The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-03-11
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FiRESlDE FRAGMENTS.
-stewed Pears Peel, quarter and
remove the core from ripe fall peerz;
make rich sirup, drop the fruit in.
cook until clear and teuder.-Ea and
Preside
Every Day Dark Cake One-ha.lf cup
Izl each OF sugar, molasses and milk, q
small ORe-half cupfuI OF butter, one
egg, one cuPfui OF chopped raisins. one
teaspoOnfut OF Soda spice OF all kinds,
and -four enough 70 make a stiH batter.
Bake in "A deep tin, having a slow IRE.
Good Housekeeping.
Coffee Rolls: Work into a quart
Of bread dough a rounded tablespoon
ful Of butter and half a teacup Of white
sugar add some driedt Currants twsIl
washed and dried in the ovsn), sift
some -four and sugar over them, work
into the dough thoroughly, make into
small, long rolls, dip them into melted
butter, place in the pan let st rise q
short time and bulre.-Bostoh Budget.
Turkey Dressing. to crumbs
loaf of stale bread from which the
crust has been pared or removed. Sea-
son sharply with salt aud pepper, and
mOisten until sufficiently rich with
melted butter This will make a light,
dry, digestible stumng acceptable to a
majority Of tastes, but oysters, celery,
sage, thyme, basil or other hHvOring,
II Standardization Globe
-braised Beef.-Talrs a piece Of rump
steak an inch thick and fry slightly in
butter on both sides; and enough. hot
stock to just cover the steak; season
with pepper, salt and "a sprinkle of
herb; add also a carrot and a sliced
onion let it simmer slowly an hour
and half or two hours; put a piece Of
butter and some -four in another sauce
pan and add the gravy in which the
steak was stewed and a little tomato
catsuP; lay the steak ina platter, a.
ranging the carrot neatly around it, then
pour over it the hot sauce.-Boston
Globe
"A sandBag is one of the most useful
of household articles. Its virtues are
equal if not superior to the hot water
bag and the cost is cousiderabl bly, leEa.-
The sand should be tine aud clean, and
should be thoroughly dried out before
being "bagged." It is better to cover
the flannel bag which holds the sand
with cotton one, as this prevents the
sand from sitting out A bag not larger
than ten inches square is an available
size, Mothers whose children are sub
jsct to the eaTache viii ind these bags
iuvaluablei they hold the heat a long
time and their composition is such that
they arereasily' adjustable to the affected
parts
"A Good Plum Pudding: One and
One-halt pound raisins, one and three
quarters of a pound of currauta, one
pound of figs, two pounds moist sugar,
two pounds of bread crumbs, sixteen
eggs, two pounds finely chopped suet,
six ounces mixed candisd peel, one
ounce ground nutmeg one ounce ground
cinnamon, one-half ounce bitter al
mOnds, Ons-half pint InOlasses- Nix all
the dry ingredients together and moist
en- with. the egEsi when all we'll mixed,
-four a strong Pudding-5ag; put in Pud-
ding, tie well and boil eight hours. A
nice sauce is TO take one cupfuI Of sweet
cream, whites Of three eggs and three
tablespOOnfuls OF powdered sugrr.
When the cream is chilled, whip and
put in a cool place, beat the whites stir
and add sugar and cream Any flavor
ing may be used--Ladies Home Journal
TREE TOAOs IN NEW YORK
a Dealer In Tree rosds and ParrOtl Tells
some Interesting ThIsEa-
There are q good many bird stores
about this big town where net only
birds but other curiosities. are on sale.
GLOW about parrots?'' asked.
The demand is Increasing A. this
season"
How SOP"
II do not know. 1t always does a
good parrot lsssonsidered company for
many people these long winter even
ings. Some Of our birds are good talk
ers."
What do you mean by good tallcers2
How many words or phrases are at the
command of a clever parrot9"
Some of the best of them can speak
Is many as fifteen or twenty words
They can say they are hungry. thirsty,
cold, good day, ia ia and all that But
you must remember the most enjoyable
feature of the bird is its grotesque
nimicry, utterly incapable OF being ez-
p3ained A hue parrot will go Oh imf-
eating to the end of its days In few
years & viii be able to repeat an aston
ishing amount OF chat II you regard
this as talking, why their vocabulary
is unlimited
You sen frogs and tree tosds, toO2''
well, those are funny creatures to
have in q big town"
20, no"
''Why not2"
fams?"
Il suppose So"
and the tree toada - what do you
thfnir?"
II give up"
Are In big demand by young doctors
and chemists who are anxious TO learn
something of the circulation Of the
blood The tree toad has legs that are
almost transparent The young doctor
takes the leg, spreads it out under
microscope, and can see the blood cor
puscles chasing each other here and
there in the veins Of the leg Of the toad
We sell hundreds OF tree toads for this
purpose every month Come around
some time aud IA borrow a microscope
and Wen try it ourselves" - n. Z.
World
a Chapter on OTstors-
Oysters are latter this year than