Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-01-06
Household Hints.

Household Hints.
KEEP your canned fruit in a room
where it does not freeze; but do not
keep 1t SO warm that it will ferment
SoALD flannel before making, as it
shrinks In the first washing. This
shrinking is usually caused by using
too much soap and washing them in
too cool water. Never use soda for
fannels.
A SOLUTION of oxalic acid crystals,
one part by measure to eight of soft
water, will remove dry ink stains Sam
pies Of mixed and of wooden goods are
sent by the author of this recipe from
which ink stains have been removed
by this acid, leaving scarce trace be-
hind.
GROUP can be cured in one minute,
and the remedy is simply alum and
sugar. The way to accomplish the
deed is to take knife and CRATE or
shave off in small particles about tea
spoonful of alum; then mix it with
twice it's quantity of sugar to make it
palatable, and administer it as quickly
as possible. Almost instantaneous re-
lief will follow.
MANY people like onions, but dislike
to eat them because of the bad taste
that remains in the mouth This can
be remedied by boiling the sliced on
ions In a half gallon of water for the
space of minute or two Pour it off,
add pepper, salt and butter, and when
dished, a few spoonfuls of sweet
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III the mouth, nor can it be detected
on the breath.
PIMPLEs on the face usually indicate
some defect of nutrltion, or some error
III food. Manypersons, on the adoption
of wise and reasonable diet, become for
the first time free from pimples on the
face; therefore, instead of doctoring
them with medicines, you should look
well to your habits Of life, improve
your digestion, wisely regulate your
diet, and keep the skin active by proper
bathing and much life out Of doors.
Few people, especially women, appreci-
ate the good effect Ct out door life, un-
constrained by tight dresses.
SoFTEN1NG hard water is usually done
with sal soda, but the effect is to hurt
the clothes that are washed in the water
thus prepared, and the hands also. It
is because there is an excess of the
soda, more than unites with the acid of
the water, which makes it hard. The
remedy is easy: Use enough Of the salt
to take up the acid, and no more. In
this way both acid and soda disappear,
leaving a neutral salt which is harmless.
The water will be soft. Test certain
amount of water, beginning with very
little soda, and adding more if you find
you need it. With our spring water,
which is hard, lump of soda the sizeo
a pea to pint of water is about the
right proportion Of course the amount
of the salt should be according to the
degree of hardness of the water.
How TO Bon HAM-Take a
ham weighing about eight or ten
pounds, soak it for twelve or TWEEN
ty-four hours in cold water, then cover
it with boiling water, add one pint of
vinegar, two or three bay leaves, little
bunch of thyme and parsley, (the dried
and sifted will do, or even the seeds of
parsley may be used if the fresh can
not be procured); boil very slowly two
hours and half, take it out, skim it,
remove all the fat except layer about
half an inch thick-cut off with sharp
knife all the black looking outside-put
the ham into your dripping pan, fat
side uppermost, CRATE bread crust over
it and sprinkle teaspco hful of pow
dered sugar over it; put it into the
oven for half an hour, until il is
beautiful brown.
Eat cold; cut the incest portion in
slices; the ragged and little odds and
ends can be chopped fine, and used for
or by adding three eggs to
one pint of the chopped ham and frying
brown, you have "a delicious omelet for
breakfast or lunch. The bone should
be put into the soup kettle. The rind
and fat should be rendered and strained
for frying potatoes or erullers. A ham
prepared in this way will ego" twice
as far as when cooked and carved in the
ordinary manner, besides the conviction
it gives housekeepers of being
and at the same time plac-
ing neat and palatable disnes before her
family