The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-03
Household Hints.

For good coffee Soyers recipe 10, "Put
ounce of ground roasted coffee into a e-pan,
place it over the FIRE, keep il stirring until IL
quite hot, taking care that IL does not burn;
til en- pour over il quickly quart of boins
water, cover il Immediately. keep it near the
FIRE TO draw, and fill your cups without shaking
the grounds. You must have a saucepan with
lip for this, and cover that fits tightly over
ALL The secret is in heating the coffee grounds
first. tbs they yield their oily PARTICLES. You
heat them in either the cheese cloth or the
retail strainer of a coffee-oigei q tin plate.
Then pour the boiling water, draw and
serve
cracked wheat is customarily cooked for break.
fast there is usually little left-from two OF
three spoonfuls. perhaps To pint. This will
make nice dessert in many different ways.
One of the simplest is: Oatmeal brown Betty,
tor which you need only arrange in pudding
dish alternate layers of apples, cut as for pie.
with the cold oatmeal. Sprinkle little sugar
and spice over each layer OF apples, put oatme al
last, smooth il over with o knife and dot II
with few. bits of butter. Let 1t brown nicely
and eat hot with liquid sauce of sugar and
cream.
For quickly-m vegetable SOUP l@il tur.
nlps onions. carrots cabbage and celery chop
ped hne, In quantity desired. in two quarts OF
water. with piece of butter the size of q large
walnut. and little salt. A few minutes before
dinner add one quarter Of Accent jar of extract
OF beef. stirring is until dissolved and add salt
and pepper to suit Those who like rice in soup
with vegetables should add two three table,
spoonfuls when the vegetables half cooked.
This quantity is enough for six or eight persons,
out should, unexpectedly, more be needed some
more boiling water and n little beef extract
added WILL in a moment, make all the soup
auired. without changing its quality In the
least
Little girls are always ambitious to do some
thing usefuL Let them crochet wash-cioth.
OF coarse white crochet cotton make a chain Of
81 stitches; then work a of picots as follows:
Three chains. tight single crochet back into the
first chain; chains. l tight stitch into the
third chain of the first row, and so on. In the
second and all following begin with 3
chains work one picot and then one tight STITCH
gathering into the latter the third chain in the
first and the second in the next following picot.
When square shall have been finished crochet
around the edge a row of picots of bright-color-
ed washable cotton. and in one corner q loop by
which to hang it up. These crocheted wash
cloths are infinitely more agreeable to use than
any that be bought.
If you would like lilies of the valley on your
window sill, hero is way of forcing them
into bloom Before potting boxing the bulbs
cut off portion of the roots. so as to leave them
about two inches in length. Plant them in the
box about two inches apart, using only pure
sand, which is quite good soil The
top of the plant should just appear above
the sand. If you wish it to flower very
soon set the box in a warm place. the warmer
the better. Place over il layer of moss to re-
tain the moisture about the plants; il the sand
is allowed TO get dry the experiment. will prove a
failure A succession of blooms can be kept M
some time by planting good many boxes full,
and bringing them into the heat desired In
a temperature of sixty degrees it takes about
ten days to bring out the flower.