Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-05-21
THE HOUSEWIFE.

A RRMEDY.-A writer in the Southern Plan
ter says, that persons subject to palpitation of
the heart, will find certain remedy by ''deep
inspirations and subsequent holding OF the |
breath" He discovered it thirty years ago |
and has always found ii efiicacious.
gzs- Coffee should be brown, not burnt, 50
that when ground it will be light.
A Coon CHlchEN PiE.-My rule which | have
always found good, is this boil the chicken
until tender, season with salt, pepper and
two three slices of pork. Prepare u crust
by mixing one cup of cream and two OF but
termlk, two and half teaspoonfuls salera-
tus, and two teaspoOnfuls salt into -four until
il is stiff enough TO roll Cover the sides and
bottom OF the pan in which you wish to bake
it, put in the chicken with u part OF the broth
cover with the rest of your dough ami bake
three quarters of an hour. Thicken the rest
of the broth, add a little more butter and you
have good gravy, and if you have the luck
that have always had, good pan pie RE
raj Nem Yorker
| A CuRE.-It is said infammatory rheuma-
1 tism can be cured by the following simple
method Half au ounce of pulverzed salt
petre put in half pint sweet oil. Battle the
parts affected, and sound cure will ilnne-
diately follow.
| SMALL BBER.-Take three gallons water and
one quart molasses, one ounce essence winter
| green, half an ounce essence sassafras boil
them together, and let stand till it becomes
blood warm then add half a pint of yeast.
| Let II remain ten or twelve hours and bottle
it in-three hours 1t will be fit for use.
LENoSADE.-Take six gallons of water, six
drachms of Tartaric acid, and from one to ten
drops of the oil of lemon add one pound OF
| tttnr dafatG n
according to your taste.
ses8- Many good housewife, in a cold night
puts bucket of water in the pantry to keep
1t from freezing, but few probably, know why
lit prevents the cold from entering her luXu-
rious depository. Water, when entirely de-
prived of heat, becomes solid, and is called
ice, and as much heat as is required to change
ice into water has to be expelled from the
water before it becomes ice. A bucket of wa
ter, then, contains in it as much heat as has
to be used to melt the ice that bucket OF
water would make. As the pantry becomes
cold, and the water in the bucket begins to
CONCEAL, the heat is driven from it, and warns
, the pantry while the water becomes ice. BY
, knowing how much fire it would require ia
melt ice enough to make bucket of water
person knows how much heat lie puts in
the pantry with bucket al water.
M" Never pour hot water into q glass
tumbler, or any glass vessel with round bot
tom for the heat of the water will cause the
bottom of the glass to expand, while the side.
, which are not heated, retain their former di
mansions. II the heat be sufficiently great
+ the bottom will be forced from the sides, ant
, crack or flaw will surround that part of tn,
glass by which the sides are united to TIL,
: bottom. If the glass be previously washe,
1 with a little warm water so that the whole il
a gradually heated, and therefore gradually ex
banded, then the hot water may he poured il
!. without danger. Who has not known prac
tically that very hot water will break glas
tumbler Now we learn the reason, or phi
n losophy of it.
i &ss- The Jonesville Independent states tina
n a Mr. Babcock, of that village, has been sue
e cessful in preserving eggs by putting them il
i a brine composed in the proportion of on
h pint of salt, one pint of quicklime and thre
! gallons of water. It is said that they will
II come out of this mixture at the end of tn
II year as fresh as when put in.
& Ns- With small cancels hair brush ru
d the broken edges of glass or china with Iii
d tie carriage.oi varnish and If neatly put tt
Y eether, the fracture will hardly be precept
bic, and when thoroughly dry will stand bot
fire and water.
l. Mqs- To take out PITCH or rosin, tar, pain
~ &C., pour little alcohol on the place, an
d let il soak in about half an hour. Then ru
70 II gently, and you will find the alchol hi
t. soaked cut the glutinous quality, so that
10 will easily crumble out.