Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-09-17
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brio in cold water, rinse In water with
little salt in it, and hang to dry where
the sun will not strike it. but where the
wind will blow it dry.
COOP USE FOR SOAP-sUDs.-Save
your washing suds for the garden; if
they are poured over the roots of the
plum trees, they will kill the curculio;
if turned at the roots of geraniums. ros-
es, &c., they will enhance their beauty
tenfold.
IRoNING.-To iron smoothly, purchase
a few cents worth of beeswax, and rub
it over the leaves of thin pamphlet,
which have been heated through with
the fat-iron; keep it with the ironing
sheet and blanket, and when the fat
irons are to be used, rub them over the
the waxed surface; then wipe gently on
a soft cloth. Shirt bosoms can be east
ly ironed in this manner.
KENTUCKY Corn CAKE.-Take one
quart of corn meal and two tablespoon
fuls of common wheat -four (not pre-
pared); add salt to taste, and mix
thoroughly with sufficient quantity of
buttermilk to form batter. Next melt
heaping teaspoonful of lard, stir it
with the batter we'll, and bake it on a
hot griddle, pouring them thin. By
this receipt the full flavor of the corn
meal is obtained, unmixed with the
taste of molasses, which many people
mistakenly deem necessary to cause the
cakes to bake brown.
To BOIL SWEET CoRN.-Choose full
grown corn, and let the rows be even
and medium size. Pierce the grain
with your nail, and, if the corn is fresh
and tender, the milk will escape in a
jet, and not be thick. Corn, like pota.
toes, is best steamed. If no steamer is
at hand, place the corn in just enough
water to cover it, and boil 10 or 20
minutes, according to the size of the
kernel. If boiled too long, it becomes
hard. Send it to the table wrapped in
napkin or towel placed on meat dish.
Serve hot.
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ter washing, put to boil in enough wat
er to cover it, and cook gently until the
meat falls from the bone easily
then take the meat and bone from the
water, chop the meat and Sc ason it with
salt, adding pepper, if you choose, and,
while hot, put into dish or pan; pour
little of the liquid in which it was
boiled, over it, and then place a weight
upon it, and set it aside to cool wher
ready for use, turn it out upon platter
and it will make most inviting and
palatablc dish of meat Having pre-
pared the meat, take the liquid and SCI
it aside in dish to cool then, afte
taking off any fat that may rise, use tn,
meat as stock for soup.
TOMATO CATsUP.-A peck of ripe to
tomatoes mash them down in larg
pan in layers, sprinkling fine salt be
tween each layer. Let it stand owe
night; then rub it all through sieve
boil down to about one-half, skimmin|
while boiling then add the onions
chopped very fine, and vinegar and mus
tard boil about half an hour, add tn
spices, boil few minutes. When cold
add the nutmeg, bottle and seal for use
The following may be used for large
quantity: To four quarts juice add 81:
small onions, two and one-half table
spoonfuls cloves (ground), one table
spoonful Cayenne pepper, one and one
fourth tablespoonful of black pepper, thre
tablespoonfuls mustard -four, one-hal
pint of sharp vinegar, and one nutmeg
HINTS ON WAsHING.-The quickes
and best way to do the washing for
, family of six or eight persons: First
have plenty of boiling water; to ever
boilerful add from two to three table
spoonfuls of pulverized borax; use som
y of the borax-water from the boiler fc
every tubful of clothes, adding onl
enough cold water to make it comfort;
BILE for the hands: use soap on the mos
u soiled, and rub on the board or throug
- washing machine; do not boil I'll
clothes; have tub partly full of boi
!. ing hot borax-water in which to put til
e clothes that have been rubbed let the
e remain in the hot borax-water until yo
b are ready to rinse them; from quart,
t to half an hour will do; rinse in or
Il clear water, without borax. Use vel
e little, if any, blueing. Borax will n,
4 injure the texture of the finest linel
q and for infants clothes or fannels it
e the only thing that can be used vii
II perfect safety. If stockings or socl
&c are badly stained, they might be boilt
" in borax-water for few minutes only
t. too much boiling makes clothes yello'
1 BOrax acts slowly but surely. The il
20 provementiin clothes washed after til
- direction will be noticed after the secol
&C or third trial, often after the first. Az
II a teaspoonful of borax to every quart
:. starch-it will keep the starch fro
70 sticking and add to the polish.
- THE TRUE housekeeping
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