Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-22
HOME MATTERS.
Everyday Hints and Household Helps
to Practical House Keepers.

sUEr SHOULD BE USED instead of butter for
making sauces, gravies, &c.
NOTHING IS BETTER than glass fruit jar for
keeping cooking raisins moist.
GREASE MAY BE REMOVED from silk by apply
ing magnesia to the wrong SIDE
For FRYING EGGs have plenty of fat and dip
it up over them with spoon, instead of turn
ing, also placing them in the pan from a sau-
Ger one at a time.
A BRoAD-BLADED SILVER KNIFE for cutting
ice cream is useful. The blade tapers into a
point SO us to cut more readily nd while it is
very simple it is still very useful.
WATER SHOULD ONLY CONE TO THE BOILING
POINT for making tea or coffee and not be
allowed to boil for even five minutes. If
you are dOubter try it aud convince yourself
OF the difference in flavor.
An OLD RECOMMENDATION often given young
house keepers is to use tea leaves in sweeping
carpets, but their use on delicate colors should
be avoided, as they will surely stain light car
pets.
ASK Your Timer TO MAKE You CAKE
tin having two divisions. Then plain cake
can be made for one side and by adding fruit
or almonds you can easily have richer cake
for the other side.
The FRENCH METHOD OF ADMINISTERING
CASTOR OIL to children is to pour the oil into
pan over moderate fire, break all egg into it
and stir up; when it is done flavor with little
salt or sugar or currant jelly.
LAMP BURNERS THAT HAVE BECOME DIM and
sticky can be renovated by boiling them in
strong soda water, using tin tomato can for
this purpose; then scOur the burners with sa-
polio and they will DE good as new.
In OYSTER STEW anything where one
wishes to use the liquor let it come to boil
70 tab Of h. hAtIa
as it toughens them, simply let them come to
the boiling point. Itshouid simply boil around
| the edges.
To CLEAN LACE Basic Your LACE NICELY on
a piece of muslin. Rub it freely with cold
starch until it forms paste on it. Put it in
the sun to dry and when thoroughly dry rub
of. Your lace will then be clean and need
no ironing.
The GERMAN SPACHrEL WoRK is a strong
embroidery in the linen which, being cut out,
leave a handsome, durable, open work en-
broidery. This embroidery is favOrite or
namentation this season and appears on bed
spreads and pillow shams as well.
DIPPING FISH IN SCALDINa WATER will cause
| the scales to come off very easily. but il the
| fish are to be sailed down they must on no
count be scalded. You may pour over them
vinegar with the same result. Salt fish will
soak fresh much quicker in sour milk than in
| water.
PAPER MACHE For FILLING CRACKS IN
Floors can be prepared by heating to paste
| cuttings of white or brown paper boiled in
water and then mixing the paste with solution
| of gum arabic. Make the solution hot in which
you mix the paper paste and apply directly,
| thus making it adhere more firmly.
To LEAVE THE Sour KETTLE UNCOVERED
while the soup is boiling is to sacrifice much Of
its most delicate flavor and aroma and to lose
that peculiar nutritive and digestible property
present in dishes cooked with all their steam
| tightly closed in upon them. Cover the soup
kettle steam-tight and boil it gently from one
| side if you want good SOUP
ONE OF THE BEST METHODS OF CLEANING
| HAIR BRUSHES is to put full teaspoonful of
household ammonia into basin of warm water
Dip the bristles in and rub briskly with the
| hand, or, better still, with another brush
When thoroughly cleansed put in the sun to
dry. bristle side up. Two brushes may be thus
readily cleansed al once.
| FRIED kLossE.-Cut narrow and stale French
| rolls in slices and lay them on q dish; mix two
or three beaten eggs with cup of milk and
| tablespoonful OF sugar; pour this over the
| sliced rolls until they are soaked through; fry
| these slices in butter until they are . pale
brown on each side. Serve with sweet sauce
after garnishing the tops with strips Of blanched
! almonds cut the long way.