Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-07-05
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.


it 4 hour in sailed water, let it get cool.
chop it lightly, put it in pudding dish,
sprinkle over it bits of butter. beat up 2
eggs light, add to cup of milk, pour
over the cabbage and bake hour.
Cucumber Pickles: Mix equal guam
titles of alcohol and water in tight
vessel, in which put the cucumbers;
keep them well covered with the LIQUOR,
which soon sours, imparting to the
pickles pleasant and wholesome acid.
Under this process the cucumbers will
not change color, wilt or soften. The
liquor, Notwithstanding its changed
state, preserves the cucumbers hard and
green as when taken from the vines.
Peas and Lettuce: Blanch a quart
of peas for about minutes and drain
them; blanch head Of lettuce for
minute (blanching is only boiling or
stepping in boiling water); put peas
and lettuce in saucepan with ounce
Of butter; stir gently on the fire for
about minute, and then add a little
broth or water, 2 or sprigs of
parsley, salt and pepper; boil slowly
until done, and serve warm. The pars-
ley may be served or removed Just be-
fore serving, according to taste. The
lettuce is served with the peas.
Tongue Soup: Put small tongue
into stew-pan, with trimmings of any
bones of fowl or veal, and stew for
hours, removing the scum; take out the
tongue, skin and clean it, and leave it to
cool; put back the trimmings and the
root, with carrot, 3 turnip, head of
celery and an onion, teaspoenful of
strain the soup, and when cool remove
the fat, and set it on to heat, with q
turnip and carrot cut in squares, and 3
tablespoonfuls of grated tongue; let it
simmer slowly for an honr, and serve
with boiled rice. A useful and cheap
soup.
Sour Beef and String Beans: Take
6 pounds of beef, the brisket is the best.
Put this in close stew-pan with peck
of string beans, cutting the beans in
three pieces; add ] tumbler of water;
season with salt and pepper and dredge
well with flour; when the beef is half
cooked add J of tumbler of vinegar
and tablespoon of brown sugar; stir
it well till the ingredients are
well mixed; cook it for 5
hours or more very slowly, COW
ering well the stew-pan. The art in
cooking this dish, as in all boiling or
stewing, is not to allow it to cook too
fast. Should it boil too rapidly move it
to 3 cooler portion of the range. It
should simmer all the time.
MISCELLANEOUS.
During cool summer weather, when
milk sours slowly, it is sometimes diff
cult 10 determine which is the oldest
the cream on two or three messes pre-.
senting about the same appearance. If
a bit of chalk is kept close at hand each
can be marked, all those of one milking
marked alike, in half the time one would
spend in deciding which was the filter
to skim.
-"I would as soon think of doing
without broom as a clothes-stick,"
was the remark of an old housekeeper.
Old broom handles cut off to three feet
in length make excellent sticks for STIR
ring clothes and lifting them from the
boiler. Brooms should be hung up
with large picture-ring, which must
be left in the clothes-stick.
bleaching white clothes: A bleach
ing preparation may be made by dis
solving 2 pounds of sal-soda in a gallon
IF hot water, and add pound of good
lime. Stir the mixture for few min
ltes, allow it to stand for hour and
hen carefully pour off and bottle the
clear liquid. Half pint Of this may be
added to each tub of water.
How to Repair Clothes: Economy
s the order Of the day in these hard
lines, and "if stitch in time" is only
AIKEN, many articles can be made to
wear much longer. Ii the collars and
tufts of shirts become ragged, cut them
'f above the line of stitching, and turn
zach edge in, and sew them over and
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