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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
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Steaming Food.
There are some housekeepers who are
fully alive to the value of a steamer as
a and labor-saving indispensable machine in their kitchens,
as an aid to good
cooking, do but there are many others who
not realize its usefulness, and have
never had one in their houses. What¬
ever can be boiled can be steamed, and
when the process is completed and the
food dished, instead of having a pot or
saucepan to wash out, always a distaste¬
ful task, or a pudding cloth to rinse or
cleanse, there is only the clean, damp
strainer to be wiped dry, and the earthen
dish to be washed in which the food was
cooked; an enormous saving of trouble,
as any one will testify who has tried both
methods.
Steamers may be purchased of all
styles and prices, from elaborate ones in
tiers, forming separate compartments in
which different viands can be steamed
at the same time, down to tiny ones to
fit on the top of the tea kettle. - A useful
size is a plain, round one about twelve
inches high to fit over an ordinary iron
pot. The cover must be very tight to
retain the steam. Things that are
steamed cannot burn, and once safely
"housekeeper over a pot of boiling water, the hurried
may dismiss them from her
mind. There is only one point to be
remembered: the water must never
cease boiling for a single instant, and
therefore the fire must not be permitted
to lowed get low. A longer time should be al¬
for than for
A pair of tough fowls can be rendered
as tender as chickens by being judiciously
steamed. It will take from two hours
and a half to three hours to accomplish it
if by they are veterans. They can be tested
They plunging a fork filled in the heart and thighs.
should be with a stuffing of
bread crumbs, butter, pepper, salt and
nutmeg, or lemon juice, if desired,
dressed as if for roasting, with the wings
and legs bound tightly to the body, and
then laid in an earthen dish in the
for steamer. chicken The drippings which are should very valuable be made
the soup, and
next day from the bones scraps
remaining. With the addition of to¬
matoes, artichokes, or whatever vege¬
tables can be procuied, and a slight
thickening addition of cornstarch, the family it makes dinner. a wel¬
come to If
the supply of vegetables is iusulhc ent, a
pint of milk is a great improvement, and
a well-beaten egg stirred in gives it body.
No house mother is a past-mistress in the
art of economy until she has mastered ihe
possibilities of soup as a nourishing and
inexpensive food. It is a means of
■otherwise making use of wasted, many fragments and that obliging must
be of
them to yield up every particle of nourish¬
ment that they contain. than
Fish is much more easily steamed
boiled; it is not as liable to be broken.
Oysters are delicious cooked in this way.
They are drained, laid on a plate, and
steamed for about tejf minutes, accord¬
ing and to the size, The until liqufir .they look heated, plump
white. can be
an equal quantity of cream added to half
a pint, thickened with a teaspoonful of
cornstarch and poured around them, or
they can be served dry on squares of
Stale bread or biscuit can by steaming
rendered as, nice as when fresh. Out
bread in slices, and stand them in
steamer leaning against a bowl in the
so the steam will reach every
part of the slices. Let them remain for
five or six minutes, remove the cover,
turning it up quickly so the condensed
steam on it will not drop on the bread,
butter each slice as it is removed, pile
lightly on a hot dish. Split the biscuit,
observe the same precautions in steam¬
ing, and serve in the same way.
1 lum cake can be easily cooked by
steaming each loaf for three hours and
fin shing by baking it in a moderate oven
for one hour. It cannot be told from
cake baked in the ordinary way, and
there is much less anxiety as to how it
■will turn out.— Christian Union.
Rccelpes.
Rice Potato. —Boil and mash good
potatoes. When beaten light and
put through a colander.
Cornstarch Pie.—O ne pint of sweet
milk, one cup of sugar, two tabiespoon
f uls of corn starch, yolks of two eggs.
Cook in a pail in a kettle of water;
when thick flavor to taste and pour into
a previously baked crust. Beat the
whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, add
four tablespoonfuls of sugar, spread
over the pic and brown slightly.
Chicken Fritters.—C old chicken,
salt and pepper, lemon iuice, batter,
Cut the cold chicken with in small pieces,
putina dish, season salt, pepper
and juice of a lemon. Let this stand
one hour. Then make a batter of two
eggs to a pint of milk, a little salt and
flour enough to make a batter not two
,
stiff. Stir the chicken in this and drop
it by spoonfuls in boiling fat. Fry brown,
drain and serve.
Fish Pie. —Take any rm-fleshed
fish, cut in slices, and season with salt
and pepper; let stand in a cold place
for two or three hours, then put the
sliced fish in a baking dish, with a little
cream or water, and butter and flour
rubbed to a cream, with minced parsely
and hard-boiled eggs sliced; line the
sides of the dish half way down, and
cover with a nice paste Bake in an oven,
quick at first, but gradually growing
moderate.
Strawberry Bavarian Cream.—
Dissolve a quarter of an ounce of gelatine
in three or four tablespoonfuls of hot
water, then add to it four ounces of
powdered sugar, and put it through a
sieve. firm, Whip it a pint ice of for cream, and, when
hour. put on a quarter of an
Press four ounces of strawberries
with through a sieve, which put in a bowl
beginning your gelatine stiffen and sugar. When
whipped to which slightly, add the
cream, remove from the
bowl with a skimmer, so as to drain off
all moisture. Mix all well together, and
pour into a mold, which put on ice for
about an hour, then turn out of the
mold and serve.
Roast Spring Lamh wmi Mint
Sauce. —Select a hind quarter and roast
in a moderate oven until thoroughly
cooked. All young meats, such as veai
and lamb, require very thorough cook¬
ing. Serve with mint sauce made as
follows: Remove the leaves from the
stalks of a whole bunch of mint. Cut in
fine bits and place in the sauce bowl.
Bruise with three teaspoonfuls of sugar.
Pour over- the whole half pint of vine¬
gar, which if very strong should be di¬
luted.
The Fate of a Big Shark.
Captain John Gray has presented to
the Left-Handed Fishing Club the
skeleton of a shark which is said to have
been the largest ever seen on the coast of
the Gulf of Mexico. The shark, it
seems, had b en hovering about the
quarantine days station Pass Cavallo for
some last summer, and his con¬
tinued presence in the pass made the
men about the quarantine station uneasy
about bathing in the surf. The captain
of the State quarantine schooner de¬
termined to catch the monster of the
deep, and securing an immense steel
hook, he attached it to a trace chain,
and a rope to the chain. The rope was
then tied to the mast of the vessel. It
took the combined strength of two men
t<f haul the fish to the side of the boat,
working with the aid of a block and
tackle.His head was pulled out of the
water, and several well directed blows
with an ax killed him. He was then
hauled upon the beach. He measured
fourteen feet in length. The ba kbone
and head now adorn the walls of the
club rooms of the Left-Handed Club, be¬
ing suspended just shark, in the who rear is the of the
desk of the chief pre¬
siding officer of the club. The mouth
is thirty inches in diameter. It is re¬
lated of this shark that he was not at all
fastidious in his diet. It made no dif¬
ference to this mon-ter of the deep
whether it was a small boy, a dog or the a
hog that he caught paddling he in had
water. Some weeks be ore
caught a mule wading out into the
water, and the shark sw am out to him
and bit off his left hind leg, and swal¬
lowed leg, foot, iron shoe and all with¬
out an apparent effort. After the fish
was caught the hind leg of the mule was
secuted, but too late to be of use to the
mule, he having reconciled himself to
three legs for the rest of his life. The
shoe was taken from the hoof, and it
hangs over the door of the loom of the
Left-Handed Club.
A Clam Captures a Sea Gull.
A fisherman on Plymouth Beach,
Mass., captured a larje gray sea gull iu
a rather peculiar profit ament. Firmly
pinched upon the bird s b 11 was a sea
clam about the size of the palm of a
man’s hand. The clam weighed enough
to keep the head of the gull hanging^
downward, and thus effectually pre¬
vented any long flight, while it was evi¬
dently nearly exhau ted in trying to es¬
cape from its strange captor. It is
thought that the gull, seeing the clam’s
snout protruding, endeavored to seize
the dainty morsel, and was in turn
gripped by the hard shells of its in
intended victim. The clarn had to be
cut away from the bird’s bill .—Boston
Herald.
Chinese Ginners.
Consul Peters, of Ningpo, says the on¬
ly large cotton gius are situated in Ning¬
po. The cotton is separated from the
seed by the use of hand-power treadle
gins, manufactured in Japan. They are
worked eighteen hours a day, and iu
that time turn out 240 pounds of seed
cotton, or 80 pounds of lint cotton per
gin. These contrivances, although prim¬
itive, are . superior to the little treadle
gins used by the cotton growers. Steam
power is now being introduced to work
the gins with. The Chinese gins clean
the seed better than the American saw
gins. The cotton ginned retains the en¬
tire strength of the fibre; it pulls the cot¬
ton from the seed. Cotton is purchased
by buyers in the cotton growing sections
and shipped to Ningpo to be ginned.
When ginned the cotton is packed in
sacks weighing 160 pounds. The staple
is short, ranging from half to five
eighths of an inch. Cotton in bales is
not bale packed is tightly, and a 160-pound
as bulky as a bale of American
cotton. The price paid for the cotton in
April, 1888, was 7f centsa pound ginned.
Most of the cotton ginned in Ningpo is
manufactuced into CQtton goods in China.
One American 100-saw gin would do the
work of twelve of the hand-power gins
used in Ningpo. The chief profit in the
ginning of cotton seems to be in the
soiling of seed. The seed sell at about the
rate of 90 cents to $1.12 per bushel.
The seed when sold is used in the manu¬
facture of oil for fertilizing and for feed¬
of stock.
To secure a good crop of grass it is
fully as nece sary as with any other crop,
that good care be taken to have the soil
reasonably rich and well prepared before
sowing the seed. It is quite a serious
error to work upon the plan that land is
too be seeded poor to plant to any other crop can
down to grass.
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There’s certainly something the matter with
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