Evening star., 1902-01-04

the sandwich and holds 1t in place until
ready to drop on the individual plate.
A little basin of Indian meal kept by the
kitchen sink and in the bath room will be
found a good preventive of :ehapped, rough
hands. While still moist from the dishpan
or bath dip in the meal and rub until dry.
Some prefer to add little lemon juice or
vinegar to the meal. but it is quite'as salts
factory when used alone. q
An effective place to put a fern or palm is
in a hall upon the newell post. The top of
this post is usually fastened in with q
wooden peg, and can be readily lifted off,
leaving a fat surface. Have jardiniere
of brass or other metal fastened. securely
to the post and set the potted plant inside.
By giving it plenty of water the plant will
last long time and be very ornamental.
Among the new canoiesticks are quantity
coiled serpents of the beautiful red and
black Maradabad ware The open mouth
holds the candle, while the coil of the tail
spreads out as the supporting base.
refreshing drink for person suffering
from feverish cold may be made by dis
solving a tablespoonful of tart cranberry
jelly in a glass of ice water.
In selecting broom look for one with
fine splints. A coarse broom will cut a
carpet and, though inperceptible at first
will soon show it's ravages in the increased
number of shreds. This particularly if the
carpet has a velvet pile.
Here is a dessert that will please the
children. Bake several pancakes as large
plate. Butter lightly and cover with
scraped maple sugar or maple sirup. Pile
one on the other and cut like pie
To make use of tasteless. insipid apples
stew and mix with cooked cranberries in
Of cranberries. Sweeten to taste; strain
through a collander and serve cold with
meats or fowl.
over it when being chopped for mince meat
Or plum pudding it will prevent the pieces
from adhering together.
A novelty in bedsteads is one which, in
stead of solid head and footboards, has
merely an open framework, upon which can
be hung panels or draperies of some cho-
sen fabric. This may be selected to corre-
spond with the decorations of the room.
In the tenement cooking classes there is
always a great demand ito know how to
make ice cream The recipe given as
simple, nutritious and inexpensive, calls for
one quart of milk, two eggs. one tablespoon
full of cornstarch, one-haf cupful sugar
and fiavoring to taste. The would-be cook
is taught to heat the milk just to the boil
ing point, in double boiler or it's substi-
tute-one small pan set within another
larger and half filled with water. Then it
is thickened with the cornstarch carefully
dissolved in a little of the cold milk, saved
out of the quart, Sweetened, taken from the
fire and the two well-beaten eggs and fla
voring stirred in. The custard is allowed to
cool, then frozen.
This is reliable recipe for the popular
Scotch cakes. which has been handed down
from generation to generation in an old
Scotch family: The ingredients required
for these cakes, the making Of which is
no f1fr cd IN h,lf 10Iin han lie
are one pound of the very best butter, one
pound Of sugar, one level dessert spoonful
of caraway seed. one tablespoonful of ice
water, and candied caraway seed sufficient
to sprinkle thickly on top of the cakes.
Have the butter, the mixing bowl and the
hands cold as possible. Cut the butter
in small pieces add the flour, and work to'
gether thoroughly and quickly. Add the
caraway seed and mix through. Add the
water at the last Make the dough into
a ball, flour the molding board. put the
| dough on 1t. roll out quickly and beat leve
and smooth with rolling pin. Fold over
| the ends and beat again. Do this three
times, the last time rolling it to the size an6
| shape of the pan it Is to be baked in
| Properly this should be a shallow sheet
| iron pan. Put the dough in about half ar
| inch thick and bake twenty minutes in a
steady oven. When done it should be ar
| even light brown on top and brown on the
| bottom. If 1t shows signs Of browning toe
! quickly cover with white paper. Test with
a straw or knitting needle. Remove the
| paper when cool, and when thoroughly colo
| pack in thin boxes with clean letter paper
| between the layers.
| The old mortar and pestle laid aside In
American kitchens these many years in
favor of the chopping knife and tray are
| again reinstated In place of honor. Meats
| for croquettes spices and nuts are now
being laboriously pounded out in primitive
style, the point urged in favor being that
acids cannot affect the stone as they dc
| the metal