The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-26
JOB DEPARTMENT.. !.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
To chop an onion without CRYING.
drop it in bowl of water and cut L
across under the water.
White Cakc-Whites of four eggs. .one
cupful OF white sugar, one-half cupful
sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder. lemon extract and two cupfuis
Of flour.
Coffee Custard-Ono pint strong
coffee, one pint milk, boiled together,
six eggs beaten with a cup and half Of
sugar; bake in moderately hot oven,
but do not boil.
Mutton Kidneys-These make q good
breakfast dish. il sliced thin and broiled
quickly on wire gridiron: they are ex-
ira nice it sliced, run on a spit, and then
broilcd on q wire gridiron, which should
be buttercd.
Covers for small tea trays are scallop.
ed around the edges and then button
iioled with scarlet, brown or blue, with
little figures in the center, or corners
are worked in tho same color that is
chosen for the border.
Cheese Omelet-Boat up three eggs
and add to them tablespoonful Of
milk and a tablespoonful of grated
cheese; add = little more cheese before
folding; turn 1t out on a hot dish; crate
little cheese over 1t before serving
The Cook.
To Keep Cheese Frcsh-When pur.
chased in small quantities keep what ia
not cut for the table rolled in a damn
cloth in wooden or tin box; you must
protect the box inside with coating Of
hardware paper, that the damp cloth
may not rust it.
Sponge faded plush garments with
chloroform. 1t restores the col
or; 1t also takes a good deal of
chloroform unless the bottle il
very quickly restopped and you apply
it quickly. For this reason cheaper
article than the chloroform used for in
llalation can be used, and is said to be
as effective.
Flannel Cakes-One teacupful boiled
rice, Hour to make pancake batter, two
eggs: one quart Of milk, three teaspoon-
tuls baking powder; mix in the same
manner as rice waffies, and fry ON a
soapstone griddle, which requires NO
greasing and makes very light and
wholesome cake.-Catcrer
Beefsteak Toast-Chop cold beefsteak
very fine, add small pic6e of butter. q
little pepper and salt andsa little gravy
1t at hand. II not, add f6f one pint Of
chopped meat. one tcacup of water;
heat meat until hot, then place spoon
tul or two upon pieces of toast which
have been soaked and we'll buttered.
The Cook.
Said to be good furniture polish:
yellow wax. onc-half ounce Of white
soap and one pint of boiling water.
Melt altogether in saucepan over the
tire and pour into q bottle. Apply it by
rubbing little on small space with y
cloth of any kind; rub with . second
cloth and polish with third.
White Pound Cake-Onc cup fine
white sugar and half cup Of butter;
beat both to cream, add the whites of
two eggs. then beat ten minutes; one
teaspoon cream tartar, half teaspoon
soda, half cup sweet milk, one and q
half cups donr. one teaspoon lemon ex.
tract; beat all together fifteen minutes.
Bake one hour in moderate oven.
Baked Hash-Take any kind of cold
meat and chop it not very fine. To one
pint OF the chopped meat add onc-half
as much cold mashed potatoes, two
tablcspoonfuls Of bread crumbs, the
same quantity Of butter. Moiston all
with half cup of water; season with
salt and pepper and bake half an hour.
Do not use too deep dish to bake it in.
Dried grasses may be made beautiful
by dipping them in analine dyes Of vari-
GUS colors. The frost touched golden
rod may have Its pristine color restored
and the rush grass may have great
beauty by being dipped in blue, green.
crimson and MANY other colored soln'
tions Of these brilliant dyes. The hohs
of the sumac will have It's hues deepen
ed and set by being immersed in bath
of copperas water.
a pretty wall-splasher is made of
white canvass, embroidered in silk
crewel Ia two shades are fringcd and
fastened TO the wall by four Bows of
light and dark ribbon to match the
work silk, placed one at each corner.
Toilet mats are made to match. A yery
pretty set is of deep gray crash, worked
IN seaweed dosigI, which borders the
table cover and ends of ornamental
towels. but appears In the center of
toilet mats. and covers nearly the whole
Of the splasher.
Hominy cakes-Boil two tcacnpfuls
OF small hominy until it is soft enough
to mash with q spoon; add an equal
quantity OF corn meal, with one table,
spoonful OF buttor fmelted in) and a
teaspoontuls OF salt. Beat three eggs
light, ;dd them, with milk enough to
make batter just thin enough to pour;
beat all together until il is very light.
and bake either in small griddfe cakes
or as wafties. When eggs can not be
procured use more milk instead, and
half a teacupful of yeast. setting the
batter to rise three or four hours before
1t is to be baked.-Caterer.
A very effective ornameutation for n
small sofa is made by taking strip of
satin plush, or of velvet. about i've
inches wide, and nearly the length of
the sol: itself: on this embroider q yin,,
in some distinct and quite open work
pattern. When this is done put mar
row strip OF similar material, but of q
different color, around it Us plain
border. Line it with stiff cloth, and
apply it to the sofa with unseen and i'm.
movable pins. 1t should not be placed
tn the center of tho seat, but be drawn
forward SO that 1t is just above the pun
or band Of plush which finishes tho
sofa cushion.