Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-02
THE HOUSEHOLD.
".Martha's" Patriotic Menu for independence
Day Some Hints as to the Care of Cutlery.
Meat the Source of Badness Many New
Recipes Including One for Fruit Punch That
Win Make the Readers Mouth Water.
A FAIR CANNIBAL.

Harlem Life.
Ny love attended at the cooking school,
Learned to make bread and cakes and pies
by rule
Studied the science of the stew and roast.
And solved the mysteries of quail on toast
Cookbook in hand absorbed in Con
somme,'
And testing I much doubted if she knew
What was required to make a nrst-class
stew
a week had passed: another call paid:
I've learned since then" she said, "how
And when my questions took tender
bent.
I found that was an ingredient
MENU FOR TUESDAY, FOURTH OF
JULY.
BREAKFAST Red and white cur
rants, boiled rice, sugar and cream,
fried fish, sliced tomatoes, baking pow
der biscuit coffee.
LUNCHE0N.--Potato and ham sand
witches, vegetable salad, radishes, red
raspberries, iced tea.
DINNER.-Crcam of beet soup, roast
lamb, mint sauce. potatoes. telephone
peas, creamed caulifiower. cucumber
fritters, bread and butter, fruit punch,
angel food. coffee.
This menu is intended to be a red
and white one in honor of the day, the
blue must be left out MS it is utterly
impossi ble to use that color in articles
of food. Red and white sweet peas and
blue ragged robbins may be used in
decorating the table.
Whenever pearl-handled knives are
used they should be washed and dried
Immediately; before putting away any
kind OF good knives rub well with a
newspaper and also wrap separately in
newspaper, laying them handle to
blade with paper over each. Then wrap
in chamois or flannel and put into a
dry place. They will never rust. To
remove rust from knives and forks.
wrap articles in cloth soaked In kerr
osene "a hours, then scour them with a
bath brick. Next rub with whiting.
then with sweet oil, finally wash In hot
soapsuds: dry well. Deep spots of
red rust on cutlery can be eradicated By
rubbing with salt and vinegar. To
clean knives use bath brick or we'll
powdered ashes. Use large cork TO
rub the moistened powder on, then an
other cork to dry-dust the article. Wipe
with paper, as a cloth would leave
dampness or gtreaks. Twice a week
spread cutlery on tray in the sun for
an hour. Never let cutlery lie in wa
ter, and never throw II into not water,
as 1T spells the handles. Hold by
handles while you wash the blades.
Never use table cutlery in cooking.
Emery powder will remove ordinary
stains from ivory knife handles.
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Here Is a recipe for delicious sum
mer salad, In making it the ingredients
must be chopped separately. One tea
spoonful Of onion chopped fine, five cold
boiled potatoes and as many beets,
clipped. three hard boiled eggs cut up
fine, and some OF the crisp white inner
leaves of two heads Of lettuce. chopped
up: mix well together and pour over
all dressing made by stirring q gill OF
olive oil tdrop by drop at first and a
little more literally after it thickens)
into the beaten yolks OF two eggs. fin
ishing with salt and lemon juice; this
sauce should be placed on the ice some
time before using ii, so 1t can be served
cold
CREAM OF BEET SOUP.-Pare and
scrape four lunches OF blood beets and
then squeeze through cloth, put this
juice onto the fire and let 1t heat Let
one pint Of milk come to the boil and
then add the hot juice and small
spoonful Of salt: cream two tablespoon