The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-05-13
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.


PARsNIp CAKEs.-Grate the parsnips
raw, and to every cup of parsnip add one
egg and bread crumbs enough so that the
mixture may be formed into cakes.
Season to taste and fry in butter or nice
drippings.
BAKED HEART OF BEEF.-Put the
heart into warm water to soak for two
hours, then wipe it well with cloth, and
after cutting off the lobes fill the inside
with stuffing made of finely-chopped
cold beef or veal, or bread crumbs well
seasoned with salt, pepper and savory
herbs; fasten it in by means of needle
and coarse thread, put it in a baking
dish with little water in a moderate
oven, keep well basted with beef drip
ping, bake for two hours and serve with
a good gravy and red currant jelly.
RECIPE FOR MAKING RUsKs.-Take
one cup of good hop yeast, one and a
half pints of warm water, little salt,
mix and knead until perfectly smooth,
then set in warm place to rise; after it
has risen, add six eggs and three teacups
OF sugar, which have been well beaten
together, shorten with two thirds of a
cup of lard, and set to rise again, then
make into small rolls place them closely
in pan when risen nearly to the top {;
bake, and when done, and while hot,
CRATE white sugar over the top.
AN English journal, in reply to an in
quiry, says: "Canaries are made high
colored with the free use of cayenne
pepper in their food. Some breeders
mix it with egg and biscuit; Others use it
in a cake, with which they freely feed
the birds during the whole of the mott
ing period. To one egg, when hard
boiled and chopped fine Tor it may be
more effectually done by pressing
through sieve), add two teaspoonfuls
OF cayenne, pure, and mixed well to-
gether. Then add one small biscuit, re-
duced to a powder. Mix the three in
gradients together and supply your (say
some halfdozen) birds with the diet two
or three times daily. No green food dur
! ing the mott. The more of the pepper
food the birds partake of and the less of
seeds the deeper the color of the plum
age will be. You need not fear your
birds feeding upon the above food. Com
mence with the pepper diet when the
young have attained the age of six weeks.
There will be no necessity to put the
whole of the young birds upon the
cayenne diet. Select for the purpose the
boldest and most likely-looking cock
birds. Young canaries bred from pepper
fed birds will not be high-colored in first
or nest feathers. To make them high
colored they must be molted upon
cayenne
JAyELLE WATER.-Take two pounds
washing soda and two pounds chloride
of lime, place them in hot stone jar and
pour over them two gallons boiling
water, then place over it thick cloth
and a board with stone upon it. Let
it stand twenty-four hours, stirring two
or three times. When quite clear strain
it through bed-ticking on thick flannel,
rinsing out immediately to save the cloth
Then bottle close for future use 1t is
| excellent to remove fruit and vegetable
stains and perhaps some others, but
avails nothing with ink and iron rust
1t is intensely alkaline and therefore it
affects acids principally. A half-plnt in
three or four pals of boiling water will
Written tablecloths beautifully. Any
small article that is to be thoroughly
treated should be washed and boiled
first, then it may be dipped in the javelle
water, let it stand three or four minutes,
watching it very closely and removing ii
the moment the stains disappear. Ii
there is yet faint outline of the stain
| that will often come out in the subse.
| quent treatment Do not let the fabric
| be in more than two minutes, as there is
| risk of disorganizing it. Then throw il
into the hot water, let it stand few
minutes, rinse thoroughly in two OIL
three waters and hang to dry in the sun
Do not let drop Of it fall upon colored
cloth, and if it falls upon any dry cloth
wash out Immediately or it may eat q
hole. Do not keep the hands in it long,
say half an hour, or it will remove the
! cuticle. inter Ocean.