The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-08-13
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BLACK RASPBERRY DESSERT. = Look
over and put into your glass sauce-dish
the best sweet black raspberries, crushing
them as little as possible. Then mash and
strain half as many ripe red currants.
Add sugar to the juice of these until quite
sweet, and when It is well dissolved, pour
il over the :" black caps" and let them
stand an hour or two. Serve for after
dinner dessert, or for sauce at any time.
To KEEP BUTTER SWEET UNTIL WIN
TER.-Mix 2 large spoonfuls of salt, OF
saltpeter, and 2 of pulveriZed white sugar
into II pounds of butter; put the butter in
a large stone jar with a stone cover; ill
the jar two-thirds full of butter, then put a
piece of cloth on the top and fill up the jar
with salt. 1t should not be opened until
winter. Another method is to take !
pound of white powdered sugar, ounces
of saltpeter, pound of salt, and quarts
of water; scald and skim the mixture;
when very cold, pour it on the butter.
PAsTE.-Mix l tablespoonful of wheat
flour with pint of cold water, adding the
latter gradually, and thoroughly stirring
in each portion before pouring in more;
place the vessel over the fire and thorough
ly stir the whole until it boils; great care
should be taken to prevent caking or burn
ing on the bottom. An addition of half d
teaspOonful of powdered alum will streng-
then the product. The addition of a few
grains of corrosive sublimate, or few
grains of creosote, will prevent it from
turning moldy and preserve it for years.
When too hard or dry it may be sOttened
by beating up with little hot water.
VI I ia1a aol-
lars, cuffs, etc., which require to be made
very stiff, should be starched in the follow
ing way: Mix tablespoonful of starch
with enough cold water to make it smooth,
then turn on enough boiling water and
boil it 10 minutes; then add bit of white
wax the size of a three-cent piece and
teaspoonful of alcohol. The spirit is to
increase the stiffness and help to retain it.
The wax is to prevent the starch from
sticking to the iron. If the flat-irOn still
sticks to the starch. rub hard soap gently
over the bottom of the iron. Put the col
lars, cuffs, ETC.. into tin pan and place in
a warnfspot by the stove or range, to be
come very dry before putting away
Daisy Eyebrfght.
DRY CLEANING WITH BENZINE.-ScOur-
ing with benZine has proved to be, I'M
dOubtedly, one of the very best methods,
since the end is perfectly accomplished
without shrinkage or injurious effect upon
the color or finish, so that the most elegant
garments need not be taken apart, nor lace
or velvet trimmings be taken off, while
with mems clothing it is not noticeable
that they have been washed. The articles,
freed from dust and dirt by beating them
while dry, are first simply thoroughly
moistened with benZine in tinned-copper
stoneware vessel, and well squeezed in it
with the hands; silk pieces, ribbons, and
heavier portions that may require it being
brushed well on a uncovered table sup
piled with tube beneath for re-cOllecting
the benZine. The deepest stains are
marked and treated more thoroughly. The
articles are similarity treated in second
bath of benzine, and then carefully dried
in centrifugal machine for 10 to ID min
utes, the benZine being re-collected in a
vessel beneath. On removing from it they
are smoothed out and hung in a warm
drying-room, with access of air. 1t will
require 10 to II hours after they are dry
to remove the OdOr completely. Since
benZine acts principally on fatty matter.
stains of street mud, meals, etc, may re-
main, and must be removed by gently
rubbing with a soft sponge dipped in cold
water to which little alcohol h s been
added, and then drying with soft silk
cloth. Sugar. champagne and egg stains
are easily removed with cold water, and
the color is brought up again with a little
acetic acid and alcohol in water, the spots
being well rubbed out. Blood spots are
treated similarly. In all these cases the
formation of marginal stains around the
spots must be prevented by thorough use
of the soft sponge and soft silk cloth. An
article that still retains decided stains is
brushed with cold decOctiOn of soap
bark to which some alcohol has been adj
ded, and is then rapidly passed through
water, and then through water slightly
acidulated with acetic acid, and dried rap
idly. Kid gloves are well rubbed with
the hands, especially, in benZine, and each
finger then rubbed on stretcher with a
RAG, and after being blown up are hung
up to dry. Articles treated with benZine
need but little subsequent finishing, and
this may be accomplished by applying a
ISOLATION of gum arabic in water, and a lit
tie alcohol, uniformly with a rag, and
ironing. Portions of coats that have been
taken apart, need simply to be stretched
and moistened uniformly with alcohol,
and allowed to dry rapidly. Heavy cloth,
velvet. etc, after being well steamed are
treated on the wrong side with so little
dressing best of tragacanth) that it does
not 90 through. and are then placed on
the finishing frame or warm drum. White
furs and angora tassels are passed imme-
diately from the benZine through pulver-
lied chalk, and allowed to dry, and then
beaten out, when the leather will remain
elastic, and the fur look well. BenZine
that has become turbid by use may be pu
rified by stirring ten drops of oil of vitriOl
thoroughly into two bucketfuls of it, and
allowing it TO settle. The operations must
of course not be conducted near the lamp
or fire. on account of the cOmbustibility of
benZine,