The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-07-16
The household.

Batter baking dish and cover the bot
tom with o layer of thin slices of Par
mesan cheese. Break five eggs care
fully over the cheese so that the yolks
willremain whole, and sprinkle them with
o little salt, pepper and nutmeg. Pour
gill of sweet cream over them, and on
this strew some grated cheese. Bake
for ten minutes in hot oven so that
the top may be delicate brown; serve
with toasted brown bread.
A NEAT little workbox may be made
of cigar box. Cover the outside with
leather, plush or satin, and line the
inside smoothly with satin of contrast
ing color. On the inside of the top make
q case for o pair of scissors and one to
hold two papers of needles. In the
bottom of the box fasten little cushion
in one corner, and in the opposite one
a case for thimble. At the side of
the box next the cover fasten, even with
the top, % little needle book. The cases
and cushions should correspond in color
to the outside of the box.
reaches are the most formidable foe
of the kitchen. They breed in warm
places, and usually select holes or in
terstices near the stove or boiler. To
prevent, as we'll as to destroy them,
putty up or fill with plaster every hole,
crack, aperture and interstice in the
brick, stone, woodwork. walls, floor and
ceiling of the kitchen. This renders
them homeless Then drench them
whenever and wherever seen with scald-
ing water, or hot water in which you
have some washing soda and chloride Of
lime Afterward sprinkle the places
where they congregate with pulverized
borax and Persian insect powder. In
one week, if these suggestions be acted
up to, the most infected kitchen will be
free from reaches.
FRIED scALLoPs. Drain carefully,
and after seasoning them with salt and
pepper, roll them lightly in fine bread
crumbs. Beat two eggs in a soup plate,
with o spoon or fork, and after dipping
the scallops in the egg, roll them in a
quantity of crumbs and lay them on
large platter. Be careful that they do
not touch each other. When all have
been Dreaded, place in the frying basket
as many as can be accommodated on
the bottom and plunge into boiling fat.
Care should be taken that the fish are
thoroughly seasoned with salt previous
to the breading, and that the fat is SC
hot that blue smoke rises from the
centre.
IT IS sometimes difficult matter to
ventilate bedrooms properly. Opening
window often causes a draught that
may be more injurious than air less
pure. A very simple ventilator which
allows free current of air without pro.
ducing draught may be made by any
one. Have piece of inch board, four
inches or more in width, cut to fit in
the window casing. 1t should be long
enough to preclude any draught enter
ing on either side. Raise the window
and rest it on the top of the board, so
that NO air may pass between the sash
and the board. A free current of air
will then pass between the upper and
lower sash to comfortably ventilate the
room.
THIS recipe for crullers is worth try
ing: One cup of butter, one cup of
milk, with one teaspoonful of soda dis
solved in it. two cups of sugar and one
grated nutmeg. Melt the butter, add
the milk and stir in the sugar beat
the three eggs very light and stir them
in the mixture, adding just enough -four
to roll out. The dough must not be
too stiff Have three pounds of lard at
| boiling point in a narrow and deep
kettle cut the dough in cruller form
and put in two or three pieces at a time,
moving the kettle gently as they rise to
the top then turn them over that they
may be equally cooked. The lard must
be boiling, but not hot enough to scorch
the crullers
PIANO COVERS An inexpensive cover
for an upright pianoforte can be made
of two wide strips of dark red reversible
canton flannel of the best quality, with
centre strip of bed ticking the same
width us the outer ones. The three
strips when joined should be the exact
width of the piano top. Cover all the
white lines in the ticking with briar-