Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-12-02
Household Hints.

, tsrLHcTkD PROM VARIOUS soURcEsl
Hoes HEAD CHEEsE--Put hogs head in salt
and water Tor two days, then wash and scrspe
them clean, and boil until all the bones come
out Take it up, pick all the bones out, and
chop IL fine; season il with sage. pepper, salt,
and a little cayenne, with a small spoonful of
spice. Put IL in cloth OF tin pan, cover il. and
nut heavy weights on to press it When cold,
take il out Of the mould and cover it with
vinegar. Cut il in slices for the table as cold
souse, or beat it up and fry it, with OF without
butter.
OUNCE AND APPLE JELLY.-Cut small and
core an equal weight of tart apples and ounces.
Put the ounces In preserving kettle, with
water to cover them, and boil till soft; add the
apples, still keeping water to cover them, and
boil till the whole is nearly a pulp. Put the
whole into a jelly-bag. and strain without press
ing.
A CELLAR which opens inside a dwelling
house should be kept faultlessly clean all the
year round az any other part of the house, be-
cause its atmosphere il constantly ascending, and
impregnates every room in the house with its
own odoTs.
How TO MAKE CREAM PIR-For each pie
take one tablespoonful of -four and two ofsugar,
well mixed with half a teacupful Of cream; CRATE
into il about oue-third of a medium-sized nut
meg, smalllump of butter. and the white of an
egg well beaten. This pie has no upper crust.
Bake quick and serve warm.
LEAKY tin pans and iron articles are easily
and quickly mended by hammering small nau
or tack of soft lead to tit the whole; cut of each
side and rivet IL down. Rlvets of soft iron or
other metal may be used TO mend kettles, etc.
TEA CAKE.-The yolks of three and the whites
OF five eggs; one pound of sugar; one pound of
butter, and one of flower; cream the butter1and
sugar together; then add the eggs beaten, sepa-
Arately; roll in sugar, and place them far enough
hpart to keep them from running together, and
bake quick.
TopEsrRoY moths in carpets wiring a coarse
towel out of clean water; spread it smoothly on
the carpet; iron It dry with a good hot iron; re-
peat the operation on al parts of the carpet
need to press hard, and neither the pile nor the
color of the carpet will be injured and the moths
will be destroyed by the heat and steam
To KEEP OUNCES, gather the fruit at the
usual time, then put them carefully into bar
rels, SO as not to bruise, rejecting all but the
perfectly sound; then fill with water, head up,
and, put in the cellar. They will keep all win
ter, retaining all the peculiar qualities and fla
yor OF the ounce.
warts daily win cause them to disappear in
few DAYS.
SULPHUR FOR ANINALs.-A eorrespondent
of the Willamette Farmer feeds his stock a table
spoonful of sulphur 10 each animal with their
SALT once in two weeks When he has done so
no vermin has troubled them, and his cows have
not been affected with garget, nor his sheep with
grub III the head de mas practiced this twenty
years.
SOMETHING WORTH REMEMBERING-The
London Lancet, excellent authority gives the
following recipe for the cure of bone felon: As
soon as the disease is felt, put directly over the
! spot fly blister about the size of your thumb
nail, and let IL remain for six hours at the exp-
ration of which time, directly under the surface
Of the blister may be seen the felon, which can
be instantly taken out with the point of needle
or a lancet