Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-21
CATHERINE TALBOT.
H 0 u S E OLD HIN S

in cases of sickness when there is fever.
as grapes are cooling to the hood. The
best time to gather grapes for this purpose
is when they are their best for eating.
They may be prepared with or without
water and sweetened or not as preferred.
Pick the grapes from their stems, wash
and drain. If they are to be made without
water, press the juice with handpress or
extract by means of heat. In this case
put the grapes in a stone jar set in a
kettle of boiling water and MASKING the
grapes a little to start the juice. When
cooked so that the seeds loosen strain
through a bag. The juice is then heated
again to the boiling point and canned while
scalding hot If water is used allow a
pint and a half of water to three quarts
of Stemmed grapes. Cook in the same way.
strain and bottle. When sweetened, as is
usually preferred, allow three pounds of
sugar to each ten pounds of fruit. Boil,
skim and can in alright cans, using new
rubbers for the cans.
A delicious Philadelphia sponge cake
which depends for its lightness and deli
cacy solely upon eggs and their thorough
beating is made as follows: Separate the
whites and yolks of ten eggs. Weigh out
one pound of graduated sugar and a half
pound of -four. Crate the yellow rind and
squeeze the juice of one lemon. Beat the
sugar and yolks of eggs together until as
llght as cream, remembering that the more
they are beaten the finer the grain of the
cake will be. Add the lemon, then the
whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth, alter
mating the eggs and -four. Bake twenty
five minutes in a medium oven if the cake
is in one bar; less if the cakes are small.
Again attention is called to those essen
TALLY feminine habits of putting pins in the
mouth and moistening a pencil with the
lips. A pin swallowed means only a surei-
cal case, but the greater danger lies in the
contagton that may be lurking in the pin
itself. Under the head of the pin, or in
the point of the pencil, all KINDS of malig-
nant germs may be located, which will be
transmitted by the mouth quicker than any
other way. 1t hardly seems possible that
any one needs to be cautioned against hold
ing money between their lips, yet a person
can scarcey go block on street car
without noticing some one INDUCING in
this dangerous and filthy habit.
Cocoa is now much used in the place of
che colate for icing cake. Beat the white
of two eggs and stir into them nearly a
cupful of powdered sugar and two tea
spoonfuls of cocoa. or simply stir the sugar
ana cocoa to paste with little cold
water, fiayorlng with vanilla. \ third rule
for icing calls for four tablespoonful of
granu ated sugar boiled with the same
quantity Of water for a moment, then add
two teaspoonfuls of cocoa and teaspoon
full of vanilla and spread
A mountain dew pudding that makes a
simple and inexpensive but withal a favor
lite dessert calls for a pint of milk, two
eggs, three tablespoonsfuls of cocoanut,
one-half cupful of rolled crackers, one tea
spoonful lemon juice. Mix all together
Saving out the whites of the eggs. and
bake one-half hour in a moderate oven.
When firm and brown cover. with a mer-
ingue made from the whites of the eggs and
cupful of sugar and stiffen in a Slow
oven until a golden brown
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cherry bisque, which had its origin at New
port, and the Klondike, which halls from
the far west, are perhaps the most popular.
The first is made by adding canned sour
cherries that have been soaked in old Santa
Cruz rum to plain cream, while the latter
Is OF almond paste made in cornucopia
form filled with whipped cream and soft
custard slightly frozen. over this con-
sealed mass is an abundant spread of
almonds.
A recent examnat ton of the quality of
the candies sold in stores in the vicinity of
school houses in Greater New York demon
strated the fact that while many of the
candies were nsoluble every sample was
free from injurious ingredients. The
samples analysed included the cheaper as
well as the better quality of candy Among
the insoluble candies gumdrops and marsh
mallows headed the list, chocolate making
a good second.
Fat in any form should never be given to
'iit SIGN, because IL is IN large glOhuieS,
and, therefore, most difficult of digestion
Cream is in small globules, and. therefore
easier to digest than fats. but skim milk
say the dietarians, is the best food FOR chill
dren and invalids. Milk given to the very
SICK should be diluted the same as for in
fants.
Mice are said to object to the odor of
mint, a suggestion that may be utilized to
advantage by the hOusekeeper who objects
Just as strongly to the small rodents If
fresh mint is not attainabe, liquid pepper
mint applied to the shelves of store room
and pantry is said to be equally efficacious
Common peach baskets lined with glazed
paper cambria make a convenient recep-
tacle for sweepings. A maid can readily
take one of these with her from room to
room, using it to receive the contents of
the dust pan and hair receivers.
An English eXpedient for saving the COR
ners Of tableclOths and Sheets from being
torn on the clothesiine, consists in rein
forcing them with tape. The tape is laid
on flat and hemmed down for two or three
inches each side of the corner
To clean cork carpet, wash all over tyica
week with skim milk, or polish With bees
wax and turpentine as you would a stained
floor. The latter method darkens the cork
and gives it rich appearance.
A large rug of linen crash placed under
the sewing machine will catch threads and
clippings and save a deal of sweeping
Hall rugs, intended to break the long mar
row appearance, are greatly in vogue.