The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-11
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

In painting on silk, satin or Grape
for dress adornment the material
must first be sized with gum arabic
or isinglass.
A buffet scarf of monte linen is
worked in German embroidery, and
has design of conventionalized or
ange blossoms, fruit and foliage.
A pretty rug for the lounge is made
of cream-colored basket-cloth, with
pansies of all the rich purple and vel
low shades embroidered upon it.
There is no set pattern, the flowers
looking as if they had been dropped
upon it by some lavish hand.
Try this way of cooking a fowl:
Cut the raw fowl in pieces and put
them into pan with very hot butter:
cook for ten minutes, shaking the pan
constantly; then add a glass of good
white wine and let it be reduced.
Moisten with stock and tomato sauce.
to which add little sugar and some
mushrooms. When cooked serve
with croutons.
Croguignolles, made by this recipe,
~'"n: Put in a bowl four
arc very 4.~@: --~>nnnful OF
ounces Of butter, one teaep~~
sugar, pinch of salt, half a pound
of flour, the whites of four eggs, and
any sort OF tlavorlng; mix all we'll so
as to form very stiff paste. Put the
mixture on the pasteboard and roll
it III rope-like form half an inch In
diametet] then cut IN pieces about
half an inch long, glaze With yolk Of
an egg, dust with su gar and baEo in g
moderate oven.
Mutton chops prepared in this way
make nice dish for lunch: Beat
some chops first; mash the yolk Of a
hard boiled egg and mix with it soiEe
sweet herbs, grated bread, nutmeg,
salt and pepper; cover the chops with
this and put each chop into piece of
we'll buttered white paper and broil
them over a GEAR fire, turning them
often. Remove the paper and oovett
the chops with smoothly mashed po-
tatoes bound together with yolk of
egg. Fry in hot oil until a delicate
brown.
This way of stewing carp is said to
be, very good: Draw and skin the
fish; brown some bitter with a little
-four, add some small ohi6ns; parsley;
thyme and mushrooms, and moisteh
with a large wine glass full of water
and two 81 red wine. When the mix
ture is at boiling F2Gihit pour it into
the Fan in which YOU place the cdtp
hnl, afew it on a brisk fire: When
cooked put the, fish on, dish and
garnish it with crawfsh and croutons;
add the sauce thickened with a
good piece of butter.
Gilt frames may be revived by a
mixture of two ounces of white of egg
and Ole ounce Of ehloride of potash or
soda. The frames mtlst be free from
dust and then the mixtufg, is applied
with soft brush. Such frames may
be cleaned with a solution of a small
quantity of salts of tartar dissolved in
a wine bottle of water. Soak piece
OF cotton batting in the liquid and
dab the frames very gently with it;
do not rub them, for the guilt would
come off if you did: Place the frames
so the water may drai1 from them
and syringe with clean water. The
mixture must not be too strong; .
The old time occupation Of paper
flower making seems to have revived
with an energy unknown to it's former
days. Whole show windows are
filled with the wonderful products of
tissue paper and scissors manipulated
by deft fingers. For lamp shades and
for few other purposes these paper
objects are effective, but tor general
decoration they are scarcely to be
commended. Realistic placques of
eggs in paper, grass studded with
paper, daisies and paper buttcrcups
mounted on elaborate stands may be
very interesting to those who make
them; but, are hardly the sort of thing
one would like to behold constantly:
An effectual recipe for rendering
cloth or tweed waterproof at home is
the following: Take 1 or. of alum and
dissolve it in a quart of water; in an
other vessel dissolve 1 OF. of acetate
or sugar of lead, also in quart of
water. When the alum and lead are
entirely dissolved, empty one vessel
into that which contains the other,
mix them we'll together by stirring
them with stick, then leave it for a
time to settle, and when deposit is
formed at the bottom pour the liquid
gently into another vessel, leaving the
deposit behind. The liquid part now
being read y, immense the material to
be rendered waterproof: leaving It d
little time to soak; then press it with
the hands to get some of the water
out. and hang it On line to dry. To
prove the efficacy of the recipe, try
first on a small piece of cloth or al
paca; you will find that you may
carry water about in it without sim
gle drop passing through. DO not
put your hand to your mouth while
dOinr this