The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-01-03
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Always remember that one OF the beat
appstizers Is a pleasant conversation.

Always remember that one of the beat
appetizers Is pleasant conversation.
Try rolling in paper OF large green pep
pers and put in cool, dark place. You
will find they win keep green for long
time.
When baking custard pie or pudding.
as soon as tho custard becomes solid re-
move the dish from the oven. Too long
cooking viii make the custard watery.
Try the making OF delicious sauce by
grating horseradish with lemon Juice, lit
tie salt and a suspicion OF white sugar.
Use IL with cold meats. This sauce will
retain its flavor for some time If kept
we'll covered.
To clean isinglass windows In a stove
use vinegar and water. Use a soft rag;
rub quickly; 30 well into the corners.
Even cold cabbage that has been left
over can be used by mixing it with a little
grated cheese, seasoning ard putting II on
a buttered baking dish and moistening II
with milk and cover thick with bread
crumbs. When baked you will find It very
nice.
Try cooking the economical bread pud-
ding in custard cups. Butter them first,
and then I'LL them with the pudding. Bake
them standing in vessel Of hot water.
Cover each one with a spoonful or jelly
and meringue. You viii ind It very
nice.
Very often in baking bread the outside
crust gets too brown. Do not cut it on,
but when the bread IS cold try rubbing 1t
over with a coarse tin crater and remove
ell the dark brown crust.
II you wish TO keep cake fresh put
saucer OF cold water In the cake box.
The water should be renewed every
twenty-four hours.
Peep into woman's purse and you are
almost certain to find a lot OF newspaper
clippings.
A timely hint Is contained in the infor-
nation that moist tea leaves ana salt VIII
brighten carpets wonderfully.
When frying croQusttes. after rolling
them In beaten egg and crumbs, lay them
IN wire basket and plunge the basket
deep into boiling fat. Then a crust Is
formed at once on the outside, which pre-
vents the grease from penetrating. When
the croQuaties are Drowned transfer them
10 brown paper 70 absorb any grease mat
may adhere TO them.
When making down pillows wax tho
inner covering and the down VII not %
able 10 work through the covers. To do
this irou the wrong side OF the tick with
a not aatir0n rubbed with oseswax. rub
Ding thu iron over the wax each time be-
fore putting II on the cloth.
Gasnsr mountain laurel now. IL kept In
a cosl place IN plenty Of fresh water and
occasionally treated 20 q bath. these
leaves viii do good service nearly all vim
ter as table decorations. bunch Of
laurel leaves, with hair dozen bright
blossoms. make an attTsc tive looking
center piece.
A French cook says when raw potatoes
ara 90 De cut In long strtps 70 be fried in
boiling fat II the potatSss are cut a aUaF-
ter Or an inch thick and siAntingwiss they
Will cook better and ee more puffy.
We canno: AFFORD 70 anita g0nizs any one,
for ze know not al what minute We may
rsquir. the friendship OF tns very ones
-vs have seen fl TO treat contemporary
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Il IS said when TIE sun Is Ia the west
lazy people woTk the best. but Il this p
pgss 70 sewing 81 what other time does
the woman employed ali day have a
chance 70 Esfats me assertion
I,sathsr is beng employed IN the forms
tsoa % many dainty articles for the boa-
aolr desk
when a woman s tired out shopping
these Christmas times the ssgns OF mot
soda. n he drug store windows ars vary
tempting
We havs the advice OF an ca house
kssxssr as 20 The best msth0a OF washing
blankets. Have the wafer lust trlhs
xzrgaer than the atmosphere. Soften ths
water win Sorax anz Use castle Or equal
~ good soap. very nstle rubbing on tho
board. BIT uss plsnty CO water and = con-