The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-02-13
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Corn DRoP CAKES. Mix corn-meal
with boiling new milk until you have a
thick batter put in the patent pans at
once and bake for twenty or thirty min
utes.
BEEF STEw.-Six pounds of the flank
of beef, cut in small pieces; boil in two
quarts of water until tender. Then put
In dozen potatoes, dozen onions. and
four turnips; cover it so that the steam
cannot escape salt and pepper to the
taste.
GRAHAM BREAD.-Four quarts of IN
boiled wheat tea-cupful of good yeast !;
half a cup of molasses; one teaspoonful
of salt mix with warm water enough to
make stiff dough let it rise for six or
eight hours, wet your hands in cold water
to put it into the pans; let it rise an
hour, or until it has risen an inch, and
bake two hours. It should be very well
ed.-Neao England Farmer.
SHIN OF BEEF Sour. Have the shin
we'll cracked up; put it to boil in five or
six quarts of water; boil it FIVE or six
hours; skim it very often. Cut up, very
fine. half white cabbage; chop two
turnips and three onions put them all
into the soup with pepper and salt, and
boil it two hours take the bone and
aristle out before serving. IF you have
raised dough. make up dozen balls, the
size of nutmeg. drop them into the
soup and boil half an hour.
Oar MEAL CAKES. Into a quart of
cold water stir oatmeal enough to make
it about as thick as hasty pudding. Be
sure that the meal is sprinklcd in SO
slowly, and that the stirring is SO active
that the mush will have no Jumps in it.
Now put it On buttered tin pan. where
it can be spread out to half the thick pess
of cracker. and smooth it down with
case knife. Run sharp knife across it.
80 as to divide it into the sized pieces
you wish and then place it in a warm
oven and bake slowly. being careful not
to brown it.
GEMS OR IRON CLADs -otir into soft
cold water, making batter trihe thick.
er than for griddle cakes. Drop from
spoon into the cups Of the bread-p pans
which are already heated, and bake 10 a
hot oven. Take them from the pan as
soon as they are done and arrange them
on plates, taking care that no weight
rests on them to make them heavy.
These after standing two or three days,
are made as good IA new by dipping them
in cold water and setting IL !. hot oven
few moments, or steaming over boiling
water. All cakes of this kind are made
tighter by being beaten ten or fifteen
minutes while mixing the batter. but it
he not necessary to make good breod.
To CKEAN CARPETS Carpets that do
not require to be taken up, should be
loosened at the edge, and with a dust
pan and brush, all the dust may be re-
moved If there are any traces Of moths,
wash the floor with strong turpentiDe or
kerosene, putting the carpet down quick
ly, and The moths will have their quietus.
The disagreeable odor will soon disap
pear if the windows are opened widely.
and you can be certain that yo,.r carpets
will not be ruined.
This same burning find will drive out
and keep away tho moths from nphols-
tered furniture 1t can be put on the
CLOTH and if pure will leave no stain, but
brighten the colors. Before applying it,
brush out the Gus HONS with band
brush, and damp cloth to remove all the
dust. Straw mattings should be washed
with q cloth dampened in salt water.
Take care to wet it but little, for if the
mating is soaked through it becomes
brittle. Indian meal sprinkled over it.
or damp sand. and then thoroughly
swept out, will also cleanse it finely
Er
CU.E FOR NEURALGIA-Take the
bark of the peach tree, pound it and
tcep in hot water. Hold the face over
c, so as to thoroughly hathe it in the as
ending steam.
To REMOVE BERRY STAINS If you
,ould be so unfortunate as to crush
HHrry on a book or engraving, strike
imstone match and let the fume come
contact with the stain and it will dis.
pear as if by magic.
How TO PRESERVE HANS Gut the
n into pieces; as when you fry it,
en- fry it little and rack in a crock or
II her close dish, and cover the neat with |