The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-09-14

10 Keep Lemons Fresh. Place them
IN a jar with water enough 10 cover
them. They will keep fresh in this way
several days without changing the
water.
10 Cure Bunions. Bind fine linen
oand tightly around the foot and over
the bunion, sew II on II necessary, and
wear 1t day and night; battle the feet
freely in strong borax water, using a
teaspoonful OF pulverized borax 10 a
basin Of water.
Dish for children Boil quart Of
milk and add, while boiling, cupful
Of Oatmeal, and cook a few minutes.
Have ready a vegetable dish half full Of
bread, cut In pieces half an inch square,
and pour the milk over il, having pre-
viously seasoned II with salt.
Kcn.ucky Corn Cakes.-Take quart
Of cornmeal and 2 tablespoonfuls Of
common wheat flour, add salt to taste,
and mix thoroughly with sufficient
quantity Of buttermlk to form q batter.
Next melt heaping tablespoonful Of
lard, stir il with the batter we'll, and
bake on a hot griddle, pouring them
thin.
10 Prevent Decay in Meats. -Sprinkle
on plenty Of pulverized borax; rub il
well into the meat. and let it remain 5
or 10 minutes on ice, or longer, If de-
sired. just before cooking wash il well
in strong solution of borax water, and
do not rinse again. II it is to be boiled
or parboiled, add little borax in the
water in which it is boiled; quarter
OF a teaspoonful will answer.
70 Boil Sweet Corn.-C Choose full
grown corn, and let the rows be even
and medium size. Pierce the grain
with your nail, and il the corn is fresh
and tender the milk will escape in a Jet
and not be thick. Corn, like potatoes,
is best steamed If no steamer is on
hand, place the corn in just enough
water To cover it, and boil Is or 20 min
utes, according to the size of the kerr
mel. Ii boiled too long it becomes hard.
Send it TO the table wrapped in nap
kin or towel placed on meat dish.
Jelly Cake.-2 eggs, ! cupful sugar,
teacupful of sweet milk, butter the
size Of half large hens egg, tea
spoonful lemon extract teaspoonfuls
baking powder, teaspoonful flour, lit
pinch Of salt. Soften the butter, but do
not heat IT, Beat the butter, sugar and
eggs together till very light; add the
milk. lemon and salt; silt the baking
powder through the flour, and stir in
gradually at the last. Bake in layers,
and put jelly or cocoanut between. This
quantity will make five layers on round
tins. Bake in a tolerably hot oven.
70 Make Good Coffee. Get pure Java
coffee; if Java is too mild, use one-third
choice Rio with it, Allow l heaping
tablespoonful Of coffee for every person,
and allow cupfuls Of water for every
tablespoonful of coffee Ut can be even
stronger if desired). Place the coffee
in the sleeper; if making coffee for
persons use the white Of | egg; throw
1t in the sleeper on the dry grounds and
shake it about until ii is all covered with
the coffee; pour on boiling water and
set it on the back Of the range, stopping
up the spout with soft cloth to pre-
vent the steam from escaping; let it
simmer 5 minutes, or not longer than
10. The yelk Of the egg can be used
the following morning. If the coffee is
for 3 persons use egg, white and yelk.
Look in the sleeper once before remov-
ing il from the range, and if the grounds
have boiled up and are clinging to the
sides Of the sleeper push them down
with a spoon Serve the coffee boiling
hot.
The Queen or the oven.
A breakfast biscuit or tea-roll made with
DooLFY's YEAST POWDER Is certainly the
queen 81 the oyen-so light, white and deli
cious. You lift Il tenderly. break II open
getty, spread II daintIly with fresh, sweet
butter, waiting to be rraci0us. After break
fasting on biscuits made with DooLEY's
YfAsT POWDER, what man would contem-
plat suicide or grumblc because his wife
asked him for money!
One Of Bishop Coxe's monitions,-
in his excellent thoughts on the service.
il this: .Preparc for divine service in
your closet, not at your toilet" 1t Is
sign Of ill-brccdng. rs well as Of frivol-
ty, 10 dress deliberately for church, A
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