The record-union., 1897-01-24

much care; but they are about as well
made into cakes.
To make English muffins dissolve one
yeast cake in one pint of warm water
and add one teaspoonful Of salt. Stir
in sufficient sifted bread flour to make
a thick drop batter; add one table
spoonful of melted butter and beat
hard for at least three minutes. Cover
and set in warm place until light;
then, having the griddle moderately hot,
lay on it well creased rings and drop
in enough batter to half fill them Do
not turn until almost cooked through,
then slip off the rings and brown on the
other side.
Technical training for girls in the arts
of the home is very much needed in
this country. Abroad 1t is carried on
extensively. Hundreds of institutions
are maintained by private subscription,
others are managed by the proprietors
of large manufacturing establishments,
who see in the training of the mothers
and daughters better labor results in
the fathers and sons, and still more are
these schools are perfect courses in
housekeeping The pupil begins at the
bottom round of the ladder learning
how to manipulate the tools of clean
ing, washing, ironing, dishwashing,
waiting at table, and all the rest of the
household detail. She learns to mar
ket and make out a palatable menu,
and is taught the nutritive constituents
and economical values of each food
served. She must keep a record Of her
expenditures and waste. She learns to
buy and make clothes, and when she
enters her own home is fitted to be it's
keeper. All through Germany the
schools are growing in number. Hol-
land, Belgium, Wurtemburg, Bavaria,
Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy
have thriving schools intended for the
most part for the children of laboring
people In the United States the work
has barely been begun in the few
kitchen garden schools which can be
counted.
There are two rather delicately made
dishes in whose composition many good
cooks fail. One is snow pudding, the
other meringue. In the first instance
the egg and gelatine are apt to separate,
and in the other the meringue is prone
to fall. If the snow pudding is not
beaten at all until after it begins to
solidify, it will not settle, and if the
meringue does not come from the oven
a thick white foam just fecked with
brown, it proves one of three things:
either the pie or pudding was wet on
top when the egg was added to it, or it
was cold, or the eggs themselves had not
been beaten to perfect state of stiff
ness.
Tea cakes that are much esteemed in
Southern households are made from the
yolks of six eggs, half q pound of but
ter one pound of sugar, one pound of
flour, and one teaspoonful of baking
powder mixed with the -four They
should be rolled thin and baked in a
quick oven. Ice with a thin icing or
spinkle while hot with granulated
sugar.
Dealers in the choicest bric-a-brac
confirm the recent statement that there
is very little call now among their Gus
toners fer the Delft china that enjoyed
for time probably the greatest vogue
one ware has ever known in this coun-
try. The cheap limitations and an in
temperate use of the familiar designs
and colorings in all sorts of inappro-
pirate directions are undoubtedly re-
sponsible for decline in favor which
must be regretted by all lovers of the
hyi1 Of oh II
liable for decorative purposes. as it
lends volume Of warm. bright color
that never. in whatever quantity used.
amounts to gaudiness, and it in no way
clashes with any other tint or hue
Women who wish to gain flesh should
keep warm. One physician puts his
whole prescription to such patients in
one sentence. Eat root vegetables and
keep warm" Soft, warm, waddef
lounging robes. deep downy chairs and
pillows to nestle in. should be a part
of the belongings of the woman seeking
avoirdupois.
When food scorches in the kettle. the
latter seems ruined beyond redemp-
ton, but possible remedy is to take the
kettle at once from the fire and set it in
a pan of cold water. This treatment,
oddly enough, will nine times out OF ten
remove the burned taste entirely.
Cut glass articles require more care
in washing than those made of plain
glass, on account of the inequalities of
the thickness of the glass, caused by
the cutting. These make the glass
shrink and swell irregularly and in
crease its liability to crack.
A test of the genuineness of an ORR
entail rug or carpet which a Constanti-
Eople gentleman says is sure is to ex-
anime carefully to see if each stitch is
knotted, instead of trusting to those
easily-put-on marks of age. patches,
holes and crooked places. If the stitch
is knotted and firm the rug is genuine
Turkish, but if the stitch can be pulled
out, it is imitation, no matter how
closely the original rug may have been
copied in pattern or color. An Oriental
dealers test is to drop a live coal on
the rug and when it has burned little
to remove it quickly with the fingers. If
the scorching entirely disappears, leav-
ing the original colors unaltered, it is
proof of the genuineness of the rug.
Putting vinegar on the delicately fla
vored spinach is classed by gourmets
sugaring lettuce.