The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-02-12
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7IAOOA 1ODOAN0' OuFANA VI
t>p.otm, one quart of milk. one table,
spoonful of butter, one-half cup OF
sugar. Soak tapioca in milk four hours
then add to other ingredients. Bake
slowly one hour.
Court plaster cases made of silk mus
lin, with pretty baby face "doleful
dumps" are useful adjuncts to the toilet
cessaries of the wee toddlers who so
often come sharply in contact with terra
frma
SwTss salad is excellent. Equal parts
of hoiied beets and celeriae or knub
celery cut in slices and mixed with oil
VINEGAR, salt and pepper, and one or
two parts of fictitious. If the fictitious is
not prime use endive. Be sure to use
twice as much oil as vinegar.
PUT all your pieces Of bread That are
left each day in pan and dry til an in
amolerate oven. They may be beaten
fine in mortar and put away in jars
for lreading and pudding. They are
useful FOR sitting over creased cake-pans
to prevent the cakes from adhering.
If Won wish to prevent the unpleas.
am sd II that arises from boiling cab.
btpe tie up p piece of bread in piece
of muslin cloth and bill with the cab
bage. A piece of stale bread on the
end of Il knife with which you are cut
ting onions will prevent the juice from
affecting the eyes unpleasantly.
WHITE CAKE - Two coffeecups OF
sugar, one cofeecup of butter, the
whites of four eggs, one coffeecup of
cold water, three and half coffAecups
Of -four with three teaspoonfuls Of baE-
in" rowder. Beat the butter until light,
add snGar ami stir we'll, then aid whites
of eggs (not heateO and beat well to-
cether add the cold water. then -four
and baking powder.
AN excellent furniture polish that will
keep you for any length of time is made
by this recipe: One ounce of white
wax, one ounce of yellow wax, one half
ounce of white soap and one pint of
boiling water. Melt all together in
saucepan over the fire, and pour into q
bottle Apply it by rubbing little on
small space with cloth of any kind,
rub with q second cloth and polish with
q third. The economical housekeeper
may have her furniture nicely polished
for the holidays at trifing expense.
ROBERT SAUCE. Melt four ounces of
butter in o saucepan on moderate fire
and mix with it gradually tablespoon
full of flour, stirring constantly. When
brown add three onions, finely minced,
and some salt and pepper; stir and
leave it on the fire until the mixture is
brown, then add half pint of broth,
boil gently for half an hour and strain.
Mix together smoothly, in cup one
teaspoonful of vinegar, one of sugar and
one of mustard F.; mix this with the
sauce and serve.
CHOCOLATE macaroons are made rs
follows: Melt three ounces of choco-
late without sugar in tin pan and mix
to it thick paste with one pound of
pulverised sugar (confectioner's sugar)
and the whites of three eggs. Roll this
paste to the thickness Of one quarter OF
an inch and cut. it into small cakes
with paste cutter. Butter pan
slightly and dust it with -four and sugar
in equal proportions. and put the cakes
in a pan. Bake in hot oven. The
oven should not be too hot.
THERE never were so many varieties
of baskets as now From the heavy
rush basket for baking black bread to
dainty Japanese and Fayal products,
the scale is complete These are pressed
into the decorators service, and when
colored. bronzed or gilded and orna-
mented with ribbons. cones, grasses.
fruit or flowers, are fit for the boudoir
or study. The Mount Desert birch.
bark umbrella or waste-paper holders
are now decorated with grasses and
cones, which are far more appropriate
than bright ribbons.
A FAvoRrrE recipe for mince meat is
the following Three pounds Of cured
tongue, three and half pounds of suet.