The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-13
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

49, HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Sugar crackers...-1 IL cups brown SUI
gar, eggs, beat the white separate, half
cup Of lard and butter, teaspoon soda,
IA teacup sweet milk.
Bread cake.--.l cup bread dough, egg,
even teaspoon soda, good hal If cup but.
ter, cup raisins, cup sugar, teaspoon
cinnamon, and one ofcloves.
Poor Minister'S Cakc...-1 teacup sugar,
tablespoon butter, l egg (all we'll beaten)
2 cups flour, of sweet milk, teaspoon
cream tartar, ~ teaspoon soda, 2 tea
spoons extract bitter almond.
To wash White Striped Stockings
Make a jelly, the night before it is want
ed, of the best yellow soap; wash the
stockings in warm water with little
salt in 1t, using the jelly instead of soap;
rinse in clear water, also with a little
salt in it; wiring as dry as possible, and
dry quickly. 80 49,
A receptacle for spent matches Break
an egg at one end, and empty the shell of
its contents. With scissors make the
edge even, and crochet cover for |the
shell with colors that harmonic with the
room in which it will be used. Suspend
it from the gas fixture or lamp, or as near
at hand as possible. "..
TO clean a carpet -.Shake and beat it
we'll lay it upon the floor, and tack it
firmly; then, with clean flannel, wash
it over with one quart Of bullock gall,
mixed with three quarts Of soft cold wa
ter, and rub it off with clean flannel or
house cloth. Any particular dirty spot
should be rubbed with pure gall.
Water glass deserves more extended
household usage. Mixed with paint or
whitewash it gives increased durability
and fine gloss it is ain excellent fire.
proof cement, and when dry. it is also wa
ter-proof. 1t is good adhesive mucilage
for mending china, glass, or wood, and
made into wash is the best coating for
Trick vaults.
For cleaning hard walls, take 10 gall
Ions Of water, to which put one-half
bushel of bran. Let the mixture stand
until it sours then strain off the water
and wash the walls down with it. If
there are any stains or dark marks from
pictures, let the bran-water remain on
the spot over night, and the next morn
ing wash the place thoroughly with
water.
Chicken Cheese. -.-This is so nice that
one who cats it once, likes it again. Boil
two chickens till tender take ont all
the bones and chop the meat fine; season
to taste with salt, pepper and butter :;
| in !,
to make moist. Mold it in any shape
you choose, and, when cold, turn out and
cut into slices. 1t is an excellent travel
ing or picnic lunch.
Crusts and bits of bread should be
kept III an iron pot, closely covered in a
dry cool place. Keep fresh lard and suet
in tin vessels. Keep, sat pork fat in
glazed earthcn-ware. Keep preserves
and je])ies in glass, or china, or stone.
ware. Keep salt IN a dry place. Keep
meat i'll a cool dry place. Keep ice, in
the cellar, and wrapped in flannel Keep
vinegar in WOOD Or glass.
About Sleep.-A medical man dis
coursing upon sleep makes this remark !:
-"One man may do with less sleep than
another; but as a general rule, if you
want clerk, a lieutenant, lawyer, a
physician, a legislator, Judge, presi-
dent, or pastor, do not trust your in
terests to any man who does not take on
the average eigh. good solid hours of
sleep out Of every twentyfour. What
ever may be his reason for it, if he does
not give himself that, he will snap some
time just when you want him to be
strong.'
TO remove oil from paper, scrape, fine
ly some pipe'clay (the quantity will be
easily determined on making the expert
ment); on this lay the sheet or leaf, and
and cover the spot, in like manner with
the clay. Cover the whole with sheet
of paper, and apply for few seconds a
heated iron or box, or any substitute
adop.ed by laundresses. On using india
rubber to remove the dust taken up by
the grease, the paper will be be found
restored tots original whiteness and
opacity. This simple: method has proved
much more effectual than the use of tur.
pentine.
Wholesome Pic Crust.-The most
healthy pie crust is made of thin, sweet
cream and -four, with little salt. Don t
knead. Bake in quick oven, Another
way is, sift quart or two Of -four in the
pan. Stir in the center little salt and
half a tcaspoonlul Of soda we'll pulveriz-
ed. Put in whole cup of soft mot
liquid) lard, or butter and lard mixed !;
stir it thoroughly with the -four; next
add two scant cups Of good SOUR milk or
buttermilk. Stir all quickly with the
flour in such way that you need hardly
touch it with your hands till you can roll
it over Bake quick. This will make
three or four pies. .