The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-12-28
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

LEMONS can be kept sweet and fresh
for months by putting them in clean,
tight cask or jar and covering with
cold water. The water must be
changed as often as every other day,
and the cask kept in a cool place.
FOR sore lips and eyes mingle one
teaspoon level full of sulphate of
zinc, or white vitriol, dissolved in one
pint of rain water Moisten your fin
ger with the liquid and apply it to the
part affected, two or three times a
day, until a cure is etfected.-N. Y.
Herald.
A TABLESPOONFUL of black pepper
will prevent gray or buff linens from
spotting, if stirred into the first water
in which they are washed. 1t will
also prevent the colors running, when
washing black or colored cambrics or
muslins, and the water is not injured
by it, but just as soft as before the
pepper was put in.
OYSTERS AND Slowly
stew some macaroni in good gravy till
tender; then lay it in a pie-dish, put
in good layer of fresh oysters; add
pepper, salt, a little grated lemon
peel. and tablespoonful of cream, or
olive oil if preferred. Strew bread
crumbs over the top and brown in a
quick oven, serve with plenty of lemon
juice.
Most housekeepers throw away the
leaves and green tops of celery. There
is better way than this. Dry them
thoroughly in the oven, then pulverize
to fine powder, and they make avery
delicious seasoning for soup, the aroma
and strength of the celery being re-
markedly preserved. After being pull
verified, the powder should be kept in
a jar or closed bottle to preserve the
strength.
KOssUTH PUDDING.-One-half cup
suet chopped fine; raisins the same;
one-half cup molasses; one-half cup
sugar; one cup warm water; two eggs !;
two teaspoonfuls of soda; little salt;
all kinds of spice; flour and bread
crumbs to make stiff as cake. Steam
three hours. Sauce-One cup sugar !;
one-half cup butter; one egg; one lem
on, grated; one teaspoonful nutmeg
one-half cup boiling water. Cream
the butter and sugar; add the egg well
beaten, then the lemon and nutmeg
beat well ten minutes; add slowly the
boiling water; then put over boiling
water until very hot; stir constantly.
FISH AND MACARONI. - Boil the
macaroni in water until tender, drain
it and cut it into short pieces. Re-
move the bones and skin from any
kind of white boiled fish, tear it into
small pieces, and mix it with the
macaroni. Then make sauce of two
ounces of butter, the yelks of two
eggs, salt, pepper and a little lemon
juice. Heat this in saucepan, pour
ing in half a pint of melted butter,
stir it, and put in the fish and maca-
roni. When hot pour it out in a dish,
heaping it in the center; sprinkle
powdered crackers over it and bake
the top light brown color in the oven.
REMEMBER that the wings of tur-
keys, geese and chickens should never
be thrown away. Many people, espe-
cially in the country, keep them simply
to brush off the stove or range, but
there is nothing better to wash and
clean windows. Chamois or buckskin
is very good but wings are better, and
cost nothing, and their use is an econ
omy-utiliZing that which would other
wise be thrown away. They are excel
lent to clean the hearth or stove, to
dust furniture, but best of all to wash
windows, because the corners can be
easily and perfectly cleaned by them,
leaving no lint behind, as when cloths
are used. Use these wings also to
spread on paste when papering walls.
There is nothing that does that kind of
work Decentralization Union.