Evening star., 1899-02-04
HOUSEHOLD HINT

very reliable Welsh rabbit that comes
| from Boston is this: Cut into small pieces
| in the chatting dish one pound fresh Ameri-
can cheese. AS it commences to melt add
a tablespoonful of butter, half teaspoonful
salt and a suspicion of red pepper. Mix
well; put in half cupful of cream; stir
until smooth: then add two welI-beaten
eggs. beating rapidly for moment, so they
will not curdle. Put cover on and let it rest
| over the flame two or three seconds. Put
out the flame and let it stand two or three
seconds without stirring. Then serve on
deiicately Drowned slices of toast. Another
rule is as follows: Grease the chafing dish
with a little butter. Put in half pound
1.-TWO cups) of soft American cheese, and
| as 1t melts add, little by little three to five
tablespoonfuls of beer, ale milk 1t is
claimed that those who suffer from indi-
Sesdon after eating rarebit could have
avoided it If they had used little bicarbo-
nate or soda In making it, as the acid acts
upon the cheese, Tightening it. breaking it
up and making it more digestible. If in
making it it begins to string, a pinch of
soda will restore it to its creamy condition.
Some English people, in addition to soda,
use e. bit of asafoetida, about what would
go on a three-cent piece. When the cheese
| Is creamy pour on crackers or toast. Still
another authority on the abblt. and this
you may be sure is man, stipuiates that
| the bottom of the chafing dish be rubbed
with Glove of garlic, and that for a pound
! spoonful of catsup and a tablespoonful of
Worcestershire sauce should be added be-
| fore the ale or beer -four tablespoonfuls) is
poured in.
| Chinese dishes are growing in favor in
New York. Chinese supper for thirty
four guests-mostly college people and jour-
nalists-was given. Two long tables were
covered with clean but abbreviated table
cloths and at each cover were placed chop
sticks. supplemented by knife and fork
for uhn f1iI Ip1 To uat h bo
| sticks: a plate and tiny cup for tea. Down
| the centers of the tables quaint Chi
| nese dishes, containing lychee nuts.
| and preserved. the latter looking like seal
| lops. fried rice cakes, and preserved pine
| apple and cum-ouat- AS soon as the guests
were seated two solemn walters brought
| in pots of dragons beard tea and filed all
| the cups. These pots were kept filled all
| the evening-tea at a Chinese restaurant
| being just as free as water. Then follow
| ed course after course of chop suey. COM
| posed of mushrooms, cabbage, chicken on
| ions. and what not; chowman, whose in
| gradients seemed to be noodles. onions. let
| tuce, celery. etc; yako mang. conglomera-
! ton of bacon, sturgeon, chicken, egg and
spaghetti boiled rice and chicken. With
all these dishes seall, condlment much
| like Worcester sauce, was served, which
added much to their toothsomeness: Chop
suey has specially captured the popular
| fancy, and few are the downtown business
men who do not relish 1t.
are greatly in demand bonbOns or in
the decoration of fancy desserts That they
are expensive as well is equally well known.
That they can be successfully Initiated in
taste and appearance at about a tenth of
the cost is not so generally known, but they
NAV be- Use Cape Cod cranberries for this
purpose. measuring out half as n1uch sugar
as cranberres and half as much water as
sugar Put the berries in a deep granite
or porcelain kettle. sprinkle the sugar on
top like a crust and pour the water slowly
nnl
When the berries break into a boil cover
Just few moments watching closely that
the skin does not commence TO burst linen
Uncover and cook until tender. Take out
with a spoon or SKINNER and spread on OIL
ed plates to dry.
Maple cream is one of the old new con-
fections that college girls hold next to
fudge and evolve in the secrecy of thelr
rooms. A recipe. pronounced perfectly
lovely allows half pound OF maple sn-
gar to a half pint of cream. Cut or break
the sugar in small pieces, mix with the
cream and boil few moments over the
gas, if need be, until it begins to harden
slightly Have some pecan nut meats
picked out and spread on slightly but
tered plate and pour the cream over. just
before it gets hard mark into squares.
A plain dessert that the children ike is
made in this wise: Cut slice of bread
about an inch and half thick, butter both
sides and lay in buttered pudding dish
two tablespoonfuIs of sugar and haVoTing
to taste. pour over the bread and bake until
set. For change, layer of jelly, pre-
serves meringue of beaten whites may
be spread over the top.
In London society the prevailing fashion
! is to decorate the table with flowers in
masses, a low effect being the aim of most
people. The Iong-stemmed new Queen Vic
| toria violet and the blue Roman hyacinth
grouped in low bowls have a charming eff
| feet. They should be embedded in moss,
| when the effect of the delicate blue and
| violet in combination is exquisite.
| Here is a wrinkle, says a late English
| magazine, for cleaning laces at home.
You must often have despaired of getting
| your lace that delightfully."- dingy yet clean
| color which you in the shops Make
| some very weak tea and add few drops
| of India ink Che besO to the tea. Dip in
your lace.
The erstwhile popular Turkish room and
| Turkish corner is being superseded in
! measure by Indian corners and rooms.
| Among the decorations and furnishings for
| these rooms the gay Navajo blankets pay
| an important part. being used as hangings
| and as couch covers and table covers The
! quaint Indian baskets representing the
| work of various tribes. are all popular and
| essential. If one is able to secure spec-
| mems of the Zuni Pueblo pottery they
| may count themselves fortunate-the Zuni
| pottery being especially difficult to pro-
| cure. The beaded deerskin work will soon
| be hard to find, as account of the high
| duty placed on beads and such articles the
indians have almost stopped making it.
| SnowshoeS are extremely popular and eff
| fectiVe Bows and arrows must of course
! grace the collection, well as a headdress
| of eagles feathers. Other fitments in the
| line of skins, strings of crabs claws belts
J purses, papoose carriers, lariats and brides
| are also cherished whenever obtainabIe
|