The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-11-30
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

A HEN is a small steam engine with
an egg-laying attachment, and there
must be a constant supply of good
feed and pure water to keep the en-
CINE and its attachment up to its work.
PROFESSOR RILEY says that the
eggs of the oyster shell bark louise
may be killed during winter by wash
ing or Swinging the trees with coal oil,
diluted with three parts water. When
there is leisure every tree can be care
fully examined.
STEwED TRIPE-After the tripe is
boiled tender, cut in small pieces an
inch square; make dressing of cream
or milk, small piece of butter, pepper,
salt, dredge little flour with it; stir
these all together; put in the tripe and
stew for twenty minutes, stirring often.
WHITE MOUNTAIN CAKE - Two
eggs, two cups of flour, one cup of
sugar, one-half cup Of butter, one
half cup of milk, one teaspoonful of
cream of tartar in the flour, one-half
teaspoonful of soda in the milk.
Flavor with lemon or what you please.
HOTEL PUDDING-Boil one quart of
milk; add one-fourth cup of butter;
one cup of cOrn-meal, mixed with cold
milk; one-half cup each of sugar and
al nInn m
one of ginger; two eggs; salt; one
half cup of raisins. Sauce, if you
like.
TURNIPs A LA CREME.-Take small
new turnips; peel and boil them in
sailed water; drain them thoroughly.
Melt one ounce of butter in sauce.
pan. add to it a dessert spoonful of
-four, pepper, salt, grated nutmeg and
a small quantity of milk or cream; put
in the turnips, simmer gently few
minutes and serve.
Mock PIGEONS.- Cut beefsteaks
into pieces as large as your hand
Ground of beef is better, stuff these
and skeWer them; fry three or four
slices of salt pork, and in this fat
brown your pigeons; take them out;
make a gravy of the fat, cover your
pigeons with it, and stew them until
tender, perhaps three hours.
COTTAGE PUDDING.-One cup SUI
gar; two cups flour; nearly one cup of
cold water; one egg; piece of butter
size of an egg; two teaspoons of bak-
ing-powder; salt. Sauce: One cup SUI
gar; one-third cup butter; mix thor
oughly: add two cups boiling water;
tablespoonful of cOrn-starch beaten
with the butter and sugar. After
taken from the stove add one we'll
beaten egg, and one-half lemon sliced.
Cheap and good. a hot oven is nee
essary for the pudding.
LET me give my recipe for making
baking-pOWder, as in my early house
keeping days l found it quite an item
of expense: Six ounces of tartaric acid,
eight of the best baking soda, and one
quart Of flour; sift five or six times
through fine sieve, so as to thorough
ly mix the ingredients; always pro-
cure the materials from a good drug
gist; by 50 doing you have for fifty
cents what would cost you one dollar
if you bought it from a grocer. Keep
it well corked in a jar; use the same
quantity as you would of any other
powder. Detroit Tribune.
IT is well known that when velvet
has been wet, not only its appearance
is spoiled, but it becomes hard and
knotty. To restore its original soft
ness, it must be thoroughly dampened
on the wrong side, and then held over
very hot iron, care being taken not
to let it touch the latter. In a short
time the velvet becomes as it were,
new again. The theory of this is very
simple. The heat of the iron evapor-
ates the water through the tissues, and
forces the vapor out at the other side !;
this vapor, passing between the differ
ent tibers, separates those which adj
here together in hard punches. If the
velvet were ironed after dampening,
an exactly opposite result would be OBJ
tanned. 1t is, therefore, necessary that
the substance should not come in con-
tact with the heated iron. -H0rper's
Bazar.
KIDDING HOUSES OF NERMIN.-The
Journal Of Chemistry says the follow
ing is fatal to all sorts of vermin that
prove snch veXation of spirit to the
good house-keeper: Two pounds of
alum dissolved in three or four quarts
of boiling water. Let it remain over
the fire till all the alum has dissolved.
Then apply it with brush, while boil
ing hot, to every joint or crevice in
the closet where ants and cOckroaches
intrude, to all the pantry shelves, and
to the joints and crevices of bedsteads.
Brush all the cracks in the floor and
mOpboards with this mixture. A
cement of chloride of lime and pow
dered alum used to stop up rat holes,
and the walls and cracks and corners
washed with the aforementioned hot
alum and bOraX, will drive away rats
as well as insects.