The National tribune., 1907-12-26
By SENIOR SAARA.

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To make a white" fruit cake. rub
together to a light cream three-quar-
ters of a cup of butter and one and one
half cups of powdered sugar When
very light. add a half gill of milk and
three teacupfuls of prepared flour
Have ready mixed and well dredged
with flour half pound of cleaned cur
rants. a half pound of seeded and
halved raisins three tablespoonfuls Of
shredded citron and three tablespoon
fuls of shelled, blanched and chopped
almonds.
Stir this fruit lightly into the batter.
add gill of brandy and bake in loaf
tins lined with creased paper.
Who does not love head cheese?
cream the ears, tongue and feet of a
full-grown pig: cover with cold water,
lightly saited and boil until the flesh
VIII fall from the bones. Strip it off:
hop with the skinned tongue; season
With salt. pepper, sage. sweet mario
am, little powdered cloves and haIt
4 cup of vinegar
When the seasoning is thoroly incor-
porated with the meat and the season.
ng is piquant and to your taste, pack
nard in mOlds and bowls
This should be done while the meat
IS still warm. Wet plates and lay on
the surface of each mold of the mix
ture and set away in cold place to
form. 1t viii be solid in "a hours.
Turn out the cheeses carefully and
put into jar. pouring cold vinegar over
them. This will keep them for weeks.
When you wish to use one. take from
the vinegar, wipe off the vinegar and
scrape off the roughened outside of the
mold
This is the genuine old-fashioned
mead cheese, dear to the hearts of
former generation of housemothers. and
beloved by the children for whom they
catered.
1t was eaten cold with mustard or
without, or sliced. rolled in cracker
crumbs and fried for breakfast.
Sometimes the tongue was not
chopped with the rest of the meat, but
after it was boiled, cut into cubes of
uniform size and nut between the lay
ers of minced meat in packing the
molds, after the manner of truffles in
pate de foie gras.
AT dinner recently. when the salad
course arrived, a pretty dish was
brought on the table 1t proved to be
cheese balls, made of cream cheese and
nuts nodded the size of butter balls,
with wooden toothpicks stuck into each
ball. and each toothpick tied with little
oo"S VI green FlDDOn ana pidced so
that the little bows stood erect The
toothpicks were to be used as handles,
making them easy to handle and pretty
to look at.
Many a perfectly good carpet be-
comes shabby and worn-looking with
out being actually old. The figures
lose their brightness and the grain is
rough and unkempt-looki7g. Here is
a sim n1p hV wi, he
or rug will once more look presentable
and as good as new. In the first place
take the carpet UP and have 1t shaken
and beaten well. Clean the floor per-
fectly. Then put it down, stretching it
well. Cut an ounce of yellow soap into
small squares, and with them make a
lather with a pint of clear boiling wa
ter. Add 20 this lather quart of hot
water and an ounce of borax. Place
the mixture on the range and bring
the entire preparation to a boil. Re-
move it, set it to cool, and when quite
cold add one ounce each of alcohol
and ammonia and half an ounce of
glycerine. Wipe over only a small por-
ton of the carpet at a time and rub
vigorously with a clean flannel (Which
should be repeatedly turned as it be-
comes soiled) dipped into the mixture
until. finally, all the spots are removed
and the color revived
The result will be surprising, for the
change and Improvement are remark
able
Generally speaking. coffee boiled is
coffee spoiled. The instant that it boils
up. it should be set back to steep for a
few moments
If your handsome Chinese umbrella
holder gets broken, don't throw it aside.
Fasten the pieces together with cement,
and then apply line of some bright
enamel paint or gliding along the crack.
A streak or two of paint either more
or less, will not look out of place on
Chinese bric-a-brac, for it all looks like
a war map, anyhow
Half an ounce of gum arabic dis
solved in a gill of boiling water and
thickened with plaster of paris makes
an excellent cement for china. 1t must
be used at once before hardening, which
1t does very rapidly.
If your old gilt picture frames are
hopelessly dull, give them a coat of
white enamel paint and touch them up
in lines or leaves with gold
When the color has been taken from
a fabric by an acid. liquid ammonia ap-
piled without diluting will often restore
the color. 1t is well to experiment with
a scrap of the material first, however.
as there are some colOrs that will not
stand ammonia at all.
If rice or oatmeal or anything of that
kind seems determined to cook to the
bottom of the vessel. put a thin piece
ct,. t,~At, l.