The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-28
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Some Practical AdUtce about PuttiHg
Ga01y WO0teNs-G Batch or Tooth-
some Recinea.

Some Practical AdUtce about Putin,
Ga01D W0olens-G Batch or Tooth-
some Recipes.
It il we'll worth the trouble to hav
this thing of putting away woolens right
ly done. We do not believe in using to
bacco for the purpose, for we have know
of carpets being greatly injured b,
moths when a perfect line of the tobaccc
leaves was placed around the edge TO
protection. A line of salt around tn,
edge is better, and a good sweeping nov
and then is the best preventative for th'
rest. Persian insect powder, tqB, is very
efficient. If carpets are raised and well
beaten at the proper season of the year.
and That is during the spring house
cleaning, there will be little danger OF
moths but blankets Sud WOODEN cloth
ing laid away through the summer are
o. apt to show the depredations of the
millers and the feasts of the moths in
the fall. If the millers have left no eggs
in the woolens: anything hat will keep
them away is all that is required-linen,
a box closely pasted up, or wen a news
paper closely pinned around the articles,
but the mischief is done before the ar
ticles are put up, and we fail to dislodge
the millers' eggs, or We must apply
some odor strong enaugh to kill the
moths as they cGne from the eggs. Brush
the articles very briskly with a
whisk broom, tksen do up with camphor
or black pepper in a linen cloth or news
paper. The old-fashioned way to pre-
serve woolens was to keep a large whisky
hogshead for the express purpose, and
use it for the same purpose year after
year. It will hold the blankets and all
the woolens of an ordinary family. 1t
should ke kept in a dark, ccol place, and
we'll fastened up. 1t should not be
washed, but merely wiped dry before be-
ing used. The odor of the whisA is the |
preserving quality, and the idea is not a
bad one.
SOUTHERN MoDEOFPREsERyING ORANGES
Boil the fruit whole in soft water UNI
til you can easily run a straw through
the skin; clarity three-quarters Of a
pound of sugar for every pound of fruit
take the oranges from the water, pour
g then@ the hot syrup and let them
stand in it n night next day boil
them in the syrNp till it is thick and
clear; then take them up and strain the
syrup upon them. It is one of the few
varieties of sweetmeats, with the making
of which we are not familiar, but we
have been given some orange preserve,
made after this receipt, IN South CARROLL
na, and it was just spli ndid-transpar-
The following common deIicacy, pre-
pared from oranges, we accidentally
omitted in a former chapter:
ORANGE WATER ICE.
To four pounds of best loaf sugar, al
low n quart of water and four dozen
large, ripe, ~deep-colored oranges having
rolled the oranges on the table under
your hand, to increase to quantity of
juice, wash and wipe them dry take
pieces of the sugar and rub them on half
the oranges till you have taken of, n the
sugar, their yellow rind; then put that
sugar, with the remainder, into q porce-
lain kettle and pour on one quart of
water, into which has been beaten the
white of an egg; whenade sugar is quite
melted, set the kettle on the fire and boil L
and skim till the scum ceases to rise and
the yellow of the orange is quite dis
solved; then stir in gradually the Juice
of the oranges and when all is in, take it
at one off the fire, lest the flavor Of the
juice shonldsbe weakened by boiling. Let
it cool, stirring it we'll; put in a COM
mon freezer and freeze. If no freezer is
to be had apail surrounded by Ice and
salt will answer the purpess. It should
be set in as cool a place as possible, and
flannel thrown over all to conine the
cold air.
BREAKFAST PUFFs.
Stir two well beaten eggs intoa pint of
milk, with q little salt, and a piece of
butter, melted. Then pour all into a
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