The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-03-16
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

TAINTED MEAr.-A handful of brown
sugar, thrown upon the hot oven bottom,
while the meat is cooking, will relieve 1t
of any bad odor caused by faint
EGG AND DlILk-Beat separately the
yolk and white of fresh egg; add to the
yolk tumbler of good milk. Sweeten it
with white sugar to the taste, then STIR IN
the white.
Mrs. SMITHS Potato PIEcRusT.-
Take six potatoes, wash them first; when
washed, add to them tablespoonful OF
shortening and little salt, then add flour
enough to make sufficient pastry. 1t
makes delicious piecrus,.
PERFUME FOR GLovEs.-Rose leaves
powdered, half an ounce essence fcloves
and mace, each one drachm frankincense,
quarter of an ounce. Mix; put portion
in drawer with gloves, and they will re-
tain the scent for a considerable time.
CHOCOLATE FOR THE SIcK.-When an
invalid uses chocolate it should be made
in the ordinary way, and then suffered to
stand until cold. The oily parts collect
ing on the surface should be taken of.
Then boil the liquid again, and add sugar
and milk, as usual.-Erchange.
If lady has house plants, the insight
ly pots can be hid by very simple con-
trivance cut from green paper-cambrlc,
strips as wide or a little wider than the
pot is high, and long enough to go round
it. Sew together and fit to the pot by tax
ing up three or four seams al the bottom.
Sew on this, beginning at the bottom,
dried moss (procured at the tloristsl and
you have flower-vase dressed in green.
QUICK BREAD-Sift one quart of flour
and two teaspoonsfuls of baking power
together. Add scant teaspOonful OF
salt, and sufficient milk or water milk if
you can spare it) to make soft dough.
Mould into loaves and bake at once in
hot oven. In using any of the baking
powders, always sift the flour and pow
der together that they may be thoroughly
mixed Work the dough together as rap
idly as possible, making it as soft as it
can be handled, and bake Immediately
and quickly. 1t is important that these
rules should be carefully observed, if one
desires the full benefit from the use of
baking-powders of any Standardization
Union.
Mock TURTLE SoUP.-Take about ten
pounds of thin beef, cut it into small
pieces and fry the lean parts light
brown; put the rest of the beef e. g. the
fat part into q stew-pan with boiling
water, and stew it for eight hours, with a
bunch of sweet herbs and two onions;
when cold take off the fat Then get
half calls head with the skin on, half
boil it into small square pieces and put
them, with the lean beef and the soup, in
to the same pot, and let them stew alto
gether till quite tender. Thicker it with
very little flour, and little pounded
mace and cloves, and a CRATE of nutmeg,
two spoonfuls of mushroom catsup, and
pepper and salt TO taste. 1t should be
served with eggballs and lemon.
MANY well-informed persons appear to
think that roses are difficult to manage,
and Will not bloom without some special
or mysterious treatment not generally
understood. Now, nothing could well be
further from the truth. We believe
there is really no flower of proportion
ate value that can be had so easily and
with so little trouble. The rose is a
good feeder, and will do well in any ordi-
nary fertile soil, but is, of course, i'm
proved by thorough cultivation. 1t is al
ways best to plant in beds or masses,
and not singly. The ground should be
well spaded and pulverized to the depth
of a foot or more, and enriched by dig
ging in any fertillzing material that may
be convenient Make the bed of any size
or shape that suits your fancy; only re-
member that roses appear to best advan-
tage by themselves. Therefore make tine
bed only large enough for the roses you
intent to plant. If you wish other flow
ers, make other beds; do not put them
with the roscs.-Ihe Rose Culturist