Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-05-06
FIRESiDE FRAGMENTS.

Melted butter is a very good substi'
tute for olive oil in salad dressing. Many
prefer the butter to oil.
delicious Pudding Sauce: Chop
mixed fruits fine and boil till soft. Thin
with water, sweeten, and lastly add
well beaten egg. Serve hot or cold.
Simple Dessert: Boiling water thick
ened with graham flour to the consisten-
cy of mush and eaten hot with cream
and sugar, or maple sirup, makes sim
pie and delicious dessert New
Yorker.
Fowl should rest breast upward.
The wings and legs should be removed
without turning the fowl and before cut
ting at the breastbone. Then remove
the second joint from the leg and wing,
thus making them better controlled on
the plate. Detroit Tribune.
oysters can be improved by being
kept in sandy-floored cellar; blanket
is spread over them, and this is daily
sprinkled with sea water and oatmeal.
Then fish will live for a long time in
this way in cool weather and grow nice
and corpulent.
Quick Puff Pudding: Take one pint
of -four stir in two teaspoonfuls of bak-
ing powder, small pinch of salt, and
sweet milk enough to make a soft bat
ter take six teacups, drop spoonful OF
batter into each, then spoonful OF
fresh berries, then a spoonful of batter.
Steam twenty minutes. Eat with sugar
and cream. Any kind of fresh fruit may
be used Toledo Blade.
Mushroom Powder: Select the largest
and thickest mushrooms, cut OFF the
root end and peel them; do not wash
them but wipe clean with dry cloth;
spread them on pans and dry slowly in
the oxen. Let the liquor dry up in the
mushrooms. as it will make the powder
much stronger. When thoroughly dry,
beat fine in mortar, and sift through a
sieve with a little cayenne pepper and
powdered mace. Bottle and cork
tightly. Delicious for gravies and stews
of all kinds-Good Housekeeping.
Silk handkerchiefs are ruined by
careless washing, such as they are likely
to get if put into the general wash. 1t
is better to do them up by themselves.
They should be washed in 1ukewarm
water and rinsed two or three times in
clear cold water without bluelng
Wiring them out, fold and roll them
tightly in a cloth, but 10 not let them
get dry before ironing, or they Will
never look smooth. Colored silk hand
kerchiefs should be washed with fine,
white soap, never with strong, yellow
soap.-Clothier and Furnisher.
For moths, salt is the best extermi-
nator. The nuns in one of the hospital
converts have tried every thing else
without success, and their experience Is
valuable, as they have so much clothing
of the sick who go there; and strangers
when diving, often leave them quanu-
ties of clothing, etc. They had room
full of feathers which were sent there
for pillow making, and they were IN de-
snair. as they could not extermlnate the
moths until they were advised to Try
common salt They sprinkled 1t around
and in a week or ten days they were al
together rid of the moths.
cnoo+ men are not 5ortinually say
, ing GREAT things, and can not Justly oe
Footed to be. 1t requires INFINITE WIS
doIn 70 do that, and no man is lnhhleely
wise The great and wise sayings .,
, Great men simply represent the Po"e'
: that is in the men and are NOV ns0o al
: Iv snecimens of their everyday '"ii
about ordinary things