The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-07-09
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
varnish Il death to the most olBsn-
sively known house bug.
A little saltpetre or carbonate Of
soda mixed with the water in which
flowers are placed viii keep them fresh
for many days.
Asparagus, boiled Is usual and al
lowed to get cold, makes good salad.
served with mayonaise over Il, instead
OF the usual drawn butter.
Cold rain water and soap will often
take out machine grease from fabrics
when other means would not be ad-
etc.
Scotch Eegs-Boil some eggs hard
enough to set the whites. 10 that you
can remove the shells without break
ing the white. After peeling the shell
quite of, cover them completely with
savory forcemeat, made of ham or
bacon, bread crumbs, herbs and yolk
of egg. Fry Q gold color, and serve
with good gravy In the dish.
Strawberry Ice Cream-Take pint
of fresh, ripe. good favored straw
berries. put them in a bowl and strew
over them half a pound of pulverized
sugar. Then mash them we'll with q
wooden spoon, rub the pulp through q
tine hair sieve and mix the Juice with
pint of thick cream and the juice of q
medium sized lemon. Now put the
whole into freezer and freeze in the
ordinary way.
Shoulder of Lamb Roast-Have ready
clear brisk fire, and put down the
joint at sufficient distance from it,
that the fat may not burn. Keep con-
stantly busting until done. and serve
with little gravy made in the drip
ping-pan, and send mint sauce to the
table with it. Peas. spinach. or cauli-
flower are the usual vegetables served
with lamb. and also a fresh salad.
Time, rather more than one hour.
Strawberry plates come in pretty
china, with three compartments. The
smallest holds spoonful of sugar, the
second is for cream. and the largest
holds the berries, with their caps on.
Each berry is eaten from the stem,
being first dipped in the cream and
then in sugar. 1t saves the fruit from
SO much handling in stemming, and is
considered the most elegant way.
When using the pretty square glass
berry plates. a corner is kept for the
sugar.
Liver and Parsley Sauce for Poul-
try-Ihe liver of fowl, one table
spoonful of minced parsley, half pint
of melted butter Wash and score
the liver, boil it for a fcw minutes. and
mince it very fine; blanch or scald
small bunch of parsly, of which there
should be sufficient when chopped tc
filled a tablespoon; add this with the
minced liver to half pint of smoothly
made melted butter; let it just boil;
then serve. Time, one minute to sim.
mer.
Persian Sherbet-Take of sound. ripe
Strawberries, one pound, and bruise
them in bowl with wooden spoon.
Then add a lemon, cut into slices, and
a teaspoonful of orange-hower water
Now pour over the whole quart of
cold water, and allow the ingredients to
stand for four hours; then strain the
juice through piece of muslin and add
to it one pound of loaf sugar, stirring
it we'll until the sugar is entirely dis
solved. Then strain again into another
bowl and place on the ice till wanted.
Cayenne Cheeses-Half pound of
butter. half a pound of flour, half a
pound of grated cheese, one-sixth tea
spoonful Of cayenne, one-third tea
spoonful of salt, and water. Rub the
butter in tho flour; add the grated
cheese, cayenne and salt, and mix these
ingredients well together. Moisten
with sufficient water to make the whole
into paste; roll. out, and cut into
fingers about four inches in length.
Bake them in moderate oven very
light color. and serve very hot. Time.
fifteen to twenty minutes.
Canary Pudding-The weight Of
three eggs in sugar and butter. the
weight of two eggs in flour. the rind of
one small lemon and three eggs. Melt
the butter to a liquid state, but do not
allow it to oil; stir in this the sugar
and finely minced lemon peel, and
gradually dredge in the flour, keeping
the mixture we'll stirred; whisk tho
eggs. add these to the pudding; beat
all the ingredients until thoroughly
blended, and put them into buttercd
mold or basin, boil for two hours, and
serve with sweet sauce.
The common practice of having night
lights in the bed rooms of children Of
well-to-do parents is deprecated by DIR.
Robert II. Rakewcll. He says that it
has q most injurious effect upon the
nervous system of young children. Elm
stead of the perfect rest the optic
nerves ought to have, and which ma.
ture provides for by the darkness of
the night. the nerves are perpetually
stimulated, and of course the brain and
the rest of the nervous system suffers.
Children thus brought up are excessive
ly timid for years after, on going into
the dark
Rice Soup-An ounce of rice, the
yolks of four eggs. half pint of cream,
and rather more than two quarts OF
stock. Boil the rice in the stock, and
rub half of it through a fanny; put the
stock into a stew-pan, add all the rice,
and simmer gently for five minutes.
Beat the yolks of the eggs, mix them
with the cream-previously boiled-and
strain through :. hair sieve. Take the
soup off the fire. add the eggs and
cream, stirring frequently. Heat it
gradually: stirring all the time, but do