Evening journal., 1910-09-23
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HOUSEHOLD NOTES
BY Maude E. cillsy.

Chloride Of lime as disinfectant
is valuable, especially on humid days
in summer. Sprinkle it about the
cellar floor if there is any evidence
Of dampness. 1t is advisable to
sprinkle a little daily in the garbage
can.
To make mushroom simples, peel
and trim some large, fiat mushrooms;
lay them on rounds of buttered toast,
place a lump of butter on each. pep
per and salt, grill or bake till cooked
through. Serve hot with good savory
gravy.
A delicious and nouirshing hot
weather. drink is a fruit eggnog. Beat
up a raw egg we'll and then add half
cupful Of any fruit juice. Beat
hard and then add gradually, still
beating, half a cupful Of cream. Serve
Immediately.
For good silver polish, take half
pound of whiting and mix with
two ounces Of turpentine, one table,
spoonful of ammonia and half an
ounce of camphor. Apply to silver
with a Canton flannel cloth; let dry
| and polish with chamois.
Cold baked beans may be used as
a sandwich filling or a salad. If for
sandwiches. mash them and season
highly with tomato sauce catsup or
chill sauce. For a salad, a plain
French dressing is best. Garnish
with tomato and serve on lettuce.
If in making a. salpicon of fresh
fruit the diced fruit is sweetened to
taste and then put into a mold or
pail and packed I'm ice and salt for
an hour or two, the dessert will be
found especially pleasing. The fruit,
partly frozen, is very refreshing on a
hot day.
A substitute for aspic jelly is quick
ly made. Get can of the consomme
or bouillon and prepare it as for serv-
ing hot, adding enough gelatine to
make it the desired consistency. Then
it may be easily nodded by itself or
with poultry or meat as one desires.
Before washing silk stockings they
should be soaked in cold water for
one-half hour, and then washed in
luke-warm water with good white
soap. Common laundry soap should
not be used, nor should the stockings
be ironed, as heat is apteto crack
silk.
Peaches are delicious served with
ice cream. Make a plain vanilla
cream. When frozen, line a melon
mold with the cream and fill the
centre with the peaches cut into
small pieces and well sweetened.
Cover with the cream and then pack
in salt and ice for an hour or two.
When boiling a pudding in a cloth.
first wiring the pudding cloth out in
boiling water and then, spreading
it over a bowl, dredge il will with
-four, Touring it well agin near the
opening. after the pudding is tied
This will prevent the bags contents
becoming water-soaked.
1t is a decided economy to stuff
sweet green peppers with a force
meat made of leftover meat or fish
The forcemeat may be mixed with
cream sauce or little tomato sauce
, II the peppers are set into custar
cups OF muffin rings while being bak
ed, there will be no danger of thei
falling over to one side, thus spoil
ing their appearance.
To recurl an ostrich feather hav
teakettleful of boiling water an
shake the feather vigorously throug
the escaping steam, being careful no
to get it too damp. Next, take a sill
Z yer fruit knife and beginning wit
the feathers nearest the quill TAX
a small bunch between the thum
and foreinger and draw it gently owe
the blade of the knife.
1 delicious fish dish is made q
crab, lobster or any kind of cold fisl
Flake the fish we'll; then put it int
pan with plenty of butter, addin
; a little nutmeg and salt for seasoning
Add a little -four and an egg or tw
beaten up with cream. Stir so tn
mixture will not curdle, and add
few cracker crumbs 10 as to- make
thick enough to handle.
Many people flour their fruit wheth
er currants. raisins, or citron, be
fore adding it to the batter. A COO
who says that she never experience
any trouble from having the fruit sin
to the bottom of the cake, attribute
her success to putting a little of tn
batter in the pan and then adding tn
fruit to the remainder of the bate
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