The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-06-11
WHOLE No. 49,
DOMESTIC HINTS.
CoFFFE.

COFFEE.
Let your coffee stand FIVE minutes after
the cream and sugar are mixed with it;
then drink, as then the ingredients are all
united, and you have coffee, and not before
before you have mixture Of cream, SUI
gar and coffee, tasting each--not so when
united. Time improves coffee both in the
raw bean and when Drowned, and when
poured out. Remember this and improve
your coffee.
HOW TO GET TO SLEEP.
a popular authority says if a person is
disposed to be wakeful at a certain hour of
the night, let him at once get up when he
wakes. and stay up. Repeated three times
he will be cured or, let him go to bed as
many hours later as he lies awake at night,
and he will sleep all night.
TO WASH LAWN AND MUSLIN.
Delicate lawn and muslin dresses are so
frequently spoiled by bad washing, the col
ton of the soap, that it is better to ADOPT
some method of cleaning the finest materials
and imparting to them the appearance of
newness. Take two quarts of wheat bran,
and boil it for half an hour in soft water.
Let it cool, then strain it, and pour the
strained liquor into the water in which the
rinsing alone is required and no starch. The
bran water not only removes the dirt,
and insures against change of color, but
gives it pleasanter stiffness than any prep
aration of starch. If the folds are drawn
iron better; and will appear, when prepared
this way, as fresh as new.
REMOVING GREASE SPOTS OUT OF SILK.
T'siyo 1,,, s -
over the spot; let il dry, then brush the
take visiting card, separate it, and rub
the spot with the soft internal part, and it
will disappear, without taking the gloss off
the silk
All linen will turn yellow if kept unused
locked up in linen press, excluded from
air and light; so the best way that 1 have
found of restoring it to its color, is by ex-
posing it to the open air, in nice dry wealth
err. Exposure to the light and continued
airings will be found the best way of pre-
serving its Wilderness. know Of none 9TH
err.
HOW TO REMOVE MILDEw FROM LINEN.
First of all take some soap (any common
kind will do, and rub it well into the linen,
then ecraPe some chalk very fine, and rub
it in also; lay the linen on the grass, and
as it dries wet It again twice or thrice do
ing viii remove the stains.
POTATO PIE CRUST.
Boil one quart of dry mealy potatoes.
The moment they are done mash them, and
sift them through a cullender. Stir thor
oughly one cup of Graham flour, then add
the potatoes, rubbing them evenly through
the flour in the same manner as the shorten
ing in common pie crust. Have ready one
cup of corn meal; pour over it one and
one-third cups boiling water. stirring it till
all the meal is wet, then add it TO the pota-
toes and flour, mixing till thoroughly in
corporated together. No more -four should
be added. The molding board should be
we'll covered with dry flour, however, as it
is slightly difficult TO roll it out. 1t should
be rolled thin, and baken in a moderate ov-
en-, care should be taken that it is not over
done, as little too much baking is apt to
render it tough.
NoTE.-It is very essential that the above
conditions should be complied with. Bear
in mind that the potatoes must be hot, and
mixed Immediately with the flour the wa
ter be poured while boiling, upon the corn
meal, and the whole mixed together very
| quickly and baked Immediately. Inatten-
ton TO one of these requisites well be quite
| apt to insure failure.