The record-union., 1899-02-12


Cases for silver-backed brushes and
combs are made in melon shape or
strips of satin ribbon sewed together
They are about as long as the brush,
are interlined with a sheet of wadding
and Tired with plain, thin silk. Each
end is gathered and held by a small
bow to make the case upright. They are
: to be preferred except for their ocac-
sional need of renewal, to the china or
silver trays, as they do not injure the
kristles as much as the others.
Gingerbread horses and fat doughnut
men were the prerogatives of the old
fashioned baby boy, and here is re-
cipe for those horses that has stood the
test of q century. Put a pint of mo-
1asses and half-pound of melted drip
pings or butter in bowl and stir until
: they are we'll blended. Add half pint
ct sour milk and stir in well. Then dis
solve a level tablespoonful of soda IN
halfAa gill of hot water and stir it
Though the mixture. Next add ginger
to taste Ga tablespoonful usually. a
tcaspoonful cf cloves and the rind
grated from one lemon. Stir in flour
to make a stiff dough. Roll it out on
the molding board quite thin, cut out
the norses in freehand, with special at
te1r,ion paid to flowing name and tail
and lay them carefully far apart in
Z we],-1oured pan. Bake in a moderate
oven.
The doughnut gentlemen can be cut
out of any cruller or doughnut dough,
may have expressive eyes given them
&c q
curved like Cupid's bow out Of a bit Of
red pepper, or in an emergency a
III. cad of red yarn, and then laid care
fully in a kettle of boiling fat 10 ex-
pene and develop into aldermanic pro-
portions
Pakee toast is a simple luncheon dish
which becomes an esteemed delicacy
when rightly made. A day-old bakers
loaf is cut in rather thick slices and
toasted TO a delicate brown. Each
slice is then cut in two and packet in
a baking dish before being covered
with hot milk in which little butter
has bt en- helted The dish is set in q
fairly hot oven long enough for the
milk to be thoroughly absorbed but not
died in Served hot but not too soft.
and with some tart jelly handed around
with it, the dish is suitable for luncheon
or Sunday night tea
Next to the terrestrial pies" so dear
to the heart of innocent childhood, the
apple turnovers that mother used to
make from the left over crust on bak-
ing day stand easily next and are
doubtless even dearer now in reminis-
cence. Who can ever forget the rapt-
Ure with which we watched their evo-
lution-the flourish of the white roll
ing pin, the artistic convolutions made
on the creamy crust by the old black
handled kitchen knife and then those
commingled odors of cinnamon, apple
and the spicy Glove and nutmeg as
they f1oated out of the oven, filling the
old home kithcen with perfume rarer
and sweeter far than any of Sabean ex-
traction.
Mothers pie crust was not the puff
paste of the French chef nor yet the
: leathery compound dealt out by Erin's
fair daughters; but it was a nice,
wholesome crust. such as Oliver Wen
dell Holmes and Whittier and Bryan.
and Longfellow and you and baby
boy" reveled in. 1t was seldom short
ened with butter-that would have been
extrayagant and the crust would not
nave been so tender, either. Half lard
and half "drippings" went into that
crust, and under her light touch it fiat
tened out into the big white disk that
enveloped the pie plate like a mantle
of charity Then when the big apple
and pumpkin and mince pies were all
finished and tucked in the oven the
turnover came in for her attention
How deftly she cut out the circles of
paste and lined the old cracked kitchen
saucer or the bright little tin plate
bought expressly from the peripatetic
ragman for baby boy!" How thin
she pared the mellow greetings brought
up from the big bin in the cellar! Then
how thin she sliced the quarters into the
plate. how lavishly she sprinkled over
them the yellow coffee sugar and how
sweetly she beamed on baby boy as
she grated over all bit of nutmeg ard
sprinkled on a dust of cinnamon. Then
she moistened the edges of the crust,
brought them together with a pinch,
and there was the apple, all tucked out
of sight, just as snugly as "baby boy"
was tucked into his feather bed at
-'baby boys" and the memory of them
goes singing all the way down the
pathway of life.
1t is the advice of a connoisseur in
teas to buy the leaves in considerable
quantity. Tea preserved in a chest
keeps and increases its flavor. when
an importer of tea," says this man,
wishes to give to a friend or to take
home an especially choice brew, he
opens chest cuts down into the heart
of its contents and takes out a half
pound there. He Is sure then of get
ting the best in that particular chest"
The announcement that the punctili-
Gus Emperor of Germany has decided
to permit typewriter reports of court
affairs to be submitted to him by court
ofi.clals will give in Germany at least
a decided impetus to the use of The
typewriter in general correspondence.
There was debate not long ago on
this matter in a conservative woman's
club IN New York Only two or three
of the forty ladies present put them
selves on record as objecting seriously
to typewriter letter. Exception was
taken, of course, in favor of formal
and ceremonious note writing. which, it
w3s accepted, should be done by hand.
As one speaker said. the greater part
of correspondence between women now
adays relates to some of the many
movements in which they are engaged.
The saving of time and strength to the
writer by the use of the typewriter, to-