The record-union., 1897-06-27

pupils to mix one cup of stale-breao
crumbs with two tableSp poonfuls or
melted butter, one teaspoonful OF SALT
J and one-quarter teaspoonful of pepper
| one tablespoonful of chopped parsley,
| one drop of onion extract, one-half tea
spoonful of celery-salt. If too dry, add
the yolk of an egg. Sweet marjoram
and thyme may be used, and are pre-
| ferable to sage.
| Instead Of butter few tablespoonfuls
of cream is delicious addition to veg
etables If young, tender peas are
boiled in a very little water-cold wat
er, mindful this has all evaporated, if
salt, pepper, and a dash of cream be
put to them, and the whole just boiled
up once, the result will be revelation
| to those who have eaten them cooked
| according to any printed recipe. Our
cooking school teachers concur in di-
recting the boiling of peas in plenty of
| hot water, and draining when done;
| this process makes them about as saw
ory as so many chips. The fresh vege-
table taste has entirely disappeared.
| String beans, of course, require more
water but it should be all boiled away
| -IIOl uIdIuSU Oh DIT the last, anu lLcA
| the cream be added, as to squash, to
Lima beans, or to new potatoes. These
| last are another delightful surprise if
scraped, instead of pared, boiled,
drained and dished before pouring over
them little cream, and sprinkling with
| salt and pepper. The dish should be
set in the warming-oven a few mo-
ments only. The farmers wives who,
once upon a time, were the good
cooks of this country, learned the
cream method of serving vegetables.
No better way of cooking those partic
ular articles of food has ever been dis
covered, with all the improvements of
| fin-de-siecle scientific cookery.
A new philanthrophy in Chicago is
proposed in the form of a training
school for nurses that is, for nursery
maids. The training is to cover six
months, at the end of which time a
certificate viii be granted. The course
will include theory and practice, lee
lures, and lessons being accompanied
by practical work at the Maternity
Hospital. There is no fee; the school
will be sustained by private contribu-
tions.
box-seat is a useful piece of the
porch furniture for summer. This
may hold extra wraps, or cushions, or
magazines, etc. They will then be at
hand, at moments notice, and yet not
in the way when not wanted.
The shops of the decorators show
decided return to gay effects in wall
papers and seem to indicate that the
reign of negative backgrounds for
rooms is seriously interfered with if not
finished. A yellow-figured paper that
is almost an orange tint hangs next
to one of deep red, which, in it's turn,
gives place to rich and vivifying
green. These are, any of them, to be
used fashionably with white woodwork
Two young women in New York who
nave taken course in hygienic diete-
tics, followed up their newly acquired
knowledge with an investigation of the
food consumed by the tenement house
population. They find, as others have
before them, that the American poor
man feeds his family the worst and at
the greatest cost. 1t is a surprise to
IND that the Italian leads the French
man IN cost, wholesOmeness, and prep
aration, though the Gaul is a close Sec
ono IN the cooking line. The other en-
lgrants who have slipped in to make up
the great, east side take rank as fol-
lows: Swiss, Swedish, Norwegian.
Danish, Scotch and English with the
Germans far behind in point of delicacy
and palatableness, but strong in eco
nomical management.
&
A broom should have loop of cord
passed through hole bored in the
handle, and hung to nail on the wall.
II stood on the floor, it should always
be with the handle end down. It is
hard to teach a servant this. but it is
important for the good of the broom.