The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-02
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HOUSE

MAKE paste of soft soap and emery
for polishing steel.
A SMALL quantity of turpentine added
to stove backing will make t. stove
easier to polish.
To remove old putty from window
frames, pass red-hot poker slowly over
it, and it will come off easily.
A FEW drops of glycerine in a bottle
of mucilage will cause the mucilage to
adhere to glass when used upon labels.
A BOTTLE of faxseed oil, chalk and
vinegar, mixed to the consistency of
cream, should be kept in every house for
burns, scalds, etc.
To clean chromos, dampen linen
rag slightly and go over them gently.
If the varnish has become defaced, cover
it with thin coat of mastic varnish.
QUICKSILVER beaten up with the
white of an egg, and applied with a
feather to every crack and crevice of a
bedstead, is the very best bug preventive.
To sew carpet-rags on machine, make
the stitch short, run it obliquely across
the rags where they are to be joined, and
sew a good many before cutting the
| thread.
ALABAsrER is best cleaned by putting
it in pan of water and letting it soak
some hours until quite clean. Another
mode is to cover it with a strong solu-
ton of soda.
PUFF cake: two cups of sugar; one
cup of butter; three beaten Eggs; one
cup milk; one teaspoonful Of soda and
two Of cream-of-tartar; three cups of
| flour: bake in small panS
For Indian pudding, scald one quart of
and flour mixed, one cupful of molasses,
one egg beaten, little salt; bake in a
good oven three-quarters of an hour.
CocoANUT cake: one-half pound OF
sugar; one-fourth pound of butter; five
eggs; one gill of sweet milk; one-hali
teaspoonful of soda and two of cream
of-tartar; two cups of -four; spice to
taste.
THERE is no part of the year wher
cellars in which vegetables are STORED
need ventilation oftener than the pres
ent. If the cellars cannot be thoroughly
aired every day, the vegetables shoule
be removed.
SUGAR drops: rub to cream si1
ounces of powdered sugar with thret
ounces of butter; add three well beater
eggs; half pound of sifted flour ant
half of a nutmeg. Drop this mixture
by the spoonful ON buttered tins severa
inches ~apart. Sprinkle small suga
plums on top and bake at once.
A SUBSCRIBER in the Rural Neao Yorke
gives a receipt for making corn-bread
Two cups of Indian meal; two cups O
,, wheat flour; one cup of sugar; on
. beaten egg; one teaspoonful of soda
,, two teaspoenfuls of cream-of-tartar;
, little salt, and sweet milk enough t.
make thick batter. Bake in shallov
pans-it should be when done, about a.
inch in thickness and eat warm fo
breakfast. This makes the best corn
:, bread ever eaten according to my taste
1 PRESERVED pineapple: make siru
Q of three quarters of pound Of suga
q and not quite one half-pint Of water t
4 each pound of fruit; put over the fir
. in a p reclaim kettle, and just before
Q boils stir in the beaten white of an eg
with tablespoonful of cold water
as it boils remove the scum until II
more rises. Have the pineapple peele
Il and sliced or cut into dice; add to til
"a sirup and boil gently until the siru
:. has penetrated the fruit and the piec'
n look clear. Put into cans and seal.
n Snow pudding: soak one ounce
d gelatine in one pint of cold water fl
E. ten minutes; place the same over tt
D. fire; stir and remove assoon as dissolve
le and when nearly cold beat to st
e. froth with an egg beater; beat Il
d whites of three eggs to stiff froth al
10 add to the gelatine froth, together wi
il the juice of three lemons and pulveriz'
Il, sugar to suit the taste, and mix Il
n. whole together; next pour into mol
ID to cool; serve with a soft custard ma
IN of the yolk of the eggs.
! LEMON pie: /. One good-sized lemo