The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-07-06
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

SPIRITS OF AMMONIA, diluted Il lit
tie, will cleanse the hair very thor
oughly. H;l
MOTHS may be kept out of furs and
wooden clothes by wrapping the fabric
in muslin. Moths cannot eat through
muslin.
SUGAR SNAPs.-One cup butter, two
cups sugar, four cups flour, one egg,
half cup water and half teaspoonful
soda, with twice as much cream tar
tar; roll very thin. ...
COMMON CUP CAKE.-Take one cup
butter, two cups sugar, four eggs.
three-quarters cup sour milk, one tea
spoon saleratus, one teaspoon essence
of lemon, half Il nutmeg. Beat well
and add flour, also fruit if you wish.
BEEF-ROLLs.-Take the remains of
cold roast or boiled beef. Mince fine
with Il small amount of its fat; add
seasoning of pepper, salt and chopped
herbs. Put the whole in a roll of puff
paste and bake for half an hour.
STRAWBERRY AND CUsTARD SALAD.
"A nice desert dish may be made OF
mixed early fruits, Strawberries, white
or red currants, gooseberries and cher
ries, carefully picked, placed i'll alter
nate LAYERS, streWed with sugar and
piled up with taste. Simple cream
should he poured over the salad.
JELLY-RoLL CAKE. Take four eggs,
one cup of sugar. one cup of -four, one
quarter teaspoon of salt, beat the eggs
and sugar together until very light,
then add the flour; beat five minutes,
then bake in a bread-pan in a hot oven;
when done, spread the jelly and roll
while warm do not cut until cold.
LEMON CUsTARD pIE.--For two
pies: Take SIX eggs tsaye white OF four
for pudding), one andy one-half cup
white coffee sugar, grated rind of one
lemon and the juice Of three, and one
gill of milk. Bake with only the under
crust; put on Il froSting made of the
whites of four eggs; three tablespoons
full pulverized sugar. Bake till the
froSting is a light brown.
A CAREFUL observer asserts that
many of the diseases incident to poul-
try are due to neglect in providing
them with pure water This is espec
tally the case in instances of chicken
cholera. The omission to furnish
fowls with suitable drinking water is
one of the worst features of cruelty to
animals, besides being very unprotita-
bic to the person guilty of it.
\ GENUINE erasiye soap that will
remove grease from clothing is made
as follows: Two pounds of good CASTLE
soap; half a pound Of carbonate of pot
ash, dissolved in half a pint of hot
water Cut the soap in thin slices,
boil it in the potash until it is thick
enough to mold into cakes; add alco-
hol, half an ounce: CamphOr, half an
ounce; color with half an ounce of
pulverized charcoal.
GINGERBREAD.- One and u half
cups molasScS, one cup butter, one
tablespoonful soda, and one teaspoon
full alum powdered. Dissolve the soda
water. Add soda water first and stir
well. Then alum water the last thing
before the flour. Mix so as to roll out
but not very hard. Cut into cakes the
size of baking tins, having the dough
from one-half to threc-quarterS inches
thick. Bake fifteen minutes.
TIE simplest and most effective
way. and, indeed, the most cconomi-
cal, to preserve eggs without impart
parting to them any foreign flavor, or
rendering them unfit for hatching. the
Massachusetts PlOtyltn1an says, is to
use the patent Stoppered glass jar, with
vulcaniZed India rubber joints to make
it perfectly tight, like the jars for pre-
serving fruits. As soon as the eggs
are collected, put the jar in hot water.
and when thoroughly warm so us to
rarely the air, put the eggs in the jar,
the pointed end upwards, and pack
them with paper OF something to pre-
vent them from breaking. then close
the jar before taking it out Of the wa
ter. If the work is skillfulIy done and
the jar is tight the eggs will keep for
many months and be as fit for the
breakfast-table as the day they We're
laid. 1t is said they will be fit for
Matching also year after they are so
packed, but, never having tried them
for that, we cannot affirm it from
actual eXperiment.-Erchange.