The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-05-07
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Household AIatters.l

Household Matters.i
SUDs.-Do not throw away the suds from
Washing Both ashes and suds are good
manure for bushes and young shrubs.
BUTTER SPONGE CA.E.-Fourteen eggs, the
weight Of the Same in sugar, eight osnces
-four, six of butter and the juice of three
lemons.
BRITANNIA WARK.-It shoald first be rub
bed gently with WOODEN cloth and sweet
oil, then washed in warm water suds and
rubbed with soft leather and whiting. Thus
treated it will retain its beauty till the last.
BAKED RHuRAss.-Cut the pieces about an
zach in length; weigh; allow as szuch moist
sugar es rhubsrb, and bake in an earthen-
ware dish; put into the dish in lagers; add
little water; ceyer closely and bake.
FRazEN PrsnnING.-Three pizts of milk,
nine eggs; make acustard; onequarter OF
pound zach Ct currents, raisins, cftron, pre-
served peaches one tablespoonful OF arrow
root, one quarter Of a pound of chocolate;
sweeten to 'tsste and freeze.
OYSTER EacARos1. = Boil nacaroni in a
cloth to keep it straight. Pat layer in
dish seasoned with butter, salt and pepper,
then layer of oysters; alternate until the
dish is fuh. Mix some grated bread with a
New KETTLEs.-To remove the iron Taste
from new kettles boil q handful of hay In
them. and repeat the process IL Necessary.
Hay water is great sweetener of tin.
wooden and fronware. In Irish diaries every
thing rsed for milk is scaIded with hay
water.
MsuuxEssEs.-When mattresses get hard
and bunchy, rip them, take the hair out,
pull it thoroughly by hand, let it lie day
or TIVE to air, wash the tick, lay it in as light
and even as possible, and catch 1t down
a g hefaro INNS nrpnarpd they will he
good as new.
IEHzAN MAIZE PUDDING.-Mix four table
spoonfuls of Indian meal with pint Of milk;
do it gradually, so that 1T be smooth, adding
the Eailk tie the meal, not the meal to the
milk; then add two tablespoonfuls OF treacle
and one egg beaten; pat it into basin, tie
down and boil 1t rapidly for one hour.
An ExonnLENT WINTER DIsH.-Six pounds
of bzisket of beef, roasted for half an hour;
put it into stewpan, with four quarts of
water, some carrots, turnips, celery, onions,
cloves, herbs. salt, pepper and vermiceli.
Let it stand four hours, simmering slowly,
but it must not boil. Skim frequently.
Bailey SeuP-Wash and soak one-fourth
pound or barley in quart of water over
night, in the morning turn off the water not
absorbed, and add three quarts of boiling
water; a teacupful OF bread crumbs and salt
to taste; BOIL slowly four or five hours; add q
tablespoonful of butter and little chopped
parsley half an hour before serving.
PREssEp CaacKEN.-Take one or two chick
ems, boil in small quantity of water with a
little SALT and when thoroughly done take
all the meat from the bones, keeping the
light meat separated from the dark; chop
fine and season: put In a pan layer OF dark
and light, add the liquor it was boiled in,
which should be about teacupful, put on a
small weight: when cold cut IN slices.
n a IL
back and rub it over with melted butter or
olive oil. The fire should be clear and
bright and the gridiron q wire one that can
be turned without disturbing the fish. When
done split it on to hot platter, and season
to taste with pepper. salt and melted butter;
sprinkle some chopped parsley over the top,
and garnish with sliced lemon.
MARKING FOR BRAIDING.-Lay q piece of
impression paper on your cloth; then lay on
your pattern and run around it with lead
pencil, and you will have your pattern
marked on your cloth as nicely as If you had
paid some one large sum to stamp it. I
make my own impression paper. OF course
it is not quite nice as that you buy, but
answers the purpose just as well.
To MAKE AN EXCELLENT CerGH SYRUP
One ounce of thorough wort. one ounce of
haxseed, simmer together in one quart of
water until the strength is entirely ex-
tracted; STRAIN carefully, and add one pint of
best molasses and half pound white sugar
simmer them carefully together, and when
cold bottle tight A few doses, Of one tea
spoonful will alleviate the most distressing
cought of the lungs
STKwED PRUNEs-Wash the fruit, and for
every pound allow half pound of raw sugar
and one pint of water. Boil the suger and
water together for 10 minutes, then put in
the fruit, and let it boil gently for two
hours, or until perfectly tender, 50 that ii
breaks if touched with the finger. Drain the
syrup from the prunes, and boil it until II
becomes thick; then pnt the prunes back
into it, and let them stend until the next
day.
ASPARAGUS SoUP-0ne quart can Of aspar
agus. two quarts OF boiling milk, four table
spoons of corn starch, one tablespoon Of
butter; salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste
Heat the asparagus, and strain through Z
coarse sieve; thicken the boiling milk with
the corn starch, dissolved in a little cold
milk; add asparagus, butter, SALT, pepper
serve very hot. II the soup Is too thick add
more mirk.
OATMEAL TEA FOR INvALIDs.-This is good
drink IN sickness, as it both nourishes and
refreshes. Put three tablespoonsful of meal
Mix with . little cold water. and then fill NJ
with boiling water, stirring briskly the
while. Let it stand to settle; and use either
hot or cold. This also makes capital dfinf
for the harvest or hay field, and the less sal
put INTO it the better.
Agricultural Notes
Millet n specially recommended as
profitable and valuable feed for fowls an,
pigeons.
Saturate corncobs with kerosene and han
them on the plum trees in order to get rid 0
the "curculio.n
A thorough dressing Of the bushes wit
finely ground plaster of paris is said to b
the most eficacious remedy for the curran
worm.
Patent tube COW mixers are pronounced,
humbug by English dairymen. They no
only lessen the yield of milk, but in som
cases have actually spoiled the COWS.
The pea II the most nutritiYe of the legI