Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-06
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COMMONPLACE SUGGESTIONS AND USEFUL RECIPES
FOR PRACTICAL HoUsrKEEPERs - EVERYDAY
HINTS FOR THE DISISG-RooN, LAUNDRY AND
kITcHEN-soNE SMILE RECIPES.

kITcHEN-soNE SMILE RECIPES.
Ten CoMMoS-sIzED EGas weigh one pound.
Two TABLESPOONS OF POWDERED SUGAR or flour
weigh one ounce.
To RESTORE Gilt FRAMES, rub with a sponge
molstened in turpentine.
You've VEAL MAY BE TOLD by the bone in the
outlet. If it is very small the veal is not
good.
WISE-GLAss OF STRONG BoRAx water in a
pint of raw starch will make collars and cuffs
stiff and glossy.
ASPRAINED ANKLE HAS BEEN CURED in an hour
by showering it with hot water, poured from a
height of few feet.
MUc1LAGE.-A transparent mucilsge of great
tenacity may be made by mixing rice -four with
cold water, and letting it simmer gently over
the fire.
WHEN PAPERIYG Room a small apartment
can be made to appear large by being covered
with paper of subdued color without any par
ticular design.
If HoU WISH TO KEEP A SHARP KNIFE don't
put it in hot grease; stir your potatoes while
frying, or turn meat. with fork or an old case
knife Kept on purpose.
LITTLE TURpESrINE added as clothes boil
will whiten and sweeten them without injuring
the most delicate fabric. For garments very
much soiled, use spoonful of kerosene
AFTER SPRISSLTSG STALE Rolls or biscuits
with cold water place them in pan and cover
them Sith second pan. Set in a warm oven
for twelve minutes. and they will seem as nice
as If freshly baked and are more digestible.
PAPER BAGS, in which many articles are sent
from the grocery store, should be saved for use
when backing a stove. Slip the hand into one
of these and II will not be soiled and when
through with the bags they can be dropped into
the stove.
THICK BRowN PAPER should be laid under
carpets if the atent lining is not to be had. 1t
saves wear and prevents the inroad of moths.
which, however, will seldom give trouble If
salt is sprinkled around the edges when the
carpet is laid.
BURNs.-The white of an egg has proved one
of the most effcaclous remedies for burns.
Seven or eight successive applications of this
substance soothes the pain and effectually ex-
Glide the burn from the air. This simple rem
edy seems preferable to collodion or even
cotton.
WARM BREAD OR CAKE can be cut without be-
coming moist and heavy if the knife, thin.
sharp one, is dipped into boiling hot water.
wiped quickly. and the bread cut immediately.
before the knife has time TO cool 4 napkin
should be laid double on the plate where the
warm slices are laid
POTATO SALAD.-Chop together six ordinary
sized potatoes, one small onion. and the white
OF boiled egg. Dressing: Mix together one
small half cup vinegar, two tablespoons melted
butter, one-haf teaspoon mustard. the yelks
or one raw and one cooked egg. a little salt
and pepper. Pour on dressing Just before
serving.
OLD FASHIONED WALNUT TAFFY.-Take one
quart OF black molasses, put on to boil, when
hot drop in lump of butter (teaspoonfuD, try
constantly if done, in cold water. When nearly
done have one-haf pint of walnut kernels
stirred In and pour out on a large well-buttered
dish. When nearly firm take knife and divide
OH In two-inch squares, and set in a cold place.
DROP CRACKEEs.-Beat up the whites of three
eggs and the yelks of five with a spoonful of
rose-water. and then add five ounces of sifted
sugar (such as confectioners use): whisk them
well for twenty minutes or half an hour, and
then add half an ounce of caraway seeds and
three ounces of fine -four. Mix the whole to-
gether, drop them on oil papers, and bake in
moderately heated oven.
CREAM SCALLoPs.-Take a quart of the fishs
pint of milk, a tablespoonful of flour. two
tablespoonfuls of butter. and salt and pepper.
The milk must be put in the double boiler, and
while the scallops are being drained the butter
and flour may be beaten together until creamy.
his mixture, together with the seasoning.
must be stirred into the boiling milk, and the
scallops cooked seven minutes.
MINT JELLY FOR MARKING Cold LAME OR
CUTLErs.-Take two tablespoonfuls of Spanish
sauce and dissolve in it good teaspoonful of
gelatine, softened in cold stock a tablespoonful
OF aspic and one of thick mint sauce If no
aspic be ready a teaspoonful of glaze. two of
gelatine, and half wineglass of sauterne may
be dissolved together to take its place No
gelatine will be needed with the Spanish sauce
in this case.
VIRGINIA BEATEN BIscUIT.-One and a half
pounds of flour, one-fourth of pound of lard,
pinch of salt. Mix enough milk and water to
make q stiff dough. Beat the dough with an
axe for half an hour, until it breaks when
pulled. Work out into small biscuit, prick sew
eral times with a fork and bake quickly. Take
small pieces Of the same dough, roll by hand
the size of marble and roll out fiat with the
rolling pin for waters, or thin biscuit.
VEGETABLE PIE.-Scald some Windsor beans:
cut into dice young carrots, turnips, artichokes
bottoms, lettuce, mushrooms. celery, and pars-
ley. with green peas; onions and spinach NAV be
added if liked. Stew the vegetables partially in
gravy, and season with pepper and salt. Trim the
edges of dish with parsley; put in the vege-
tables, pour the gravy over this, cover and
bake. Cream or milk slightly thickened with
flour and butter may be used instead of gravy.
Sailed ALMONDS MAY BE PLACED on the table
when it is arranged for the dinner, and may re-
first passed Immediately after the soup course
Amy guest may help himself and pass them,
and they may be handed around between al
most every course until the dessert is brought
on, then. of course, they should be removed
from the table. 1t is never necessary, how
ever, to have them passed around by the wait
ress.
POISONING BY OPIUM or any of its prepare
tions (morphine, laudanum, paregoric, &c. } is
remedied by fifteen grains Of sulphate Of zinc
in little water. IL this cannot be obtained at
once, use mustard and warm water. or salt and
warm water. and, after vomiting, give plenty
of strong coffee, put mustard plaster around
the calf of each leg, and If the patient is chilled
and sinking, give freely of spirits and water
Dash cold water over the face and shoulders
and walk the person to keep him from going TO
sleep, for that means death when the drug is
yet active in the stomach.
Zoos IN CREAM-Boil six eggs for twenty
minutes. From pint of milk take half cup
full and mix with generous tablespoonful of
-four until it is smooth, and as soon as the re-
naming milk has been heated TO the boiling
point the mixture is stirred into it. Pepper
and salt may then be added and the sauce
boiled for three minutes. Then lay six aces
Of toast on hot dish, and upon each is spread
a layer of sauce, then part of the whites of
eggs, cut into thin strips and then part of the
yeiks. rubbed through a sieve. This operation
is repeated, and finally third layer of sauce is
spread. The dish must be placed in the oven
for three minutes, and afterward may be gar
nished with parsley.
PLuNKErs.-There are various ways ofmaking