The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-07-25


THE TABLE.
One egg beaten thoroughly and
stirred into quart Of coffee, while .
little warm after roasting, viii be all
that Is needed for settling.
Fruit Cream: Pulped fruit Of any
kind pound, cream or good milk /
quart, and sugar to suit the taste: boil
these together for l minute, and when
cold add wineglassful OF best brandy.
Lemon Jelly: Crate whole lemon,
taking out the seeds; add ! egg, cup
ful white sugar, tablespoonfuls cold
water; mix well together, and cook
over steam until it is clear; put in cups,
and set in cool, dry place.
A Good Tea Cake: Rub pound
OF butter into pound Of -four; add 4
pound Of fine loaf-sugar, q few caraway
seeds, and 2eggs; make into paste with
little warm milk. let stand before the
fire an hour, then roll, and cut out with
glass bake on Toured tins.
Apple Butter: Fill porcelain pre-
serving-ket.le with apples, pared, cored
and quartered. Add ailspice and CHINA
mon to taste. Cover with good, sweet
cider, and simmer very slowly, stirring
and MASKING II with wooden ladle un-
til the whole becomes dark brown
jam, with no more juice than Is Just suf-
fcient to make it soft and buttery.
Slowed Satisfy: Scrape the roots,
dropping each into cold water As soon
as cleaned, for exposure to the air black
ems them; cut in inch long pieces; put
in . saucepan hot water enough to
cover, and stew until tender; then turn
of the water and add cup OF cold
milk Stew 10 minutes after this begins
TO boil; put large lump Of butter, cut
In bits and rolled in flour; pepper and
salt to taste. Boil up once and serve.
Chicken Pudding: Boil a young
chicken till tender, first cut it in IL
pieces. To make the pudding take or
II eggs, pint of sweet milk. beat the
eggs well, add the milk and flour sufii-
cicnt to form smooth batter; add
pinch Of salt, pour about an inch deep
in buttered pan, lay the chickens close
together over the batter, pour more bat
ter and bake. When done cut out and
dish up with pound Of butter.
MISCELLANEOUS.
To make hands soft: Mix honey,
olive oil and almond meal; use when
then wear gloves.
A sure cure for warts: Make q
paste OF willow ashes and strong vine
gar. Four or five applications are
necessary. Apply Ike any other plaster,
moistening occasionally with vinegar.
Silver spoons, darkened BY acids or
from using them for boiled eggs, can be
brig htened by taking little moistened
salt between the thumb and finger and
briskly rubbing the stain, which will
soon disappear.
A tablespoonful Of alum and Ia
OF salt dissolved in a gallon
Of water is said to be efiectual in retain
ing the color Of lawn or calico dress.
Soak the dress, and wash as usual; then
rinse in the salt-and-alum water.
DO not throw away your ribbons
because they are soiled. Wash them in
suds made of fine toilet soap and cold
water. squeezing them quickly through.
Then iron them between two cloths, with
IN iron not too hot
A hctel-keeper who has "perhaps
paid over $500 for various nostrums" TO
exter inmate bedbugs, is quoted by the
National Far mer as saying that The most
plan is TO have the beds taken
down, scrub all the joints with water
and soap, and then apply any hard var
nish to ends, Stats, etc.
A Hanging garden Of Sponge Take
. white sponge Of large size, sow it full
Of rice, oats or wheat. Place it for q
week or 10 days in q shallow dish Of
water; the sponge will absorb the mois-
ture and the seeds begin to sprout be-
fore many days. When this has fairly
taken place the sponge may be sus-
pended by hook and cord ct the top
Of the window where little sun may
enter. II will become mass Of green,
and be kept moist by merely immersing
In bowl of water.
Filtered water can be produced
easily, BY taking large, sound, COM
mon earthen flower-po and soaking 1t
in water "a hours. Then fill the hole at
the bottom with clean sponge, put in an
inch layer of fine clean sand, and on the
top layer Of clean coarse gravel, and
let the water filter through it. When it
Is desirable TO filter water quickly, for
use, employ the following
Put quart Of clean water
over the fire and just bring it to boil;
remove II and strain 1t three or four
times through flannel; cool 1t and keep
Il for use In a covered lar or pitcher.