The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-12-03
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Household knowledge.

To CLEAN BLACK LACE Squeeze softly
and often in skinned milk; when it seems
clean, put it in clean skinned milk. squeeze
again. lay it on sheets of white paper, draw
ont scallops and edges with finger. cover
with stiff paper and heavy weight.
STUFFED ONIONS -Parboil some coed sized
onions; take out the middle and fill with
fo1cs meat; put them side by side in cas-
serole, with butter; sprinkle a little salt and
little sugar on them; cover the onions WITH
thin slices of bacon; cook thoroughly and
serve with their own sauce.
GINGER PoUND CAKE-Take one cupful OF
butter, one cupful of sugar. one cupfui OF
molasses, three .cupfuis Of sifted Hour, three
eggs, one teaspoonful OF cream tartar. one
small teaspoonful of soda dissolved in one
cupful of milk, one tablespoonful OF ginger
and one tablespoonful of cinnamon are very
good.
A MOTH Poor PAPER.-A moth proof pa
per is MADE from q mixture OF wooden, COT
ton. and hempen waste; it is then saturated
with mixture of crude carbolic acid, heated
thin coal tar, and the residual oil from the
rectiiication of naptha. The paper is then
pressed and dried, and served TO wrap up
Articles liable TO be damaged by moths.
CRACKERS AND CREAa-Split six Boston
crackers, place them in a soup plate and
pour boiling water over them. AS soon as
they are soft draw off all the water and
them nice sweet cream. This is specially
liked by little children who are not feeling
well, and ususlly relished by growing PEG
pie, too.
EXCELLENT COFFEE RECIPE DIR. Foote'S
Health Monthly says: Stir into the ground
coffee sufficient white of egg to make
smooth past. add the proper quantity. by
measure, of boiling water. ana let it boil
gently for 20 or 80 minutes. Made thus it is
exoulsitely clear and transparent, the
coagulated albumen holding every finest
particle of solid matter"
BARLEY WATER TO a tablespoonful of
pearl barley, washed in cold waite r, add two
or three Jumps of sugar and the juice OF
half lemon. On these pour one quart of
boiling water aud let it stand seven or eight
hours; strain; never use the barley second
time. Half an onnce of isingass may be
boiled in the water Increase the sugar if
desi rable. For fevers or weak stoni achs a
Strengthening drink.
RICE BLANC MANGE.-Mix four tablespoon
fuls of rice flour in a littis cold water; add a
pIncn of salt; stir this into a quart of boil
ing milk and boil and stir for 10 minutes;
when partly cool add the whites of three
eggs beaten to frotb and cook again until
almost boiling; then turn into wet mold
Serve with cream. sweetened and favored
to the taste. Farins or arrowroot may be
prepared in the same way, emitting the
eggs and second boiling.
LUMPs IN STARCH Or GRAvY.-How true it
is that, If we observe and remember, we can
learn something of every one we meet A
few dsys ago l learned from the poore.
housekeepsr know something new to me-
that salt added to the flour before the water,
on stirring paste for starch or gravy, would
prevent the fl Dur from forming in Jumps.
Or course, L used to salt both gravy and
starch, but never observed the good result s
OF adding the salt first.
DoUGHNuTs One cup OF soft yeast, one
cup Of warm sweet milk; one Gu o of shorten
Ing-hslf butter and half lard; one cup Of
sugar. two well beaten eggs. one-half tea
spoonful of salt; iavor with nu tmeg, all
spice or cinnamon. Kuead all together. set
in warm / lace ht night; in the morning, if
light. kneed again roll about twcthirds OF
an inch thick; cut out in cakes little larger
than silver dollar; let them rise; then fry
IN lard and roll in puIverized sugar.
Farm Notes.
Between incendaries lightning and acct
dent. Indiana county, Pa, farmers lost $25 :
900 worth OF barns inside of three months.
Our own hands are Heavens favorite in
struments for supplying US with the neces
saries and luxuries of life
A little dry sand covered over potatoes
when they are first put into the cellar, W IL
destroy any unpleasant odor they may have
SprinkilDg OF dry a1r-siacked lime Will
mitigate tendency to rot
r, NJ Williams, of West Brattleboro, Vt.
has a Cot-woid buck which weighs 226
pounds. His fleece this year weighed IL
pounds, and some of the wool was nj. Q
inches IN length. So says the Record aud
Farmer.
few rubbing posts set up in a pasture
will save injury to the fence. Cattle vii
use these conveniences very often ii pr
f6c6 for and all no
trouble to witness the enjoyment of the ami
msls in their use.
Two young men out riding were passing q
farm house where a farmer was trying to
harness nule. Won't he draw" said
one OF the horsemen. 'Of course he will"
said the farmer; The draws the attention OF
every fool that passes this way" The young
men drove on.
The poorest lands we have can be made to
yield paying crops by the liberal use of those
natural fertilizers which are within reach OF
the poorest farmer, II he will but exert him
self to obi ,in them. This talk Of worthless
lands is foolish--it is the owner and not the
land that is worthless.
Probably the very best way to protect
wheat ID the bins fsom the weevil Is to thor
oughIy fumigate the bins with burning sui
phur. This should be done be fore the grain
is put into the bins, and repeated in the
course Of month or 30 after the gram ID
stored. Some persons use lime and salt, but
there is nothing better than sui phur.
The yield OF milk and butt in the sum
mer depcn ds grestiy upon winter feeding.
All the fe given to cows Is not cons umed
without return. The manure gives good
Dividend upon the outlay, and the animals
are storing up energy and strength to be
made available at-rward. The winter il
the season for liberal and judicious feeding
and not for "ehort com MONS" which Is bu
another term for half starvation.
Fife en- cows allowed to stand out one
hour on a cold day, shrunk in milk nine
quarts; ice cold water gwen to Q COW will
shrink the milk; COWS allowed to sand IL
the water on hot day will so shrink thu il
milk Cows never should be al
lowed to stand in draft. A go ID care
full man placed in charge of a badly man
aged herd of cate. has increased the flow o
milk to an extent sufficient to pay hi
Wages Putting sa on the nay NOW lie a use.