Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-08-17
HOUSEH OLD.

| "NNe AA"hiOs 10 piofiucu WIFI pro
truding and erect ovals of nickel
plated wire, as Judgement for silk
hats; an inclined half moon wire de
vice aforts equal security for felt hats
Before putting away dark furs they
may be Cleaned by rubbing them with
hot bran. 1t should be rubbed in with
the hand. The fur should be well
brushed afterwards to remove all par.
ticles of dust
Cork dust, in which the white
grapes are packed that come to our
grocery stores, is recommended for
drainage in flower pots, as retaining
more uniform moisture, and lessening
the weight of the pots.
Moorish fretwork makes an effective
finish for shelves over door frames.
These frames are excellent receptacles
tor the odd pieces of pottery or porce-
lain that would be ''lost to sight" in
reccsses of some china closet.
A way for treating solid kitchen
walls; Dissolve lump of extract of
logwood the size of a grain of corn in
hot water and put in flour or five
quarts of lime that Is ready to use.
One application will be as good as two
without the logwood.
Try this Austrian method of cook
ing Calls liver: Remove the skin from
the liver and cut 1t in pieces as thick
as your finger and lay them in milk
for several hours. Then take them
out of the milk and sprinkle them with
flour; dip them in beaten egg and
cover them with -four with which you
have mixed little salt. Fry them in
hot drippings and serve garnished with
minced parsley.
These cakes are good with afternoon
tea: Mix for fifteen minutes four eggs
with halt pound of sugar, half q
grated nutmeg and as much powdered
cloves as will lie on the tip of dinner
knife. Then add half a pound of dry
and sifted flour, and mix thoroughly;
have creased or waxed tin; drop a
tablespoonful of the dough at intervals
upon it, and bake pale brown in a
moderate oven.
If the lettuce is not delicate enough
for salad, cut it in pieces and boil it
soft in water slightly salted when
cooked, drain every drop of water from
the leaves. Put some flour in pan
with some butter on the fire, and let it
cook until it is yellow; turn the lettuce
in it and let it boil once or twice. Pour
some stock over the lettuce; let it boil
once again, and, just before serving,
pour in little cream. A little nutmeg
is sometimes liked.
Little work bags of blue and white
or pink and white ticking are made in
the shape of an envelope eight inches
long by six wide. The colored stripes
have "a line of golden silk in stem
stitch. The white stripes have colored
silk briar, herring bone and others of
the various fancy stitches through the
centre. The lining is of silk, and
bow of ribbon forms the fastening.
Bags in this shape of larger size may
be made in the same way or of plush,
embroidered, as we'll as of canvas,
worked with silk.
An excellent curry may be made Of
the lean part of the flank in cubes an
an inch large. Mince half an onion
and fry it in one ounce of butter, or
oil, If preferred, stirring constantly.
When brown add the pieces of beef
and cook for twenty minutes to pre-
vent burning. Then pour ON half
pint of gravy or stock, or even hot
water, with salt to taste and two tea
spoonsiul of curry powder. Simmer
for one hour and serve in ring of rice.
Some persons add the juice OF an
orange and very little apple sauce.
say teaspoonful, with the curry. Any
cold meat may be made into curry
by the foregoing recipe, except that it is
only necessary to simmer the cooked
meat for five or six minutes.
Cut the pumpkins in half, put in
pan, skin side up latter seeds
are remoyed), in slow oven; bake
until all that is edible can be easily
from the rind with a spoon; II
it is as brown as nicely baked bread
all the better; mash finely, and to one
one quart add one-quarter pound of
butter while hot, when cool sweeten
10 taste; one pint of milk or cream (it
cream be'used three eggs are sufficient,
If milk four eggs will be better), beat
hem separately, stir in yolks, two
tablespoonful of ginger, one of nut
meg, add the whites of the eggs, STIR
ring but little after they are added to
he mixture; bake in a quick oven.
This for o d fashioned pumpkin pie.