The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-02
DOMESTIC HINTS.

Cookery, If badly performed, VIII
destroy the character of any food.
Beef gives the weakest broth, NUT
ton the stronger and chicken the
strongest.
Soup should never be boiled, for
then it is spoiled soup. Let it simmer
if you'd have it good for dinner.
The scum which rises on meat when
boiling, and which the cook removes
and throws away, is of the most nour-
ishing character.
There is nothing so conducive to
health and longevity as an even.
cheerful temperament, and nothing
disturbs and irritates like indigestion.
Tile-finished walls are now made in
many shades. They begin above the
base with color almost matching the
floor ard gradually become darker
and change to another color, the first
reappearing in the frieze.
General Scott used to say of terra
pin: This is the best food vouch-
safed by Providence to man. and he
loved it better than all the creatures of
the air, earth or water, but he believed
there were only three cooks in the
world who could prepare it properly.
For rice pancakes boil half pound
of rice to jelly. When cold mix with
it pint of cream, four eggs, little
salt and nutmeg. Stir in eight ounces
of butter, just warmed, and add as
much flour as will make the batter
thick enough. Fry in as little lard as
possible.
An old lady, who had lived many
years very happily with her husband,
accounted for it by saying, "You see,
always feed him well. When l was
young | womb heart, and now / am
old | have won his stomach, and so
he is never cross; and therefore we
live happily together"
Pretty crocheted holders for feather
busters are made in the shape of
shield, with loop fastened to one
side of the broad end. Worsted balls
are pendant from the side, and two
hang from the point; and bow, set
on one side just above the point, has
ends long enough to conceal the buster
handle.
"Give me- says Professor Pope,
yorkshire pudding under all roast
meat, for know then that but little of
the goodness will be lost. Commend
me to the old. fashioned, double dish
of earthenware; meat on the tripod,
potatoes underneath and the pudding
rising up to share the luxury of the
rich brown gravy"
The beverage of the Orient is tea, of
which there are scores of kinds. 1t is
served several times a day at the ho-
tells, and in the native stores of China
and Japan, as a necessary hospitality,
whether you purchase or not. Mocha
coffee answers the same purpose
throughout the entire Levant and
Greece, being served in very tiny
cups.
Carpets covering the entire floor
are no longer fashionable. When the
floor is not of fine polished wood or
handsomely painted it is covered with
a good quality of Chinese mating,
which is now brought out in artistic
shades of red, blue, yellow and ORR
entail mixtures, and covered with rugs,
Oriental, French or American.
To make almond custard take a
quarter pound of almonds; blanch and
beat them very fine, and then put them
into pint of cream, with two spoon
fuls of rose water; sweater to your
palate. Beat up the yolks of four eggs
very fine, and put them in; stir all to-
gether one way over the fire till it is
thick, and then pour it into cups.
Many great cooks make extra
trouble in preparing a force-meat
stuffing for turkey, of veal, ham,
bacon, onions, potatoes or bread
crumbs, and all sorts OF things. But
the ordinary, old-fashioned stufing
for turkey is generally liked the
best. Take the soft part of good,
light bread (not the crusD, and do not
wet it as is usually done, but rub it
dry and fine. Some good cooks, who
are ruled by taste, and not by books,
add to a stuffing like the above large
chestnuts, boiled. The chestnuts are
put on fire in a saucepan or spider to
burst the skins; they are then boiled in
very salt water or stock, then mixed
with the stuffing whole. Serve with a
chestnut sauce.