The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-05-31
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Dreamed Sweetbreads and Mush-
room Stew-scalIoped Crabs.
Goldfish with Eggs /.

Put one cupful of picked fisn into one
quart of cold water, heat it slowly, When
it is hot, not boiling, pour off the water,
and remove the fish TO another dish. put
into saucepan one pint of rich milk,
thicken with one tablespoonful Of -four.
add fish, desert spoonful of butter, ana
when it begins to boil add two well
beaten eggs, stir briskly, and serve at
once with beats and potatoes.
Scalioped Crabs.
Remove all the meat from good sized
crab. cut it into very small pieces, mix it
with about one-quarter its weight in
bread crumbs. season with pepper and
salt, add sufficient butter to moisten it
well, and then press the meat into the
she'll, squeeze in the juice of a lemon, and
add a thick layer of crackers or bread
crumbs, and small pieces Of butter laid
over the whole; place the shells in quick
oven to brown delicately; serve on red
napkin, garnished with parsley and slices
of lemon.
Mushroom stew.
Peel the mushrooms. wipe and cut off
the stalks. Then put them into porce-
lain saucepan; 20 every mushroom add
tablespoonful of butter rolled In -four.
Let the mushrooms cook in their liquor
with the butter and Hour for fifteen min
utes, then add two tablespoonfulls of
thick cream, salt and pepper TO taste
Take from the fire, add the well beaten
yolk of one egg and tablespoonful of
sherry. Serve hot
Useful Hints.
Alum water will restore almost all
faded colors Brush the faded article
thoroughly, to free it from dust, cover 1t
with a lather of CASTLE soap, rinse with
clear water and then alum water, and the
color will usually be much brighter than
before.
Salt water, borax and carbolic acid are
aids In the battle with vermine.
Try keeping cranberries fresh by putt
ting them in cold water containing a
piece OF charcoal. Change the water oc-
casionaliy.
Pour vinegar over fresh fish and the
scales will come off easily.
The luster of morocco leather is re-
stored by vanishing with white of an
Carrots and turnips should boil for
forty-hve minutes when young; one hour
in winter.
When your sitter becomes clogged with
flour or meal. sift some hot ashes through
it; you will be surprised to see how nicely
it Is cleaned.
To wash flannel garments, souse the m
in hot water and put them repeated ~
through a wringer. The garments shou Il
never be wrung with the hands. or put q
cold water
10 remove paint from silk goods, sat
urate the part with equal parts of turpen-
tine and ammonia. then wash in SOAP
suds and let it dry between blotting
paper, under heavy weight.
Jewelry can be made to look like new
by washing with ammonia ana water, or
alcohol, then rubbing dry and polishing
with prepared chalk. applied with flannel
or channels skin.
Creamed svveatbreads.
Sweetbreads are very nice stewed In
| cream. Stir together In thick saucepan
over the fire one tablespoonful each OF
| -four and butter until smoothly blended.
To this add half pint of milk and half q
| pint OF cream previously made hot, ant
] stew to smooth sauce, into which pu
/ the boiled sweesbreads cut into small
| squares. Serve hot. Stewed and strained
tomato is sometimes added to the sauce.