Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-11-08
Miscellaneous REGIMES.
From Ransom's Family Recipe Rool

From Ransom's Family Recipe Book.
10 make German paste for singing
birds, take blanched sweet almonds one
pound, pea-meal two pounds, butter
three ounces, few grains Of saffron, a
sufficient quantity of honey. Form the
whole into paste and granulate it by
pressing it through collander Some
add the yolks of two eggs.
To clean knives use soft flannel and
bath brick. If rusty use wood-ashes
rubbed on with newly-cut bit Of Irish
potato. This will remove spots when
nothing else will Keep your best set
wrapped in soft white paper, then in lin
en-, in drawer out of damp and dust.
Never dip the ivory handles of knives
in hot water.
To clean silver, wash, after each meal
all that is soiled, in very hot soft water,
with hard soap. Wipe hard and quick
ly on clean towel; then polish with
dry flannel. If discoIored with egg,
mustard, spinach, or beans, or by any
other means, rub out the stain with a
stiff toothbrush fused only for this pur-
pose), and silver soap. Have your own
soap-cups-two of them-one with com
mon soap, the other with a cake of sill
yer soap in the bottom. Have for one a
mop, for the other a stiff brush-a
toothbrush is best. Use your softest
towels for silver. Besides being clean
and easy Of application, the silver soap
will not wear away the metal as will
whiting or chalk, or plate powder, how
ever finely pulverized.
To clean china and glass, rinse the
greasy plates, and whatever is sticky
with sugar or other sweet, in hot water
and transfer to large pan Of very hot
water. Wash glass first; next silver;
then china-one article at a time, al
though you may put several in the pan.
Have mop with handle; rub upon
the soap lover which the water should
have been poured) until you have strong
suds; wash both sides of plate and sau-
Ger, and wipe before putting out Of your
hand. Draining leaves streaks which
can be felt by sensitive finger-tips, if
not seen. If china is rough to the
touch it is dirty. Hot, clean suds, a
dry, clean towel, and quick wiping leave
it bright and shining. Roll your glasses
around in the water, filling them as soon
as they touch it, and you need never
crack one.
To wash windows, dissolve little
washing soda in the water if the glass
is very dim with smoke and dirt. Do
not let it run on the sash, but wash
each pane with old flannel; dry quickly
with a soft, clean towel, wiping the cor
ners with especial care. Polish with
chamois skin, or newspapers rubbed
soft between the hands.
To wash lawn or thin muslin, boil two
quarts of wheat-bran in six quarts, or
more, of water, half an hour. Strain
through coarse towel and mix in the
water in which the muslin is to be
washed. Use no soap, if you can help
it. and no starch. Rinse lightly in fair
water. This preparation both cleanses
and stiffens the lawn. IF you can con-
veniently, take out all the gathers.
The skirt should always be ripped from
the waist.
TO wash white lace edging, have a
quart bottle covered with linen, stitch
ed smoothly to fit the shape. Begin at
the bottom and wind the lace about it,
basting fast at both edges, even the
minutest point, to the linen. Wash on
the bottle, soaping it well, rinse by
plunging in pail of water, and boil as
you would white handkerchief, bottle
and all. Set in the hot sun to dry.
When quite dry, clip the basting- threads,
and use the lace without ironing. If
neatly basted on, it will look nearly as
we'll as newt not quite.