The Portland daily press., 1899-11-18
THE HOME.
POTATOES.


more desirable. The best Of potato Is
5ust under the skin. therefore In prepar'
sng them for cooking they should be
pared very thin, or much Of their nutri-
tious value Is lest. In boiling potatoes
when they are sum oiently soft II the
water is poured OF and the kettle with
the potatoes left standing over gentle
fire for a short time, the heat will cause
any remaining moisture TO evaporate and
the potatoes will b, found more palat-
abls. The excellence Of BAKED potatoes
depe nds upon eating them as soon as they
are done and not before; they ara worth
less till cooked, and dry rapidly as soon
rs tnkei through.
Drowned Pot,t,es. Boil large potatoes
In thsir skins. peel, and when your roast
of meat 10 almost done lay the potatoes
In the dripping pan about the meat,
dredge and haste as you do tho meat.
Drain and arrange around the meat on
the platter.
ScalIoped Potatoes. Butter bright
tin basin or pudding dish and put IN
layer of cold potatoes feasoned with pep
per, salt and bits Of butter; I'LL the dish
with these layers, and cover the top with
cracker crumbs. Pour over IL q cup OF
milk or cream, and bake half an hour.
A nice way TO fry potatoes Is to dip
them IN egg and then In cracker or brad
crumbs and fry until brown.
Saratoga Chips. Peel the potatoes care
fully, cut into very thin slices and Keep
In cold water over night, drain OF the
water and dry the potatoes thoroughly In
q towel, put n handful at q time In q
kettle OF very hot lard, stirring with
fork TO prevent them from adhering to the
kettle or to each other. As soon as they
become light brown and crisp remove
quickly with skinner and sprinkle
with salt az they are taken up.
Potato Ppff. Two cups mashed pota-
toes, two Ia teaspoons melted butter; stir
these with a seasoning Of salt TO creamy
consistency. Beat two eggs and add Win
slx tai ,spooDfals Of cream. Beat all
dish ana bake in quick oven until nice
ly colored.
DOMESTIC LIFE AMONG HE
EGYPTIANS.
Bread, which Is generally known as
kesra, Ia eaten with sauce usually made
of vegetable called bamiehs, boiled with
red pepper and salt; sometimes bsans are
used instead of bamiehs. Fish is plenti-
full, and when meat is scarce meat
sauce boiled in milk and mixed with
dried fish is a favorits dish.
Meldr sheer is vegetable Of which the
Arabs are very fond; 1t is variety OF the
cotton plant and IS made into sort OF
stew, which is favored with garlic; 1t is
stringy and mucilaainous and is not
L.
Egyptians are fond Of roast mutton,
and the piece de resistance Of every feast
and many ordinary dinners IL roast
forequarter Of lamb stuffed with rice,
raisins, and pine nuts. which Is really
very palata BILE dish. Rice and pine nuts
are largely used In their cookery. They
are very FOND Of fried things. and. like
the people OF Southern Europe, use oil Tor
that purpose md tquesze lemon over eve
rything they fry. The make great use OF
a vegetable called ooosa. which 10 some-
thing like our vegetable marrow, ard
they use the egg plant far more freely
than we do.
Kitobe is a dish made of beef beaten
almost to jelly, then spread with
LAYER Of crushed wheat, salt. pepper, and
butter; over this Is put another layer OF
pounded meat. more condiments, anu
finally a layer of pine nuts; IL IL then
DAkeO, anu Wnen etryoS luOhs lihc Bhcut
brown pie; II eaten hot 1t Is tasty and 10
copslds red very nutritious.
A delicious dessert Is made OF rice
boiled In milk until 1t is soft enough to
be strained through cloth; 1t 10 set tn
cool in molds and Is eaten cold with
oranzs or rosewater sprinkled over it
Chatau guam.
NO SPARE CHAMBER.
We have no spare chamb Der. have been
troubled about 1t for long while. Yes
tsrdAy 1t occurred to me that the Brown
have no spare chamber. either, nor the
Robinsons. nor the Stuyvesants. and
am more troubled than ever.
The decadenos of the 81 are chamber
strikes deep. 1t Is the concrete difference
between pas. and present. The spare
chamber meant room in the house set
apart from common life. dedicated to
the higher nature. The family might
have only three chambers; one or these
was sacred. Tue feather bed rose plump
and impregnable in Its recesses. The
gresn paper shades shut out all but a
chink OF light. the cane-ssst chairs stood
stiff against the wall, and clean straw
rustled under the taut store carpet.
Inc stimulus 10 tue iuhRiudtlou hloue
was worth three times the amount of
cubic space the spare chamber occupied.
You tiptoed in. Mothers best bonnet
lay ON the middle OF the bed. Sometimes
a huge loaf Of frnit cake sat elegantly
in ons of the chairs
There was always something reserved
in the days of the spare cham ber-fruit
cake and bonnsts. People had bsst
clothes. They wore them on spare days
Sunday was spare day. You knew that
It was Sunday. Grandfather shaved.
when grandfsthers shave every day,
what Is left for the seventhD There was
a hush about the house. As the day
wore ON IL deepened; the whole farm lay
under Its warm, sleepy spell-Rll but the
irrepressible hen. The cheerful oackle
fingers still, the most irreverent thing in
memory. She worked ssvee days in the
week ana talked about it. The very
silence waited to hear and condemn
Amid trolley cars, and bicycle bells, and
children play ing, and the Salvation Army
drum, the caekls dies away into HARM
less viii per.
There was spare time then. People