Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-01-01

lish feast
Long. plain. deal tables or boards on
trcstles, covered with greens. are consid-
cred the proper setting for the feast. In
the centre of the table may be a boar 8
head or its domesticatcd replica, which
you can get from your butcher by order
ing IL In advance, and at each end a
small key of ale thanked with hosptable
stems.
For the chidrens parties.
GINGER PUNCH
is beverage generally approved To
serve twenty-five. allow one quart cold
water, one cupful Of sugar three fourths
OF pound OF Canton ginger. three table
spoonfuls ginger syrup, three-fourths cup
| ful orange juice, one-half cupful lemon
juice, and one quart OF Apollinaris water.
Chop the ginger. add the water and sugar,
and boil twenty minutes. Add the fruit
juice cool. strain. and then pour in the
| Apollinaris. a pint at time. In the sum
MGR cracked ice Is added, but at this sea-
son II Is not so necessary
FIG SANDWICHES
go well with the punch. Chop Hgs very
fine add water enough to make a smooth
paste. and cool slowly until Of the con-
sistency to spread. Add a few nut meats
chopped fine with orange extract or
fresh juice or grated orange or lemon
peel to flavor Spread between thin slices
OF brown bread, cut In fanciful shapes.
Another excellent sandwich is made of
rye bread cut thin and spread with a
paste made from
NEUFCHTEL CHEESE.
softened with milk or cream, seasoned
with little salt and dash of paprika,
and then combined with chopped or pound
nj n
roll of cheese.
In old-fashioncd English households oat.
cakes are nearly always kept on hand
While they are more appropriately cater
after lunch, with cheese. they come ir
well at any time. To make them, SAYS
an English bonneville. take piece OF
dough when you are baking bread, about
as large as your fist. Make an equally
large ball of oatmeal from your break
fast porridge, into which you rub lart
or dripping and salt, to make of the
same consistency AZ the bread dough
Then work the two balls together until
thoroughly mixed. roll out thin. cut into
circles with tin or wineglass, and bake
This same housewife gives her recips
for galantine, which appears freQuentl,
at luncheon or buffet suppers. TO one
half pound finely minced beef or yea
; bacon, one-quarter pound of breat
crumbs one toaspoonful of salt, and
, half teaspoonful each of pepper an,
= grated nutmeg. Mix all together with tn
= yolk ard white of one egg well beaten
Form into a smooth, sausage-like roll
bind in a pudding cloth and simmer yer.
! slowly for two hours in boiling water
, Take out of the cloth when cold glaz
. and cut in thin slices.
r In tho general sweeping, busting an
, clearing up that follows In the wake o
the holidays, il is a good time to put il
I plea for the extension of those scr
vices.
5 It is doubtless due to lack Of thought
, and not to evil intent. that many excel
, lent women particular to an extreme /
r the keeping Of their homes. are yet al
O most crminally careless about the AZ
q pearance of the streets. These are tn
- women who, after reading a letter tea
!, It up and throw 1t out wherever the
9 happen to he; give the children banana
L and apples and tell them to throw skin
@ or cores in the street sweep the lite
= from their dooryard into the gutter an
let the vegetable, garbage or deliver
man. unrebuked. leave a trail Of insight
ly cabbage leaves or wisps of straw an
r packing in his trail. In Vienna, II a pei
10 son throws a torn envelope into the stree
II lie opinion has been educated to bclieV
. that a street should be as Immaculate q
Il Il house. In all the cities of Holland tn
q streets are not only kept free from lit,
. of any sort. but scrubbed and garnishe
as well. Ordinances for the preservatio
= of streets and highways are not tyrann,
r They are for cleanliness and godines
q The movement naugurated by thoughtf-
+ women for civic betterment. throuE
q Village Improvement societies, 'IIealt
o Protective associations and Good Gor
a eminent leagues is already bcarir
f fruit, looking toward municipal ceanl
n ness. II the children are early taugl
a that the streets. the railway cars. Il
" school house and other public building
Fl ar" not for Use as dust bins or garbaR
: pals amy more than the house. "A gre,
n step VIII have been gained Dirt al
, ,dtscdcraC} are quite as truly synon!
4. nous as cleanliness and goodness" ~
4 streets as we'll as homes reflect the cha
Il acter of their occupants.
l., EMMA PADDOCK TELFORD.