The National tribune., 1906-07-12
THE FAMILY.
By sENoRA SARA.

the day, and 1t Is very hard indeed TO
dress UP and think of having to do a
lot of hot work in the kitchen for the
evening meal, be it dinner" or sup
per-" While getting breakfast, plan
| all the rest of the meals for the day
and for the next morning. 1t is not
hard matter to do this. for I have tried
it myself. 1t Is a great burden lifted
| to have three meals ahead of you all
arranged down to the minutest detail.
Then If the baby gets sick. company
comes. or John" wants you to take
little ride with him in the afternoon.
you can go. for You know exactly what
you have for dinner, and you need not
worry about whether there is coffee,
or bacon, or eggs enough for break
fast. 1t is all ready-in your mind, and
if the mind is easy" the body will rest.
Suppose You do as so many are do
ing these hurry-up days, have picked
up lunch at noon. That is, put on the
table the little "left-overs," and do not
prepare anything especially. 1t IS an
easy matter to put these left-overs on
clean dishes at breakfast time to make
them attractive looking. Maybe you
chop from breakfast, bit of fried
chicken from the night before, and
some scraps of boiled ham from two
or three days ago. You can make a
very appetising dish by chopping all
these together. season as your family
likes, with chopped celery, onions.
parsley, or just pepper and salt. Make
into small cakes, put on a buttered
piepan, and place in the oven to brown
These are fine eaten cold You can
moisten the chopped meat with beat
en- egg. and that adds to the tooth
someness of the meat cakes. With a
dish of sauce, little jelly and a relish
a1t In
is all ready to put on the table. OF
course something to drink" must be
thought of. If you want tea, put the
proper quantity in a glass fruit jar.
pour cold water on 1t, cover and place
in the Ice chest. If you use milk, fix 1t
| the same way. IL you like cold eot-
fee. and 1t is very pleasant cold drink,
| make enough when you are getting
breakfast to put away for lunch also.
In the same way get your cold drinks
ready for supper or dinner. Then you
can wash up all your dishes, and there
will be very few to wash after lunch.
To prepare for regular dinner js
rather more difficult, but with manage
ment you can almost have dinner ready
by the time the breakfast dishes are
washed. If you are to have a roast
pot or oven-have 1t brought early in
the morning and prepare and put to
cooking while petting breakfast. Cook
to the rare state, cover and leave in the
oven. At dinner time. If you want the
roast hot, make up your fire, and half
an hour will do 1t to a turn. Prepare
all your vegetables, and put to soak In
water. All vegetables cook much bet
ter for being freshened up that way.
Make your dessert, which in this warm
weather should be something of SIM
pie, digestfbIe nature. Fruit, which Is
easily obtained everywhere, is much the
wfsest dessert that can be placed before
a family Pies are bad any time. and
in Summer they are an abomination as
a steady diet Never serve a heavy
dessert. If you are a wise housewife
you will never serve an ounce of canned
stuff of any description to your family
or your friends. unless you have canned
the food yourself. 1t is well known
fact that corn, tomatoes, beans, peas,
beets, asparagus and all those vege-
tables have preservatives in them, and
there is no doubt that they are account
able for half the dyspeptic stomachs We
hear so much about. The woman who
for pure laziness to prepare fresh vege-
tables will feed her family on canned
stuff just because it is less trouble"
may some day find 1t more trouble 10
place flowers on little graves in the
cemetery. AS an emergency ration,
the careful housewife may keep a sup
ply of canned goods on hand to serve
occasionally when she Is caught short
with lot of company. We all take
poisonous medicines occasionally, but
we do not make a steady diet of them.
A good way to mend kid gloves if
they are torn or ripped: First, button
hole stitch around the rent, not SO close
as in buttonhole; then overcast, tax
ing up the thread of the buttonhole on
the edge, and then draw the edges to-
gether.
One of the vegetables" which seems
slow to find favor, despite its palatable-
ness and digestible qualities, is the
sweet pepper; in other words, the big
green pepper, which is as sweet as su-
gar before It turns red and as hot as
well 1t Is as hot as 1t Is red when
ripe. Here's recipe, tried and true:
Select green peppers all of a size.
Cut off a small piece of the stem end
and remove the inside pulp, leaving just
the shell. Boil in water for five min
utes, drain. and fill with cooked onions
minced fine, to which are added tea
spoonful of minced parsley, a cupful
of fine bread-crumbs, a teaspoonfuI of
lemon juice, saltspoonful of salt, pinch
of cayenne. two tablespoonfuls of mush
room catsup, and sprinkle Of celery
medium-sized onions, and will fill six
peppers. Set the peppers when we'll
filed in a shallow baking-pan In hot
oven for 20 minutes. basting fire.
quently with melted butter. Serve on
rounds of toast, garnishing each pep
per cup with celery tips.
And here is a splendid onion dish:
Boil large white Bermuda onions
tender but firm enough to hold their
shape. Lift out carefully with the
skinner, and with a sharp knife re-
move the center. For the filling mix
two tablespoonfuls of finely-chopped
ham with cupful of bread-crumbs and
pour over a tablespoonful OF melted
butter, two tablespoonfuls of cream and
seasoning Of pepper. Mix well to-
gether and fill the onion shells. Wrap
each in a square of buttered tissue pa
per and twist the ends SO they will
stand up at the corners. The tissue
paper covers are to prevent the basting
of butter poured over the onions from
scattering all around the pan. After
the melted butter is poured over. sprin-
kle with bread-crumbs. Bake In a slow
oven for half an hour. Remove the
papers and serve with hot cream sauce
This is a delicious way of preparing
onions.
Quite the neatest and strongest way
to repair torn page in a book is 10
paste over the leaf with library paste a
sheet of transparent waxed paper found
in candy boxes and around various
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