Evening star., 1897-05-08
H 0 U S EHOLD HINTS

have been peeled and laid in salted Ice
water for half an hour. Dry on a clean
towel, then dip in beaten egg, and then
in cracker crumbs well salted, and fry in
plenty Of sweet meat drippings or lard.
OF course it goes without saying that
everything of the kind should be served
piping hot.
Try to pay some attention to the lunches
your children take to school. In the first
place make, them carry lunch. Most chill
dren disdain to do this, and it Is injurious
for them to go from early morning to din
ner with nothing to sustain them. Eat
Ing after getting home in the middle of
the afternoon sroils the appetite for dinner,
ard that makes "piecing'' necessary be-
fore going to bed. Lunch should be plain
and substantial. meat sandwich, of nice
fresh bread, with little sweet butter, Is
quite sufficient. The meat may be any
kind that Is at hand so that >it Is good
Pies, cakes and bonbons should be strict
ly prohibited. Neither should pickles form
prominent part Of this lunch. Bread and
jam or jelly will answer, if the child likes
1ruit and fuses for pie, but pie it should
never have. for dinner or lunch, though,
OF course. that Drecaution will not be OBJ
served. Going without lunch causes ner-
causes indigestion, and SO it goes. Put up
the lunch yourself and see that it is car
| ried. 1t will be eaten.
There is good deal of complaint about
dishonest weight in buying groceries
Every housewife should have that handy
thing, a pair of scales, and weigh every
thing that comes into the house in the
shape OF Weghable groceries Then II she
| hnds that she Is being cheated by short
weight, she should drop that grocer like
a not potato, and tell all her friends about
| him. Scales are handy, anyhow, because
a great many fine recipes call for things
by weight.
Dent bother to black the stove every
morLirg. Once week and a good coat
Is ehcIgh; When you have finished the
newspaper. and crushing it, rub the warm
stove vigorously all over 1t will Shine"
II up wonderfully. This is excellent for
rupring on smoked coffeepot or tea kettle
also. W. Ae''ie
men sometimes complain that they can't
se. lhusn such as their mothers used to
MAKE. AS a matter of fact, most of the
mush that one gets at hotels and even on
private tables. is not fit to eat Here is the
Iecipe 1or mush, given by good old Ken
.uoAy grand dame: Put perfectly fresh
water over the fire, in quantity YOU want
10 use. You can't measure cornmeal or
water by pint or quart, she says Let the
water come to a quick boil; then salt II till
have your cornmeal well sifted, and a nice
slehdef paddle to stir. Pick up the corn
meai, handful at a time, and stir gently
INTO the water, which must be kept boiling
"NAANiJ ot LII 81. " "Een Ndl1 the meal
expect to use is stirred in, put no more in
Tor few minutes, but let the mass cook.
ana Stir 1t briskly all the time. Then stir in
tne remainder of the meal till the mass is
100, LOO 'hlck 10 str easily Then set back a
little, and stir that cooking, bubbling mass
1or at least ten minutes. After 1t is as
smooth as can be, place on the back of a
pretty hot stove and let 1t simmer for three
nours, stirring 1t now and then and hav-
ing care that it does not burn at the hot
tom- Eaten hot for supper with half
cream and half milk, or with nice. sweet
butter, 1t is delicious and there Is no raw
a square mold to cool 1t should be all of
Two inches thick to slice nicely and should
De little thicker in consistency than for
eating with milk. Take up what is desired
;t 30 use use ior tnat purpose, and put it where
u VIII Keep hot, and stir more meal into
the pot, Tor frying purposes. Meat drip
pings make the sweetest frying grease
and there should be plenty of it,
Il want some nice flour gravy, thick and
sweet, like mother used to make" says the
man OF the house. He will not eat fried
steak, but he wants gravy anyhow. Slices
OF boiled or baked beef are nice fried: cut
little thick and dipped in egg, then bread
crumbs or cracker dust, and the meat
drippings will fry 1t nicely. Have lots of
the dr1ppings, and let it fry brown. Have
at least two tablespoonfuls when the meat
is lifted out. Into this Stir a Tablespoonful,
heaping, of sifted flour. Set on the back of
the stove and stir and stir. till all the nice
crusty brown of the egg and crumbs is
stirred In. Dash over the pepper and salt
necessary for scant pint of milk Pour
the milk in cold, and set right over the fire
ana stir briskly until cooked Serve in a
hot bowl. You can fry the scraps and
trimmings off the porter house or sirloin
In the same manner, and make the gravy
and the dog will enjoy the scraps Just as
well.
Coal oil Is just as nice for cleaning stain
ed floors as turpentine and the odor Is no
worse, and seems to go quicker.
When table cloths begin to go to pieces,
you can make very nice every day napkins
OF them by cutting in neat squares and
hemming. If too coarse for that, make tea
towels of them. 1t is very poor economy to
take good old linen for rags
A lettuce sandwich is very nice eating
for picnic. Boil eggs till they are crum-
bly,, and chop them fine and season with
salt and pepper. Get nice tender lettuce
and pick it to finest shreds with the fin
gers. 1t ruins lettuce to chop it with steel.
Mix egg and lettuce evenly, spread daintily
on thin slices of buttered bread and drop
over 1t some rice salad dressing, then cover
with another thin slice Of buttered bread.
Always make sandwiches very thin.
A woman with a fine head Of hair says
she does nothing to 1t but wash it when it
seems to need 1t, and she can tell that by
the soil it leaves on the white comb she
and nothing else. She takes an old tin
can end into it puts cake of soap, and
lours over it half a pint of hot water.
This she places on the back Of the stove
for a few hours, stirring it occasionally
as she passes. 1t is soon reduced to the
consistency of jelly. Then it is ready.
She takes up a lot on her fingers, and rubs
it right on the scalp. and does this till her
head is in fine lather. She rubs and
manipulates her hair and scalp till it be-
gins to smart a little and then she be-
gins to rinse the soap out in warm, not hot,
water. She keeps getting clean water till
it Is not a bit discolored by her hair. Then
she takes towels and rubs her head and
strips her hair through them, till most
of the water seems to be out then she
sits down and shakes her hair out to dry.
She never touches brush or comb to her
hair till 1t is perfectly dry, just shakes,
and catches 1T up in her fingers and let's
1t run through them. Her hair never knots
or snarls.