The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-08
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Fish intended for boiling or broi1- ing Is much improved by being put into ice-cold water for five minutes. It should then be placed on a board to drain, and rubbed with salt from the tail upward. Wash the salt away and dredge lightly with paprika. Cover with sliced lemon and allow 1t to stadn at least two hours before cooking. x --tss. Hominy croutons constitute an agree able change from bread and are easily
 made. Pour the boiled cereal while hot into a shallow dish. When thoroughly cooled, cut into dice, and toast under broiling flame, or in oven. The blue Concord grapes. make q spicy compete, when prepared after the following manner: Press out pulp and remove seeds, after weighing fruit Prepare a syrup with sugar in the proportion of three-quarters to a pound of grapes, to which add, when it has started to boil. spice bag with a scanty allowance of race-ginger. In this liquid the pulp should simmer two hours the skins of the fruit being thrown in about half an hour later.
 After a chicken has been frfcasseed. lift the pieces out and arrange them neatly on small platters to form indi- vidual dishes. Next. strain the liquor in which they have cooked and let it come to a gentle simmer. Put in one- half pint of white wine vinegar and the juice of four large lemons (to quart of chicken broth) and two teas- poonfuls of granulated sugar. When boiled turn into a bowl in which are bn Al otv ufirrtnp briskly to prevent curdiing. Sub- merge each portion of chicken and set it away to cool. when it should be the center of a rich jelly. Decorate with minced parsley.
 This dish is considered a satisfactory entree on the continent, and may be relished here as well. Prunes are stewed until perfectly tender in generous quantity of syrup in which cloves and cinnamon buds have their part While it is yet boiling. egg bat ter is being mixed of such a consis- tency that "dumplings" can be dropped from a spoon.
 Cut celery into dice and cook till tender. in slightly salted water. Have ready buttered toast, from which the crust has been removed. Make 0 cream" sauce of four, butter and milk. Cover each slice of toast with celery, dredge lightly with white pepper and salt. and pour sauce over. Serve hot or cold.
 Chuck steak Is "tendered" and we'll larded with fine clear suet. It is then spread out and dredged with flour. Next peas, potatoes. carrots and bits of celery are cut into dice and strewn over 1t. It is then rolled over and over and the ends well secured by strings or skewers. Afterward this Is placed in a casserole. in which is good beef gravy, a bay leaf or two and a few pepper corns, and allowed to simmer till meat and vegetables are tender.
 Baked tomatoes, a PEspagnol, really call for green peppers as part of the dressing, but a milder Americanized version is got up as follows: The tops are neatly sliced off, the contents scooped out and mixed with a force meat of bread crumbs. finely minced white onions, just a reminder of garlic and one teaspoonful of cream. The lid is then replaced and the to- mAtoes ranged neatly round a roast of beef. nearly done. and pasted from time to time with the meat gravy.
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 A woman who dropped a large piece of butter on her silk waist was in des- pair. for there was no benZine or French chalk in the house. A sudden inspiration caused her to cover the