Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-10-30
HOME MATTERS.

| HOME MATTERS.
sERvrcEABLE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FOR
| wINTER-OYSTERS IN DIFFERENT STYLES
| PUMPKIN PIEs-NICE GRAHAM PUFFS-ITA1-
| Ian CREAM-HGw TO DARN STOCKINGS.
SERVE FRIED OYSTERS with q gravy made
from hot water and the drippings Of the pan
/ they are fried in, and send to table with q
| bordering OF mashed potato.
| LARGE GREEN PEPPERS are relisned prepared
| In this way: Remove all the seeds and I'LL the
/ pepper with cooked tomato pulp and minced
| mushrooms, seasoning with salt and butter.
Bake In hot oven aud serve.
| A DIsINFEcTING MIxTURE.-Make solution
| OF one and a half parts of nitric acid in thirty
parts OF water; mix with 1t ten parts OF oil of
rosemary, two and half parts Of oil of thyme
and two and a half parts of oil OF lavender.
| Bottle the mixture, and before using shake
| thoroughly.
| BAKED MACARoNI.-Three long sticks Of mac
| aronf broken in small pieces; soak in a pint of
| milk two hours. Crate bread and dried cheese.
Put layer of macaroni In a pudding dish; Add
pepper, salt and butter; then sprinkle the bread
and cheese crumbs over 1t, and SO continue until
| the dish is filled. Bake until brown.
| GERMAN MUsTARD.-This will keep year.
| Eight tablespOonfuls OF mustard, four table,
| spoonfuls each of salt and white sugar, salt
| spoonful of cayenne, four tablespoonfuls of
melted butter, the juice of one raw onion "a
large onion squeezed through q lemon squeezer).
| and mix with vinegar.
1HESE 1RAHAM fUFFS are nice fOf DfeakIaSt:
| Sift together one and half pints of Graham
-four, one teaspoonful of salt and three teaspoon
| fuls of baking powder. Mix with this one pint
| of milk and two we'll beaten eggs until q smooth
batter is obtained. Fill cold, we'll creased gem
| pans half full with the batter and bake in hot
| oven for ten minutes.
CHICKEN LA MILANAISE.-When the
chicken young fowl is drawn and washed, cut
itfnto fiiiets Mix two ounces OF grated Parmesan
cheese with some sifted bread-crumbs; roll the
I in. Nfvftn
yeik OF egg. Then roll them in the bread and
cheese mixture season them with pepper and
salt and fry in hot fat until rich brown. Serve
hot on PURGE of tomato.
ITALIAN CREAM is easily made by this recipe:
Rub the zest of two lemons upon three or four
Jumps OF loaf sugar; stir these into a pint Of
rich cream and add enough sugar to sweeten.
W NIP the cream with the juice of one lemon,
straln1ng In one ounce of gelatine that has been
dissolved in a little water. When thoroughly
ilght flavor to taste, and pour into a mold and
iruit.
OYSTER kETCHUP.-To make this, select
eighteen or twenty large fresh oysters, drain off
the liquor and pound them in a mortar; then
put them in stew-pan together with their
liquor, adding a tumblerful OF sherry four
ounces Of ancnovies, the rind OF half a lemon
pared very thin, half saltspoontul of pounded
MAJ mace and Ina half dozen pePpercorns. Place the
gently for halt an hour then remove it, and
| when cold bottle tor use.-The Caterer.
To PREVENT JARS FROM CRACK1NG-Little
| things often make life burden: To put up pre-
serves hot without breaking the glass Jars, put
the jars In a row, and drop heavy silver or
white metal spoon or fork into each jar, and
pour the boiling preserves in. In about three
minutes you can take the spoons or forks out
FIJI the jars up FIJI and screw on the tops, and
tighten them when pretty cool. This is very
easy, and saves deal OF trouble in heating jars,
and saves all breakage from heats
STEAK AND WHITE HARICor BEANs.-Soak
a pint of white beans the small ones are BEST
all night in cold water; then put them into a
saucepan OF cold water and let them boil for
one and a half hours, brown two pounds OF
tender steak in a frying pan with a very small
quantity of dripping; drain the water from the
beans and add the steak to them; strain the
contents of the irving pan, which, with some of
the water IN which the beans were boiled, q
little pepper, salt, and flour to thicken will
make nice brown gravy, throw it over the
steak and beans, and let it all stew for another
one and a half hours.
FOR PUMPKIN PIEs.-Cut the pumpkin in
halves; put in dripping-pan, skin side up (after
seeds are removed) in a slow oven; bake until
all that is edible can be easily scraped from a
rind with a spcOn; if it is as brown as nicely
baked bread all the better mash finely, and to
one quart add One-quarter pound of butter
while not; when cool, sweeten to taste; one pint
OF milk or cream lf cream be used, three eggs
are sufflcient: II milk, four eggs will be eetterl;
beat them separately, stir in yelks, two table,
of the o. but h
are added TO the mixture; bake in quick oven.
HELIoTRoPE FOR WINTER may be lifted sue
cessfully by digging around the roots with a
trowel three days before, and pouring pail of
| water in the trench daily. This soaks the soil
round the roots SO that the plant may be taken
up with large ball of earth, without disturb
ing fibre, and lodged in the large pots. An
expert writes: 81 took mine up after rain and
plunged the pots under water for several DAYS
and the largest fOrbore to droop iea The
| pots were set in cool shade in tubs of water
which came some inches above the rims, and
| the plants showered freely any time 1 passed
them. Mignonette. which is SO sensitive about
transplanting, was potted and plunged in water
the same way, without the slightest check. All
sorts OF cuttings set in thuInbpots of earth.
set closely AS they will stand in shallow pans of
reason of all this is simply that the plants or
cuttings are freely supplied with all the water
needed to sustain their circulation in the
! critical change of transplanting. Plants need
| very much more water than they get in the
| growing season. was struck by q line from
some authority to the effect that plants could
! use three times as much water as they ever re-
ceive in the rainiest weather. and think this
Knowledge will be the key to greater success in
! plant growing than We have yet seen. Give a
! healthy plant i'll summer SUI all the water at
| It's roots IT can take up, and you will be
the cells Of tissue shoot before the eye, like ice
! crystals. Water on the leaves In full sunshine
only cooks the tissue. -Phitudelphia Ledger.
How To DARN SToCKINGs.-In looking over
the stockings to be darned you see at each hole
| the cotton is worn thin for half an inch. or
L L
! De worn and torn away the next time it is but
/ on. The stock ing must be strengthened so that
the holes won't come again In the same place
/ In sewing the rule Is to use short needefuI, of
cotton, To prevent klnking and knots: but in
earning use as long thread as the arm can
| Carry, yard after doubling. Choose a darniuy
needle slender asst can be, for a coarse needle
spoils nice mending. cut away the ragged edges
Oh The hole stretch the stocking your ha nd as
| II would naturally stretcn on the foot and ia Ike
| the first stitch through Two threads of the fir
WEB at the lower cOTLer OF the hole, drawing the
| darning-thread from side to side of the sole as
] you first work. Always drdU your thread first
| IN Me tody ne strain comes in occurring. On the
foot, the stocking stretches around; ON the leo it
strtfches feng1nulse; and you Uork threads in the
tong Wdy UIa then tCe0Ue from side to side ,Ctich
makes q smooth elastic darn iastedd0f q draWn
| hmpy one. DO not make Il knot on the end OF
The yarn, but leave the ends out half an inch to
prevent its pulling through. When you take
the next stitch rom the other side do not draw
| the yarn quite tn ough at the end but leave a
little loop, which allows for shrinkage in wash
| Ing. Run long stitches through the thin part
OF the web at the edges; lay the threads straight
In crossing, and as close as you can. When You
have worked across the hole. begin to weave
/ threads across under the first thread, over the
/ second, and so on alternately, keeping the
work we'll stretched; work close up TO the edges
| OF tue hole and finish when you are at the end
OF the thread or OF the work. by running The
| needle intO the WEB two or three stitches and
/ cutting the yarn haii an inch from the end
just as you would finish off embroidery Ex-
enplary needle woInen-Germans especially
| consider 1T siOvenly to mend any thing unless
| In the exact stitch in which IT, is woven