The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-04-24

firm, hold it over fire of charcoal for
ono minute, or dip it into actually
boiling water.
Spangles and gold thread feather
stitching unite the scraps of crazy
patchwork bags, and gold fringe or
tassel trim them, but they must be
closed with ribbons for draw string.
Rice waff1es for breakfast are made
of one quart of -four, half pint cup
full of boiled rice, three eggs, and a
little lump of butter. Make into bat
ter with milk and bake in waffle irons.
Salt is, of course, to be put in accord
ing to your taste.
A mantel lambrequin is made at
tractive by putting the ribbons i'll
lengthwise and using two colors; for
example: if the lambrequin is of drab
macrame use scarlet and blue ribbon;
at the end of the ribbon put tiny
ball, after turning back the edges to
make a point.
To prepare deviled crabs pick the
meat into fine bits, add one-third as
much bread crumbs, some hard-boiled
eggs, and lemon juice to flavor; season
with salt and pepper, butter and
cream, and put into shallow earthen
dish and brown in the oven. lie
quantity of eggs is indefinite; the dish
requires about the same number that q
salad does.
New game toys this season are kro-
kinole, played on table, roncevaux,
with figures to set up and knock over;
Mother Hubbard and all her family,
who are knocked down with BALL
fascinator, a game of parlor marbles,
and girl and boy gymnast ball players,
that toss and kick ball when a string
is pulled, the child player tossing it
back with a bat or the hand.
Boiled kidneys are nice for break
fast. Be sure that they are fresh; cut
them open evenly so that they will
be uniformly cooked; remove the skin
and broil, placing the inside down
ward; turn them once or twice. Sea-
son with pepper and salt, and lump
of butter on each piece. Servo on but
tered toast, squeezing little lemon
Juice over each piece of meat. Serve
very hot.
Pretty curtains for bedrooms are
made of plain white muslin with
large spray of flowers embroidered or
the upper part-that is, have the steml
start from about where the curtain ii
looped back; the edge and bottom O
the curtain should be trimmed will
lace. If for room furnished in blue
cmbroider blue flowers, and lool
back with blue ribbons. 1t is a prett.
fancy also to tie a ribbon in the cente
of the curtain pole, and have long end
and loops hang over the curtain.
Banana cream is served with deli
cate cake, and it may be put int
glasses or into saucers. After pealinI
the bananas, mash them with an iro
or wooden spoon; allow equal quaint
ties of bananas and sweet cream; t
one quart of the mixture allow one
quarter of pound of sugar. Bea
them all together until the cream
light. 1t is sometimes thought an in
provement to add few drops c
vanilla or the juice from canned pine
apple, but it is delicious with th
banana flavor alone.
Good gravy may be made of half
pound Of lean beef, half pint of col
water, one small onion, half tes
spoonful of salt, little pepper, on
tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce
or of tomato catsup, and half tes
spoonful of arrowroot. After th
gravy has simmered sufficiently, an
extracted all the juice from the bee
strain it off carefully into the grav,
boat, not allowing any Of the beef {
onion to remain in it. This is q nit
gravy to make when you have no roa
st0oly or1 10 adHifi0
to all hashes.
Good pea soup must have flavc
given to it by the meat used in ma
ing the stock allow half q pound
beef to half q gallon of water, p'
about half rs much bacon as of bee
put parsley, celery leaves, and stal
with salt and pepper, into the wat
with pint of peas; let this all bt
until the peas are so soft that they CT
. be easily put through a colander aft
this put them into kettle and stra
the stock and add, let this simm
gently for nearly an hour, add lun
Of butter the size of half an egg ju
before removing from the fire.
!. A delicate and delicious pie is call
an orange custard. One cup OF co
water thickened with one heaping
blespoonful of -four, first rubb
smooth with little of the water, o
cup Of sugar, four well beaten eg
(the whites of two are to be reserv
for the frosting,) the juice and graf
rind of one large orange. Make ri
crust and line deep plate with 1t,
it with the mixture and bake. To
beaten whites of the two eggs add t.
tablespoonfuls of powdered sug'
spread this over the top Of the ]
when it is done, and let it brown slig
ly butevenly.