Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-11-14
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sage cheese, mix 1t to a paste with fresh butter,
en-. your slices of bread diagonally, butter them
in a napkin
10 POLISH PLATE GLASS and remove slight
scratches, rub the surface gently first with q
cieah pad OF fine cotton wool, and afterward
WIN similar pad covered with cotton velvet
"hich mas Deen charged with fine rouge. Inc
surface VIII, under this treatment, acquire a
pomsn OF great brilliancy, quite free from any
BREAKFAST MUFFINs.-Sift together one
pound OF flour, n teaspoonful OF salt and two
teaspoonfuls OF baking powder. Beat together
a tablespoonful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls OF
cIesnlery butter and the yelSs of two eggs:
and add them also: add a little over half pint
| Vi scsuded cream; mix, half fill the hot buttered
hinihh rings and bake in quick oven.
APPLE FRITTERs.-Pare, core and cut the
apples In slices crosswise; dip them in the bat
terand drop them in liberal quantity of very
not lat; fry to about the color of doughnuts.
frepafe The batter as follows: Beat the yelks
vi .nLee eggs add gill of milk, a saltspO0nful
VI s'i', ana Iour heaping tablespoonfuis OF hour;
| HIN. some flour may require more liquid to
MAKE The batter the proper consistency.
| AMONG NEW INVENTIONS for kitchen use Is a
cake cooler. wire mat which is lifted up on
seVerai small feet and which allows the air to
pass all around the cake and keeps it from
growing sOggy'' while cooling. A sink-cleaner
| Is a oiade OF rubber set in handle, and serves
| alos' useiuIiy 10 scrape out the sides OF the
SINK. small, hard brush for scrubbing vege-
tables that are to be boiled in their skins is
useful.
10 PRESERVE ToMAToES.-In many gardens
there is plentiful supply of green tomatoes
yet on the vines that will not ripen. Allow y
I'D. OF white sugar to 1 lib. OF fruit Put into the
| preserving pan, and add just enough water to
matar s1iHcient syrup Do not put too much
wafer at llrst, as you can add it If there is not
enough Lemons should be sliced and put into
II IN the proportion of one lemon to every lbs.
| ol lTulL. COOK until done through and the syrup
K.
anu taste much like preserved figs.
MERINGUE PUDDING-To pint of grated
bread crumbs add quart of milk; mix to-
gether five ounces of sugar, three ounces of
Dutter and the beaten yelks of five eggs. Crate
the outer yellow rind OF two lemons and with
the juice OF one mix all together; flavor with
mixture in bnttered nan and bake t pWe t
| nVe minutes Beat the white Of the eggs to n
sp1ngy froth with three ounces of fine sugar;
take the pudding out of the oven, add the
dOne.-1he Cook.
GOOD LITTLE PUDDING.--Take one egg, its
weight in fresh butter (melted), its weight in
| Hour, one dessertspoontul of marmalade, one
ditto of raspberry Jam, the weight of the egg in
bread crumbs, One-half teaspOonful of bicar-
Donate pom. Of soda. Break the egg and beat it up
Wen; add the melted butter, the flour, the bread
CRUMBS and the jam and marmalade; beat all
well together and lastly, put i'll the carbonate
tie 1t down we'll and steam it in a saucepan for
an nour and a halt. Serve with either an arrow
root sauce favored with rose water or vanilla,
or with hard sauce of butter, sugar and nutmeg,
| or with milk and nutmeg.
| OYSTERS are not only nutritious but whole
some, especially in cases of indigestion. 1t is
said 'there is no elementary substance not
even excepting bread, that does not produce in
digestion under certain circumstances but oys-
tiers never" Oyster juice promotes diges-
ton By taking oysters daily indigestion, sup
| posed TO be almOS: incurable has been cured,
| In fact they are to be regarded as one of the
most healthful articles OF food known to man.
| lnvalids who have found all other kinds OF
| food disagree with them frequently discover in
| the oyster the required aiment Raw oysters
are highly recommended for hoarseness. Many
OF the leading vOcaliStS use them regularly be-
| lore concerts and operas; but their strongest
recommendation is the remarkable wholesome
influence exerted upon the digestive organs.
! How TO GROW HYACINTHS IN GLAss.-Hya-
cinths intended for glasses should be placed in
| them during October and November the glasses
| being previously hlled with pure water, SO that
| the bottom of the bull may just touch the
water; then place them in a dark closet, box or
| cellar, at 500 or 600 temperature. The water
| should be changed as it becomes impure; draw
the roots entirely out of the glasses rinse Oft the
| HDerS In clean water, and wash the inside of
the glass we'll Care should be taken that the
water does not freeze. as it would not only burst
| the glass. but cause the fbers to decay. Whether
the water is hard or soft is not matter of mu IN
| consequence-soft is preferable-but must be
perfectly clear, to show the fiberS to advantage
| Avoid a iow-water mark in the glasses Nv
| Keeping it to "A level with the base of each bulb
Never place the glasses upon u mantel-piece or
smell within tile influence of fire heat during
| the process of growth. To stimulate and
strengthen the growth dissolve pinch of sui.
| pilate OF ammonia occasionally in the water
after the bulbs are exposed TO light. When the
glasses are well filled with roofs and the flower
stem well out of the bulb. gradually expose to
the light and sun at higher temperature. II
kept too light and warm at first, and before
there is sufficient fibre. they will rarely flower
! we'll. They will bloom without any sun but
the coors of the flowers will be inferior To in
sure vigorous growth, n favorable exposure to
light and occasional fresh ar, when mild, is es-
mt
DIET FOR HEART observation-disclosures II is the
patients fault; it may be the doctors, but some
day the diet for cOnvalescents after q serious
| attack of heart trouble will receive the first
! sons with weak action of the heart should by
all means avoid the fiatuient foods as well as
any bulk OF food that will press upon the al
ready hard-laboring organ. For weak heart
does much more work than strong one trying
TO make up in the frequency for tile feebleness
! ofits beats. Among the dangerous foods for
such sufferers are asparagus. beans, sweetpota-
to, hot cakes where the butter is oiled upon the
cake. and all fresh bread or risen cakes. ms nil
frltterS. Should also avoid waXy dishes like
stcwed kidneys. All cabbages, onions and
turnps, in short all vegetables that taste after
| or baked mealy white potatoes, beets and
spinach, pulped. Also corn that is split up the
grain and tori torn with fork (aot ca) from
the cob. The milk essence of the corn
apart from it's horny hull is highly digestible.
Inc SOFT parts OF raw oysters digest themselves,
bread two days old, apple sauce, rare roast bee.
and well-coOked roast lamb, birds perfectly
cooked sweetbreads, oatmeal, milk toast iellied
eggs for breakfast are all recommended OF
course none of these things in vast quantity
If such'invaiids would learn to take very small
bites they Will have mastered one secret of
| successful digestion. The throat is so far in
sympathy with the stomach that both Of them
| are stunned, as ii were, by the demand of huge
morSeis for forcible entry. SO many cases of
distress and fatality occur to such patients after
dinner, Or even after a hearty breakfast that
the food prescription, how and how little to cat
| Is Imperative. Something indigestible lies
very near most heart attacks that are not
brought ON by violent exertiOns. In both cases
| to do it in.-PhIddeiphin Ledger.
WESTON AND O'LEARy To WALK $500
| MILES. An arrangement has been entered
| into between Edward Payson Weston and
Daniel OLeary, the old pedestrian rivals, for a
walk of =, 800 miles for u purse of SD, 900 and
net gate receipts. The race is to commence
| Monday, December 9TH, and to continue twelve
consecutive hours per day. emitting SUNDAYS
until the entire distance e, 500 miles, has been
| traversed. The contestant who first completes
the distance is to be declared the winner and
he Is to take 81, 900 of the purse and twO-thirds
OF the net gate receipts.
| MADE Hrs ESCAPE on SPECIAL TRAIN
| J. X. w edward, general manager OF the Que
bee Central railroad was arrested mt Newport
! VT, w wednesday, while en- route to his home in
, Sherbrooke, Quebec, having just landed from
Europe. special train of his road was run
| down during the day, ostcnsibly to bring his
lawyer. During the afternoon Woodward, who