Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-09-01
Talk About H0nSekeeping.

Mrs, Bland was in this afternoon, and
We talked over jellieS and preserves, and
the different ways of making them. She
is new IN the business, and feels mach
more confident OF her ability to play III
lroyatore" or ''Somnambula' on the piano
with skill and taste than she does of her
success in producing transparent jellies
and elegant sweetmeats. With her she
brought her cookbook, compiled by her
self. and copied into it, from materials L,
furnished her, the following recipes;
JELrIEs.
All berries are jellied in the same wGy.
Press the juice from them through coarse
towel, add as many pounds OF sugar as there
are pints OF juice, nut IN new tin pan ora
porcelain kettle aud boil twenty minutes,
removing whatever impurities may rise TO
the top When cool cover with paper
which has been dipped in the white OF an
egg,
omake Jelly Of apgicots, ounces peach-
es, apples and piums; Remove the stoneiu
those that have stones, peel, core, cut in
pieCes cover with water, and boil gently
TIL we'll cooked. Then strain the juice
through "a jeliy-bag and add a hal! pound
OF sugar TO pint OF Juice,
In making raspberry jelly, use one-.hird
currents and two.thirds raspberries.
PEACHJELLY,
Gut dozen peaches in halves, take out
the stones, and peel them, Into q clear,
boiling syrup, made OF pound of white
sugar, put the peaches and kernels. Boil
very gently Tor ten minutes, lay half the
peaches on plate, boil the rest ten min
utes longer. Then mix with the liquor of
the peaches the strained juice of three LEM
ons. and an ounce of isinglass dissolved
and strained. Fill the mould half full of
Jelly when that is set, put in part of the
peaches and little more jelly; and when
tlat is set, add the rest of the peaches and
ill the mould with Jelly. This makes an
elegant table-ornament.
We are botu going to put mp green grape
iuice for mince pies next winter, and cur
rant iuice to make dried apple sauce or
good dried apple pias-not that kind au
exchange, quoted in Hearth and Home, so
utterly Gbomlnates. And we are going to
make a little currant VINE Tor sickness, by
dssolviug halt pint Of currant jelly III ~
pint Of brandy, which is the simplest and
easiest mode OF making 1t, though more
expensive than some other ways, if the
time employed in preparing II is not taken
/ into account.
am tell you one thing" said Mrs.
| Bland: Owe come 70 the conclusion that
/ blocking my cook-stoye every day dosen's
pay II spells my hands, and RIFLES my
! temper and uses up my time. So ! wipe
! it Oft clean with a little mop kept for the
purpose, and once q week my lauudreaS
! blacks it up nicely for me. [ think these
real nice housekeepers DO deal OF uauac
e. sary work. They look after tho mint,
anise, and cumn 80 carefully, that they
actually don't have time TO take care Of the
/ weiphtier matters Of the law Justice
4 judgement, and tho love Of God. | really
! believe it makes Mr.. Bland happier for me
/ to keep up my practice on the piano and
/ read the literature Of the day than 1t does
| to be so very fastidious in keeping an eX-
IouisIte polish on the cook-stoye and I'M
maculate paint round the doors and win
dows."
"You aro certainly right there" / reioin.
ed One pair OF hands cannot do every
! thing, The simple mGyims faithfully
Z ODntIFtA-~-' i bAhg- III ever lAAA5s hNiA
everything in It's place, "a tine for every.
thing and everything IN its time will
impress order and ncDtuess oncvay house
hold and "odda and ends must have a
/ day nov aud then 50 be done up.
! The other day, hlQustus cane home and
said: "Well Kate, Mr., Chambers took me
/ over 10 his home and such housekeeping
Never saw anything like it beats you alI
/ to pieces" "AR-hal Has his wife any
children "Noue" docs she do any
thing else but keep housel" Nothing
else" Very WE'LL don't care how nice
Mrs, Aaybody keeps house. When wo-
man has five children, aud five hundred
irons in the fire all the time, rs do, she's
welcome to do it, and | shall be very glad
to have her" admire your spirit, said
Augustus "Thank you, - said /. Hearth
and Gi0me.