Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-10-27
HOUSEHOLD
SUGGESTIONS
Hints For Table Decorations -Attrae-
tive Menus. New Recipes, and
Points on the Care of the Home.

Few people know how to care for
the beautiful cut glass In their pos
session, and it is usual for it to lose
much OF its original color and lustre.
Carafes and bottles are especially neg
lected, being most difficult to clean.
A medium stiff brush should be kept
for scrubbing the pieces, and a little
intelligence used in handling them.
Unless there is prejudice against
having polsons of any kind in the
house-and that is a very sensible
prejudice-keep a little bottle of mu-
ratio acid on hand Potato parings
are almost as good for cleaning inside
OF bottles, etc. Never plunge cut
glass into very hot or very cold water,
never set 1t on marble or in a draught
after washing. Cut glass has singu-
lar propensity to break nearly in two
when cold draught strikes a damp
piece. To clean a carafe cut up some
potato pairing and put in the bottle
with little lukewarm water. Allow
this to stand for an hour, when shake
well for several minutes. Empty and
wash in soapy warm water. Rinse in
clear warm water and dry.
Chill con carne merely means pep
pers with meat, and in Spanish COM
munities many variations OF this fav-
orite hot dish are made. Wherever 1t
has been adopted by American cooks
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lowed: Boil three large, ripe. red pep
pers until they are very tender, and
remove all the seeds. Chop. and add
one chopped onion, and a little salt.
Mix with this a roux made with des-
sert spoonful each of -four and butter
thined with milk, and add one cupful
Of minced chicken. Serve at once.
Baked pears with rich cream as a
late summer dessert should not be
slighted. Select rather hard fruit.
core without peeling. and fill the cavi-
ties with currant jelly. A few chop
ped nuts are also very nice with the
jelly. Place In a deep dish or cas-
serole, sugar generously. and pour in
a cupful of hot water. Bake slowly
until quite tender, basting frequently
Serve with sweetened cream.
Red and yellow tomatoes make a
combination tomato salad pleasing to
the eye as well as to the palate. The
tomatoes chosen should be small, as
they are served whole on lettuce
leaves. Plunge into boiling water to
remove the skins. chill on ice and
serve with a mayonnaise dressing
poured over A dust of paprika looks
well on the golden mayonnaise.
A correspondent of Good House
keeping gives this advice. which
sounds sage: when frying dough-
nuts have a kettle of boiling water on
the stove, and as each doughnut is
taken from the fat, plunge it for a
second in the water, then drain" The
doughnuts are said to be entirely free
from greasy taste or feeling when so
treated.
Tarragon vinegar may be inexpen-
siveiy made at home with cider or
white wine vinegar and dried tarragon
leaves bought at the druggists. AL
low half a pint of leaves to quart
OF vinegar and allow the leaves to
steep for about two weeks Strain
carefully, using a flannel jelly bag.
Bottle and keep In a cool place.
After using olive oil In place Of but
ter to saute potatoes, small fish,, to.
matoes, ETC., few housekeepers will
care to go back to the old fashion. Oil.
even the best, costs very little more
than butter and less of It is required
in cooking. Oil mixed with -four
makes a very smooth foundation for
a roux or white sauce.
For the tea table or for use with
the chatting dish the latest luxury is a
semi-circular screen of clearest glass,
enclosed in a slender frame Of silver.
The screen is intended to shield the al
.cohol flame from draughts, and is real
ly quite a safeguard in these days Of
filmy and voluminous sleeves.
Peach, grape. and other very Juicy
pies often give trouble by overflow
ing the crust and making 1t unpleas-
antly soggy. An old-time remedy is
to bind strip of wet linen over the
edge OF the pie just before 1t goes into
the oven. It rarely fails to keep every
drop Of juice where it belongs.
A laundry convenience is sleeve
board, which slips inside shirtwaist
sleeves, and making ironing them
easy. Properly used the sleeve board
obviates the ugly crease down the
back of the sleeve. This useful little
appliance costs only twenty-five cents.
A modern convenience. or luxury. is
an automobile set. knife, fork and
spoon, in a leather case. They are all
very fiat and occupy. the smallest pos
sfble space, and are supposed to be
taken on long jaunts during which
wayside stops for luncheon occur.