Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-23
HINTS TO HoUsEKEEPERs.
odds and Ends of Domestic Lore
which May BE of Interest
to Them.


Lamb can be used in nearly every
recipe given for beef. 1t is especial
ly good for croquettes and makes a
savory stew. Save every drop of
gravy or liquid from the platter
when setting a roast of lamb away.
1t requires all the enriching it can
have and always plenty of seasoning,
says the Boston Budget.
The bathroom chair should be low,
softly cushioned and finished in white
enamel. The cabinet for the various
toilet articles, liquids and salves that
are liked should be white, and may
conveniently have a door of mir
ror glass to serve the double pur-
pose of cabinet and looking-glass. 1t
is good news to the average house
keeper that arrangements to heat
the bath water during the summer
while the coal range is out Of COM
mission, have been both improved
and cheapened. 1t is possible now to
equip bathroom with this quick
water-heating service for a low price,
and yet in a way that insures a salts
factory working.
Whipped cream on glasses of coffee
frappe is a delightful afternoon re-
freshment. Mix four heaping table
spoonfuls of foreground coffee with
a quart of boiling water and half
cupful of sugar. Cover and let the
mixture stand on an asbestos mat on
the side of the stove for IS minutes.
Strain and cool. Then add the stifliy
beaten white of an egg, and freeze.
For pork salad one requires left
over lean meat from a tender young
pig. The meat can scarcely be dis
tinguished from veal or the white
meat of chicken. If the pork has
been slightly corned, the flavor VIII
be all the finer. Reject every morsel
of Drowned meat, fat or gristle, and
cut into tiny pieces. Mix with an
equal quantity of chopped celery and
serve with mayonnaise dressing, ex-
actly as If you were making chicken
salad. You can 1mpart a pleasant
and unique flavor to the salad by
using equal quantities of celery and
crisp acid apples. Slices of beef cut
into diamonds or hearts make a
pretty garnish for this salad. Before
you add mayonnaise, marinate with
French dressing for several hours,
setting it in the refrigerator till it
is required for serving.
This is the time when preparing
rough floors for impromptu dancing
is frequently needed. Nothing is bet
ter for the purpose than parafine.
It should not be cut off in small bits,
as is often done, but grated from
coarse crater evenly over the entire
floor, afterwards rubbed in by hav-
ing the floor shuffled over by two or
three persons. A dance or two will
complete the operation, and, given
any sort of decent boards to work
upon, the result will be entirely sat-
isfactory.
Stale cake, especially sponge cake
or ladyfngers, may be converted into
delicious buildings. Where the pud-
ding is to be steamed or baked, cut
the cake in fingers or break it into
crumbs. If the pudding is to be
soaked with crumbs, have custard,
fruit juice or cream poured over it.
Cut it in slices. Reject icing when
preparing pudding; it generally
makes a pudding sweeter than is de-
sirable. A good plain pudding isl
made by putting slices of the stale
cake in a steamer, and when moist
serving with a spoonful of straw
berry or marmalade sauce. 1t may
be covered when cold with hot
stewed berries and served with
cream. Stale sponge cake serves for
a foundation for charlotte russo and
cabinet pudding, or if steamed may
be covered with Strawberries and
whipped cream, when it makes an ex-
cellent imitation of strawberry short
cake.