The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-07-04

THE Fable.

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chop Il lightly, put il In pudding dish,
sprinkle over IL 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 quart
OF peas for about 5 minutes and drain
them; blanch head Of lettuce for
minute (blancbing is only boiling or
sleeping 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 3 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 4
hours, removing the scum; take out the
tongue, skin and clean il, and leave II to
cool; put back the trimmings and the
root, with carrot, turnip, head Of
celery and an onion, teaspoonful Of
cayenne, and stew hour more then
strain the soup, and when cool remove
the fat, and set it on 10 heat, with a
turnip and carrot cut in squares, and
tablespoonfuls OF grated tongue; let IL
simmer slowly for an honr, and serve
with boiled rice. A useful and cheap
soup.
Sour Beet and String Beans: Take
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 CT water;
season with salt and pepper and dredge
well with flour; when the beef Is half
cooked add Of tumbler OF vinegar
and a tablespoon Of brown sugar; stir
It well till the ingredients are
well mixed; cook 1t for 3
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 cooler portion Of the range. 1t
should simmer all the time.
MISCELLANEOUS.
If few drops Of oil are put once a
week into water-tanks mosquitoes will
be prevented from breeding in them.
A lady correspondent tells the
Michiqan Farmer that she has lemons
Just as fresh now as when bought five
weeks ago. They we're placed, perfect
" dry, in fruit cans, covered tight, and
stored in cool place Whenever one
is taken out, the top Is replaced and the
jar returned to its corner.
-"I would as soon think of doing
without broom as q cothes-stick, y
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 uF
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
Of hot water, and add ! pound OF goot
lime. Stir the mixture for q few min
utes, allow 1t to stand for hour ant
then carefully pour of and bottle tho
clear liquid. Half pint Of this may b
added to each tub of water.
During cool summer weather, wher
milk sours slowly, it Is sometimes diff
cult TO determine which is the Oldest
the cream on two or three messes pre-
senting about the same appearance. l
bit Of chalk is kept close at hand eacl
can be marked, all those of one milking
marked alike, in half the time one wouls
spend in deciding which was the ftte
to skim.
1T sometimes becomes necessary 4
use the coffee pot for drawing tea, o
rice rersa Whenever this occurs, turf
boiling water in and shake around unit
every part Is heated; turn out the water
and Law a clean cotton cloth (about tn
: size Of handkerchief inside the coffee
pot; hold the hand over the spout =
confine the steam about 80 seconds; re
! move the cloth, and ii Is ready for TEL
or coffee as the case may be. Not par
J ticle Of the former taste can be detected
How to Repair Clothes: Econom
(; is the order Of the day in these har
times, and eff stitch in time" Is onl
taken, many articles can be made :
wear much longer. II the collars an
cuffs Of shirts become ragged, cut ther
{, of above the line Of stitching, and tur1
4 each edge in, and sew them over an
= over. A patch put into the worn-or
g parts Of underclothing, and new sleeve
! to night-dresses, new yokes and sleeve
!. to chcmises, will always pay for th
: work. A binding Of twilled cotto
9 braid will make cotton petticoats goo