The Hickman courier., 1878-07-12

oughIy; less than one-half hour win |
usually Suffice Jennie Bryant.
CANNING FRUIT CODA LADY IN
Springfield. Mass according to the
Union, has been making some interestinv
in putting up canned goods
without cooking. Heating the fruit
tends more or less to the injury of the
favor, and the lady referred to has
found that by filling the cans with fruit
and then with pure cold water, and
allowing them to stand until all the con.
fined air has escaped, the fruit will. II
then sealed perfectly, keep indefinitely
without change or loss of original favor
CHOCOLATE CUsTARD.-Put one and
one-half pints of milk, with cup of
sugar in it, into tin pail and set into a
kettle of boiling water; then put one
half pint of milk into a saucepan and
add heaping tablespoonful of Bakers
chocolate, shaved fine boil this slowly
few minutes; wet a tablespoonful of
Maizepa or corn starch in two of cold
milk, and when smooth stir into the
boiling milk in the pail; add also the
chocolate after strsining it, and lastly
the b:aten yolks of three eggs; stir till
smooth, flavor with vanilla. Use Imore
chocolate and sugar if you want it
richer; pour into a dish or glass cups.
Before serving beat three whites stiff
with a spoonful of sugar ard lay on the
top.
How TO MAKE CoFFEE.-In the first
place, take care to get the best coffee,
equal parts OF Mocha and Java, already
roasted. This kept in tightly coKer"d
jar, and grind it fresh every- corning
For three grown people t~1e SIX table
spoonfuls of coffee, put III ooWl, ana
break fresh egg ldto 1t, shell and all.
Mix till the, eofee is wet throughout,
then put Ito hot tin cofee>pOt, turn
on twe<quarts of boiling water, set it
Oh the stove, and let it boil .briskly for
zen minutes; then pour in one-half cup
full of cold water, set it on the table
minute or two to settle, and then pour
through little wire strainer into the
coffee-pot intended for the table. BY
boiling jug of milk, to use with the
coffee, it can always be good. There is
no possible excuse for bad coffee, and yet
how seldom do we see it good.
CURRANT JELLY.-Put the curIants
in a stone Jar and set in a kettle of hot
water over the fire till the currants are
thoroughly heated squeeze the eurrants
through a cloth or ons of the machines
for squeezing fruit; measure the juice,
and to every pint allow a pound of
sugar put the juice into the preserving
kettle, and spread the sugar on pans and
set it in the oven; it must be stirred
occasionally to prevent it from burning;
let the sugar get very hot, and when the
Juice has boiled five minutes, stir in the
sugar, and as soon as it comes to a boil
again, take it off the fire and put it in
the jars; lay thin paper dipped in brandy
over the jelly when it is cold and paste
thick paper over the jars. Jelly made
in this way is clear, firm and keeps very
well. Any kind of jelly may be made
in the same way.
To KILL BED-BUGs. The only certain
cure for bed-bugs is solution of corro-
sive sublimate, which may be obtained
at the druggists. The bedsteads should
be taken apart and well washed with cold
xyator aud iord aoor, 4ba,, xr;+b q s,,,aII
fat brush, the poison should be az piled
to every crack and crevice where a bug
may harbor. The poison should be used
once or twice q week, as may be neces.
sary. 1t is work of time and patience,
but if persevered in, this remedy will
efectually destroy the bugs. Corrosive
sublimate is deadly poison, and should
be kept out of the way of children and
servants.
CEMENT FOR IRON AND LEATHER
The metal is warmed and then washed
with hot solution of gelatine or glue,
and the leather previously STEPPED in a
hot solution of gall nuts, pressed upon
the surface and allowed to cool. Per-
haps, where Russia or other fancy leather
are used, it would be better to apply the
infusion of gall nuts to the flesh or rough
side of the leather, by means of sponge,
until thoroughly wetted. 1t is imper-
tant that all the articles be warmed and
kept about as hot as the hand will bear.
but no hotter, during the operation, the
work done in q warm place, the metal
and leather firmly pressed together, and
the pressure sustained for several hours,
cooling gradually. 2. Another method,
and one which may be used where the
articles are exposed to the weather; gum
shellac and India rubber, in equal pro-
portions by weight, dissolve in rectiied
naphtha or coal tar benzole. Dissolve
by placing the vessel containing the above
articles in another vessel containing hot
or boiling water, and as the water cools,
replace with more hot water. 1t must
be kept away from the fire or light, as
the gases arising from either benzole or
naphtha are explosive. Keep everything
warm and proceed to unite as in the first
method. --Rsciprocacio. 8. Equal parts
of gutta perchs and gum shellac melted
together will cement iron and leather or
iron and wood.