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The Brussels Post, 1905-6-15, Page 6About Sfa the f1 TESTED RECITES. Baked Beets.—Nash thoroughly Some good-sized beets, being careful not to break the skin, and do not trim the tops off very close. Bake until When pinched they are soft all the way through. About ono and a half to two hours Is required for medium sized beets, Do not pierce with -a fork, as the juice will boil out. When baked, peel (the skin is loose from the meat, and readily comes orf), slice, and season with salt and pepper and butter. Beets prepared this way retain the sweet- ness which is lost, to a great extent, in boiling. Young Beets,—Tine beets should be about the size of hickory nuts. If any of the outer leaves are ragged or rusty, remove them, keeping those that are tender and whole. Wash well, taking caro not to break the Blankets cru a difficulty to many skin of the beet -root, and cook in belling water; slightly salted, until people, mostly because they cannot tender. Cut off the leaves close to make up their minds as to how the roots, drain in a colander, and often they should be washed, nor chop One, seasoning with butter, how they should be treated. In salt, pepper, and' lemon juice. Set many houses they are only washed in a saucepan of boiling water, to once a year; but somehow this does get very !not, while you scrape and seem rather too rare a proceeding. trim the beets. When the leaves aro On the other band, it Is really not dished, lay the rod beeLlels about necessary to have them washed more them as a garnish. than twice a year; but they must Strawberry Dumplings.—Roll out have proper cure in the interval in a layer of cream of tartar biscuit the shape of Hiring, shaking, etc. A dough very thin; butter and spread washing -machine is very good for very thickly with ripe strawberries tho purpose, especially as they should which have been rolled in sugar; never be :rubbed, by the hand. The then roll the dough up, pinch the water should be only lukewarm, and edges tightly together and steam a little soap well lathered in the for three quarters of an hour, When water is all that will be required. done, serve immediately, cutting Wring the blankets very dry through slices from the end, jelly -roil lash- a wringer, shake them nut, and wash ion. An egg sauce or whipped cream again in the same way, wringing is delicious with this desert. each time, until they aro quite clean, ; PIneapple Custard—Make smooth Do not rime them, but pull them! three tablespoonfuls of flour with Jute shape and hang them put in; one of butter and stir into a quart the sun which is a great help to of boiling milk. Have ready the beaten yolks of eight eggs, add to them two-thirds of a cup of sugar and turn into the milk, stirring con- stantly for three minutes, add, when, — cold, a cupful of chopped piueap :le'Emperor of Japan. Issued Them and four tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. Cover with a meringue of the whites of the eggs and four dessert spoonfuls of powdered sugar. Brown lightly in the oven. e. small piece off and Put a match to it, if it is all wool it will only singe, but if eotton is there it will flare up. There is no nicer spring break- fast than a sliced green pepper out very small and soaked for ten min- utes with two peeled and sliced to- matoes in a little butter; add four eggs lightly beaten and stir as for a scramble, When the handles of steel knives and forks come off they can be easily mended with resin. Pour a little powdered resin into tho cavity in the handle. heat the part of the handle until it is red hot, and thrust into tho handle. It will become firm- ly fired by the resin when it be- eonua cool. Protect the blade from the heat. Don't use bores and rosewator to 'Ohio) tan and freckles without putting on a little cold cream after- wards, for borax makes the skin dry. To removi old putty and paint, make a paste with soft soap and, a solution of caustic soda, or with slaked lime and pearlash. Lay it on with a piece of rag or a brush, and leave it for several hours, when it will be found that the paint or putty may be easily removed. REGARDING BLANKETS. preserving a good talar. TEE MIKADO'S PRECEPTS. to His Army. On the walls of the barracks, on the sides of the tents, at the foot of every Japanese soldier's cot bruit Jelly—Soak one box of gel.- hangs ti printed copy of seven moral tine one hour in one pint of cold precepts. 'The I•Intperor of Japan is water; when soaked, pour on ono supposed to be the author. At any pint of boiling water, than put rate, he, as general-in-chiel, issued in a quart of fruit. Pineapples, them to his army. The last thing canned strawberries or raspberries, the soldier sees 00 retiring, the first or other fruits may be used. Add thkng to greet his eyes when he one-half cup of sugar and one tea- awakes, are these precepts. spoonful of lemon, then pour in Every morning after roll -call an of mould to harden. Serve with whip- fleet of each company reacts the pre - peel cream. cepts to his men. Then he snakes Veal Curry.—Veal is one of the the men recite then in concert, and afterward calls upon individual sol- diers to repeat them. In barracks the oMcors drill the sten in the knowledge of the precepts, and explain them in detail, illustrat- ing their explanations with examples drawe front history. Deeds of Wash- ington, Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Grant and other famous commanders aro related, that the soldiers may know the precepts in practical ap- plication as well as in theory, Baron Kaneko, a Japanese states- man who recently visited this coun- try on a cnntidcntial missi00, ns - serf a :serts that the personal valor of the ,hal anese. soldiers is duo to the prac- tiro of the seven precepts. here they are, as translated by Baron Tianako from the Mikado's edict: "To- he sincere end loyal and guard against unlruthfuhness, "To respect superiors, keep true nt d sand guard against law - Look at the thick end of the hunch to cot u t g n d a6 in which they hang.. 11 it bo black lessn0ses and insolence, the fruit will ripen too fast and rot. 3f the branch be green tho bananas will ripen slowly and lusciously and bo of a good flavor. If all the slum be gieCu the bananas will keep a. long be dili;Cent Jn the performance of duties, and guard against cowardice and timidity, "1•o boast not of brutal courage, and neither quarrel with nor insult others, which will incite general hat- red. "To cultivate virtue and practise frugality, and guard against extra- vagance and effeminacy, "To prize reputation and honor, and guard against vulgarity and greed." meats especially adapted for cur- rie.s. Hero is an admirable recipe, recommended at the New England School of Cookery: A slice of veal half an inch thick, weighing a pound and a half, is cooked quickly in a frying pan without any butter. The surface should be quickly seared. Take oat of the pan and Cut in pieces about an inch and a half square. Make the curry sauce as follows:— Fry two sliced onions in half a cup- ful of butter, take out the onions and add to the butter the meat, half a tablespoonful of curry powder, and boiling water to cover. Cook slowly until the meat is tender. Thicken when dole with flour stirred into cold water and season with salt, cayenne and a squeeze of lemon juice. Serve with a border of boiled rice. IN CHOOSING BANANAS. "To ole} the cm -armed of super- iors, irrespective of its nature, and never to resist or disregard it. "To l.rize bravery and courage and Hine, but if half or three-fourths of tho steal be black it shows that its time is shortening. The biggest and handsomest branches may look well to ignorant purchasers, but the smaller ere the juciost and best, the tiny "fig," ban- ana being the best of all, Tho rind Should be thin, and there should bo no ridges or corners to it; the larger the ridges the coarser the fruit, A11 bananas contain starch while green, which upon ripening changes into sugar. They are therefore best while turning yellow but still streak - ad with green. Cabinet Pudding with Bananas.— Butter a quart mold and dispose in it t layer of Sponge cake, cut in thin slices, and over this arrange a layer of sliced bananas. Continuo in this way until the mold is filled, Beat three eggs, add one -hall cup of .sugar, and pour in gradually Qn0 pint of milk, either hot or cold. Add a few grains salt and turn into the mold. The cake will absorb all the liquid by allowing it to stand a few 1100011115. 001'01' 1110 10(11(1 and let steam, or set in a pan of hot water in the oven, until the custard is set, and the pudding is 110m. Serve hot with hard or currant jelly sauce. Croquettes—ltemovo the slain and Ooerse threads from the bannnns and trim tine pulp of each to simulate a cylindrical shaped crociuotto. 1:5011 in an egg, beaten with ono table- spoon of cold water, and then in sifted broad crmmhs, seasoned with salt ttnd peeper, and fry (Moult a inintttc and a Half in hot deep fat, Drain on soft diaper'. Servo on the platted' With roast lamb. HINTS TO iIOUSTliU11'1PE.ItS. It is not generally 1mown that Cgs covered 01111 boiling water and allowed to eland for five rniun1,011 are flirir11 nourishing and more easily di- gested than eggs placed in boiling water and allowed to boil furiously for three awl a half minutes, In 'testing a piece of cloth to sec if it, .is a enf.toin tnixture,if you cut MACHINE -FED TURKEYS. English. Breeders Have Peculiar Way of Fattening Them. In England turkeys are generally soul according to the rule of weight per pound, price per pound. That is to say, 1f a bird weighs 62 pounds, it is 8olt1 at 24 cants per pound; if Its weight is 14 pounds, at 28 cents per pound, and so on. Naturally, all lereoders endeavor to make their turkeys as plump and heavy as possible before sending them to market. Systems of fatten- ing arc extensively carried on among poultry farmers, turkeys being put Into pens and fe1ttnurl for a period varying from three to ten weeks, Cit her iy hand or. with machines. The machine mostly used for this purpose consists of a brass nozzle -- which Is inserted in the month of the bird—attached to a pieco of India rubber tubing, and connected with a cylinder. In this cylinder is a supply of liquid food, made of buckwheat or some other meal mills, and a little fat, and it is so arranged that whoa a pedal is pressed by the foot a portion of tho foot!, Varying accord- ing to the stage of fattening—fear it Is—increased in rluantity melt day until the process is completed --is in- jected u and n osl hal h thea o rc, d i n h the ji. to Jr into the bird's crop. 11, lit easier to get into public life than to stay there, Separators are different. This Illustration shows some differences==note the low supply caii and staple bowl—cher are others more important. The ss Uneeda " is easy to wash—easy to turn—oils itself ==skims cleanest of all, 1 �t �- it I N `l•.tl V 3i. C T �' V �4 B-�d V i° J.ny person in Canada is free to make Tubular Separators with the exception of the stoad3 in„ device, and practically free to make that provided it is not made like Sharples. Such is the substance of the judgment rendered on Monday, the 8th inst., by Judge Burbidge, in Sharples vs. Ourselves. It is all we contended for and we are perfectlysatisfied. The Sharples people have lost in this case practically all they contended for, and their position now in regfard to their much vaunted patent is, to say the least, extremely ridiculous. Company, or anyof their .agents make the claim that this statement is not Should the Sharples Co p y, agents, correct in all points ask them to produce Judge Burbidge's written judgment. We will sell you for four cents a better steadying device than Sharples' and one which Judge Bur- gheldwas no infringement on Shar ples's latent. blclae in llisjlicl�nlent 1 � l 1 Nate ..,,rl,.w,v,w,....u�.em.,:a,:m4,am..«m:,d::a., allufact Co Dilly, LLllnitc PEMBROKE, ONT. OLD i:N 71.AN1 NEWS BY 1Y1:AIL ABOUT .TORN BULL AND HI5 PEoi'Lx• Occurrences la the Land Tltalt. Reigns Supreme in the 0ou1- utoroial World. falcon Square Congregational church, London Wall, is to he romov oil 1,0 harrow, the sale of the site, having realized 41130,000. Liverpool's new cotton exchange,. which is to be erected in Old Hall street, will cost £'133,000, that be- ing the accepted contract price. It is stated that the lliag's cars. have each been furnished with a cpm pleto nest aid to the injured outfit. One inch of rain falling on the whole area of the Thames Valley is, equivalent to a river (170 miles long, 250 foot wide and 10 feet deep. Measures to restore Stratford -on - Avon to its former beauty would form, says Miss Maria Corelll, 1110 best "national memorial" of Shake- spetuVe. Campotltion between brewery firms 111 0rmslcirk, Lancashire, has. brought the price of beer down to 1d per pint, and 11101.10r cutting 1a threatened. Monsieur I. Menagoi', 01101 to King Edward, will 110 chairman of that jury which is to sit in judgment at the Cookery Exhibition in the I3or- ticultural I Tall. Wages on tho new Thames steam- boats of the London County Council will range from 50s for captains,. 30s for stokers and pier 0101,, to 24s for S00001t1 deet. hands. Because he only received 6s. 10d. a week after over 21 years' service. the sub -postmaster at one of the most important branches In Carnar- von has relinquished his appoint- mentr. I'othe purpose of Phu'opoan col- onization, a land settlement. com- pany will shortly be formed by the British South Africa Company to take over large tracts in Southern Rhodesia. To be presented by Mr. Choate, tho American Ambassador to Groat Britain a stained glass wirnalow has been completed and will be shipped from New York. Wlien the Eccentric Club has 990 members—a number which it expects to reach before Christmas—it will enroll 110 more unless death or resig- nation creates vacancies. The pres- ent membership is 9110. Eighty miles nu hour is the speed a motor -ear has reached of Filey beach, East Yorkshire, where a mo- tor meet is shortly to take place. An excellent course: is offered owing to the solidity of the sands. Lullington church, near Lewes, int Sussex, is credited with being the la smallest place of worship in England. Its dimensions arc only 16ft. 840(110. There are six houses 111 tho parish and the living 111 worth £40 a year. —4 - LATEST CENSUS OF RUSSIA. Czar's Country Has a Population of 125,640,021. Figures taken from the latest offi- cial census of :Russia show the Pop- ulation of the Czar's domains to be 125,6.10,021. This total comprises thirty-seven tribes and nationalities The Russians comprise two-thirds of the population of Lite empire, but in some outlying districts are in the minority. In the Caucasus there are only 84 per cent. Hessians; among the tribes of Armenians, Tartars, Georgians, Ivoretlans and 141ingrcls there are n0 per tett, of Resigns; in Central Asia 13.9. The smallest percentage of Russians is found in the governments on the Vistula (Po- land), where there aro but 6.7 per cont. of 14ussians. Tho total number of inhabitants classified as Russians is 83,933,067. The remaining population is divided into nationalities and tripes varying in size from 7,000,000 Po100 down 10 a very few hundreds of other nationalities. Ol the Russians 30.6 per rent, of tho finales and 9.3 per cent. of the females can read and write. Tho number of adherents to the principal religiouslows: denominations is as fol - Orthodox, 57,128,604; old faith and dissenters from orthodoxy, 2,- 204,590; ];teams Catholics, 1.1,506,- 809; 1'rotestanls, 3,7(32, 786; Ar- menian Clregorians, 1,179,266; lefoh- anmueclans, 13,006,972. The Population is mado tip of the following classes in about tho fol- lowing proportions: Peasants, 96,- 916,644; burghers, 13,586,892; here- ditary noblemen, 1,220,169; personal noblemen and officials, (1110,119; ec- clesiastics, 588,492; hereditary and personal honorary citizens, 842,- 227; merchants, 281,179, and for- eigners, 605,500. RUSSIAN ALOOBOLISM. Excessive Drinking las Hurt the Russian Fighting Men Chronic alcoholism among the Ras - shins 1nny explain, in part at least, 80010 of 1.110 results of the war in Manchuria., On the Japanese side the reports are all of one 'tenor, and de- pict an almost universal abstinence, What drinking is dome is int oxtrsnmc moderation, Upon the 1tti hat side we boar of immense stores of vodka, eliampagne by thio carload lots, anal orgies innumerable. The Russian of. flea 111 notorious, by gestural report, Of eaunse, for the large quantities of alcohol he daily consumes, and it is impossible for any brant to submit to such insults willicnt tmclm'going the 11111111515 :1011, 11110W11 10 take place in lioa.vy d,•hikels, It is not remark- ab1e, then, that Ilse older officers who nye nnnagihr• ilia campaign are constantly outwitted by the healthy - Hurled ,lapanmsc 1t is apparently not so much a ouesetir,n of drtmken- 11089 as it ill One of the pathologic results of iong continued excessive drinking without dr>niltelnness, Some rnen arra 0 ltioizythat when Limy lose their purses thoi'e was never anything in them.