The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-03-31
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

To wash any sort of lawn boil two
quarts Of wheat bran in six quarts of
water for half an hour. Strain through
a coarse towel and mix the liquor in
the water in which the lawn is washed.
Use no soap and no starch. Rinse in
clear water.
Hanover Sauce for Chicken: Boil
the liver Of the fswl, then pound it in
a mortar with the juice of half a lemon,
add half a pint Of cream, a little salt
and pepper. The quantity of cream
depends upon how much sauce you may
require.-Boston Budget.
-Devilled Crackers: Split the crack.
ers and butter both halves generously,
sprinkle over a rich layer of grated
cheese, set in the chatting dish, dust
with a little cayenne, cover, placing
the dish over the lamp until the cheese
melts- They must be eaten while hot.
Boston Globe.
Mushroom Filling for Patties: Put
butter the size of an egg in a sauce
pan. when it bubbles add a table,
spoonful of flour, then add half a pint
OF cream slowly; devide the mush-
rooms and put with the cream. Heat
thoroughly and serve in patty cases
Farm and Home.
Dreamed Lobster: Cut all the meat
OF a three-pound boiled lobster into
dice. Put an ounce of butter in a fry.
ing-pan, let melt, and add a table
spoonful OF sifted -four. Mix smooth;
pour in a teacup of milk; stir until
boiling. Add two table-spoonfuls OF
chopped mushrooms with the lobster;
salt and pepper to season. Stir until
well heated, and serve in paper cases.
-Harper's Bazaar.
drilled Fowl: Cut the remains of
cold fowl into pieces, season them with
pepper and salt, squeeze over IL EN- the
juice of half a lemon, and let them
stand three-quarters of an hour. Dip
them into melted butter and then into
bread crumbs. with Il very little grated
lemon peel. Put them on n gridiron,
and broil over Il clear fire. When fried
instead of broiled, used the yolk of an
egg w~ell-beaten instead of the melted
butter. boston Budget.
Layer Cake: Whites of five eggs
m teacupful sugar, one-half teacup.
full each of butter and sweet milk, one
and one-half teacupfuls flour, two tea
spoonsful baking powder, one tea
spoonful flavoring. Cream butter and
sugar, add milk, flavoring, flour with
baking powder sifted with it. and last
~ the eggs beaten stiff. Bake in
shallow pans. Frosting: Use the
whites of two eggs, one-quarter pound
each of c%ocoanut and pulverized sugar.
Orange Judd Farmer.
lobster Patties: Make delicate puff
paste; roll out an inch thick. With a
tin cutter cut out in cakes and Law on
CREASED paper. Brush over with n very
little beaten yolk of an egg. With a
smaller cutter press a circle nearly
through each patty, and set on ice for
twenty minutes Have the oven very
hot, and set them in until a light
brown. Take out and remove the top
crust very carefully, taking out with a
spoon the unbaked portion. Set the
patties back in the oven for ten min
utes TO dry. Fill with crcamed lobster,
put on the top crust and serve.-Har-
per's Bazaar.
A craze for an unlimited number
of rugs seems to have taken the place
of the Juror that once prevailed for
draping everything. Because rugs are
so much more costly than ribbon bows
and n yard or two of lace on chair
backs and over pictures, there seems to
be n notion that an artistic interior
can not display too many of them.
They cover the floors, drape couches,
are hung upon the wall and over the
stairway rails. In all these places,
used with restraint, they are beautiful
suitable, but to look their best
they are like fine pictures, and should
not be crowded in a poor light, nor
suggest by their abundance a rug sale.