Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-09-07
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DOMEsTIC RECEIPTS.


which cakes are baked, should never be
touched with grease. Firstly. because
it imparts racid taste to the cake. Sc
condly. if a cooking stove be used, it fills
the whole house with the smell of burnt
grease-betraying what you are to have
for breakfast. Wash the griddle with hot
soap suds, scour it with dry sand. and
when heated for use, rub it well with a
spoonful of fine salt and a coarse cloth II; it
will then be ready to receive the cakes
After each cake is removed the salt rub
bing must be repeated. Try it, and you
will ever after follow the advice OF an old
housekeeper.
To KEEP SrovE BRIGHT.-lfyou wish
to keep stove as bright as coach body
BY only two applications year, make
weak alum water; and mix your British
Lustre with it; let the stove be cold, brush
with the mixture. then take u brush and
dry Iustre, and rub the stove until per-
frctiy dry. Should any part. before pol
ishing, become so dry as TO grey, moisten
Il with a wet brush, and proceed as
above.
TO WASH WOODEN GooDs.-The art Of
washing wooden goods SO as To prevent
,
erata in domestic economy worthy OF be-
ing recorded, and it is therefore with sat
iSfnction that we explain this simple pro-
cess to our readers. All descriptions OF
wooden goods should be washed IN very
hot water with soap. and as son as the
article is cteAnsed. lmmerse 1t IN cold wa
ter let it then be wrung and hung to
dry.
a LreHr PIE CRusr-A light pie crust
may be made BY rubbing into one pound
of Hour two ounces of butter worked into
cream and one spoonful of carbonate So
rs dissolve with water. hall Il spoonful
ri !artaric acid and pour 1t over the in
uredienls, quickly adding n suLticiency OF
water TO make it the proper stiffness Ut pie
crust. This is still better when well bea-
ten egg is added to the Hour, &c., before
the water is put in.
DRIEp ToMAroEs.-Take ripe tomatoes
aud scAid them in the usual way, strip oH
the skin, or mash and squeeze them
through n seive, then stew the pulp slow
", SO as to eyaporate as much juice as
possible without burning, then spread 1t
on plates and dry it in slow oven or hot
sun. When wanted for use, you have
only to soak it soft and cook few min
utes. and serve it up just as you would to-
matoes stewed fresh from the garden.
RHuBARB SAucE-If the rhubarb stalk
has a green spotted surface, it Is kind
that may be cut up without peeIing; it
the red sort, the peel must be torn OFT be-
1t is cut up; cut the stalk into the stew
pan in pieces about half its weight OF su
gar: with little water. and spicing if Ii
ked; set it over sharp fire. occasionally
shaking the saucepan round. and when
quite tender. pour il in bowl to cool.
How TO Cook SWEET PoTAToEs.-Boil
twolarge sweet potatoes. rub them through
a seive then add piece OF butter the size
of an egg, little salt, one pint of butter
milk, a teacup of sugar a table
spoonful of saIeratus. dissolved in warm
water. Boil in an eartLen dish. Strive
up cold. with cream.
To CLEAN GOLD CHAIEs.-A cOrrespon-
dent says Some Of your reaners may
be pleased to know that gold chain
washed in soap and water. with few
drops of hartshorn in it. and afterwards
dried in sawdust, will look equal to a new
one"
To CuRE WAars.-Bind leaf of house
leek. from which you have removed the
skin, upon wart few nights in success
sion. and Thea see where your wart is.
CARE OF KN1vEs.-Never lay knives in
hot water. it Injuries the handles ard de-
stroys the polish.
REMEDY FOR CANCER.-Col. D. Ussery OF
Parish of Desoto. inform, the editors of
Gaddo Gazette. that he has fully tested a
remedy for this troublesome disease, re-
commended to him by a Spanish woman,
a native of the country. The remedy is
this: Take an egg and break it ; put in
salt and mix with tho yolk MS long as it
will receive it: stir them together until
the salve is formed put portion of this
on piece of sticking plaster, and apply it
to the cancer about twice a day. He has
tried the remedy twice in his own family
with complete success.