The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-09-02
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

BOILING FRUIT WITHOUT SUGAR.-lt
may not be generally known that boiling
| fruit long time without the sugar anu
| without cover is very economical, De-
cause the bulk of the scum rises from
the fruit, not from the sugar; boiling
without cover allows the water to evap-
| crate, and so the fruit is tirmer and better
| favored.
Corn CAKEs.-Grate half dozen ears
| of green corn, stir in cup OF milk, aud
flour with which yeast powder, in the pro-
portion of two teaspoonfuls to the quart,
has been sifted, until the whole is a thick
batter. Add two or three eggs well beaten
and pinch of salt. Fry as batter cakes,
or bake in gem pans in quick oven. \
pleasant breakfast dish.
COMMON coal-oil is an excellent mos
ouito-bar. Drop little on piece OF cot
ton, squeeze as dry as possible, and rub
over the exposed portions of the body
The smell of the oil disappears in about
| five minutes, and no mosquito will alight
upon the annointed places. This is said
| to be better than pennyroyal essence Tor
the same purpose.-Scienttfc american.
EXPERIMENTS in Germany on frozen
potatoes prove that the freezing in nowise
alters the chemical composition of the
tubcrs. The change is simply physical,
and, even if frozen hard they are still fit
for distllation, or they may be pressed to
get rid of the water and then ground
into a very good meal adapted for feeding
cattle.
TOMATO PIE.-Take fully-ripe tomatoes,
scald and peel the skin off, then cut in
slices, and lay in shallow dish, sprinkle
with sugar, add alittle butter, cover with
a crust and bake till the crust is done
Then turn the pie on plate, crust down
ward, and spread over the tomatoes the
whites of an egg beaten with sugar. Set
in the oven till the egg stitfenS. This is
more wholesome than lemon pie and al
most as good.
To SETTLE COFFEE WITHOUT EGGs-
Put the ground coffee two tablespOOntuls
or more, according to the size OF the fam
ily) to soak over night IN about a teacup
full of water. In the morning add more
water and put it over to boil, boiling tif-
teen or twenty minutes; then fill in what
water is necessary and put the coffee. pot
on the stOve-hearth; in fifteen minutes or
so the coffee will pour off as clear as am
ber-colored claret. Ifany he left after the
meal is over it can be heated again with
better result than if it had been settled
with eggs in the beginning.-Rtrat Ne0
Yorker.
AMONG the many devices for keeping
butter in manner that preserves the fresh,
rosy flavor of new, with all its sweetness,
is the following, from the DutcAess Farm
er, which is said to be entirely successful:
To three gallons of brine strong enough
to bear an egg add a quarter of pound
of nice white sugar and one tablespoonful
of saltpeter. Boil the brine, and when it
is cold strain carefully. Make your but
ter into rolls and wrap each separately in
a clean, white muslin cloth, tying up with
a string. Pack a large jar full, weigh the
butter down and pour the brine until it is
submerged. This will keep really good
butter perfectly sweet and fresh for Il whole
year. Be careful to not put upon ice but
ter that You wish to keep for any length
of time. In summer, when the heat will
not admit Of butter being made into rolls,
pack closely in small jars and, using the
I
a depth of at least four inches. This cx-
cludes the air and answers very nearly as
well as the tiIst method suggested"