Evening star., 1886-08-14
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USEFUL RECIPES FOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
DISHES AND HOW THEY ARE MADE-sANI-
TAkT SUGGESTIONS - LAMP SHADES AND
sCREENs-DOMEsTIC ODDS AND ENDS.
PRETTY LAMP SHADES are made of lace
wide enough to cover the globe. Draw the
lace at the top around a wire ring OF the
proper size and line IL with colored silk of thin
quality.
LARGE GREEN PEPPERS are relished pre-
pared in this way: Remove all the seeds and
nil the pepper with cooked tomato pulp and
minced mushrooms, seasoning with salt and
butter. Bake In n hot oven and serve.
Ivy Or any vine that runs perpe endieulariy
up tree does not injure IL, unless branches
from the vine extend along the branches, and
by its mass of leaves smother the leaves of the
tree. Vines like Wistaria, that coil around a
trunk. do injure trees.
CHICKEN A LA MILANEsE-When the fowl
Is drawn and washed, cut 1t into fillets. MIX
two ounces of grated Parmesan cheese with
some sifted bread Crumbs roll the fiilet' IN TINS
mixture. and then in the beaten yeik oil egg
Then roll them in the bread and cheese mix
ture, season them with pepper and SAT- ana Try
In hot fat until rich brown serve not On
puree OF tomato.
PoTrEp FIsH.-Cut a fish twelve inches In
length into four equal parts; rub little salt on
the end OF each piece, and place the piecesln an
earthen pot: add whole spices and cidar vine
gar TO cover the fish when the pot is nearly iuIi.
Tie on u paper cover and over this put an
carthen cover to keep In all the stealn Dake
in a moderate oven for three hours. Fish
cooked in this way Is delicious ana Will Keep
two weeks In a cool place and longer in re-
frigerator-
EFFECTIVE SCREENS may have the panels of
coarse gray linen with applique designs cut
from cretonne and outlined with pIumetis
stitch In silk. These designs are very rsch if
the shading be also done in silk. The ingenuity
OF the worker will suggest the variety and mar
mony that may be produced Richer screen
panels may be made of satin serge with the
apPliques cut from brocaded silk.
Corn BREAD.-Corn bread is more W wholesome
than hot rolls tor breakfast. Made in this way
IL is excellent: Half pound of Indian meal,
half pound OF flour, one teaspOOnful of salt
and one tablespoonful of baking powder sl1ted
into a bowl. Beat one ounce OF butter, one
ounce of sugar and two eggs together, ana add
the suted meal and Hour. ADD gradually one
pint of milk for a thin batter and bake In not
oven
WATER IcE.-One cup of loaf sugar, with the
juice of six lemons squeezed over it, half pint
OF water, and sirup made by boiling three
quarters of pound OF sugar IN a little less than
pint of water; let this stand in large earthen
Jar or dish for an hour and u half, then mix the
lemon etc. with ii, strain it and freeze. III you
Wish TO make this a pretty dish as well a> pleas
Ing to the taste, add the whites OF eggs beaten
To froth with powdered sugar mixed with
tneIn; put this on the top OF each glass
A NEWSPAPER PoCKEr-A useful newspaper
receptacle may be made of the mating with
which tea chests are covered. Mark the mat
ting in three parts and shape one end TO a
point. Bind the edges with gailoon, ribbon or
braid; turn up the straight end to form the
pocket and stitch the sides firmly together.
Paint some floral or other design. according to
fancy, on the pocket and the pointed end by
which il is To be suspended and finish with
bows OF ribbon. The painting should be in bold
style like that employed for mating.
DRINKING HoT WATER.-An eminent physi-
clans says If persons would drink hot water in
stead of cold water in summer, they would
suffer less from thirst and from stomach dis
orders. In his practice he always orders hot
water TO be given To babies who are suffering
from teething and the many attendant ills. 1t
Is really surprising To note how gladly the little
sufferers Will drink very hot water, ana now
great relief they seeIn TO Ieel from its use. An
i'll child of eg Int months, with no appetite, was
given as much not water As 1t would drink.
The I!ttie creature would drink the water with
avidity. and become quiet after the drausht.
SPANISH SAUCE.-One peck of green to-
matoes, one dozen large onions, one dozen
sweet mangoes, two punches of celery, iour
quarts of ripe tomatoes, two tablespoOniuls of
cinnamon. one tablespoonful cloves, one table
spoonful mace, one teaspooniul cayenne
pepper. two pounds sugar, one gallon vinegar,
salt To taste, one teaspOOniul alispice. Take
green tomatoes, onions and mangOes and cnop
line and stand in salt water over night; in the
morning drain through a muslin bag. then scaid
the four quarts OF ripe tomatoes, chop and drain
through the colander; then chop celery and add
the remaining recipe; cook one hour: can hot.
This Is an excellent recipe, and once used will
be used again.
SLEEPING IN DAMP BEDs.-The London
well-known tenor, calls attention to the peril
OF sleeping in a damp bed. AS a matter of fact,
this peril Is OF the greatest, and Ii is almost
ever present. The experienced traveller rarely
hazards the risk of sleeping between sheets.
which are nearly sure to be damp, until they
have been aired under his personal supervision
cable, he wraps his rug around him, or pulls
out The sheets and sleeps between the blankets
IA disagreeable, but often prudent expedent.
The direst mischief may result from the con-
tact of an imperfectly heated body with sheets
which retain moisture.
THE RICHMOND MAIDS OF HONOR, the most
delicious little cakes in the world, derive their
name from period when cookery was not
looked upon degrading occupation. 1t is
stated upon excellent authority that they
originated with the maids OF honor of Queen
They made in this way: Slit half a pound
OF dry eurd mix il well with six ounces OF best
butter, break tine yelks OF four eggs into
another basin with glass of brandy, add six
ounces of powdered lump sugar, and beat well
together one very meaiy baked potato, cold,
one ounce ofsweet crushed almonds, one ounce
bitter almonds, pounded, the grated rind of
three lemons, the juice oil One and half a nut
meg grated mix these well together and add
the curus and butter; stir up we'll and proceed
as before, filling the tartlet pans.
CREAM SAUCE - The following recipe for
cream sauce for salads will be found excellent:
Two and one-half ounces of butter, one table
spoonful of corn starch, half a pint of cream,
the whites OF two eggs, the juice oil one lemon,
two ieaspoOnfulS Oi sugar, one teaspoOnfuI of
salt. haif a tea>pOonfuI OF white pepper and the
least bit Oi Cayenne pepper. Mix the corn
starch 10 - smooth paste with halt ounce of
buster and put IL in double boiler; heat until
near boiling oint and stir until smooth Add
tic cream, pouring slowly and steadily, stir
ring gently, and cook Tor ten minutes, taxing
Gaze taat the water in tine outer boiler Is kept
at boiling point. Beat the whites OF the eggs To
a stIh .Tptu stir into the paste, and then remove
the kettle from the fire. Add the remainder of
tle butter. and mix well, in order, the lemon
juice, Sail, pepper and sugar, stlrrinS briskIy
until cold.