Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-02
SOME HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Asparagu will soon be one of the cheap
vegetables in market. and if you are not
fond of it the way it is usually cooked, try
this for asparagus is one of the things you
ought to eat: Take a well-broWned, short,
light biscuit. and cut off the thin bottom
crust. then scoop out the soft inside. Set
the shell and the top in the oven to toast
q good brown while you dress the aspara-
gus. Have it cooked tender in slightly salt
ed water then lift it cut and cut it in
small pieces without MASKING. Make a
thick gravy of cream, -four and salt. pep
per and butter, and stir the asparagus in
it. and then pour each biscuit shell full and
put on the top. Serve hot. If you want TO
use the soft part of the rolls set them il
the oven tic brown-don't tear them apart
any more than you can help-and lay them
On a lot platter. Then pour over them
cooked tomato prepared with salt, pepper
and plenty of butter
A word of warning to women who buy
cooking butter" If you want the things
you cook ard season with butter 10 be fl
TO eat, use the very best butter you can
buy, and serve cooking butter on the
table. 1t is folly to think that you can
take the foul-smelinS stuff sold for 10 and
- cents and disguise 1t so that it will not
utterly ruin everything you put 1t in.
In ironing lace frills on underwear or lawn
dresses you can make the lace look almost
rest of the garment, then have a clean,
very wet cloth at hand with which spat the
lace till it is pretty damp, then rub it
over with moderately warm iron. Do
the smoothing of the lace rapidly and
leave II quite lamp. AS soon as you have
finished ruffe or a sleeve. sit down and
gently pull the lace out to its fullest width,
smoothing and patting every fine stitch at
the edge into shape. When you once get
used to it you will not have to spend much
time, and 1t improves lace wor derfully to
treat 1t that way. If you like. you can
iron on the wrong side after pulling but IL
looks better without, If you do it properly.
An excellent way to wash delicateIy col
ored cottons. which you may wish to starch,
is as follows: Make a gallon of rather stiff
flour starch. 1t must be as smooth as can
De, without lump in it. If the prints are
light use very little bluing. If they are
dark, make the starch very blue indeed
and if they are black. use strained coffee to
mix the starch with. Pour half of the
starch in tub and thin 1t to the consist
ency of rich milk, with soft water if it can
De procured, or water with a little borax
in 1T. If the colors are of the FUNNY
KIND, add big handful of salt to the
water. Wash the cottons through this on a
board, without soap, rubbing gently but
carefully. Rub through a second starch
water, and then rinse in blue water with a
handful of salt, but no starch If there
seems to be too much starch left in the gar
ment a second rinse water will remove a
blood heat or a little warmer and a SUNNY
day should be selected, SO that the clothes
viii dry quickly. Sometimes even the starch
WASH Tails to keep the cottons in good
kept in perfect condition with such treat
ment. Cottons treated this way seem to
hold their newness longer.
Rice croquettes are appetizing. Two Guns
of boiled rice, one well-beaten egg. a heaD
ing teaspoonful of good butter and tea
spoonful or sa!t-or enough to season-au
beaten thoroughly together. Roll into small
balls and then roll in corn meal or finely
grated bread crumbs and fry brown in hot
lard. They require rather longer than most
things to fry.
If you want greens without the trouble
of boiling piece of meat. try this reciDe:
WASH the greens through several waters
to be sure that all insects are removed. ana
put the leaves IN a pot of boiling water
Boil till done, then lift from the pot, and
with a fork lift out all the stems that are
100 tough to cook we'll Put back in the
pot and salt, and let them boil up a mo-
ment. then lift on hot dish, and pour over
them half cup of melted butter which
has been seasoned with a little salt and
some pepper. Slice hard-boiled egg over the
top, and serve with sliced lemon
II fish In any shape has formed a part of
the recent meal in your house. you can be
pretty sure that the odor has penetrated to
every nook in the house. To eradicato
every VestiSe of that or any other offensive
odor, pour mixture of vinegar and sugar
on red-hot Sriddie and let it burn to a
Crisp me odor is not unpleasant and ii
VIII effectuaily root out cabbage fish or
onion odor. Burning coffee is quite as eiii-
cacious
Maybe you can get relief from your
troublesome cough by using a mixture of
Slycerine and milk. Tablespoonful OF ely-
cerine to half cup of hot milk. swallowed
10 II
ritated parts.
About three times a week treat YOUR sink
drain to liberal bath of hot concentrated
I've water, and then let the hot water faucet
run for few moments. Then pour down
the drain hot solution of copperas water
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