The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-02-26
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

drop II in a bowl Of water and cut 1t
acrosS under the water.
White Cake-WhiteS of four eggs, one
cupful of white sugar, one-halt cupful
sweet milk, two ~tcaSpOOnfulS of baking
powder, lemon extract and two cuptuls
of flour.
Coffee Custard-One pint strong
coffee. n pint milk. boiled together,
six eggs beaten with a cup and a half Of
sugar; bake in a moderately hot oven,
but do not boil
Mutton Kidneys-These make a good
breakfast dish, if sliced thin and broiled
quickly on a wire gridirOn; they are eX-
ira nice if sliced, run on a spit, and then
broiled on a wire gridiron, which should
be buttered.
Covers for small tea trays are scallop-
ed around the edges and then button
little figures in the center, or
are worked in the same color that is
chosen for the border.
Cheese Omelet-Beat up three eggs
and add to them a tablespoonful of
milk and a tablespoonful of grated
cheese; add O. little more cheese before
folding; turn it out on a hot dish; CRATE
a little cheese over it before serving
The Cook.
To Keep Cheese Fresh-When pur-
chased in small quantities keep what is
lot cut for the table rolled in Il damp
cloth in a wooden or tin box; you must
protect the box inside with a coating of
hardware paper, that the damp cloth
may not rust it.
Sponge faded plush garments with
chlOrofOrm. IL restores the col
or. 1t also takes a good deal of
chlorOform unless the bottle is
very quickly restopped and you apply
it quickly. For this eason a cheaper
article than the chlOrofOrm used for in
halation can be used, and is said to be
as effective.
Flannel Gladstone teacupful boiled
rice, flour to make a pancake batter, two
eggs, n quart of milk, three teaspoon
fuls baking powder; mix in the same
I'M as rice waffles, and fry ON a
soapstOne griddle, which requires no
greasing and makes a very light and
wholesome cake.-Cdterer
Beefsteak Toast-Chop cold beefsteak
very fine, add a small piece of butter, a
little pepper and salt and a little gravy
if at hand. If not, add for one pint of
chopped meat, one teacup of water;
heat meat until hot, then place a spoon
full or two upon pieces of toast which
have been soaked and well buttered.-
The Cook.
Said to be a good furniture polish:
One ounce of white wax, one ounce of
yellow wax, one-half ounce of white
soap and n pint of boiling water.
Melt altogether in a saucepan owe the
fire and pour into a bottle. Apply it by
rubbing q little on a small space with a
cloth of any kind; rub with a second
cloth and polish with a third.
White Pound Cake-One cup fine
white sugar and a half cup of butter;
beat both TO a cream, add the whites of
two eggs, then beat ten minutes; one
teaspoon cream tartar, half teaspoon
soda, half a cup sweet milk, one and a
half cups -four, one teaspoon lemon ex-
tract; beat all together fifteen minutes.
Bake hour in a moderate over
Dried grasses may be made beautiful
by dipping them in analine dyes of vari-
Gus colors. The frost touched golden
rod may have its pristine color restored,
and the rush grass may have great
beauty by being dipped in blue, green,
crimson and many other colored solu-
tions of these brilliant dyes. The hobs
of the sumac will have its hues deepen
ed and set by being immersed in a bath
OF copperas water.
A pretty wall-splasher is made of
white canvass, embroidered in silk
crewel in two shades are fringed and
fastened 10 the wall by four bows of
light and dark ribbon to match the
work silk, placed one at each corner
Toilet mats are made to match. A very
pretty set is of deep gray crash, worked
In seawecd design, which borders the
table cover and ends Of ornamental
towels, but appears In the center of
toilet mats, and owe nearly the whole
of the splasher.
Hominy cakes-Bol two teacupfuls
of small hominy until it is soft enough
to mash with a spoon; add an equal
quantity Of corn meal, with one table
| spoonful OF butter (melted in) and d
t~easpoonfuls Of salt. Beat three eggs
light, add them, with milk enough to
make a batter just thin enough to pour;
beat all together until it is very light,
and bake eithersin small griddle cakes
or as waffles. When eggs can no be
procured use more milk instead, and
half a %teacupful. of yeast, setting the
batter TO rise three or four hours before
it is X be baked.-Cdterer.
A very effective o-rnamentatiop for d
small sofa is made by taking a strip Of
satin plush, or OF velvet, about five
inches wide, and nearly the length OF
the sofa ITSELF on this embroider a vine
In some distinct and quite open work
pattern. When this is done put a nar-
row strip Of similar material. but of a