The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-07-18
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.


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bowl; add pound Of powdered sugar,
pound Of fresh butter; beat up eggs,
mix all together, and they will be ready
to make into tartlets or open tarts.
TO Brown Flour: Spread upon a
thin plate and place upon the stove or in
very hot oven, and stir continually
after IL begins to color, until il is brown
all through. Keep it always on hand
for gravies. DO II NJ odd moments, and
keep in glass jar, covered closely.
Shake it up every few days to prevent
Jumping.
Sweet Potato Pone: Take 4 large
sweet potatoes, peel and CRATE them,
then add cups of water or milk, a
lump of butter the size Of an egg, melt
ed, 8 eggs well beaten, a teaspoonful
each Of allsplce and cinnamon, IA tea
spoonfuls Of ginger. and half nutmeg.
grated; mix all the ingredients well,
butter pudding-pan, pour in your pone
and bake In = moderate oven.
Made Mustard: 4 tablespoonfuls OF
English mustard, 2 teaspoonfuls OF salt,
the same quantity of salad oil and white
sugar. teasPoonful Of pepper; vinegar
to make smooth paste-that from eel
cry or onion pickles, ifyou have it. Rub
mustard. oil, sugar. pepper and salt to-
gether, wet by degrees with vinegar,
beating very hard at the last, when the
proper consistency has been gained.
Pineapple Ice-cream: Slice large
pineapple thin and scatter pound Of
sugar between the slices; cover il and
let the fruit steep hours; then cut or
chop fine in the sirup and strain through
sieve; beat gradually into quart Of
cream and freeze rapidly. II you like,
reserve few slices Of pineapple un-
sugared, cut into squares, and stir
through the cream when half frozen.
Imperial Cake: pound butter,
and Of sugar, beaten TO cream; /
pound four, the grated rind and juice
Of lemon, 3 eggs. II pounds almonds
before they are cracked, pound citron,
1 pound raisins; heat the yelks light,
add sugar and butter, then the whites
beaten 10 a froth, and the flour, resery-
ing part for the fruit, and lastly the
nuts blanched, cut fine. and mixed with
fruit and the rest of the -four. This is
very delicious and will keep for
months.
Orange Jelly: Crate the peel offs
fine oranges and 2 lemons into bowl,
squeeze the juice of them into il; boil 1
pound of sugar in a quart of water, and,
when quite boiling. pour il over ounces
ofisinglass; stir until 1t is dissolved; add
the juice TO il, strain through coarse
muslin, and let II stand until half cold;
then pour gently into molds which have
been wet with cold water. Before turn
ing out put the molds into warm water;
loosen the edges with spoon.
Cider Vinegar: There is no vine
gar which wears, or which we can use
without distaste, like good old cider
vinegar. II any Of our readers have
cider which they wish to change into
vinegar, it can be easily done BY filling
q cask partly full, and setting II at the
south side OF building or fence, where
it will keep warm; putting junk bot
tie in the bung-hole, neck downwards,
to keep out dirt ana insects, and letting
il stand through the heat Of summer.
Once week draw out a few gallons
and pour back slowly. This viii hasten
the process, and by fall very fair vine
gar will be had, which will be greatly
improved by keeping through another
year without freezing. The air will
circulate around the neck Of the bottle,
and the occasional drawing out and
pouring back gives more air, thus tend
ing to hasten the process. A warm
temperature, with plenty Of air. is all
that is needful in making vinegar-al-
ways provided you have good pure CT
der TO begin with, put up in clean, sweet
casks.
MISCELLANEOUS.
To Destroy Rats: Cut number Of
corks down as thin as sixpense, roast
or stew them in grease, and place in the
way Of the rats; they will greedily de-
your them and die Of Indigestion.
KNIVES, after using, should be wiped
with soft paper, removing the grease,
placed in deep can or vessel, keeping
the handles above water, lukcwarm, un-
til washed clean, then thoroughly dried
Excellent Furniture Polish: ! Of
spirits Of wine, Of vinegar and Of
sweet oil--rather more Of the last.
Shake the bottle daily for three weeks;
it Is then ft for use. Use every three
or four months. For dining tables and
side boards use every week; it makes
them beautifully bright.
To Remove Warts: Warts may be
safely and effectually removed By apply
ing nitric acid to the surface OF the wart.
A single drop is all that Is needed for .
small one. 1fby chance more il applied
and likely to make sore, bathing the
part with solution OF soda in water
will counteract iii effects. II one appli-
cation OF the acid does not result in .
removal within the week make succeed
ing ones.
Drying Flowers: There are several