The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-29
1dl o Examiner
Household and Farm.


each can of fruit mako strip with
about a quart of water, and allow
the fruit just to boil in it. Put the
grapes into cans before they crack
open, and seal them tightly.
APPLE RICE PUDDINa.-- Peel,
halve and core six tart apples, place
them in fiat stew-paa, with a little
water, two tablespoonsfuls of sugar,
two or three cloves, and stick OF
cinnamon when tender take up care
fully; boil the strip a little longer,
and pour over the pieces. Boil two
thirds of a teacupful of rice milk,
with scant teacupful of white SUI
gar and the rind of lemon, until the
rice is thoroughly cooked; then take
out the rind and stir in the yolks of
three eggs. Put half of the rice at
the bottom of a pudding dish
spread over the apple; cover with
remaining rice, and place in cool
oven for ten or fifteen minutes beat
the whites of the eggs in stiff froth,
and add the juice of a lemon, three
tablespoonful of powdered sugar,
and spread over the pudding. Re-
turn TO the oven until of delicate
brown.
THINGS WORTH KNowINa.-1
That fish may be scalded much east
er by dipping into boiling water
about minute.
2. That fish may as well be scald-
ed If desired, before packing down
in salt; though, in that case do not
scald them.
8. That salt fish are quickest and
best freshened by soaking in sour
milk.
4. That milk which is turned or
changed may be sweetened, and rend-
cred fit for use again, by stirring in
n little soda.
8. That salt will curdle new milk;
hence, in preparing milk-porridge,
gravies, ETC., the salt should not be
added until the dish is prepared.
6. That fresh meat, after beginning
to sour, will swecten if placed out of
doors in the cool over night.
Z. That clear boiling water will re-
move tea stains and many fruit stains.
Pour the water through the stain,
and thus prevent its spreading
through the fabric.
s. That ripe tomatoes will remove
ink and other stains from white
cloth; also, from the hands.
9. That teaspooniul of turpentine
boiled with your white clothes will
aid the whitening process.
10. That boiled starch is much inn
proved by the addition of n little
sperm, or little salt, or both, or a
littla ann arabic 1isnlyn1
IL. That beeswax and salt will
make your rusty flat-irons as clean
and smooth as glass. Tie lump of
wax in a rag, and keep it for that
purpose. When the irons are hot,
rub them first with the wax-rag,
then scour with paper or cloth,
sprinkled with salt.
IL. That blue ointment and kero-
sene, mixed in equal proportions,
and applied to bedsteads, is an un-
FILLING remedy; and that coat of
whitewash is ditto for the walls of
log house.
Is. That kerosene will soften boots
or shoes which have been hardened
by water, and render them as pliable
as new.
II. lut htIOStht w 'hN
teakettles as bright as new. Satu-
rate a wooden rag and rub with it.
IL will also remove stains from clean
vanished furniture.
10. That cold rain water and soda
will remove machine greese from val
liable fabrics.
Where oats lodge, as they are apt
TO do upon heavily manfred land, an
application of ashes would save the
crop.
From one hundred hens T.. II.
IIoldridge of Richland, ILL.,, made a
net profit of $3.50, beside supplying
his table with eggs and poultry.
Some of the farmers who have
been buying patent cow-milkers now
call them cow-dryers.
a farmer down in Florida tainted
in his barnyard and the hogs ate up
most of his legs.
Paris green is in disrepute in Con-
necticut. The recent heavy rains. II
is claimed, have carried from the val
ley farms so much of the poison used
TO kill potato-bugs into the rivers as
to cause the death of millions of fish.
Young and quickly-fed animals
have more water and fat in their
flesh, whilst older and wcll-fed ami
mails have flesh of iirmer touch and
fuller flavor and are richer in nitro
gen.
The Catalpa Tree, says the Ger
mdntown Telegraph, has suddenly
Innmo1 nm and toEnn lite plopp nj tlC