Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-09-24
RECEIPTS.

leaves and little powdered alum.
To CoUNTERAoT ONIoN.-By chewing
and swallowing few leaves of parsley
after eating onions, magic sweetening
of the breath will be obtained.
Cool D1Er.-Light housekeeping is
very popular during the summer, and
cold dishes are in demand. Few people
dislike for breakfast oatmeal porridge
boiled almost to jelly and cooled in
molds. 1t may be eaten with cream,
milk, or syrup, and is Wholesome adj
junct. though not recommend for sole
dependence unless the dinner hour is an
early one.
If, in painting your wOrkmen have
dropped fresh paint on the window-panes.
it can usually be removed by rubbing
with an old penny. If that is not sue
cessful make strong solution of soda
in hot water, and wash the glass with
soft flannel, but before wetting take off
carefully all the paint that can be re-
moved by the blunt point Of glaciers
putty knife, but never scrape paint or
anything else off glass with a common
knife.
REMEDY FOR WHooPING CoUGH.-
Make syrup of prickly pear and drink
freely. Take about three moderate
sized leaves of the prickly pear to a
quart of cold water; cut up in pieces,
and boil slowly about half an hour,
strain out all the prickles through close
muslin or linen, sweeten with white sug-
ar. and boil little longer. A safe and
sure cure, and so pleasant to the taste
that infants take it with relish. 1t is
also good for cold that settles in the
throat or lungs. This species of cactus
grows in rocky or sandy places, or is
grown in gardens.
MULLEN FOR DRINK.-The common
MULLEN is found growing wild along the
country road-sides. 1t has one stalk
The leaves are rather thick, from two tC
three inches wide, and from six to nine
inches long. During the first fall
months the leaves all drop off, leaving
the stalks bare. The leaves are bes
gathered before the first of August
Young or old are good. Dry them il
the shade and keep them wrapped IL
paper. Make good strong tea-say al
ounce to a pint of water-and drinl
freely several times day. This is saiC
to be good for the blood-vessels, T.
strengthen the system, and cure inha
, nation Of the lungs.
BLACKBERRY JELLY.-Put the berrie
I into stone jar; set the jar into ket
! tie of warm water and let it boil, close
, ly covered, until the fruit is all broken
strain through a stout coarse cloth t
8 each pint of juice allow one pound Q
sugar set the juice on alone to boil, an
3 while it is boiling let the sugar be heat
ing in the oven stir the sugar occasion
ally to keep it from burning; after tn
juice has boiled just twenty minutes ad
the hot sugar; when the sugar has dis
G solved let the juice just come to boi
D then remove it at once to the fire +; hay
J your glasses rolled in hot water; Fl
q them at once with the scalding liquor
y when cold firm, place branded tissu
y paper on the jelly, paste a thick papt
over the glass, and keep in dry plac
: Sweet oil or almost any grease ma
W be taken out of a carpet by putting OIL
!. tablespoonful of ammonia or hartshor
r and two of beef's gall into a pint
,e warm water, and sponging the spot vel
IF thoroughly. Then rinse repeatedly vii
3 pure alcohol, and wipe with piece
WOODEN cloth till nearly dry. If Il
in spot has been of long standing this ms
i need to be repeated two or three tim
ce before the grease is all removed. v
have never known it to fail.