Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-23
RECEIPTS.

PLANTS.-Lay some thin slices OF sour
apple aroun d the plants that are troub-
led with white worms, and the worms
will work up on to the apple, and they
can be easily removed.
To REMOVE STAINS FROM MATTRESS.
Make thick paste by wetting starch
with cold water. Spread this over the
stain, first placing the mattress in the
sun. Rub off in a couple of hours. and
if the ticking is not perfectly clean re-
peat the process.
DELICATE PUDDING.-Soak over night
one cup of rice; next morning add one
quart of new milk cook until very soft.
being very careful not to burn; then add
.hree- spoonf.le- ef -~h;te susar, Jelts of
four eggs. salt and favor. Frost with
the white of eggs using nine spoonfuls of
sugar, and flavor. To be eaten cold.
RECEIPTS FOR coLoRING.
For four pounds of wooden, scarlet
Four ounces of powdered cochineal, four
ounces of pure cream of tartar. eight
ounces of alum. Bring to boiling heat
sufficient soft water to cover the clothes
you intend to dye; then add the powder
ed cochineal and cream of tartar boil
ten minutes then add the cochineal
compound. Stir we'll together and
strain, after which the cloth may be
put in and kept quite hot for half an
hour, frequently stirring and exposing
to the air; then remove from the dye,
and rinse in alum water, made by dis
solving four ounces of alum in one gal
lon of soft water.
For four pounds of wooden, blue.
Ten ounces of alum, five ounces of cream
of tartar, four ounces Of chemic blue
Bring to a boiling heat. in brass kettle
sufficient soft water to cover your cloth
then add the alum and cream of tartar
When dissolved, put in your cloth and
boil an hour It is then ready to b.
taken out and thrown into quite warn
water, previously mixed with a greater
or less proportion of chemic blue, accord
ing to the shade the cloth is intending
to receive. In this water it must b,
boiled until it has acquired the desiret
color.
For four pounds of wooden or cottol
salmon. Dissolve four ounces of otte
in enough soft water to cover the clot
you wish to dye; boil them together te
minutes; then put the cloth into the dy
and keep near boiling heat for half a
hour; then remove, and rinse in clea
soft water.
, REMOVING SPOTS FROM CLOTHING.
The following receipts are well recon
Q mended: -
Grease. On white goods, soap watt
or alkalies. On colored cotton good
: hot soap water. On colored woole
: goods, soap water or ammonia. On sill
benzine, ether, ammonia, magnesia, chal
: or whites of eggs. Lay the goods 9
s clean bibulous paper, and rub on Il
b detergent with clean sponge.
= Wine and fruit stains, red in
II On white goods, moisten the spot an
% expose it to the fumes of burning sui
it hur, hot weak solution of chloride of lin
IS or bleaching powder. On colored goot
3 of cotton and wool, warm soap water
y ammonia. Same for silk rub CAREFUL
d Vinegar. fruit, acids, mold. {
1T white goods weak, hot solution
he bleaching powder. On colOred goo'
he of cotton and wool, and silk, ammonia.
L. Rust black ink. On white good
IN solution of oxalic acid. or weak muria
sr ic acid. On .colored goods, either &C
e. ton or wool. wash repeatedly with lem
ne juice. No remedy for silk.
Sc Tar, wagon grease. Soap. turpe
or tine, jet ofwater. alternately. Use be
zine for silk instead of turpentine.