The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-12
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

The most delicious wafer to serve
with cheese is a thin water cracker
slightly sailed, which is sold at forty
cents a box.-N. Y. Tribune.
Squash: Squash should be boiled
in sailed water until tender, then
drained Immediately from the water,
mashed very smooth, and seasoned with
salt and pepper.-Good Housekeeping.
Nut Waters: One-quarter cup but
ter, one cup sugar, one egg, one cup
flour, m cup nut-meats. Use walnuts
or cream-nuts, or grated cocoanut-
Drop on buttered tins, and bake quick
ly.-Boston Budget.
-Cocoanut Cookies: One cup Of su-
gar, one-half cup of butter, one egg,
small pinch of salt, two tablespoonfuls
of milk, n and a half teaspoonfuls
baking powder, one cup dessicated CO.
coanut Tor grated may be used. flour
enough to roll.-Detroit Free Press.
Graham Apple Mush: Prepare a
smooth apple sauce of rather tart APP
pies. Sweeten it slightly, and thin
with boiling water. Have this mixture
boiling, and sprinkle into it graham
-four sufficient to make a well-thick-
ened mush. Cook, and serve hot with
cream.
At a recent dinner the c%enterpiece
was an ~odd-shaped basket lined with
white plush. in whose loose folds the
water-holder was concealed. White
roses and wreathing smilax filled and
fell out of the basket, wandering in
studied carelessness over the cloth.-N.
Y. Tribune.
TO take mildew out of linen, wet
the fabric with soft water, rub it well
with white soap, then scrape some fine
chalk to powder and rub it well into
the linen. Then lay it out in the sun
shine, watching to keep it damp with
soft water. Repeat the process the
ext day, and in a few hours the mil
dew will entirely disappear.
To clean a carpet with ox-gall use
about n gill of ox-gall to half a pailful
of water. Sweep the carpet well, or
beat it first, then apply the mixture
with a soft brush. Wash off the lather
with cold water, changing it often, and
finally rub the carpet with a soft cloth.
This is an effective method of cleaning,
but the ox-gall will smell very unpleas-
antly.-N. Y. World.
"A useful novelty is the invalid's
tcacup. 1t consists of n teacup and
saucer, differing neither in price nor in
size from the ordinary breakfast or
teacup, but so made as to allow of n
depression in the saucer, in which is
placed n small cube of prepared fuel.
by means of which the liquid contained
can be kept hot for some time, until
the invalid is ready for it.
-Timbale of Ground Rice: Cook rice
in milk till tender: line n buttcred mold
with it. Thicker n half-pint of skim
milk with two tablespoonfuls of ground
rice. Boil two minutes, beat in an egg.
fill the cases. steam half an hour, or an
hour, according to size of pudding. 1t
can be steamed in the buttered mold.
Turn it out, and serve with any tart
fruit sirup.-Good Housekeeping.
A %four-ounce pudding calls for four
ounces of r~aisins, four ounce of chopped
suet, four ounces of brcad-crumbs, four
eggs, one tablespoonful of molasses, a
~teaspoonful of salt, some candied lemon
peel and nutmeg, if you wish. Boil or
steam the pudding four hours. This is
n good pudding suitable for Thanksgiv-
ing or some lesser festival days, but
not so rich as the Christmas plum pud-
ding.-N. Y. Tribune.
Pretty mats are made from pieces
of cloth by cutting them square and
working them around the edges with
blanket stitch, or they can be used to
old photograph frames, with a
few stitches of gold-thrcad embroidery
here and there. They also serve for
small book covers, where joined to-
gether with herring bone OF embroid-
cry, and would make tides and mats
for various purposes'-N. Y. World.