, 1871-12-25

To remove egg stains from silver, rub
with table salt.


To remove egg stains from silver, rub
with table salt.
CRAMpAsxE CIDEK.-To 35 gallons of
good cider put gallon of strained ho-
sey. or s pounds of good white sugar:
stir thela up well and set aside for q
week. Clarity the cider with one quar-,
Of skinned milk or 6 ounces of dessol-
ved gelatine, and add fve.quarts of pure
spirits. After two or three days bottle
the clear eider, and it will become spark
ing.
How TO DEoDoR1zE On.-You may
edorize any oil shnlhs5 53t with weak
solution of bleaching powder which has
been previously aei lulated with hydro
ehloric acid. This is best done in a large
bottle, into which oil and lye are intro
ddced, ths.bottle stopped and now and
then shaken. After two or three days
pour off the oil and wash it several times
with water, when it will have lost its un-
pleasant odor. b
PExeH-LEAF YEAsT.-One of our
Southern exchanges gives the followi ng
recipe: Take three handfuls of peach
leayes, and three medium sized potatoes
boil them in two quarts of water until
the potatoes are done; then take out the
leaves and then throw them away; peel
the potatoes and rub them up with a
pint of flour, adding sufficient cool water
to make paste. then pour on the hot
peach-leaf tea, and scald for about five
minutes. If you add to this little old
yeast, it will be ready for use in three
hours; if you add none, it will require to
stand day and a uight before use.
Leaves dried in the shade are as good
as fresh ones. As this is stronger than
hop-yeast, less should be used in bread
making.
WEIGH RAREBIT.-Put into frying
pan quarter of pound of cheese cut up
into thin slices. Pour on it half pint
of sweet milk. Stir in IN egg that was
already beaten up, add a fourth of
teaspoonful of mustard, little less red
pepper, already ground, and a teaspoon
fnl Of nice butter. Stir this mixture all
fhe time. Then add, lastly. a few crack
ers well broken up, and after thoroughly
incorporating them in to the mixture,
turn it all into heated dish and cover
it.
CAST STEEL that has been burnt OF
spoiled by overheating can be partially
restored by heating it over and quench-
ing in water four OF five times, each of
less extent than the first overheating
and decreasing; lastly, hammering the
steel till nearly cold. to give the greatest
condensation before hardening. Some
prefer the steel thus recovered for cut
ting-tools, and the treatment really pro-
duces remarkable change, as frag-
ment of the same bar in the spoiled
state will be extremity coarse, and anoth
er of the restoration as extremely fine.
CLEANING WINDOW PANEs.-House-
wives sometimes are very much sur
prised at their inability to remove the
smoky and stained appearance from
their window panes. Glass is often
changed by very short exposure to the
weather. Sunshine and rain alone, will
effect most marked change in certain
(soft) kinds of glass. When little
soda will not remove the stains, the
only way to remedy the trouble is to buy
new glass.
CLEANING POLISHED BRAss.-The first
requisite is to remove all grease. This
may be done with solution of concen-
trated lye, and fine pumice OF rotten
stone. Aweak solution of muriatic acid
and clean securing dust will then bright
ten it, after which it may be oiled, with
olive or cocoa nut oil. Vinegar and
common salt may be used instead
of the acid. Weak vegetable acids are
preferable on fine work, and vegetable
oils better than animal fats.
ANOTHER METHoD.-Take eight parts
water, and one part muriatic acid; mix
them, and put in common water lime,
until the mixture is thicker than water.
Shake up well before using. Pour
some on a rag. and put on the brass.
Let it stay minute or two and then
rub. It will clean the d1rtiest brass
more quickly and better then anything
else, SO says a correspondent of the
Scientific american.
The YeIIowsfone VaIJov.