The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-08-30
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Purple plums and Sea Foam-How
to Do Up Thin Draperies.
Purple Piums.


Take an equal amount of fruit and
sugar; place the fruit in stone jar, fruit
and sugar alternately; cover and set the
jar in KETTLE of boiling water for six
hours. filing up the kettle as the water
boils away; repeat this once more and
you have excellent preserves.
Sea Foam.
Soak large cupful of tapioca over
night in quart bowl filed with water.
Steam until clear stirring occasionally.
When done add a cupfnl of sugar,
small lump of butter. Beat well. stir in
the beaten whites of three eggs, and set
to COOL Serve with rich cream and
shredded pineapple.
Stewed Tomatoes.
Prepare the tomatoes for cooking, Gu t
into small pieces and simmer slowly for
an hour. Add teacup OF bread crum bs,
two level teaspoonfnls OF good butter.
salt and pepper. Simmer half an hour
longer and stir in a little sugar. II
more pungent flavor is desired add an
onion minced fine, when the tomatoes are
first put on to cook.
To Do Up Thin Draperies.
The art muslins and thin silks used in
getting up pretty rooms nowadays have
fashion of losing their freshness easily.
A lady far removed from professional
clGhQ6TS eApeIImH1teQ WIFI some mus
Inns to see whether they might be washed
or not, and found that some of the reds
yelIows and terra cottas did fairly well
She says:--"H any one likes to try they
should make a soapy lather with
hot wuter; when lukeWarm thoroughly
wash and shake the muslin in it. Rinse
it quickly ia clean water with a little salt
it; then roll in a large soft towel and in
squeeze out the water Have some irons
ready, iron out the material at once while
wet on the wrong side, and hang It when
done near the IRE to complete driving.
The muslin will then be slightly stiffened.
but not too much, This applies 10 the
patterned art mnslins, not the cheap
whole colored ones.
Maccaroni for Potatoes
Maccaroni should be used much more
than it is. It is very good substitute for
potatoes when that vegetable is scarce
and high. Many ply sicians object serl-
ously to the use OF old potatoes after they
have begun TO sprout, aud on their own
tables use maccaroni instead. The SIM
pie ways Of preparing this dish everybody
knows.
To Keep Tomatoes whole.
Fill a large stone jar with ripe tomatoes.
then add q few whole cloves and a lit lie
sugar; cover them well with ona-halfcold
vinegar and half water; place a piece of
flannel over the jar well down in the vine
gar, then tie down with paper. Should
mildew collect on the flannel it will not
hurt them in the least.
Apple Pudding.
For the dough take a cupful OF milk,
butter the size of an egg, two teaspoon
fuls OF baking powder, a little salt and
-four enough to roll ont. Have ready a
pudding dish filed with sliced apples.
Cover with the dough. and when baked
reverse the dish and add to the apples
butter sugar and spice to taste. Serve
with ricn cream.
Picked Peaches.
Four pounds of sugar, one pint of vine
gar. TO Twelve pounds OF fruit; put sugar
ana vinegar together and boil: tho next
day drain off the liquor and boil again;
do this three times and your pickles are
fine: add cinnamon to the liquor and
stick Two cloves in each peach.
surer of His Appetite Than Genius.
1t will surprise many admirers OF a
great English poet Of this century to learn
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