Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-10-09
Home Department.

in with little butter, you may nave
nice French.rolls; just use -four enough
to handle them well, dip your hand in
the -four, and flour round the sides to
make them break apart nicely; make
off quickly, put close together and allow
no room for them, or any other rolis'
to run and get out Of shape. When
nearly done, wipe the tops over with
milk without taking them from the
stove.
ANOTHER WAY: Take piece oil
dough the size eta leaf, beat two eggs
light, half cup of milk, small spoonful
of butter, and with the hand work .al'
together in stiff batter; grease pan
"a round one is best), pour in an inch
aud half thick, and bake in moderate
oven till we'll done; split and butter
send to table hot. 1t should rise twice
its original thickness. BY adding a
little more of the above ingredients,
with cup OF sugar, and giving it a
second rise before baking, you have q
very good plain cake. especially Tor
children.
VERY NICE FRITTERS
NAV be made by simply rolling the
plain dough (after it has risen, ofcourse)
and cutting and frying as dsughnuts,
to be eaten with syrup or sauce. BY
putting lump Of risen dough into q
pudding-bag, tying, leaving room to
swell, putting into pot Of boiling water
and boiling an hour or more, according
to size, you have an excellent plain
pudding, but it should be eaten with
rich sauce.
GROUP REMEDY.-Croxp can be
cured in one minute, and the remedy IS
simply alum and sugar. The way to
accomplish the deed is to take knife or
CRATER and shave of in small particles
about teaspoonful of alum; then mix
it with about twice its quantity Of sugar,
to make it 'palatable, and administer 1t
as quickly as possible. Almost instan-
taneous relief will follow.
The Vermont Record says that
wounds in animals quickly cured by
washing several times a day with tur-
pentne IN which the yolks Of eggs have
been thoroughly mixed.
REMEDY FOR BRoNcHITIs.- Take
dried leaves of common mullen plant,
powder them, and smoke them in q
new clay pipe; be careful that ne to-
bacco has been in the pipe. Draw the
smoke well into the throat, occasionally
swallowing ..some. Use three orfour
times daily.
THINGS WORTH KNowING.-A
spoonful of vinegar should always be
put into water in which fish is boiled
Fresh meat, after beginning to sour,
will sweeten If placed out Of doors in
the coel over nlght.-Clear boiling water
will remove tea-stains and many fruit
STAINS. Pour the water through the
stain, and thus prevent its spreading
over the fabric.-Ripe tomatoes will re-
move ink and other stains from white
cloth; also, from the hands.-A teas
poonful Of turpentine boiled with your
white clothes will aid the whitening pro-
Boiled starch is much improved
by the addition Of a little sperm, or a
little salt, or both, or little gum
arabic Observation-Disclosures and salt
will make your rusty fiat irons as clean
and smooth as glass. Tie a lump Of
wax IN rag, and keep it for that pur-
pose. When the irons are hot, rub
them first with the wax-rag, then scour
with a paper or cloth sprinkled with
salt.-Blue ointment and kerosene,
mixed in equal proportions, and applied
to bedsteads, is an unfalling bedbug
remedy; and a coat Of whitewash is
ditto for the walls Of a log house.-Ke-
rosene will soften boots or shoes which
have been hardened by water, and rem
der them as pliable as new. 1t will
make TIN teakettles as bright as new
Saturate a weelen rag and rub with it.
1t will also remove stains from clean
vanished furniture.-CoOl rain-water
and soda will remove machine-grease
from washable fabrics.
WASHING WITH DRY FLoUR.-The
cleaning properties of dry wheat flour
are not generally known. Take an
article made Of Shetland, Berlin, or
other worsteds, merine, flannel or
grades Of this character, and rub them
thoroughly with dry flour. Shake them
we'll to dust out the -four, and they will
be restored to almost original newness.
Rubbing with soft cloth will remove
pin marks on a made up cushion,
Crotched mats and tides ofcotton OF
wool will be cleansed without having q
washed appearance. This will be found
superior to the use Of water for many
delicate NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
sc. Try it and report results.
GLASS SCREENs.-This preserving
and pressing Of ferns between glass is 9
trade secret. Amateurs can carry il
out, though not to the same perfection
by pressing the leaves when quite green
using a little china cement to attacf
them to the glass here and there before
laying the second glass upon them
which sheuld make them quite air tight
or if the ferns, grasses, etc., are gum
med on each side $50 as to exclude the
air), and then placed on the glass, ar
ranging them according to fancy, yol
will have no difficulty in making thu
screen. When thoroughly dry, the
glass on which the ferns, ETC., have
been gummed can be fixed into thu
outer glass and frame. Beetles, etc.
do not require cumming all over, bu
only en- one place to fix them to thu