Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1902 — Cookery Corner [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Cookery Corner

Cooks should be cautioned to keep all cooking utensils perfectly clean. A sensible breakfast includes fruit, cereal, cream, corued beef bash, poached eggs, muffins, and coffee. Food that is wholesome and well cooked Is a boon. Beef, If properly served, is one of the most desirable of meats. Add a speck of soda when cooking beans or any vegetables which seem tough, and the cooking process is quickened. Tho kitchen should be spotless. Sorrow it is that so many of them are not. Habit and lack of forethought are, in the main, responsible. The celebrated Spanish pickle is made of red cabbage and slices of Spanish onions. The spices used are black and white pepper corns, ginger root and mace. A sandwich p&neake is made by taking two slices of bread, not too thick, and placing a layer of jam between. Cover these well with a thick whole meal batter and fry. A fine Saturday dinner includes black bean soup, veal cutlet (breaded), cream sauce, rice croquettes, peas, tomato mayonnaise, cheese, wafers, floating Island, and coffee. Creamed ham on toast; Chop the remnants of cold boiled ham fine, make a thin white sauce with one tablespoonful each of butter and flour, add gradually one cupful of milk, salt and pepper to season, add the ham to this, and pour over the buttered toast. Eggs and calf's liver is a toothsome dish. Fry six eggs and arrange in a long dish. Add a chopped onion to about two ounces of finely chopped calf's liver, put in a frying pan over a strong fire eight minutes, aud add a little vinegar, salt, and cayenne pepper. Care of Carpets. To keep a good carpet do not hide 11 under a cheap drugget, as many a prudent but short-sighted housewife does. This only makes a good carpet the lining for a poor one. Through the loose fibers of the drugget dust filters and little bits of dirt, which wear away the fubric underneath. It is always best to have the carpet laid by men front the store, as they know how to avoid straining the fiber. Let them also clean the carpets, as the amateur usually does more harm than good as a cleaner. The carpet should be brushed away from the nap. Nap dragged daily the wrong way weakens and pulls away. To clean a carpet it should be done over yard by yard with a clothes brush, sweeping with the nap. This will give you a chance to see all the stains. The right method to treat a good carpet is to lay it carefully on a soft bedding of thick layers of newspaper* or of brown paper. The printing ink on newspapefs Is disliked by th* inoth, which will avoid such things a* a place unsuitable for the laying of it* eggs. Thus thick folds of newspapers not only give a thick uiulerfootlng for the floor, but relieve the housewife of one source of worry—moths In her best carpet. The papers should he renewed each time the carpet Is taken up.— Boston Journal. Ornaiuenta for the Neck. Neck ornaments are particularly pretty. The flat plaited white nud colored moussellne lx>ns more resemble shoulder fichus. lielng Invariably laddered with moussellne roses or velvet rose leaves applique at the edge of the moussellne kilting. Euds of black ribbon velvet or strands of jet beads finish the fronts. Others of tulle, forming ruches turning down from the hair, are embellished by long pompadour silk stole ends trimmed with large steel buttons. Effective etceteras are always nn Important Item ou a l’nrlslau toilet, and some of the latest cravats and boas are particularly attractive this season. Spotted kilted white moussellne trimmed with lace, pompadour rihlsm latticed on net, colored bel>e ribbon velvet gathered up luto rosettes lu front of neckbands and embroidered lawn and llnon sole collarettes are among the most popular accessories.