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Show Kitcben and Cable I The Sunday Menu. Oranges. Grapes. ; Oatmeal. Cream. Baked Apples. Omelet. Stewed Potatoes. Wheat Cakes. Gems. Coffee. DINNER. Blue Points on the Half Shell. Cream of Tomato Soup. Celerv. Radishes. Olives. Plain Potato Balls. Roast Turkey. Oyster Sauce, f'ranherrv Jelly. Sweet Potato Croquettes. Peas. Boiled Onions, rium Pudding. Brandy Sauce. lcet. Cakes. Jelly. Cheese. Wafers. Coffee. Bonbons. Fruiis. Nuts. SCPPER. I.obfter a la Newburg. Mavonr.aise of Celery. Potato Croquettes. Pickled Beets. Parker House Rolls. Frozen Jelly. Whippc-d Cream. Sponge Cake, tea. Coffee Fruit Cake. A coffee fruit cake that is not so rich as the genuine fruit cake is easily made. Cream together one cup of brown sugar with one cun of butter before adding the beaten yolks of three eggs, one teaspoonful each of cloves, cinnamon cinna-mon and allspice, and one cup of molasses. mo-lasses. Beat in, alternately, the whites of the eggs and four cupfuls of sifted flour, reserving a little of the flour to dredge a cup each of seeded raisins and j currants, which are added after the ' egg whites and flour. At the last, dis- solve a level teaspoonful of soda in a teaspoonful of boiling water, and stir into a cupful of clear, cold and rather strong coffee, which is immediately added to the cake. Line a pan with buttered paper and bake the loaf in a slow oven for fully an hour, or until a broom-whisk inserted comes out clean. To Salt Almonds, 1 In preparing almonds for salting, ' care should be taken that they do not remain too long in the blanching water. Eoi!ing water is often poured over th-3 almonds and the bowl left untouched in the press of other preparations. The hot water draws out the bitter, prussic acid taste of the skin, and if the nuts are left to cool in the water, they will reabsorb it. If this carelessness has taken place, rinse the nut meats with boiling water after the skin comes off. To Dress Celery. Place the celery on the ice one hour before dressing. Cut all the vivid green part off; cut the long stalks into length of five inches, slit one end three or four times, purl the edges with a sharp knife. Put it in ice water until time of serving. Lemon Sherbet. J This is very easily made. Two quarts of water; the juice of nine lemons; one quart of cut sugar; two well-beaten eggs. Rub the sugar on. some of the lemons. Freeze and serve in tall glasses. Chocolate Creams. One pound of confectioners' sugar, white of one egg, two tablespoonfuls of water, one teaspoonful of vanilla extract. ex-tract. Mix well and make into balls whatever size required. Melt half a cake of chocolate, dip the balls in it and lay on buttered paper to harden. Fig Paste. Take two cups granulated sugar, one cup of hot water, and boil until it strings. Have chopped into a pulp six large Turkish figs, flavored with nutmeg nut-meg or one-half teaspoonful of vanilla. Stir this into the syrup, and beat with a spoon until it begins to thicken. Pour into a pan lined with paraffin paper, and mark into squares. Many Uses of Salt. A little salt added to whites of eggs when beating makes them froth quickly. quick-ly. Stains on windows can be removed by using diluted spirits of salt. To take out ink or iron mold stains, wet them with milk and cover with salt. Frequent baths in tepid salt water, followed by brisk friction of the whole body, is a protective measure best employed em-ployed in the morning directly after rising. These baths are tonics to the I skin and fortify it against the deleterious deleteri-ous influences of sudden atmospheric I changes. For standard money the people of Abyssinia use the Maria Theresa 1780 dollars, but for small change a very different coin is resorted to. This is no other than a bar of hard, crystallized crystal-lized salt, about ten inches long and two and a half inches broad and thick, slightly tapering toward the end. Five of these bars go for a dollar at the capital. cap-ital. Half a teaspoonful of common table salt dissolved in a little cold water and drunk will instantly relieve "heartburn" "heart-burn" or dyspepsia. If dose is increased, taken before breakfast, will cure dyspepsia. dys-pepsia. There is no better remedy than the above for constipation. For the kidneys, apply strong, hot salt water over the region of the kidneys kid-neys three or four times a day; cover with thick cloth or rags; nothing better. bet-ter. One pint of salt to eight pints of corn boiled and canned will keep for one year. Try adding 'a pinch of salt to hot chocolate or cocoa. It is very efficacious in bringing out the flavor of the beverage. bever-age. The same on a melon. The best way to clean the thin iron spiders which have become burned and black is to boil a little vinegar and salt in them, when easily scrubbed clean. You may know that a lump of salt is good for a horse (but you have never offered any to the editor for his pumpkin pump-kin pie and chicken), and you do not stop to consider how important salt is for your own, well being. When your stomach is out of order or, as the common com-mon saying is, upset, it is in a state of fermentation and the free use of salt will upset the fermentation. Milk Toast. Milk toast as it is served on nine tables out of ten is uneatable. Properly Prop-erly prepared, it is not only a good dish ' for the light menu allowed a convalescent, but is welcomed eagerly by the children of the family, certainly if grated maple sugar is sent around jvith it. To two cups of scalded milk and the milk should be merely scalded, not boiled, and if there Is a scum, which there should not be, it must be removed to this amount of milk: stir in a paste made of a scant table-spoonful table-spoonful and a half of flour, wet in a little cold water. To the flour, while it is dry, add a good saltspoonful of salt. When the paste is mixed with the milk, it should be cooked in a double boiler, stirring constantly. When it is about as thick as cream, a piece of butter the size of a walnut is added. The bread toasted dry is dipped into the sauce, each slice remaining re-maining until evenly tender, when it Is piled lightly on a small platter and what sauce is left poured over and around it. It should be eaten while very hot. , r" The Home Doctor. Use. the white of an egg for a burn. It formsa coating which excludes the air. " " " . , ; :. -s- . A good remedy for catarrh, it is sai5, is the . free . use of boracic acid as a snuff. -' '- 1 - Whether - only 'an extremity, or- the entire bo'dy is ' affected the treatment of freezing is -the same. ' In all pases avoid a sudden change of tempera ture. y If. a person. is found overcome and benumbed with cold and you take him at once to a fire or warm room you are likely to kill him. Take him only to a sheltered place or shed, which still feels very cold to you, . It will be. amply warm to him. Remove any wet clothing and rub the body till dry; .wrap him in a dry blanket and give him a stimulant, such as hot, strong coffee. Remove to a somewhat warmer room and raise the temperature tempera-ture very gradually. It is said that if the feet are well soaked in warm water at night and then the corns rubbed with castor oil these troublesome excrescences will disappear. . . As a laxative stewed or baked apples ap-ples are excellent. As destroyers of flatulence they are unequaled if their use is persisted in. . If you awaken in the night coughing and cannot stop, get a small portion of powdered borax and place it or. your tongue ,and let it slowly dissolve, and. it will almost instantly stop the cough, as it will also relieve an ulcer in the throat. At the first suspicion of ivy poisoning poison-ing -wash the skin in water in which common baking soda (saleratus) has been dissolved. ' Make the solution strong and "spat" it on, allowing the deposit of the white powder to remain on the skin. Apply frequently for twenty-four hours. j |