New Ulm weekly review., 1878-10-09
HOUSE AND FARM.
Housenold Recipes.

Housenola Recipes.
Hard Sauce, for PNdd6ngs.- Stir to
cream one cup of butter with three cups
powdered sugar; when light beat in juice
OF lemon, two teaspoons nutmeg.
Pop-ooers.- One pint Of milk, one pint
Hour, butter size of a walnut, three eggs.
beaten light, pinch of salt, add eggs last.
Bake in cups, filing them half full
70 Paeoesst Stoues from Rustsmg.-Ker-
osene applied with rag to stoves will
keep them from rusting during the sum
mer; also, good for iron utensils on the
farm.
doors from cootS7ag pqe0ented Put one.
or two red peppers, or a few pieces of
charcoal, into the pot where ham, cab
bage, ETC., is boiling, and the house will
NOT be filled with the offensive odor.
Lemon Jelly Crate the rind and take
the juice of one lemon, pare and CRATE
SIX sour apples, one cup qfsugar, ,one egg,
| one teaspoonful of flour; beat all thor
oughly together and let it come to boil.
This is very nice to use between cakes in
place Of other jelly.
Preserved Curra1ats. pounds of
currants, seven pounds of sugar. Take
the stems from seven pounds of the cur
rants, and press the Juice from the other
three pounds. When the juice and sugar
are made into hot syrup, put in the cur
rants and boil until thick and rich.
Topreucnt the hair from falling o,lt-The
common application, in Oriental coun-
tries, is the bruised bulos of the Aphodezss
buzbosus, garlic or onions, mixed with
gunpowder. An infusion of the small
leaves of the orange or lemon tree in red
wine, containing twenty grains of tannin
perlitre, has also proved serviceable.
There are two ways to Judge silks
Note the closeness and evenness of the
rib in it, and hold it to the light to Judge
the better of this That shows the texture.
And then crush it in the hand and release
itsuddenly. If it springs out quickly and
leaves no crease behind, it has verve, and
the quality of the silk is denoted by the
verve.
To Cure Fezon.- Take pint of COM
mon soft soap and stir in air-slacked lime
till it is of the constancy of GLACIERS put
ty. Make a leather thimble, fill it with
this composition and insert tile finger
therein, and the cure is certain. This is
domestic application that every house
keeper can obtain promptly.
Cream Beer.-Two ounces of tartaric:
acid, two pounds of white sugar, the iuice
of half lemon; boil five minutes, and
when nearly cold, add the whites of three,
eggs well beaten, one half cup of -four,
one-half cup of wintergreen essence. Take
teaspoonful of this syrup to tumbler,of
water, then add one-half teaspoonful Of
! saleratus, and drink at once.
Apple D,tnaplSngs s:-Quarter and core
the apple for each dumping, then put
the parts together with sugar in the mid
die; surround each apple with pie crust;
if you wish to bake them, put them on
pan like biscuits, and set them in the oven.
IT boiled, tie each in a seperate cloth,
and boil for half an hour. Serve, both
baked and boiled, with liquid sauce.
No wafer that has stood in open vessels
during the night should be used for drink
ing or cooking. By exposure to the air it
| has lost its 'saeration," and has absorbed
many of the dust-germs floating in the
apartment If convenience requires wa
ter to be kept in vessels several hours be-
fore use, it should be covered, unless the
vessels are tight. Wherever practical, all
distributing reservoirs should be covered.
Filtering always adds to the purity of
water. Drinking water should not be ia
ken from lakes or rivers on low level.
Surface water, or water in lakes, pools, or
rivers, which receive the surface wash,
should be avoided as much as possible.
Do not drink much water at time.
More than two tumblers tull should not
be taken at meal. Do net drink be-
tween meals unless to quench thirst, as
excess of water weakens the gastric juice
and overworks the kidneys. Excessive
potations, whether of water. or other fluid,
relax the stomach, impair its secretions,
and paralyze its movements. Bysdrink-,
ing little at time the injury is voided..
CUr0lfOr Avthma.