Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-28
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sEAsoSASLE suesRsTzsNs 70 PRACTICAL HousE
KExrERs--RRszrxs WORTH currrso OFT ASD
TarIsa--HNTs FOR THE DINING ROOM, PAM
TRY AND KrrcurN,

TAYINe-HNTs FOR THE DINING ROOM, PAM
rRY AND Krrcufx.
TuRsrrs, cARaors AND Onions should net b
split, but sliced in rings across, al they cook
thus sooner.
CAREFUL DIET WILL DO MUCH toward re-
moving the greasy appearance from your skin.
In addition put little horax in the water used
FOR bathing your face.
CeSsUMprIvEs WILL FIND RELIEF from using,
daily, glycerine and powdered willow charcoal
Proportions: One part Of charcoal TO two parts
OF pure glycerine.
A CURE FOR WRrNKLrs.-Take q needle or
some other sharp instrument and sraw it along
the wrinkle, just hard enough to bring blood,
thsnlet 1t heal and the wrinkle will entirely
disappear.
UNIONS SHOULD BE SOAKED In saltsd warm
water previous to cooking to partly remove any
strong odor they may possess. Peas, string
eeans and green corn should not be prepared
Tor cooking until about ready to be used.
HAVE ALL MEDICINES IN One PLAoR-a box,
drawer or chest-and always keep all therein.
Have each member Of the family unders tand
where it 10 and what it is for, and have your
rolls OF linen, cotton and flannel in a handy
place easily got at when needed.
GREEN VEGETABLE, WITH SOME EXCEPTIONS,
should be cooked in plenty of sailed water,
putting them in at its first boil. The quantity
of salt to be used is large tablespoon to one
gallon OF water All vegetables are done as
soon as tender and should be Immediately
taken up and drained in colander.
OPEN APPLE TART-Stew some apples until
quite soft; take out any hard pieces, beat them
to pulp, and to one-half pound of pulp allow
SIX ounces Of sugar, five eggs and the grated
rind OF lemon. Heat all these we'll together,
then add gradually five ounces of melted but
ter. Line dish with puff paste, pour in the
mixture and bake it at once.
THERE Is NOTHING BETTER FOR Cur than
powdered resin. Pound it until fine and put it
In an empty clean pepper box with perforated
top. Then you can easily sift it out on the cut,
and put soft cloth around the injured MEM
per am wet with cold water once in while.
IL Will prevent Inflammation and soreness.
FAIRY BREAKFAsr BIsc UIT.--Mix scant table,
spoonful Of butter with pint of aour. Salt
to taste and enough water to make dough
that can be kneaded. When sufficiently worked
with the hands roll out the dough as thin as a
sheet OF paper, cut in rounds with a muffin
ring, prick them with fork and bake for =
minute in a moderatsly-hot oven.
SUGAR CesKIEs.-Ons egg, thrse-fourths of q
cup Of butter, one cup Of sugar, two tablespoon
fuls OF milk, one teaspoolful Of cream tartar,
one-half teaspoonful of soda -four to roll, salt
and cinnamon; roll thin and bake in a quick
oven. They are very nice.
EGas AND CABBAGE.-Warm up large cup
full of cold, boiled cabbage, chopped fine; sea-
son with butter, pepper and salt. Stir in three
beaten eggs and cupfal OF milk and bake for
twenty minutes in pudding dish. In this
way O small remnant of cold cabbage will make
an excellent side dish for dinner.
A Party DEssFpT-A ouick daue.rt NAV T. 4.
made of dried apples. Roll piece Of light
biscuit dough very thin; spread with the
stewed fruit, roll it up and cut in blocks an
inch thick. place in pan and sprinkle with
sugar, little cream or butter on each piece
and Nil the cresicss with water. Bake and
serve with lemon sauce.
In FRANCE, WHEN PATIENT Is UNDER Cp1o-
RoFonM, on the slightest symptom appearing Of
failure Of the heart, they turn him nearly up
side down-that is, with his head downward
and his heels in the air. This, they say, alwaya
restores him, and such is their faith in the efi-
cacy OF this method that the operating tables
IN the Paris hospitals are made so that i'll an in
slant they can be elevated with one end in the
air, SO as to bring the patient into position
resembling that of standing on his head
CREAM OF SWEET CoRN.-Cut the kernels
from SIX large ears of green corn or use two
quarts OF canned sweet corn to three quarts Of
boiling soft water stock of meat soup, and
boil until 1t is tender. If green corn il used
boil the cobs III the water fifteen minutes and
then remove. Strain through strainer cloth
to prevent the bulls from escaping. Then
place the soup again over the fire Mix snooth
a tablespoonful each Of butter and -four. ss;r-
ring constantly in thick saucepan over the
IRE and pour in gradually pint and half of
hot mix. Whom the soup boils add this and
COOK lew minutes to the consistency 0; thck
cream. Salt or further season at the last A
slice OF onion is sonnet times boiled with the
milk to aaver it slightly, and sometimes few
slices of potato.
WATER fLTZR1Ns. - Various patterns Of
filters are in use, very few Of which are of any
value whatever. They act only as q strainsr
to remove the coarSer impurities, but have ne
effect upon the microscopic bacteria or matters
held In solution, which are the most danger
Gus. A flannel bag Is exactly as good Alter az
these expensivs devices and possesses the adj
ditional advantages Of being easily cleaned or
renswee. The most effective filters are those
III which disk of porous stone or earthsn.
ware forms the fltsring material, but it is best
to make sure OF the original supply of water,
rather than to attempt to purify it by any such
uncertain methods.
WHAT 1s NILL-In pure milk there IL a
large percentage OF water and, Heating in IL.
invisible to the naked eye, are small but M
msrous little balls Of cassin. each hold
ing in its center little globuIs of fat.
just as the white of an egg holds ths velk.
These little balls floating together in the
water give to the milk its ordinary white color.
In cheese the easein is prsGipitated with more
or less OF Its fat The difference in two kinds
of cheese is only the difference in the amount
OF fat used. In cream the fatty globules re-
main ineassd in their casein cover and being
lighter than water float On the surface. nv
the well-known process Of churning the cassin
envelope OF a fat globule is broken Up and the
just liberated also, forms butter. The auid
remaining after butter is formed is butter
milk, and contains casein in great quantity
and is, therefore, very heterogeneous. Whey is
the fluid obtained after precipitation of the
constituents viz, sugar and salt with a snail
quantity Of albumen.