The Shasta courier., 1860-07-07
Domestic Receipts.
ow TO cook OLD POTATOES

HoM 10 COOK OLD POTATOES.
Very few cooks properly understand how to
treat old potatoes. We mean those that have
been kept over winter and in most cases have
become withered. To make them as good as
new" the potatoes are pared and put to soak in
cold water from four to six hours then dropped
into water which is already boiling-an essential
point; and little salt added to the water i'm
proves them. Take them from the fire the mo-
ment they are done pour off all the water and
let them stand uncovered in the kettle over the
hre till the water evaporates from the surface,
and they are ready for the table.
TO GATHER PERFUME OF FLOWERS
Gather the flowers with as little stalk as pos
sible, and place them in a jar, three parts full
of olive or almond oil. After being in the oil
twenty-four hours, put them into coarse cloth
and squeeze the oil from them. This process,
with fresh flowers, is to be repeated according
to the strength of the perfume desired. The oil,
being thus thoroughly perfumed with the vola-
tile principle of the flowers, is to be mixed up
with an equal quantity of pure, rectifed spirits,
and shaken every day for a fortnight, when it
may be poured of, ready for use.
TO SEAL PRESERVES.
Beat the white of an egg take good white
paper, Tissue is best cut it the size you require
and dip it in the egg, wetting both sides. Cover
your jars or tumbers, carefully pressing down
the edges of the paper. When dry it will be as
tight as drum-head.
LIQUID GLUE.
To make good fluid glue, melt the glue in
the usual manner, being careful not to burn it,
and drop in gradually small quantity of nitric
acid. After adding the latter remove the mix
ture from the fire. and after it cools bottle it for
use.
Never wash marble mantles, tables, &C., with
soap suds. The potash of the soap decomposes
the carbonate of lime, and in time destroys the
polish of the marble.
THE TONGUE.
A white fur on the tongue attends a simple
fever and inflammation. Yellowness of the
tongue attends arrangement of the liver and
is common to bilious and typhus fevers. A
tongue yividly red on the tip and edge, or down
the centre, or over the whole surface, attends
Inflammation of the mucus membrane of the
stomach or bowels. A white velvet tongue at
tends mental diseases. tongue red at the lips,
becoming brown, dry and glazed, attends typhus
state. The description of symptoms might be
extended infinitely taking in all the propensities
and obliquties of mental and moral condition
The tongue is most expressive as well as un-
ruly member.
SHlHT BUSOMS.
To produce good gloss on shirt bosoms or
like articles, take two orfrces of fine white Gum
Arabic powder, put it in pitcher, and pour on
it pint or more of boiling water, according to
the degree of strength you desire, and then,
having covered it, let it stand all night; in the
morning pour it carefully from the dregs into
clean bottle, cork it up, and keep it for use
A tablespoonful of gum stirred in pint Of starch
made in the usual manner. will give to lawns,
either white or printed, a look of newness, when
nothing else can restore them after they have |
been washed.
TO PREVENT SMALLPOX PITTING.
Get from the apothecary little vial of /" IL
qud cuticle," and as soon as the pustules are
fully formed, apply little of the liquid with
little brush or feather to each one. As fast as |
they get ripe, remove the scab and wipe away
the matter clean, and apply the liquid again
If any OF them fill a second time, remove the
covering and repeat the process 1t will smart
for moment, but when you recover, you shall
not find mark. The article is made of gun
cotton dissolved in chloroform. 1t forms an
artificial skin over wound, just as good as the
real one.
TO WASH SILK.
To wash silk with great success, spread it on
a table, and then rub it with sponge dipped |
in mixture of equal parts of soft soap, brandy,
and cane molasses. Rinse it thoroughly in three
successive portions of water, and iron it before
quite dry. Coffee, prepared for drinking,
and used with sponge in the foregoing man
ner, is also an excellent article.
TO CURE SORE THROAT.
Take the whites of two eggs and beat them
with two spoonsful of white sugar; CRATE in
little nutmeg, and then add pint of lukewarm
Stir well, and drink often. Repeat the
prescription if necessary, and it will cure the
most obstinate case of hoarseness in short
time.
Bea. A railroad conductor, who wore long,
roomy, white linen sack coat, with standing
collar, and buttoned up to the chin, had dis
pute with female passenger. The lady won
the victory gloriously by the following brilliant
and destructive charge; You are putty fell
low, amt you? You are the first conductor