The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-02

pans that don't seem to be procurable
anywhere outside of Boston being espe-
cially suitably But they will be per-
feet in the bowls or gem-pans If the
beating is sufficient. They should bake
a long time in a hot oven.
| Toasted marshmallowS are delicious
and make a pretty and odd sweet 1oi
| a luncheon, or the children VIII wei
come them as dinner dessert. When
held over the Goals on the toastlng-
fork they puff up to twice their former
| size and turn a. lovely brown color
Served as soon as may be, they Will be
found to KEEP their heat for so long that
there is more danger of burning ones
mouth than that the dainty morsel will
become cold and fiat. This is prefer
able to pumping them in the chafing-
dish, as is sometimes done and, incl
dentally, much better for that utensll.
To use the blazer of the chatting dish
for dry cooking, that is where no lubri-
cant is used, is to destroy quickly its
finish.
| There is nothing about a residence
plumbing SYSTEM" says an authority,
that a child may not understand, and
there is every reason why a housewife
should be able to make her own period
ical inspection of all the fixtures of
her home" The kitchen sink should be
| frequently inspected. 1t is often con-
nected directly with wash-tubs, its
pipes receiving double waste. Traps
under sinks and closets should have a
! thumbscrew at their lowest turn, SO
that they can be readily examined and
| cleaned out. A test for the presence of
sewer gas is sugar of lead sprinkled on
blotting paper. If this is held near
pipes of closets and Mushrooms it will
quickly discolor if sewer gas is present.
Take up any cook book at random
and one will find them about equally
divided as to the use of cold or boiling
water when cooking fish. If any anna
teur cook will experiment by putting
one slice of cod into cold water, letting
it come gradually to a boil, and another
directly into the boiling water, the fla
vor of the one thrown into boiling wa
ter will be so much better than that in
the cold that no further evidence will
! be needed. Remember, then, to keep
| the flavor in, plunge into boiling water,
then simmer slowly until tender: to
extract flavor, as when making broth,
use cold water, and also simmer until
| cooked
In Norway, where salmon is plentiful,
it seems as if one finds a contradiction
to the above, as there this highfiavor-
ed fish is put first into cold water
when boiled. However, as this is a
case of "coals to Newcastle" it does
not count. The people of this country
become so tired of this fish that they
do their utmost to boil away the dis
tinctive flavor and render it colorless
and nearly tasteless.
A new decoration for glasses of every
kind consists of punches of raised
grapes and their leaves in green or pur-
pie. The style calls for high glasses
with round bowls, and the punches of
grapes vary in size according to the di-
mansions Of the bowl.
| Another novelty for general use is of
Bohemian glass, decorated with acid
etched gold. The stem is on the "but-
ton" style, and is richly cut, the fiat
case being finished with a narrow band
of gold.
A new wine glass is made of colored
Bohemian glass, covered with gold and
then heavily enameled in most artistic
designs of flowers. The decorations are
so rich that the surface Of the glass is
entirely covered, hiding the contents
entirely.
All champagne glasses, with lily
shaped bowls, decorated with ceiled
snakes, whose eyes are ruby or emer-
aid, are as exquisite a piece of work
manship as it is possible to conceive.
Leaf-shaped finger bowls, with plate
TO match, made of colored glass and
garnitured with enamel or gold. are
also novelty worthy of the name,
while the daintiest table decoration ex-
hfbited this season is a bonbon basket
Of Bohemian glass, beautifully enam-
eled.
A bit of scientific reading that women
will do we'll not to skip is that pertain
| ing to a report of analysis of face
washes by chemists. OF many exam
ined, nearly 80 per cent contained cor
rosive suhlimate in solution, many of
them nearly pure. One showed a large
proportion of mercury and chloride
Where the lotion was not powerfully
harmful it was usually perfectly use
less, composition of soap, borax, al
cohol ard water, for which ii
was wicked to ask the price
of a dollar bottle There is
a law which makes it obligatory to
place a red label on a bottle holding a
poison, a statute which the manufact-
urers of these lotions evade as far as
possible by placing it on the bottom OF
the bottle.
The usual recipes for planked shad
are faulty from the fact that after all il
is only baked fish. If an ordinary range
is well raked down, the cooking, with
plenty of basting, taking care to use
sweet fat, done before the glowing
Goals, the result will be as delicious as
that which one is served with at the
inns near Philadelphia, noted for this
particular fish. With this hint kept in
mind a deliciously juicy planked fish
may be served at home
Step into any nearby carpenters
shop. if it be the man that has been
employed by the family so much the
better, but he of the plane and chisel
was never yet known to refuse a bit OF
well-seascned hickory or oak board to
a neighbor, even in our crowded city
One who has never CHANGED to enter a
shop of this kind in town will be sur
prised to find it in almost every in
stance the exact counterpart of the
cnes envied in childish days by girls as
well as boys.