Sharp County record., 1879-09-11
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
THE TABLE.

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to pint of currant juice and boil 10
minutes; after it has commenced boil
ing have time-piece where you can
look at it, and when your sirup begins
to boil count from that time; take IT
from the fire; have ready the jars filled
with cold water to prevent sticking; hll
your jars; it will jelly in 2 hours if not not
cooked too long boiling too much Will
make it thin.
Not Boarding house Hash: Cut 3
pounds of stewing beef into small pieces !;
slice onions and put beef and onions
into a stew-pan, with 2 ounces OF but
ter; dredge with flour slightly; add 2
tabiespoonfuls of water, or soup If you
have it, and let il stew. When it is
cooked add more water, and let it boil
gently. Then put in spoonful OF mix
ed spices and bay leaf. Set the pan
aside, and let it cook for hours. You
can "double" up this dish by adding
potatoes to it.
Stuffed Eggplant: Do not peel,
but cut the eggplant, a fairly large
one, in two, and boil until it is soft
Then remove the eggplant from the
fire, and, when cool, with a spoon re-
move almost all the cooked substance,
leaving the rind. Drain this substance
thoroughly, using some pressure: Take
an onion, cut it up fine, and add to it
chopped parsley, salt, and pepper, and,
with a piece of butter, stir them thor
oughly. Then add the cooked inside of
the eggplant, at the end adding the
yelks of eggs and some grated nut
meg. When this is thoroughly cooked
introduce it into the rind of the egg
plant. Take a piece of string, tie up the
halves, and bake thoroughly.
Tomato Pickle: Take the small
sized round tomatoes, wash thoroughly
and dry; take a knitting-needle and pass
it once or twice through each tomato ;
get large jar and put in a layer of salt
on bottom, then layers of tomatoes and
salt until the jar is full; let them remain
for week To each gallon of tomatoes
take 4 ounces of ground mustard, 4
ounces of ground pepper, 1 ounce of
cloves, and 12 small onions which have
been sliced. Take out tomatoes from
jar, wipe them and place again in the
jar, putting in the above ingredients as
layers of tomatoes are made. Heat vine
gar almost TO boiling point and pour on
the tomatoes. The tomatoes will keep
their form and color.
-Okra Soup: Take shin of beef
and gallon of water. When it has
come to boil, put it aside after skim
ming, so that it will simmer. About 4
hours before dinner add to it quarts of
young okra cut into thin slices, throwing
away the points and ends; put in the
same quantity of tomatoes, which have
been peeled, scalded, ,and passed through
a colander; use heaping tablespoonful
of salt, a salt-spoonful of white pepper,
and 1 large green pepper cut in slices,
this latter added hour before the soup
is served. Just before putting the soup
in the tureen remove the meat-bone but
do not strain. 1t ought to be thick
soup. Beans or green corn can be added.
Chocolate Pudding: I cupful of
chocolate grated in l quart OF new milk.
Let it boil. Then sit to cool. Beat until
very light and thick the yelks of 4 eggs,
reserving the same number of whites
with which to make meringue; sweet.
en- with J pound of white sugar, and
flavor with vanilla. The chocolate be-
ing cool, gradually stir in the sweetened
eggs, put into baking-dish, and let it
bake slowly. To make the meringue,
beat up the whites until they will stand
alone; add by degrees tablespoonfuls
of sifted pulverized sugar, and flavor
with little vanilla or lemon juice.
When the chocolate portion is again
cool heap up the meringue upon it, and
brown slightly by holding over it the
red hot lid of the oven.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Gum camphor is a speedy remedy
to clear the houses of cockroaches.
The Dental Cosmos says that the
best treatment in regard to offensive
breath is the use of pulverized charcoal,
two or three tablespoonfuls per week,
taken in glass of water before retiring
for the night.
To remove the lids of tin cans, place
q shovelful of live Goals on the top,
which will speedily unsolder them;
they can then be removed by the aid of
an old case-knife; care must be taken
or the side seam will also open.
The skin of a boiled egg is the most
eficacious remedy that can be applied
to boil. Peel it carefully, wet and ap.
ply it to the part affected. 1t will draw
off the matter and relieve the soreness
in few hours. Simple, but eficacious.
-Outwitting Ants: 1t may not be
generally known that dishes placed on
q pie plant leaf are protected from ants.
1t is nice, clean, easy way Especially
if there are children to gather them),
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