more
piquant if mixed with horseradsh vinegar, with
Piach OF cayenne pepper.
The operation OF stoning raisins may be
fastened greatly If a glass of water stands con-
veniently near so that you can dip your fingers
Into it at intervals.
In Is DIFFICULT to drown an insect, as the
water cannot enter the pores of the skin, but If
drop of oil be applied to the abdomen it falls
dead at once, being suffocated.
CAPER SAUCE is drawn butter sauce with two
or three tablespoonful of French capers added
put them in before you take the sauce from the
lire; lemon juice may be added. The capers
Come IN bottles ready for use.
A SAUCE that is good for almost all kinds of
boiled buildings is made By beating one quarter
Of pound Of butter and the same quantity of
sugar together till they are like cream. Then
mix a wine-glaSS of brandy, rum or wine with
them.
The prettiest way to arrange curtains In a
doorway is to have two instead of one and to
tie these back with ribbons or with handsome
bands which are manufactured expressly Tor the
purpose. The curtains should be tied back Quite
high and not in the old STYLE
To PRODUCE a pure black upon wood. pour
four quarts of boiling water over one ounce of
powdered extract of logwoOd. and when the
solution is effected add one drachm of yellow
chronate OF potassium. and stir the whole well
Repeat the application OF this mixture until the
wood Is black.
DISCARDED BROADCLOTH SUITS can be used as
Coverings for chairs in a most useful way and
particularly on small bamboo or cane chairs that
have become worn. Work a stripe of poppies
on monte cloth. to pass down the center of the
back and the seat OF the chair. On either side
Cover with the cloth.
DATES are considered by some cooks a great
addition to dish of stewed blackberries, es-
pecially If the berries are not perfectly ripe
Stew the dates by themselves in q very little
water: remove the stones as soon as the dates
are tender; then mix them with the berries use
also the water in which they We're stewed.
TOMATO CHOw-CHOw is made Of six large to-
matoes. one large onion one green pepper, one
tablespoonful of salt. two of brown sugar and
two SINAI! tea-cups Of vinegar. Peel the toma-
foes. cut them into small pieces. and chop the
onion and pepper very fine; stew gently with the
vinegar etc, for an hour.
To PRESERVE PLUNs WHOLE.-Pierce the
skins of the piums with large needle: take one
pound OF sugar 10 one pound of plums. boil the
sugar with teacupful of water for twenty
minutes, put in the plums and let them simmer
very gently for twenty minutes or half an hour;
put into pots; If in a day or two the strip looks
Watcry pour it of, boil again twenty minutes
and pour over the plums.
To PRESERVE GREEN GAGEs-ChoOse larre
firm green cages. cut them in halves take out
the kernels; allow equal weights of fruit and SUI
gar; pound the sugar and sprinkle part OF it
over he fruit; crack and banch the kernels.
Next day strain the strip from the fruit put it
10 the rest of the sugar into preserving pan;
let 1t boil gently for twenty minutes then add
the fruit and Kernels. simmer again twenty
minutes. taking off the scum as it rises: take
The fruit out gently with spoon, put into jars
anu pour the siTup over.
lNYMIHS for whom kOumiss is prescribed will
hardly care to pay extravaganza prices for it at
the drug store when they learn that it can be
made tor II cents q quart with very little
trouble. Fill a quart bottle to the shoulder
WITH good milk. then dissolve two tablespoon
1uIS Oi white sugar in little water at high
neat. add 1t to the milk and drop quarter of
2-ceIt cake of yeaSt-the latter must De fresh
into the mixture. What remains to be done is
merely t0 stopper the bottle securely, shake the
Contents we'll together. leave the mixture to
1eTnent for SIX hours at any temperature from
o. TO - F.; cool il in the ice box over night
and drink it al leisure.
SCAILOPED TOMATOES.-Scald and skin half
peck OF firm, ripe tomatoes Cut them into
slices. Take one pound of bread crumbs half
pound Of best butter. two ounces of fine sugar.
dessert-spoOnful of salt. one teaspoonful of
pepper ami one onion chopped very fine. Put
into a bakIng-dish a layer of bread crumbs upou
winch place layer of the sliced tomatoes: upon
these place few bits Of butter a little of the
chopped onion and sprinkle of the pepper
sugar and salt; now another layer of the bread
fb.l bnt
ter. exc. and so alternate until you have the de-
SIZED quantity, making the last LAYER OF bread
crumbs dOtting it over with small pieces Ofbut-
Ter and dusting 1t with pepper and salt. Place
IL GOOD oven and bake for one hour
SAIADs.-Fresh salads ought not to lie long
IN water; the withered only long enough to
crisp them. The outside leaves are thrown
away: the inner ones parted, well rinsed and
examined and II necessary plunged into salt and
water Tor a few minutes which will quickly free
The leaves of any insects that may cling to them
They NAV then be thrown into a cuIlender or
saiai-ta~Lct 10 drain. and thence into napkin
he!'i ~ IL four corners and shaheu lightly until
il ah~orEs the water hanging about the leaves
Handle TIE salad as little as possible in cutting
Do not mix Il with dressing until the moment
q sefY Ing. and then it is usual to put the liquids
a. TIE bottom Of the bowl and stir il up inst
before serving Salads of fish meat. or po-
fatoe~ are better made halt an hour before they
are GSeri excepting such Us are mixed with leaf
salad Let ch.yes or onions be handled apart
when used, not mixed in, as SO many object to
tie flavor.
BoTS CLOTHEs-The worst Of bows clothes is
thai being mostly wooden they absorb dust and
oior> TO that degree Aunt Jane declares she
Can smell boy across the room by his tusty
jacket Every closet ought to have window:
but eS every closet does not. all the bows suits
should have a thorough airing once a week
On sunny day at Aunt James Won will see the
back porch strung with lines of trowsers and lack
ets turned inside out and swinging in the wind
from breakfast time till O'Clock in the after
noon First they are whipped and shaken till
the Gust is out. grease and mud stains taken
our with stiff Manila scrubbing brush hot
water. and soap-any part of the lining that is
sD!lcd : scrubbed in the same way, rinsed in
not sometimes Aunt Jane says il takes
a diP IN very weak cOpperas water to cleanse
aaG SWecten them TO suit her-sun and wind
a! day doing the rest. Then the closets have
Tie hrCrs washed often and the doors left wide
open every day while the rooms are airing and
by thi> care that immaculate woman Keeps her
boys wardrobe as neat and sweet as any girl s.
One rule i that no boots and shoes are kept in
Closets with clothing. for leather and wooden
SUITS together get up a smell of their own that
l.. 70 Saj the least. extraordinary. The BOYS
never wear their boots or thick shoes upstairs
or IN CdTpeted room. As soon as they
come home the boots are taken of in the
little dressing room of the entry put on
Tie back porch to be cleaned If .hev
heed Il, and then all 90 in the boot closet
down stars. while the boys wear slippers or low