Sharp County record., 1879-08-14
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
THE TABLE.

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 quart
of peas for about 5 minutes and drain
them; blanch head of lettuce for l
minute (blanching is only boiling or
stepping in boiling water); put peas
and lettuce in a saucepan with l ounce
of butter; stir gently on the fire for
about minute, and then add 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 a small tongue
into q stew pan, witt trimmings of any
bones of fowl or veal, and stew for 4
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, turnip, a 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 to heat, with a
turnip and carrot cut in squares, and 2
tablespoonful 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
pounds of beef, the brisket is the best.
Put this in a close stew-pan with peck
of string beans, cutting the beans in
three pieces; add J tumbler of water;
season with salt and pepper and dredge
well with flour; when the beef is half
cooked add of a tumbler of vinegar
and tablespoon of brown sugar; stir
it we'll till the ingredients are
well mixed; cook it for 8
hours or more very slowly, COW
ering well the stew-pau. 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 a cooler portion of the range. 1t
should simmer all the time.
MISCELLANEOUS.
If 9 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
Michigan Farmer that she has lemons
Just as fresh now as when bought five
weeks ago. They were placed, perfect
ly dry, in fruit cssds, covered tight, and
stored in a 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 a broom as q 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 pjcture-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 gallon
of hot water, and add l pound of good
lime. Stir the mixture for few min
utes, allow it to stand for ] hour and
then carefully pour off and bottle the
clear liquid. Half pint of this may be
added to each tub of water.
During cool summer weather, when
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. If
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.
1t sometimes becomes necessary to
use the cotfee-pot for drawing tea, or
uice versa. Whenever this occurs, turn
boiling water in and shake around until
every part is heated; turn out the water,
and lay clean cotton cloth (about the
size of handkerchief) inside the coffee
pot; hold the hand over the spout to
confine the steam about 50 seconds; re-
move the cloth, and it is ready for tea
or coffee as the case may be. Not par
ticle of the former taste can be detected.
How to Repair Clothes: Economy
is the order of the day in these hard
times, and " if stitch in time' is only
taken, many articles can be made to
wear much longer. If the collars and
cuffs of shirts become ragged, cut them
off above the line of stitching, and turn
each edge in, and sew them over and
over. A patch put into the worn out
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