The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-03-21
The Household,

Lap SALyE.-Oil of sweet almonds
eight ounces, white wax three ounces,
spermacetti, three ounces, rhodium fifty
drops, and white sugar candy, form an
excellent lip salve.
DYsPEPsIA.-A simple and eifectual
remedy for dyspepsia is to abstain from
drinking Immediately before and during
meals, and for an hour after. Also use
no milk in either tea or coffee.
DRIED APPLE JELLY.-To one quart
of apples put four quarts of water; let
them stand all night; boil till the good
ness is out of the apples; add pint of
sugar to every quart of juice, and boil
till it comes to jelly.
SNOW SPONGE CAKE-One cupful of
-four, little heated, one and one-half
cupfuls sugar, two teaspoonfuls cream
tartar, mixed with -four Ono Soda, whites
of ten eggs. This makes a very white,
beautiful cake.
To WASH TOWELS WITH COLoRET
BoRDERs.-To set the colors let the tow.
els soak in pailful of cold water con.
tanning one teaspoonful of sugar of lead
let them remain ten minutes before wash,
ing; to make the colors look clear and
bright use pulverized borax in the wash
water, very little soap, and no soda.
BEEF SANDwICH.-Scrape little raw
beef from a tender juicy piece, and
spread it on a thin slice of buttered
bread; season with pepper and salt and
cover it with another slice of buttered
bread; divide it into small pieces OF
equal shape and size, and strip off all the
crust. Raw bee fis very nutritious and
easily digested, and, if scraped very fine
is exceedingly nice.
YORKSHIRE PUDDING.-Oneq quart OF
milk, six eggs, a little salt, and as much
-four as will make stiff batter; pour
into dripping pan (meat PAM, putting
few pieces of dripping on it here and
there; bake for an hour. In Yorkshire,
where the meat turns on a spit in front
of the fire, the pudding is placed under,
meath the beef and receives the gravy as
it drips.
To DESTROY BED-BUGS.-Oneo ounce
of corrosive sublimate to one pint of
alcohol; with the feather end of goose.
quill apply the remedy to all the crevices
and woodwork; the black dots will indi-
cate where the bugs hotel is. The bot
tie should be labeled poison, and placed
where it will not be used by mistake, or
what remains thrown away. Nc second
edition of bugs will issue after the use of
this infallible remedy Any druggist
can mix it. A pint will be enough fol-
four beds.
UNIVERSAL CEMENT.-Curdle skim
milk with rennet or vinegar, press out
the whey, and dry the curd at gentle
heat as rapidly as possible. When quite
dry, reduce to very fine powder. Then
take of powdered curd, ten drachms
powdered quicklime, one drachm; pow.
dered camphor grains: mix; keep in
tightly -corked walls. To join glass
earthenware, etc, the powder is made
into a paste, with little warm water
and applied Immediately.
CHoCA.-Grate OUNCES of chocolate
put it on the fire with gill of water
stir it and when quite melted and rather
thick add very slowly half pint of boil
ing milk; do not allow it to boil after
the milk is added; have ready one pint
of cafe az lait, made by mixing one tea
cupful of very strong coffee with one
cupful of boiling milk; now hold the
vessel containing the chocolate in ont
hand and the coffee in the other, and
pour them slowly into bowl from the
height of about Is inches; add sugar
and serve instantly. This is delicious
beverage, the coffee rendering the choco
late less heavy and the chocolate soften
ing the coffee.