Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-14

| pers abound in jokes on new wives pies and
biscuits. If marriage was more of a fail
ure the housekeeping question would ad-
just itself, but as the first experiment
goes on uninterruptedly despite the the
orists, the second remains an open ques-
ton. Maids in the parlor, and maids in
the kitchen, maids upstairs and maids
downstairs continue to wed, and the ne
cessity for housekeeping is created on the
one hand, while the smooth movement of
well ordered household is often checked
by intrusive cupid upon the other.
Housekeeping, like life, is much what
it is made; to some it is always labor, its
cares are vexatious, its duties drudger-
les, and gradually she who orders
it, is a weary, worn woman
without ambition, a home that is
mockery, a family that say in sense
| different from the poet, "There's no
| place like home -
If marriage is of divine institution it
follows that homes are necessity, and
no girl is justified i'll marrying who does
not feel willing and competent for the
duties she is to assume. There is prob
lem confronting her that she will have
to solve, whether she has qualified herself
for it or not, and much of her future and
that of her family hinges upon the solu-
ton.
Hotel life, life in boarding houses,
anything short of life at home, will prove
not only unsatisfactory, but will in time
become impracticable, and then the con-
dition must be met, whether she is pre-
pared for it or not.
Usually men when they marry
picture for themselves, domestic life and
observation has taught than the arrant
folly of iDtrp1nninr 70 into no
publicity of hotels, or any place where
she is scanned, criticized or exposed too
much, from which he feels it his duty to
shield her. No girl should be allowed to
grow up in ignorance of housekeeping A
mother is strangely direlict, who, from
motives of tenderness and Indifference,
allows daughter to go out from the roof
tree without practical knowledge of all
that is requisite to good housekeeping
She should know the innermost details in
the culinary department.; she should
know how to select poultry, where are
the good cuts and what is
the color of edible meat, to be
able to discriminate in vegetables,
to direct the laundry as well as to ar
range parlors tastefully, and sleeping
apartme nts artistically. knowledge,
such as this with system, will make the
work easy and servants viii soon fall into
ways that are defined and be much more
apt to remain long term.
A young wife who is ignorant is to be
pitied, but her mother is to be blamed.
The day of that foolish pride that i'll
duced young women to say: 81 don It
know anything about Housekeeping - is
fast passing away, and it will soon be
that she will be as ashamed of ignorance
her dem * the Jph IN
has no business knowledge
There is no good reason why house
keeping should be failure The best
and wisest women pronounce it a success,
and woe to any people whose homes are
abandoned and life is lived away from
domesticity.
Dreamed Onions-Four onions cut in
halves and boiled until done; drain off
the water and pour on one quarter of
cup of milk; salt and pepper, small piece
of butter; cook them slowly for fifteen
minutes.
DouGhnuts-One cup of sugar, three
cups of flour, Il piece of butter the size of
an egg, one cup of milk, two eggs, one
half teaspoonfui of soda, one teaspoonful
of mace. Mix together, roll out, cut in
shape and fry in hot lard.
Cranberry Jelly-One and one-half cup
of cranberrieS, one-half cup of water.
Boil until soft. Strain, not pressing very
hard, and without again putting on the
stove stir in one cup of sugar. Beat
quickly until thoroughly mixed, then
pour into four small molds.
Sweet Potato Pie-Parboil, skin and
slice firm sweet potatoes. Line dish
with paste; put layers of the potato,
sprinkled thicllly with sugar and a few
whole cloves. Put i'll tablespoonful of
melted butter and a little water. Cover
with crust and bake.
Pumpkin Pie-One quart stewed pump
kin pressed through sieve; nine eggs,
whites and yeiks beaten separately; two
quarts milk, one teaspoonful mace, one
of cinnamon, and one of nutmeg; one
and half cups of white sugar. Beat all |
well together, and bake in crust without |
cover.
Lemon Pie-One teacupful of powdered |
sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, one
egg, juice and grated rind of one lemon, |
one teacup of boiling water, one table |
spoonful of corn starch, mixed in little |
cold water; cream, butter and sugar to-
gether, and pour the hot mixture over
them. When cold add the lemon and |
beaten egg. Bake.
Salted AImondS-Salted almonds fur
nish delicious addition to luncheon or
dinner. Pour boiling water over shelled |
almonds and let them stand a short time,
when the dry brown husk can be easily
rubbed off and the almonds are "blanch-
ed - then stir into melted butter, let
them stand, add salt and brown i'll the
oven. When taken from the oven place
them on soft porous paper to prevent
their being "buttery If this is not
dry them on towel.
Tutti Frutti ,Telly-Dissolve one-fourth
of box of gelatine in one pint of boiling
water, add the juice of one large lemon
and one cup of sugar. When cold, strain
into large glass dish. Prepare one
orange and two bananas. Remove the
skin from the orange and tear in sections;
take out the seeds and white fibers, and
place at intervals in the jelly. The ba-
lanas may be cut in thick slices and fill
N between the orange. Place on ice TO
harden, and serve with French buns
Scalloped Turkey-Cut all the cold
meat from the remains of a turkey.
Crack the bones and put them with all
he bits of skin, fat and griStle into a
saucepan. Cover them with cold water
md stew slowly. Chop the meat fine;
over the bottom of n creased baking dish
With bread or cracker crumbs and then
hick layer of chopped turkey Stuffng and