The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-04-05
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

Potato Omelet.-Add to one-half
pint boiled potato cubes little salt,
three well-beaten eggs and four table
spoonfuls of milk. Fry and serve the
same as any omelet.-Fireside.
-Frosting Without Eggs One cup
full of graduated sugar, five table,
spoonfuls of milk; boil four or five
| minutes till it threads from the spoon.
Flavor as desired. Add chocolate or
not. Stir till right thickness for spread
| ing. This is fine-grained, white IF
chocolate is not used) and delicious
Good Housekeeping.
"A Ba<seed lemonade is excellent
for a cold. Try small quantity at
first To do this take pint of water
| and add two small tah!espoonfuls of
the seed, the juice of two lemons, not
using the rind and sweeten to taste.
When too pasty, the mixture may be
diluted with water.
Potato Salad.-Boil half a dozen
good sized potatoes. While hot cut
| into small pieces, season with pepper
and salt and a few bits of onion very
finely shredded. Fry few slices of
| bacon and pour the bacon fat over the
| potatoes together with half teacup.
full of vinegar. Garnish with slices of
hard boiled eggs. If liked so prepared
the bacon may be cut fine and strewed
over the salad.-Orange Judd Farmer
Agriculturist.
-Anchovy Toast.-This very cpl
curean supper dish must be served
very hot with plenty of cayenne or
| paprika and lemon Juice to taste.
Toast some neat discs of bread cut
with pastry cutter to a size trifie
larger than a silver dollar, butter and
spread with anchovy paste. Lay on
each a slice of hard boiled egg, and
sprinkle with a little parsley minced
almost as fine as dust.-American
| Cod liver oil taken internally is
very helpful il chronic rheumatism.
A tea made of the bark of priclxly ash
is country remedy, which may be
helpful. Guaiac lozenges made up
with CONNECTION of black currants are
| not disagreeable, and have about the
! same effect as the prickly ash; both
| improve the nutrition of the body.
Two to five grains of guaiac resin may
! be put in each lozenge. Y. Witness
Fish Macaroni.-Take rs much
cooked fish as is required, and remove
all the bones and every particle Of
! skin. Break the fish into small pieces,
, and mix with an equal qantity of
| boiled macaroni, also in small bits,
adding pepper and salt and as much
grated cheese as desired. When Mixed
| place it in a baking-dish, crate a little
, cheese over the top, and put few
small bits of butter over it. Bake in a
brisk oven and serve very hot.-Wo-
mans Home Journal.
Fish la ne-Pick two hounds
of any cold fresh fish into small pieces.
Put two ounces of butter in a frying
, pan; let melt and add two tablespoon
, fuls of sifted flour. Mix and thin with
a pint of sweet milk. Add the fish,
with teacup of chopped mushrooms,
teaspoonful of salt dash of pepper
and tablespoonful of chopped pars-
ley. Stand the frying pan over kettle
of water until the fish is heated. Beat
! the yolks of two eggs and mix in the
stew. Serve in shells. -Harper's Bazaar.
Lemon Cheese Cakes. -One-quarter'
| pound of good, sweet butter. with as
little salt in it as possible (the English
/ use fresh butter altogether for the pur-
pose), one pound of granulated sugar,
the juice OF two large, juicy lemons
| and the rind of one, one-quarter gill of
cold water Place in stone jar and
set it in pan of boiling water over a
slow fire. After the sugar has melted,
add two eggs well beaten. Keep the
water in the pan boiling for half an
hour, or until the mixture in the jar
; thickens. 1t must be stirred constant
| ly after the eggs are added. detroit
! Free Press.