Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-10-11
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DRIED APPLE JELLY.-Draih i:ie Julc1
off some dried apples when coohsliS anu
sweeten to taste, and Doll aDouI iil.oen vi
twenty minutes and flavor Win iehloh'
CREAM TEA CAKEs.-One quart OF hour,
one teaspoon OF salt, one pint sour cream,
one-half teaspoon saleratlls. MIX lShty
into dough mold into small cakes ana
bake in buttered tins.
CHOCOLATE CUsTARD.-Two sections
of chocolate dissolved in one quart Of milk,
one small cup of sugar, yOlks of eight eggs,
one heaping tablespoonful corn-starch;
pour the hot milk on the yolks, sugar and
starch, first mixing them smoothly, and
leave on the stove few minutes.
REMEDY FOR MIcE.-Any one DESTROYS
of keeping seeds from the depredations OF
mice can do so by mixing some pieces oil
camphor gum in with the seeds. Camphor
placed in drawers or trunks will prevent
mice from doing them injury. This little
animal objects to the OdOr, and keeps q
good distance from it. He will seek food
elsewhere.
CHILL SAUCE.-Take nine large toma-
toes, four large onions, four red peppers.
| Chop them together, then add four cups
of vinegar, three tablespoons Of sugar, two
tablespoons of salt, two teaspoons OF
cloves, two teaspoons of cinnamon, ground.
two teaspoons of ginger, two teaspoons OF
allspice, two teaspoons of nutmeg. BoI
all one hour and bottle for use.
DREAMING IN" OF Doors AND SHOES,
i. Never break in " boots or shoes. Ii
they are not easy when new, don't take
them, for the boots will break your feet
oftener than your feet will break the boots
2. If you 90 ON breaking in " boot leath-
er, you will need a special last made with
all sorts of knobs and protuberances to cor
respond with your distorted joints. Then
YOU will be sorry. =. If you have large
feet, admit it in fullhonesty, and have YOU
boots made accordingly. Then you viii
be happy.
SUNDRY ITEMS FOR HoUsEKEEPERs.--
Alum or vinegar is good to set colors, red
green or yellow.
Sal-soda will bleach; one spoonful is sui
ficent for kettle of clothes.
1 Save your suds for the garden and plants
or to har,len yards when sandy.
A hot shovel held over vanished furni
ture will take out spots,
A bit of glue dissolved in skim-milk ant
water will restore old rusty Grape.
Ribbons of any kind should be washed
in cold suds and not rinsed.
If fiat-irOns are rough, rub them wei
with salt, and it will make them smooth.
If you are buying carpet for durability
you must choose small figures.
A bit of soap rubbed ON the hinges o
doors will prevent them from creaking.
Scotch snuff, if put in the holes wher'
crickets run out, will destroy them.
Green should be the prevailing color fol
bed hangings and window drapery.
CoRNs.-An eminent divine used to sa,
that he did not believe man with ba'
corn and close boot was free moral agent
: At all events, there Is nothing more tOrtur
ing, annoying, or wrath-prOvoking than
corn, nor is there anything much NOR
| difficult to eradicate. Halls journal o
l Health, which ought to be authority Of
, such matters, publishes the following as
. cure for the torment. ''The safest, tn
, most accessible, and the most efficient cur
| of corn on the toe, is to double a piece
thick, soft buckskin, cut a hole in 1t larg
' enough to receive the corn, and bind
around the toe. If in addition to this TN
foot is soaked in warm water for five o
more minutes every night and morning
and few drops of sweet oil, or rather Oil
! substance, are patiently rubbed in ON tn
. end after the soaking. the corn will almos
4 infallibly become loose enough in fey
! days to be easily picked out with finger
!. nail. This saves the necessity of parin
the corn, which operation has sometime
been followed with painful and dangerou
l symptoms. If the corn becomes incor
venient again, repeat the process at once.