The National tribune., 1907-12-05
By SENIOR SAARA.

casionally turn the plate bottom up over
the fire. and the ants will fall in with
the melting lard. Reset the plate and
in short time You will catch them ALL
Also try sprinkling powdered boraK
around the infested places.
A fine dish is oyster balls. Stew q
quart of oysters for about five minutes
in their own liquor. then take them out
and chop fine. Take half a dozen pota-
toes, boil. mash and pass them thru
the coiander and work into them. in a
boil, one gill of cream and the yolks
OF four eggs. some finely-chopped parS-
ley. pepper, salt, little nutmeg. add
ing lastly the chopped oysters. When
we'll mixed and smooth form into small
balls, Hour them and fry in hot lard,
butter or dripping.
This lemon loaf cake is good. Cream
together three cupfuls of sugar and a
cup of soft butter; add to them the
yolks of five eggs and stir well for five
minutes; add a cup of milk and stir
three minutes; then gradually stir in
i've cupfuls of flour and a quarter tea
spoonful of soda; then add the grated
rind and juice of one lemon and. last
ly, the stiffiy beaten whites of five eggs.
Bake Tor over an ilour in a slow oven
and ice with a plain lemon icing. This
makes a delicious rose cake, if one-half
OF the dough is colored with fruit COL
orings.
To make cement for glass or crock.
cry soak two drachms of cut isinglass
IN Two ounces of water for "a hours,
Doll down to one ounce, add an ounce
OF spirit of wine and strain thru linen.
MIX this while hot with a solution COM
posed of a drachm of water in an ounce
OF rectified spirit and triturate thoroIy
with half drachm of powdered gum
ammoniac. To make a strong liquid
glue very useful for sticking wood
crockery and glass together proceed as
follows: Put three parts of glue in
eight parts of cold water. and let the
mixture stand for several hours to soft
en- the glue; then add one-fourth of a
part OF muriatic acid and three-fourths
OF a part of sulphate of zinc; keep the
mixture at 1S5 degrees Fahrenheit for
o or IL hours.
1t IS not sufficient to wash receptacles
Oh various sorts. not dishes, with water
and perhaps soap; any one who has
thoroly washed out supposedly
clean deep flower vase will testify to
mat Therefore, a few hints on the
subject are perhaps in order. For these
vases, for instance, the best thing is to
NIX gill of vinegar and tablespoon
ful of rock salt, and pour into the vase.
shaking well, and allow it to stand a
lttle while Then shake well again and
rinse with clear water
For washing bottles or vinegar cru.
cts, save eggshells in a paper bag. Crush
them fine, put into the cruets with
warm, soapy water and shake WELL This
viii clean and not scratch the finest
glass.
When a baking pan gets burned In
using, put a little water and ashes i'm
II. and the burned surface will come
on easily without necessitating scrap
ing This will not injure the dish. For
ordinary Trying pans rub we'll with Il
hard crust of bread and wash in hot
Water- This. too, avoids scraping, which
IS likely to cause future burning.
You have heard of oyster cocktails
md doubtless shuddered. Well, here's
the way to make 'em:
Make the sauce some hours before
1t is to be eaten, and set on the ice.
Sauce-Mix in bowl two tablespoon
fuls of lemon juice (the ;,ice of one
large lemon should be enough). one
teaspoonful of finely-grated horserad-
isn, one of tomato catsup. 10 drops Of
tabasco sauce, pinch of salt and a
smaller pinch of cayenne.
Beat up well.
Thirty oysters, drained of every drop
OF liquor, should be put into a bowl
or jar. and buried in ice when you
make the sauce
Ten minutes before serving pour The
sauce over the oysters
Five minutes thereafter divide the
oysters into six portions, five for each
glass; pour the sauce over them and
set the glasses in ice until the moment
in which they go to table
Eat with oyster forks. If the oysters
are left lying in the sauce long they
wither and toughen
Glasses that have held milk should
never be washed in warm water while
traces of the milk still cling to the
inside.
If the glass be first rinsed in cold
water it may then be safely washed in
hot. If dipped in hot as soon as they
are emptied. the milk is coagulated
and clouds the glass