Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18
HOME MATTERS.
Seasonable Suggestions and Eve. - Day
Hints to Practical House Keepers.


Hints to Practical House Keepers.
SPRINKLE CoRxMKAL on the baking pan in
stead Of greasing it.
SALT DISSOLVED IN ALCOHOL, gin or ammonia
will take out grease spots.
To Cool EARrHENwARR or glass quickly
place the article in cold salt wafer.
PLEASANT HOUSEHOLD DEoDoRIzER is made
bicarbonate Of ammonia.
To EXTRACT INK FRoN Woop, scour with
sand wet with water and ammonia. Rinse with
strong saleratus water.
NEVER PUT POTATOES on THE TABLE in a COW
cred dish. They will reabsort their own mos
ture and become soggy.
TABLESPOON or OATMEAL soaked a number
of hours in glass of milk Is a very nutritious
and flesh-forming food.
Delicious SANDWICHES AND CHEAP ONES can
be made by mincing fine rare beefstaek. Sea-
son only with pepper and salt. These are ex-
cellent for invalids
NEVER WASH Ours, PLATES OR KNIVES used
| in the sick room with those of the family; scar
let fever and other infectious diseases have
| been spread in this way. Do not eat in the
sick persons room or partako of anything that
has been left there.
liz A CELLAR Has A DAMP SMELL, and cannot
be thoroughly ventilated, few trays of char
coal set around on the floor. shelves and Lodges
Will make the air puro and sweet, SAYS
Medical Classics. II largo basketful of char
coal be placed in damp cellar where milk is
kept, the milk Will be in no danger OF becoming
tainted.
ARRANGE IN A BAKING DISH a layer OF boiled
rice season with salt, pepper and bits of but
ter, then a thin layer of grated cheese, and SO
on alternately, using cheese for the top
Molsten we'll with rich milk or. still better,
cream, and strew the top with rolled crackers
Bake for twenty minutes or until the top is a
light brown.
To AVOID THE ODoR which too often fills
the house when cabbage or other green vegeta-
bles are boiling follow these simple directions:
Put your cabbage in a net, and when you have
boiled 1t five minutes i'll the first pot of water
lift it out, drain for few seconds and place
| carefully in IA second pot, which you must have
full of fast-boillnS water on the stove. Empty
the first water away, and boil your cabbage till
tender in the second
AS AN EGG SHELL Is SOMEWHAT PoRoUs,
eggs easily absorb unpleasant odors, and
should be Kept in n clean, airy, cool place
never in a cellar with decaying vegetables.
MILDEw IS EASILY REMOVED by rubbing
common yellow soap on the articles, and then a
little salt and starch on that. Rub all we'll on
the article and put it in the sunshine.
If ATABLEsPooNFUL OF KEROSENE is put into
four quarts of tepid water and thus used in
washing windows and mirrors, instead of pure
water, there will remain upon the cleaned sur
face polish no amount of mere friction can
give.
MAKE PLAIN CUP CAKE, then a quart of
frozen custard. When ready to serve. take
the center out Of the cake, fill the space with
the frozen cus'ard. cover the cake with the top,
| pack III leo for half an hour.
To CLEAN LACE fill bottle with cold water,
| draw a stocking tightly over it, securing both
ends firmly. Place the lace moothly over the
stocking and tack closely. Put the bottle in a
Kettle OF cold water containing few shavings
| of soap and place over the fire to boil Rinse
| in several waters and then drain and dry
When dry remove and place smoothly IN a
| large book and press with weights. Very nice
lace can be made to lock like new by this
process.
HAVING BUSTED AND REMOVED SUCH ARr1-
Giles as can be carried from the room wiring a
| flannel mop out of hot water and wipe the car
pet thoroughly, wrlnging the mop from clean
| water as often as it may become sOied. Now
sweep with a new broom, as you ordinarily
would, and when you have finished you will
| have bright, clean carpet, with little or no
dust, and all at the expense of a very little
| hard labor. Those who have not tried this
method are skeptical about its merits, but one
| trial will convince.
| GRAPE SIRUP.-Take fine, ripe grapes, pick
| ovor and wash. Do net cook them, but squeeze
through coarse cloth; boil the juice slowly,
| Swimming well; add one-haf pint of granu-
| lated sugar to one quart of juice when nearly
done. Boil one hour, being careful not to
scorch. Put in glass cans or bottles and seal
| tightly. Keep in a cool. dark place, wrap cans
| and bottles i'll brown paper. Raspberry, bAcii-
| berry and peach sirups are fine made this way.
| They are nice for tiayoring pies and buildings.
LAUYDREssEs IN GERMANY will not use soda
on linen. believing that it rots the goods. They
dissolve about two pounds of soap in three gal
| Ions OF water as hot as the hand can bear and
| add to this one tablespoon of turpentlne and
| three of liquid ammonia. The mixture Is then
| well stirred, and the linen stepped in it for
| two or three hours, while the vessel containing
| cloth and liquid is covered as nearly hermeti-
| cally as possible. The goods are afterwurd
washed out and rinsed in the usual way. The
soap and water is often reheated and
| used a second time after half a tablespoon of
turpentine and a tablespoon of ammonia have
been added. This process il q saving Of time,
| labor and fuel.
| CREME LA SUIssE.-For this most delicious
dish procure ring mold made Of tin and meas
| uring two inches wide and two and half
| inches deep. In this ring bake some rich
| sponge cake mixture and when donc enough
| turn out very carefully OH to a nice china or
| glass dish; brush the cake ring over with
vanilla glace. and. when quite cold, fill in the
center with a high mound of stifiy whipped
| cream favored very delicately with vanilla.
| Ornament the top of the cream with finely
| chopped pistachios and candicd cherries cut IN
tiny pieces and arrange round the base a bor-
der of small fresh green leaves. II preferred
coffee or chocolate glace may be used for the
cake ring instead of the vanilla glace; then,
OF course. the favoriug OF the cream must
| correspond.