The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-05
HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Z.

CUP CAKE-Two eggs, one cup of sugar,
one-half cup butter, one-haf cup cream, one
half cup sour milk, -four, soda and CHINA
mon.
BREAKFAST CAKEs.-Three cups Of milk,
three eggs, three cups Of -four and little
salt Bake in earthen cups, half filled.
quick oven. >,
BLANCHED CREAM-Take pint OF the
thickest cream that can be got sWeeten 1t
with fine sugar and orangefower water; boil
it, and beat the whites of ten eggs with a
little cold cream; strain it, and when the
cream is upon the boil, pour in the eggs,
stirring it well till it comes to thick curd;
then it take it up, and strain it again through
bair-sieve. beat it we'll with a spoon till it
| is cold, then put it in dish.
| How TO DESTROY VERMIN.-Spiders can be
destroyed by no preparation We know OF. Ii
| person is anxious to destroy them, the only
wav is to kill them and break up their nests.
Fleas may be driven ont Of bed by sprlnk-
ling in it camomile flowers. Oil of Penny
| royal will also drive them out For bedbugs,
| use equal parts of alcohol and spirits OF tur-
| pentine, in which corrosive subllmate was
dissolved. B9nzine or gasoline will destroy
them They will not stay in bed In which
cedar boughs have been placed. weak So
luton of chloride of zinc used as wash Will
also Danish them.
devoted himself to the di covery OF the rea-
son why wooden clothing when washed with
soap and water will insist upon shrinking and
becoming thick, and acquiring that peculiar
odor and feeling which so annoys housekeep-
ers saws the evil effects are due to the decom-
position of soap by the acids present IN the
perspiration and other waste OF the skin
which the clothing absorbs The fat OF the
sheep is then precipitated upon the WOOL.
These effects may be prevented by sleeping
the articles in warm olulon OF washing
soda several hours, then adding some warm
water and few drops OF ammonia. The
woolens are then to be washed OUT, ana rhlseu
in luke-warm water.
WAL FRITTERs. some thin slices OF
cold roast veal and trim them in circular
form. Beat them with a rolling-pin to make
them very tender, and season them with a
little salt and pepper and some powdered
nutmeg; also some grated fresh yellow rlnd OF
lemon peel. Make very light batter OF
eggs, milk and -four, in the proportion OF tour
well-beaten eggs to pint OF milk and large
half pint Of suited -four; the eggs beaten lf5l'
and then stirred gradually into the milk IN
turn with the -four. Have ready frying
nan. nearly full of boiling lard. Drop into 1t
. two large spoonfuls of the batter Then put
: in q slice of the veal and cover 1t with two
: more large spoonfuls of the batter. AS the
fritters are fried, take them up with pei,
, forated skinner and drain them.
!, RESTORING FADED DRESSES blacs
: goods of any material except silk can be re-
D stored with slight cost and little trouble
i Collect all the old black worsted material you
have and put it into about two pallfuls
boiling suds in which has been dissolved two
spoonfuls OF the extract of logwood, same o.
copperas; boil the goods five minutes, sur
ring all the time: drain and rinse out all the
O dive then dip in pail of water in which al
G ounce OF gum arabic has been dissolved
e Iron when half dry, on the wrong side
!. Faded drab or slate colors can be restored b.
|, saving the grounds and Stops of the teapo
g until you have pailful; boil in clear water ant
e finish same as the black. The bark OF tn
It beech tree colors fine drsb, set with cope
ras, and neither willifade. They color cottor
g as we'll as wooden.