HOW TO MAKE BEEF TEA.

Two Methods o£ Preparing This Strengthening Broth.

The first of the methods here given makes surely a genuine extract of beef, containing all the strengthening properties and the full nourishment of the meat. If the stomach of the in valid is quite weak, this extract is not given in its full strength, but it is dilut ed with hot water until it is of the Itrength desired by the physician. In making this tea or extract always se lect the juiciest part of the beef with out regard to its tenderness. Indeed the tenderer the meat is the less juicy It will be found. The lower part of the round is usual ly found to be the best for beef tea. It must be absolutely free from fat, only the lean meat being available. Cut the beef into quarter inch dice shaped pieces and put them in a wide mouthed bottle and set it on a stand of some kind in a kettle of cold wa *ter. This is to raise the jar and let the water under it, so that the glas3 will not be on the hot bottom of the kettle, as it would almost to a cer tainty break unless it was thus pro tected. Set the kettle over the fire and heat it gradually. When it comes to a boil, keep it gently simmering for several hours until the meat is perfect ly white, looking like pieces of India rubber, all the juice being extracted. Then strain out the juice, press it all out from the pieces of meat and season to the taste with salt.

To make the tea more quickly cut one-half pound of the juicy round freed from all fat into small pieces, season with a saltspoonful of salt, press it with a wooden potato mashed and let it stand in a covered bowl for half an hour. Pour off the juice and heat, but do not boil it. Serve it im mediately without straining. The salt will draw out only a portion of the Juice from the meat, so a beef tea may be made from the meat after the juice has been poured off the first time by adding one cupful of cold water to it and letting it stand for a couple of hours. Then strain off the water, pressing the meat to get out all the juice; heat it, and you will have a very palatable cup of tea, a little less strong than the first, but good notwithstand ing.—Woman's Home Companion.

How to Grill Mackerel.

Split the mackerel down the back, season them with pepper and salt, oil them all over and cook on a gridiron over a moderate fire for 15 minutes, turning them two or three times. Make the sauce as follows: Brown four ounces of butter in a stewpan, stirring all the time to prevent burning. Then add a wineglassful of tarragon vine gar, another of Harvey sauce, a table spoonful of chopped capers, a.little an chovy sauce and a gill of brown sauce or good gravy. Boil for five minutes and serve over the mackerel.

How to Fill Out Hollow Cheeks.

Pill out hollow cheeks by compress ing the lips and puffing out the cheeks. Do this often, and It exercises the largest muscles of the face and fills out the whole outline into a well round ed contour. This is better than wear- Ing "plumpers" or increasing the flab biness of the outer skin with a suction pump by frequent steaming.

• The lips should be contracted Into a circle and then moved in a circular manner; also stretching them back ward at the corners, showing the teeth. This will reduce lips which are too large and coarse and give them a pret tier curve in consequence, as well aa expression to the mouth, by reducing the fat and developing the muscles.

How to Bread Sausages.

Six small sausages, one-half pint of dried bread, crumbs, the yolk of one tablespoonful milk. Beat the yolk of egg and then beat into it the milk. Prick the sausages with a fork and roll them one by one in the egg, then in the crumbs. Have fat smok ing hot, arrange in frying basket, cook ten minutes, drain and serve.

How to Mend Kid Gloves.

If you spy a tiny hole, mend it with out delay, tliat it may not increase in size. Mend it on the inside of the glove with fine cotton of the same col or as the kid. Do not use silk, for it ,jsoon wears out.

Never break off your cotton, but cut it, so as not to draw your stitches too tightly, and make the seam hard and uneven. When sewing a split in a finger seajoi, insert a finger Into the glove and draw the edges together so that they meet, and* that Is all. A ridge would not only be uncomforta ble, but would look unsightly. Neat mending is facilitated by the use of a small, sharp glove needle.

How to Prevent Vegetable Smells

To keep the smell of cabbage or green vegetables from pervading the house while cooking put a thick lump jof bread into the water they are boiled In, and no smell whatever will be per ceived.

How to Starch Collars.

Make three tablespoonfuls of good laundry strach Into a paste with cold (water. Then shred, a teaspoonful of .white soap and dissolve in a little warm water. Mix a teaspoonful of powdered boras in a little warm wa ter till dissolved. Stir all together till It froths. To starch collars wring only a few at a time from the blue .water. Well rub them in the starch and wring out. Stir up the starch each time from the bottom, as it will settle quickly. Rub the collars with a clean rag before Ironing and use the heel only of the polishing Iron.

How to Make Coloring Caramel.

Melt in a deep frying pan half a pound of powdered sugar, and when it is clear, pale brown in color add two gills of water. Let it cool and then cork it in a small bottle for use in col oring soups and sauces.

THIS arßßimTOfi s SATURDAY, MAECH SI, 190©

Printed and published by Henry Willis «f feter Street, Auhburton, for the Propria tors, at their Printing Office, Burnett Street, Aehburton, SATURDAY, March 31, 1900



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