The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-18
HOME HINTS AND HELPS,

HOME HINTS AND HELPS.
-Spiced Currants: Five pounds Of cur.
rants, four pounds of sugar, two table,
spoons ofcinnamon, two tablespoons Of
cloves, one tablespoon of allsplce, ono
pint of vinegar, boil one hour and a
quarter.
Lemon Butter: One-uuarter of a
pound of butter, one pound of pulverized
sugar, grated rind and juice of three
lemons, the whites of four and yelks of
six eggs. Melt the butter, then stir in
and boil we'll.
Egg Sandwiches: Chop the white
OF hard boiled eggs very fine, wash the
yolks and mix them with melted butter,
salt and pepper, then add all to the
chopped whites, and spread it on bread;
slice the bread as thin as possible, re-
move all the crust, and arrange neatly
on plate, one overlapping the other a
little Boston Herald.
-Macaroni should be used much moro
than it is 1t is very good substitute
for potatoes when that vegetable is
scarce and high, as it is this year. Many
physicians object seriously to the use
of old potatoes after they have begun
to sprout, and on their own tables use
macaroni instead. The simple ways of
preparing this dish everybody knows
-Lyonnaise Potatoes: Cut cold boiled
potatoes into dice; pepper and salt
them; mince a small onion and fry it in
tablespoonful of butter until light
brown. Add the potatoes and stir them
until they have absorbed the fat. Then
stir in tablespoonful of chopped par
sley and a tablespoonful of vinegar;
boil up and serve.-Ladies' Home Jour-
nal.
"A wall protector back of the kitchen
table can be made of oil cloth. A piece
of suitable length and width can be
turned down on the edge hem fashion
to strengthen it, and this can be tackled
smoothly to the wall; this protector
can be ornamented by painting upon it
any loose design on flowers and vines.
If oil paints are used the cloth can be
washed clean and thus kept free from
grease and spatterings.
-"For nice economical pudding,
cream together three small tablespoon
fuls of butter, one-half cupful of sugar,
then beat in one egg and one cupful of
sweet milk. Dissolve half a teaspoon.
full of soda In a little warm water and
add to the milk. Sift two cupfuls of
flour and add to it one teaspoonful OF
cream of tarter. Mix all together and
flavor as you like. Steam for half an
hour and serve with cream and sugar."
IN. Y. World
-Poached Eggs: Have broad shall.
low vessel of boiling water. Break your
eggs in a plate, and be careful not to
break the .yolks. Take the water from
the fire, slide the eggs carefully into it
one at time, and then put them over
the fire again. Whilst they are boiling
throw the water over the yolks with
spoon, and as soon as the whites are
thick take them out with an egg slice.
Trim them neatly and send them to the
table hot.-Boston Budget.
-Scalloped Beef: One cup cold beef,
chopped fine; one-half cup mashed pota-
toes, one-half teaspoonful of made
mustard, enough gravy to moisten the
above, one cup mashed potatoes, two
teaspoonfuls of butter, one cup of milk,
one egg. Mix the first of ingredients
we'll and place in creased baking dish.
Now add the last four ingredients,
MASKING the potatoes, milk and butter
together, and add the egg well beaten.
Cover this over the top of the meat, and
bake until a nice brown in a rather
quick oven.-Detroit Free Press.
LONG ENGAGEMENTS.
The Effect of Modern Luxury Tends to
Postpone Marriage.
Owing to the complications of modern
life and the large increase in the list OF
creature comforts which polite people
have come to regard as necessaries,
marriage has become a vastly more
serious undertaking than it used to be,
and is deferred until later period of
life.
People in cities who have been used
to wearing good clothes, and who have
servants to wait on them, and to go out
of town in summer, no longer marry
when the girl is eighteen and the man
twenty-five. The man is apt to be nearly
thirty before his income will stand the
matrimonial strain, and the lady is pro.
portionately experienced. 1t would
not be quite accurate to say that,
though it is harder to get married than
it was, it is as easy as ever to become
engaged. That would not be quite
true. The difficulty of getting income
enough to marry does defer, and even
prevent, great many betrothals; new
ertheless, engagements do often hap
pen when the prospect of marriage is
remote, and a reasonable percentage Of
them last until marriage ends them.
Long engagements are not popular,
but enough of them are running to
make the behavior of their bene.
flciaries a fit subject for comment
In the interest of human happiness.
All the world loves lover, but lovers
make serious mistake when they pre- |
sumo too far on the strength of the
worlds regard for them.
The polite world loves it's lovers ex-
actly so long as they are interesting and
agreeable.
When they cease to be SO it's senti-
ments toward them take the form of |
anxiety to have them married, which
may indeed be so extreme as to result |
in practical efforts to put them in the
way of pairing; but which is more apt
to take the form of what is vulgarly
known as the cold shoulder.
Lovers who are intelligent and who
are disposed to make themselves agree
able ought to be exceptionally charm
ing. They are enveloped in pleasant
blaze of sentiment which makes them
interesting. So long as they are nice,
all kind people are in conspiracy to
indulge them and make them think
that life is lurid with rose tints. Their
politeness is the more appreciated be-
cause it is thought to involve special
and whatever they do for