The record-union., 1896-05-03


In winter a few hot salads are de-
sirable. To make one, boil half-dozen
large potatoes, of good quality, anu
when just done chop into small pieces.
Add a tablespoonful of minced Ber-
muda onion. Have ready half-teacup
of hot vinegar, to which add a fuli
tablespoonful of butter a teaspoon1ul OF
salt and one-fourth teaspoonful OF
white pepper. Pour the hot dressing
over the hot potatoes, mix well ana
serve at once. This salad is especially
good with roast turkey.
Another desirable potato salad Is
made by MASKING boiled potatoes very
fine. Season highly with butter, pepper,
salt and a little sweet cream. For
quart of the mashed potato have ready
three hard-boiled eggs. Mash the yolks
fine, and season to taste with made mus
tard, sugar. pepper and salt with
enough vinegar to moisten. Put layer
of potato in a dish and place the salad
dressing over it in spots, another layer
of potato, then the dressing, and so on,
finishing with potatoes on top, brown IN
the oven and serve hot.
Still another hot potato salad is made
add about one-third of a minced onion
and half a teacup of fried breakfast
bacon chopped fine. Make the dressing
of the hot grease in which the bacon was
fried by adding one third of a cup Of
vinegar. Pour this hot soup gravy over
the potato and onion. 1t is needless to
add that this salad would only be ac-
ceptable on a cold winter day.
a1aI 10 hy
shredding a firm white head Of cabbage.
Heat cup Of vinegar, a tablespoonful
of butter, one of sugar, one-half tea
spoonful of made mustard, teaspoon
full of salt and a saltspoonful of pepper.
When smoking hot pour over the cab
bage and then stir in two tablespoon
fuls of cream. Put the salad in COW
cred dish in a pan Of hot water till
| ready to serve
Or let the shredded cabbage stand
awhile in cold water to add to it's crisp
ness. To one quart Of this chopped cab
bage take one pint of good cider vine
gar, stir in a tablespoonful of butter,
teaspoonful of salt, one of mustard and
three of sugar. Heat this and then add
the beaten yolks of three eggs. Stir this
rapidly, pour it over the cabbage and
serve Immediately before the sauce
hardens.
Oats have a value in the dressing
room, as well as in the stable and the
kitchen. They are unequaled for dry
ing water-soaked shoes without hope
lessly stiffening the leather and spoil
ing the shape of the boots. The wet
| footgear should simply be filed with
the oats and allowed to stand for sew
eral hours. The grain will absorb the
moisture and preserve the shape of the
| shoes.
| Women with homes to furnish and
| decorate should go to the theater in
search of suggestions. Stage settings
are often valuable lessons in furnish
| ing, either as warnings Of what to
avoid or as examples of what to imi-
| tate. 1t is always instructive to see
what result a stage decorator achieves
| with few cushions and a rug or two.
| He gives a room an appearance of
positively Oriental luxury by the sim
plest means, and she is a wise woman
who studies his methods and learns his
secrets.
| Somewhat novel and not unattractive
| is a table decoration or vfolets in vio-
| let shape. Five slender, shallow oval
| dishes grouped into a violet at the CEN
| ter of the table were closely filled wit 9
| the purple blossoms, except where the
! five came together at the center. There
a few sprays of yellow jonquils were
| fastened in such a way as to suggest
the yellow stamens of the flowers.
When tickle appetites have grown
weary of all other salads. try a nut
salad. Use equal parts of fresh Eng
lish walnut meats chopped or broken
and crisp celery. Mix with French
dressing, and let it stand for an hour
before serving.
| Mothers who do not care to spend more
time than is absolutely necessary over
the weekly mending basket will do well
to darn stocking toes and heels before
| they are worn. A piece of black net
should be fastened over the part to be
strengthened and the stitches run
| through it's meshes. Darning before
holes appear puts off the day of neces-
sary mending almost indefinitely.
The truly ingenious being who loves
to discover a use for every scrap and
left over" has found a way to use up
| old bottles. The deep-colored claret
bottles. the vivid blue of old-fashioned
| cod-liver oil bottles, the amber of the
sherry TASKS and the green of the plain
beer bottles are all wrought into a
patchwork window of more or less
beauty. Irregular pieces of the glasses
are spread on a piece of white glass and
are fastened together with a transpar-
ent cement. Then a mixture of white
| cement and putty is applied TO the
joining to produce the effect of the
| lead used in expensive glass mosaics
| When the cement is dry the pane is
ready to be reinserted in the library Oh
hall window or wherever colored glass
is appropriate.
The prettiest, most graceful and new
est coiffure worn by youthful women
with evening toilets, shows the hair
| arranged in soft deep waves on the
crown of the head and around the fore
head, parted on the left side and coiled
or braided around a bunch OF short
curls.
All sorts Of pretty berthas, Marie An
toinette fichus and fancy colIarettes are
being made ready for summer wear
over light or white gowns, and among
the list are yoke-shaped pieces oi
mauve, pink or pale yellow silk COW