The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-01
FiREsloE FRAGMENTS.

To Bake Mushrooms. Place The
mushrooms in tin baking dish, with
butter, pepper and salt. Bake gently,
pile high on dish and serve with hot
cream sauce. Good Housekeeping.
beef marrow is very often used in
puddings, in very much the same way
that suet Is used. 1t is much more deli
cate and more delicious than suet. II
is simply scraped from the bone and
used raw.-N. Y. Tribune.
Sandwiches can be made eight or
ten hours before they are eaten IL they
are covered with damp cloth mean
while. Pile them closely and compactly
upon dish, and cover them with a
towel which has been wrung out Of
cold water Tuck this closely over them
and put them in cool place.
-Newbern Hominy.-Put one cup OF
fine hominy in the double boiler with
one cup of cold water. let it remain
on the back of the stove until the water
is absorbed. Then add one pint of milk
and half teaspoon of salt, and boil
half an hour. Stir in one tablespoon of
butter and turn out on a hot platter.
Serve with poached eggs.-Boston Bud
get.
-Lemon-juice is Que of the best and
safest remedies for freckles. Wet the
spots with small brush dipped in the
juice every night and once during the
day. Those who do not wish to use the
lemon-juice clear may prefer the fol-
lowing: Mix one teaspooonful of rose
water with one teaspoonful of glycerine
and add with one tablespoonful OF
lemon-juice. Mix well and apply to the
face with small brush.-N. Y. World.
Lemon Pie. grated rind and
juice of two lemons, yollts of three eggs,
two tablespoonfuls (well rounded) of
| flour, one cupful of water, one cupful
of sugar, mix all well to ,ether, nnc
bake on pie dishes lined with puff paste.
Beat the whites of the eggs until stiff
with three tablespoonfuls of white
sugar, spread on top of the pies when
baked, and brown slightly. These
quantities will make two pies. s.-House-
| keeper
-Pralines.-Boilo one cupful of brown
sugar, very little butter and one-third
of a cupful of water together until the
candy forms soft lump when dropped
in water. Take from the fire, and inn
mediately stir in one-half cupful oi
pecan kernels. When the candy is a
little cloudy.loolsing pour in spoonfuls
on buttered tins SO that it will spread
out into round flat cSkes.-Good House.
| keeping.
I'm watching some Roman tableauS
recently the Thought occurred that it is
odd some clever II odern chatelaine IN
her zeal for novel effects for her dinners
/ has not borrowed one of the pretty
fashions of Lucullis' time. This was
a hoop suspended above the table, upon
which hung chaplets of flowers to adorr
the head of each guest, and often as
well choice gifts of jewels. A circle o.
some of the beautiful flower favors de
pending from the chandelier, to be served
later to the seated guests, would add {
unique and pleasing detail to the deco
rative scheme of the feast and should
be attempted by some in de sieclt
hostess. N. Y. Times.
Banana Salad On hot days this il
a pleasant variation from ordinary des
serts. just before dinner peal half {
dozen bananas and slice into higl
glass dish, alternating each layer of the
banana with one of pulled, not sliced
pineapple. If the fresh fruit is not OBJ
tainable the canned (grated) will an
swer. Then mix together the strained
juice of three oranges and two lemons
sweeten to taste, and pour over tn
mounded fruit Surmount the latte
with crimson cap of hulled straw
berries, and set on ice till ready t.
serve. With this should be serveC
macaroons, lady's-fngers or blocks o
cake which have been dipped in fon
dant