The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-11-05
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To CURE CHILBLAlNs.-Pour boiling
water over one pint Of wood ashes; when
cool enough immense the feet; let them
remain about half an hour.-Household.
OYSTER SAUcE.-Take fifty oysters,
rinse and put them in stew-pan with
one gill of cream. AS soon as they be-
come hot stir in one ounce of butter,
mixed to paste with little flour. This
is delightful sauce to eat with boiled
turkey or fine fat young pullets, in which
case the fowls should also be stuffed
with oysters and bread-crumbs.-Har
per's Bazar.
How TO MAKE ERAsIvE SoAP-A gen
uine erasive soap that will remove grease
and stains from clothing is made as fol-
lows: Two pounds Of good CASTLE soap;
half pound of carbonate Of potash, dis
solved in half pint of hot water. Cut
the soap in thin slices, boil the soap with
the potash until it is thick enough to
mold in cakes; add alcohol, half an
ounce; can.phor, half an ounce; harts-
horn, half an ounce; color with half an
ounce of pulverized charcoal
WHEN Il man milks COW he should
not attempt to smoke a cigar or an old
sinking pipe at the same time. A young
man in the country tried it, and got
along until he lowered his head and
touched the cows flank with the lighted
end of his cigar. The next instant him.
self and cigar were dreadfully put out.
The COW introduced about two tons Of
weight into one of her hind legs, and
then passed it under the mixers left
jaw, and thus served him right.
PIcKLED ONIoNs.-For soft picked on
ions, throw them into boiling salt and
water, and boil until you can put steel
fork into them. Skim out on to platters
to drain off, then put into jars or bottles,
and pour hot vinegar, spiced to taste,
over them. Cork up tightly. For hard,
white pick ed onions, peel and scatter
salt over them, and let them stand three
days. Drain through colander. pack in
bottles and pour over them white vinegar
chemists vinegar) in which plenty of
capsicum has been steeped.-Country
Gentleman.
One way not to keep warm is to drink
freely Of hot drinks; to keep the pores Of
the skin closed; to eat more than can be
digested; to sit over hot-air furnace !;
to lace tightly; wear tight garters. tight
shoes, tight gloves, and bundle up with
"hcaps" of warm clothing; wear mufllers
around the neck and avoid breath of
cool, fresh air; take wine or bitters be
fore meals, and pills to aid digestion
after eating. Do this daily month or
more, and you will be as tender as trop-
ical house plant, and will take /" dreadful
colds" on the slightest exposure Hot
drinks just before going out arc especial
ly favorable to induce chills; and this is
about the way many are now trying to
cheat nature and to prolong miserable
existence. Science Of Ueulh
If one portion of vegetables be boiled
in pure water and another in water to
which a little salt has been added, a de
| cided difference is perccptible in the
taste and odor and especially in the
! tenderness of the two portions. Nege-
tables boiled in water without salt arc
vastly inferior in flavor. This inferiority
may go so far in case of onions that they
are almost entirely destitute Of odor or
taste, though when cooked in sailed
water they possess besides the pleasant
salt taste a peculiar sweetness and strong
aroma. They also contain more soluble
matter than when cooked in pure water
Evidently the salt by adding density to
the water hinders the solution and evap-
Grafton of the soluble and flavoring prin-
ciples Of the vegetables. This explains
the advantages of an addition Of salt to
the boiling water. And it is impossible
to correct by after additions of salt to
the vegetables the want Of flavor in such
as have been boiled without it Western
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