The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-08-20
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

In painting on silk, satin or Grape
must first be sized with gum arabic
or isinglass.
A buffet scarf of monte linen is
worked in German embroidery, and
has a 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 yell
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 a 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 a little sugar and some
mushrooms. When cooked serve
with croutons.
Croquignolles, made by this recipe,
are very nice: Put in a bowl four
ounces of butter, n teaspoonful of
sugar, a pinch of salt, half a pound
of flour, the whites of four eggs, and
any sort OF favorIng; mix ali well so
as 20 form a very stiff paste. Put the
mixture on the pastebOard and roll
it IN a rope-like form half an inch in
diameter; then cut IN pieces about
half an inch long, glaze with yolk of
an egg, dust with sugar and bake in a
moderate oven.
Mutton chops prepared in this way
make a nice dish for lunch: Beat
some chops first; mash the yolk of a
hard boiled egg and mix with it some
sweet herbs, grated bread, nutmeg,
salt and pepper; owe the chops with
this and put each chop into a piece of
well buttered white paper and broil
them owe a clear fire, turning them
often. Remove the paper and
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 butter with a little
flour, add some small onions, parsley,
thyme and mushrooms, and moisten
with a large wine glass full of water
and two of red wine. When the mix
ture is at boiling point pour it into
the pan in which you place the carp
and stew it on a brisk fire. When
cooked put the fish on a dish and
garnish it with crawfish 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 one ounce of chloride of potash or
soda. The frames must be free from
dust and then the mixture is applied
with a 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 a 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 drain 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 its 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 a few other purposes these paper
objects are effective, but tor general
decoration they are scarcely to be
commended. Realistic PLAQUES of
eggs in paper, grass studded with
paper, daisies and paper ~buttercups
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 l OF. of alum and
dissolve it in a quart of water; in an
other vessel dissolve l OF. of acetate
or sugar of lead, also in a quart of
water. When the alum and lead are
entirely dissolved, empty n vessel
into that which contains the other,
mix them well together by stirring
them with a stick, then leave it for a
time to settle, and when a deposit is
formed at the bottom pour the liquid
gently into another vessel, leaving the
deposit behind. The liquid part nov
being ready, immerse the material to
be rendered waterproof. leaving it a
little time to soak; then press it with
the hands to get some of the water
out, and hang it On a 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 a sim
gle drop passing through. Do not
put your hand to your mouth while
this