Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-17

There Is nothing that clizgs to person
| more tenaciously than Ill manners &C
quired at the home table; In fact, so diff
! fcult Is 1t to divest oneself Of them tha
these are almost invariably the shibboletl
that betrsy ones early habits. Let the
little ones be taught to use their knife
and fork properly, to eat their soup from
the side of the spoon with no noise, tc
speak in quiet tone to walters and wal
patiently, serving each other at table il
that spirit which teaches everywhere tC
consider others before one,s self.
In the everyday life it is well not only
for the servants. but for the family itself
! to observe 80 much of form In the table
service as shall make 1t matter of Gus.
tom, and thus save much embarrassment
that may arise from ignorance when cere-
mony Is attempted. "Good enough for
home folks" is bAd motto for the din
ing ROOM No company can be better
than father, mother and children, and no
effort too great to have the regular meals
| well served, the conservation cheerful
! and agreeable, and all participants ex-
| hiblting that true courtesy which alone
emanates from love and refinement at
| home.
Scahoped potitoes-Into 9 well but
tered pan place layer of cold coiled po-
tatoes sliced thin, salt and pepper them,
! add another layer and cover with milk or
| cream. Bake until well Drowned.
Tomsto tosst-Rua quart of tomatoes
through the colsnder, put In g stewpsn,
season with butter, pepper and salt. Cut
slices Of bread, toast, butter and lay on 8
hot dish and pour the tomatoes on the
toast.
Graham gems-One pint each of Ora
ham -four and white -four, two teaspoon
fuls Of baking powder, one teaspoonful
OF salt and enough rich milk to make q
rather stiff batter. If there is cream in
the milk the gems will be tenderer. Drop
into hot gem pans and bake twenty min
utes.
Good layer cake-To four eggs beaten
very light add one cup of granuIated
sugar and best well; then add four table
spoontuls OF sweet milk, one cup and 8
half Of siited -four containing two tea
spoonfuls Of baking powder and one
tablespoonful of melted butter. Filling
may be made as follows: Crate two sour
apples7a and the rind of two small lemons;
add the lemon juice to the apple, with
cupful OF sugar and an egg. Beat a few
minutes, put over the fire and let it come
to boil.
Baked Ham .Omelet.-Six eggs, one
scant cupful OF milk, one even teaspoon
full Of corn-starch, one cupful OF cold
boiled ham, chopped very fine. Whip
the whites and yolks separately, until the
former sre stiff and the latter creamy.
Beat them lightly together, but without
mixing thoroughly. Add the milk, in
which the corn-sIArch has been dissolved,
and last of all stir the minced ham in
quickly. Pour into buttered pudding
dish, and bake Immediately in a hot,
steady oven for fifteen minutes. Should
1t brown too rapidly, cover until the ONE
let is fairly set.
Sponge oiscuits-TAke half q pound of
-four, three-fourths pound sifted sugar.
Beat the whites of six eggs by them
selves, add the beaten yolks and toss
them together. Put in them 8 little
grated lemon peel, then the sugar, and
hirt well with an egg-whisk. Sir in the
-four with wooden spoon and put the
mixture in smsll psttY-pans to bake, with
sifted sugar to glaze, sprinkled over the
top.
Apple meriDgue-Fill 8 Pudding dish !
with alternate layers of tart apples sliced |
and bread sliced and lightly buttered. It |
Is best If steamed, but it may be baked. |
After it is done cover the top with the |
whites OF the eggs beaten with sugar, one |
white to two small tsblespoonfuls of su-
gar, place in q moderate even for from |
three to five minutes and serve with but
ter and sugar whipped to cream and |
favored with nutmeg.