drain. Cut in small pieces 1 pint of mushrooms, adding some minced
parsley, a slice of finely chopped ham, some summer savory, thyme, salt,
and cayenne pepper. Put all these in a saucepan with some butter, and
1/2 cup of water. Boil together ten or fifteen minutes, and set away to
cool. Have ready some fine bread crumbs, add to them seasoning, and the
yolks of 2 or 3 well-beaten eggs. Mix the mushrooms and tomatoes
together; pour into a baking-dish a portion of it; then sprinkle over it
a layer of the bread-crumbs and add the remainder of the tomatoes; cover
with bread-crumbs, and put some bits of butter on top. Bake half-an-hour
in a well heated oven.
Broiled Flounders or Smelts.
Have medium-sized flounders or smelts, cleaned with as little cutting as
possible; wash thoroughly in salted water, and dry on a towel; mix in a
saucer three tablespoonfuls of olive oil, and 1 of vinegar, with salt
and pepper; score the sides of the fish at intervals of an inch, with a
sharp knife, and rub all over with the mixture of oil, vinegar and
seasoning. Place them between the bars of a buttered gridiron, and broil
a light brown over a moderate fire.
Onions.
There is no more healthy vegetable or article of diet in general use
than onions. Taken regularly, they greatly promote the health of the
lungs and digestive organs. Used in a cooked--either fried, roasted or
boiled--or in a raw state, their virtues are marked and beneficial. They
are among the most popular of old-time remedies for colds, having the
advantage of always being readily procured, and it is said that
affections of the lungs and liver have been largely benefited, and even
cured, by a free use of this palatable esculent. They are also resorted
to as a sedative and remedy for sleeplessness.
Singeing Fowls.
The best mode I have ever followed for singeing fowls, is to put 2 or 3
tablespoonfuls of alcohol in a tin dish and light with a match, thus
making a large flame, without smoke--that is apt to injure the flavor of
the bird.
The Secret of Tests of Taste and Flavor.
The correct test of coffee or tea, is to make use of a thin china or
delf-ware cup, by which the lips are brought close together, while a
thicker cup would separate them widely apart. In testing the quality and
flavor of wines, the thinnest quality of glass is for the same reason
essentially requisite. Our grandmothers, who lived a hundred years ago,
understood the philosophy of this when they expressed the opinion, that
it was only possible to get the true taste, fine flavor, and delicate
aroma of tea, by drinking it out of a china cup.
How to Choose Ware for Ranges.
In selecting ware for a range, especial care should be taken to see that
the bottoms of all the cooking utensils are perfectly level, for if
convex, they will invariably burn in the centre. An iron grating or
gridiron--1/4 of an inch in depth--placed between the pan and the top of
the range, will be found highly useful while cooking, as this increases
the heat and lessens the liability of burning.
Drying Herbs for Seasoning.
All herbs should be gathered just before blossoming and dried in the
shade, or in a dark dry room, as exposure to the sun both takes away
flavor and color. When perfectly dry, put in a clean sack and hang in a
dry room or loft, and when wanted for use, rub through a sieve. Herbs
treated in this way, if left dry, will retain their strength and remain
perfectly good for years. As long as the outer membrane of the leaves
remains unbroken, the aroma cannot escape.
To Destroy Roaches, Flies and Ants.
Take 15 cents worth of powdered borax and a small bottle of Persian
Insect Powder, and mix thoroughly together. In order to use
successfully, take a feather from the wing of a turkey or goose, by the
quill, and dipping the feather end in the powder, spring the feather as
a bow; in this way you can thoroughly rid the room of flies. Before
using on roaches, set the doors wide open, as they will start for the
open air; generally, however, dying on the way. To rid cupboards or
closets of ants, sprinkle wherever these minute pests "most do
congregate." An easy and cheap remedy to rid pantries of cock-roaches is
said to be fresh cucumber parings laid in their haunts. We have never
tested this remedy, but can vouch for the efficacy of the above
mentioned compound.
To Clean Tin-Ware.
The best thing for cleaning tin-ware is common soda; dampen a cloth, dip
it in the soda, rub the ware briskly, after which wipe dry.
Iron Rust.
Iron rust may be removed by a little salt mixed with lemon-juice; put in
the sun, and if necessary use two applications.
Mildew.
An old time and effectual remedy for mildew is to dip the stained cloth
in butter-milk and lay in the sun.
Oysters Roasted on Chafing-Dish.
Take largest oysters, and put in a chafing-dish in their own liquor.
Season with red or black pepper, adding plenty of good butter, with a
little Worcestershire sauce or walnut catsup. After roasting--taking
care not to roast too much--serve on buttered toast.
Codfish, Family Style.
After the fish has been soaked twelve hours, boil slowly for twenty-five
or thirty minutes, or until it will break up nicely. Then pick all the
bones out, but do not pick the fish too fine. Have ready three
hard-boiled eggs; rub the yolks in plenty of good butter; put into the
kettle enough milk to heat the fish; when hot stir in the butter, with
the fish. At the same time have potatoes peeled and boiled. Cut, not too
small, with the whites of the eggs cut small; season with pepper. Serve
hot with buttered toast at the bottom of the dish.
Codfish in Philadelphia Style.
After soaking and boiling the fish, break up small, and picking out all
the bones, have ready potatoes, peeled and boiled, equal to the amount
of fish. Put them in a wooden bowl or tray. Pound or mash well with a
potato masher. Work to soft dough, with butter and well-beaten eggs, and
milk or cream. Season with pepper and salt, if salt is required. Put it
in a dish suitable to set on the table, and bake a few minutes, or until
light brown.
The Parting Hour.
There's something in the parting hour
Will chill the warmest heart,
Yet kindred, comrades, lovers, friends,
Are fated all to part.
But, this I've seen, and many a pang has pressed it on my mind,
The one who goes is happier than those he leaves behind.
No matter what the journey be,
Adventurous, dangerous, far;
To the wild bleak or deep frontier,
To solitude or war;
Still fortune cheers the heart that dares, in all of human kind,
And those who go are happier than those they leave behind.
The bride goes to the bridegroom's home
With doubtings and with tears,
But, does not Hope her rainbow spread
Across her cloudy fears?
Alas! the mother who remains, what comfort can she find, but this:
The one that's gone is happier than the one she leaves behind.
Have you a friend, a comrade dear,
An old and valued friend?
Be sure your term of sweet concourse
At length must have an end;
And when you part, as part you will, oh! take it not unkind,
If he, who goes, is happier than you he leaves behind.
God wills it so! and so it is;
The Pilgrims on their way,
Though weak and worn, more cheerful are
Than all the rest who stay.
And when at last, poor man, subdued, lies down to death resigned,
May he not still be happier far than those he leaves behind?
In School Days.
Still sits the school-house by the road,
A ragged beggar sunning;
Around it still the sumachs grow,
And blackberry vines are running.
Within the master's desk is seen,
Deep scarred by raps official;
The warping floor, the battered seats,
The jack-knife's carved initial.
Long years ago, one winter's sun
Shone over it at setting;
Lit up the western window pane,
And low eaves icy fretting.
It shone upon the tangled curls,
And brown eyes full of grieving,
Of one who still her steps delayed,
While all the school were leaving.
For near her stood the little boy
Her childish favor singled;
His cap was pulled low on his brow,
Where pride and shame were mingled.
With restless foot he pushed the snow
To right and left; he lingered;
As restlessly her tiny hands
The blue checked apron fingered.
He saw her lift her eyes,
He felt the soft hand's light caressing,
He heard the trembling of her voice,
As if a fault confessing.
"I'm sorry that I spelt the word,
I hate to go above you,"
"Because"--the brown eyes lower fell--
"Because, you see, I love you."
Still, memory to a gray-haired man,
That sweet child face is showing;
Dear girl, the grasses o'er her grave
Have forty years been growing;
He lives to learn in Life's hard school
How few who pass above him,
Lament their triumph and his loss,
Like her, because she loves him.
Let fate do her worst! there are relics of joy,
Bright dreams of a past, which she cannot destroy;
Which came in the night-time of sorrow and care,
And bring back the features that joy used to wear.
Long be my heart with such memories filled,
Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled;
You may break, you may shatter that vase, if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still!
Thomas Moore.
JERSEY
FARM
DAIRY,
SAN BRUNO, CAL.
City Depot, 837 Howard Street.
_The Milk from this Dairy is delivered to consumers =absolutely pure and
free from any adulteration whatever=, and has been for over eight years.
The Cows are largely Jersey Blood, and the milk will run on an average
14 per cent. in cream, and is becoming richer every year, by the
increase of the Jersey Blood. About five hundred cows are milked daily,
which ranks this Dairy the =largest in the world.=_
_The demand for this milk is larger than the supply, and has been for
two years past._
R. G. SNEATH,
_Proprietor._
ROYAL BAKING POWDER.
Absolutely Pure.
This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and
wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be
sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum
or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 106
Wall St., New York.
WM. T. COLEMAN & CO., Agents, San Francisco.
_QUADE & STRAUT_,
Successors to PETERSON & PALMER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Choice Family Groceries
_716 MARKET STREET_,
Opposite Third. SAN FRANCISCO.
_J. H. McMENOMY_,
Stalls 8 & 9 California Market.
SAN FRANCISCO
Beef, Mutton, Veal,
_Lamb and Corned Beef_.
Nothing But The Best.
ARPAD HARASZTHY. HENRY EPSTEIN.
ARPAD HARASZTHY & CO.
Successors to I. Landsberger & Co.
ESTABLISHED 1869.
Producers of Champagnes by the Natural Process,
AND GENERAL DEALERS IN
California
Wines and
Brandies
Fine Old Table Wines a Specialty.
CLARET,
ZINFANDEL,
SHERRY,
HOCK,
GUTEDEL,
PORT,
RIESLING,
BURGUNDY,
ANGELICA.
----PROPRIETORS OF----
Dr. Henley's Celebrated I X L Bitters.
Wine Vaults, 714 to 726 Montgomery St.
Office, 530 Washington St. =SAN FRANCISCO.=
P. O. BOX 1685.
Julius Finck. Sim Blum.
WILL & FINCK,
IMPORTING & MANUFACTURING
CUTLERS,
Locksmiths & Bell Hangers,
769 Market Street. SAN FRANCISCO.
_Wholesale and Retail Dealers in_
Carving Sets,
Table Cutlery,
Plated Ware,
Knives of every description,
Scissors,
Button-hole Cutters,
Kitchen Saws,
Kitchen Cleavers,
Corkscrews,
Champagne Faucets,
Champagne Stands,
Champagne Cutters,
Lime Squeezers,
Dog Collars,
Carpet Stretchers,
Dumb Bells,
Upholsterers' Hammers,
Money Belts,
Roller Skates,
Door Plates,
Door Numbers.
Cutlery in all its Branches.
Grinding, Repairing and Job Work Done at Short Notice.
JOHN WILTON P. L. CORTELYOU.
WILTON & CORTELYOU,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in all kinds of
Dairy Produce,
Butter, Eggs, Cheese,
LARD, HAM, ETC.
Stalls 23 & 24 California Market,
SAN FRANCISCO.
AGENTS
FOR THE
[Illustration: B]
CELEBRATED
BIHLER'S BUTTER.
Every Lady of delicate taste that cannot be suited
elsewhere is invited to give the
BIHLER BUTTER
a trial.
John Bayle,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Tripe, Calves' Heads, Feet
Tongues, Ox Tails, Sweet Bread, Brains, Etc.
Stall No. 7 California Market
SAN FRANCISCO.
Palace Hotel
_This Hotel, occupying an entire block in the centre of San Francisco,
is the_
Model Hotel of the World.
It has Double the Accommodation
_Of any other house in the City; is thoroughly_ FIRE and EARTHQUAKE
PROOF, _and has five broad, easy stair-cases and five elevators. Every
room is extra large, light and airy. The system of ventilation is
perfect. A bath and closet adjoin every room._
Guests Entertained on either the
American or European Plan.
_A restaurant is connected with the hotel and is the finest in the city.
People from the interior of the State visiting San Francisco, for
business or pleasure, will find the Palace centrally located, as it is
the pleasantest and most economical hotel in the city._
_JOHN SEDGWICK_,
Manager.
DEMING BROS.
Successors to Deming, Palmer & Co.
MILLERS and GRAIN DEALERS,
PROPRIETORS OF
Capitol Mills,
202 & 204 DAVIS STREET,
San Francisco.
E. R. DURKEE & CO'S
Standard Aids to Good Cooking.
_=Spices and Mustard, Flavoring Extracts, Baking Powder, Salad Dressing,
Celery Salt, Challenge Table Sauce, Curry Powder, Farina Tapioca,
Glutena, Etc.=_
These articles are guaranteed to be absolutely pure; prepared from the
very best materials procurable; and in all cases to be of strictly full
measure and weight. Do not be satisfied until you have given some one of
them a fair trial. If your regular grocer does not keep them in stock,
he can always get them for you, either at the address below, or from any
Wholesale Grocer.
THOMAS COTREL, Jr.
405 Front Street, San Francisco.
General Wholesale Agent for the Pacific Coast.
EAGLE
Coffee and Spice
STEAM MILLS,
BERTIN & LEPORI,
Manufacturers and Dealers in all kinds of
Coffee, Tea and Spices,
SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF
Premium Extract of Coffee,
Eagle Baking Powder, Soda, Saleratus,
SUGAR OF LEMON, ETC.
We Recommend to the Public our Celebrated
_JAVA COFFEE_.
536 Commercial St., bet. Sansome and Montgomery,
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL
B. M. Atchinson & Co.
DEALERS IN
BUTTER, CHEESE,
EGGS, LARD,
Hams, Bacon, Pickles, Honey and Cranberries.
Nos. 16, 17, 28 & 30 CENTRE MARKET,
Bet. Kearny and Dupont, Sutter and Post, SAN FRANCISCO.
Fresh Dairy Butter and Eggs Received Daily.
Orders Called for and Delivered every day Free.
_Country Orders and Orders by Telephone promptly attended to._
_Pioneer Wine House
Established in 1864.
Vineyards in Sonoma
and Los Angeles Cos.
Kohler & Frohling,
Growers of and Dealers in
California Wines
and Brandies,
626 Montgomery St.
San Francisco._
RICHARDS & HARRISON,
_Cor. Sansome and Sacramento Sts., S. F._
Agents for ENGLISH GROCERIES.
CROSSE & BLACKWELL'S
Assorted and Oriental Pickles,
Fine Lucca Salad Oil,
Spanish Queen Olives,
Assorted English Sauces,
Mushroom and Walnut Catsups,
Malt and Crystal Vinegars,
Assorted Jams and Jellies,
Orange and Lemon Marmalades,
Citron, Orange and Lemon Peel,
Potted Meats and Fish,
Curry Powders and Chutnies,
Cayenne and Black Peppers,
Table Salt, in Bags and Glass,
Dried Herrings and Bloaters,
Metz Crystalized Fruits,
Arrowroot, Groats and Barley,
Christmas Plum Puddings,
Stilton and Gloucester Cheese.
J. & J. COLMAN'S Double Superfine Mustard.
J. S. FRY & SON'S
Prize Medal Chocolate,
Homoepathic and Caracas Cocoas.
ALSO
Liebig Co's Extract of Beef,
Epps' Homoepathic Cocoa,
Dr. Wilson's Solidified Cacao,
Van Houten's Soluble Cocoa,
Day & Martin's Japan Blacking,
Phillipp's Dandelion Coffee,
Cox & Nelson's Gelatines,
Indian Chutnies and Delicies,
Fine Lucca Oil in Tins.
Cup and Saucer Japanese Uncolored Tea.
Neither Colored, Loaded, Scented or Doctored.
Each Pound Paper Containing a Handsome Hand-Made and Painted Cup and
Saucer.
ROBERT F. BUNKER,
Curer and Dealer in California Sugar-Cured
HAMS, BACON,
PORK, LARD, SMOKED TONGUES,
BEEF, SAUSAGES, ETC.
CLUB SAUSAGES a specialty.
Agent for H. M. DUPEE & CO'S
CHICAGO HAMS AND BACON.
74 & 75 California Market, San Francisco.
Packing House, Brannan Street, Bet Fifth and Sixth.
EDOUART'S
ART GALLERY,
No. 6 TURK STREET,
Junction of Mason and Market,
SAN FRANCISCO.
Enlargements from old pictures, whether Daguerreotype or Card, worked up
in Crayon, India Ink or Colors, at greatly reduced rates.
Perfect Satisfaction Warranted in All Cases.
TAKE THE ELEVATOR.--Elevator runs on Sundays from 9 to 4.
E. R. PERRIN'S
Quaker Dairy.
First-Class Restaurant for Ladies and Gentlemen.
The Oldest Established and Best Quaker Dairy
on the Pacific Coast.
114 Sutter Street,
Bet. Kearny and Montgomery, SAN FRANCISCO.
E. R. PERRIN, Proprietor.
ARABIAN
COFFEE
MILLS,
HILLS BROS.
JOBBERS IN
COFFEE, TEAS AND SPICES,
Office and Mills, 12 Fourth Street,
SAN FRANCISCO.
EMIL A. ENGELBERG,
German Bakery & Confectionery
_No. 416 Kearny Street_,
_Bet. California & Pine Sts._ SAN FRANCISCO.
_A. W. Fink_,
DEALER IN
Butter, Cheese, Eggs,
PACIFIC HONEY DEPOT,
Nos. 50 and 51 Washington Market,
SAN FRANCISCO.
Wild Game and Poultry
_SOLD ON COMMISSION._
_SOLE AGENT FOR_
_L. K. BALDWIN'S DAIRY BUTTER._
J. GUNDLACH. C. BUNDSCHU.
J. GUNDLACH & CO.
GENERAL DEALERS IN
California
Wines and
Brandies
Cor. Market and Second Sts. San Francisco.
_VINE GROWERS & DISTILLERS_
OF
Gundlach's Cognac Brandy.
_Gutedel, Riesling, Traminer, Hock, Zinfandel, Malvoisier, Burgundy,
Tokay, Angelica, Muscat, Madeira, Etc., Etc._
Lebenbaum, Goldberg & Bowen,
SUCCESSORS TO
BOWEN BROS.
Importers, Wholesale and Retail
GROCERS,
AND
Wine Merchants,
Nos. 430 and 432 PINE STREET,
SAN FRANCISCO.
WOMEN'S
Co-operative Printing Office.
_Mrs. L. S. Richmonds & Son_
PROPRIETORS.
420, 424 & 430 Montgomery St., (upper Floor,)
(ELEVATOR ENTRANCE, 424.)
_SAN FRANCISCO, CAL._
Commercial Printing,
Book Binding,
Paper Ruling and
Society Work
_Of all descriptions done at the above address._
Please give us a call if you are in need of Good Work and Fair Dealing
is an object to you.
W. W. Montague & Co.
FRENCH RANGES,
ALL SIZES FOR
Hotels, Boarding Houses,
RESTAURANTS AND FAMILIES.
Chief Emporium on the Pacific Coast for Granite and Agate Iron-Ware AND
POLISHED IRON-WARE.
MANUFACTURERS OF
_Plain, Japanned AND Stamped_
_TINWARE._
Everything Required to Fit up a Kitchen Complete.
Nos. 309 to 317 MARKET STREET,
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
MARK SHELDON,
Wholesale Dealer in
Sewing Machines and Supplies,
GENERAL AGENT FOR THE
"New Davis," }
"New Howe," } FAMILY
"Household," } SEWING
"Queen," and } MACHINES.
"June Singer," }
HOWE "A," "B," "C," and "D"
AND
Davis Manufacturing Machines,
NATIONAL NEEDLE COMPANY,
EXCELSIOR NEEDLE COMPANY,
"Excelsior" Sewing Machine Oil,
"Magic" Plaiting Boards, "Acme" Oil-Can Holders, Etc.
ATTACHMENTS AND PARTS FOR ALL MACHINES.
Nos. 9, 11 and 13 First Street,
San Francisco, Cal.
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