Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-07-26
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.


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Fruit Cream: Pulped fruit of any
kind l pound, cream or good milk /
quart, and sugar to suit the taste; boil
these together for 1 minute, and when
cold add wineglassful of best brandy.
Lemon Jelly: Crate whole lemon,
taking out the seeds; add egg, l cup.
full 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 flour; add
pound of fine loaf-sugar, q few caraway
seeds, and eggs; 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.
-Waverly Jumbles: pound of flour,
4 pound of butter, I pound of brown su-
gar, 2 eggs, ! a nutmeg, 2 tablespoons
of rose-water, or any kind of seasoning.
Cream together the butter and sugar;
add the beaten eggs, and then the flour;
roll them out thin, and cut with q
shape.
Apple Butter: Fill porcelain pre-
serving-ket1e with apples, pared, cored
and quartered. Add allspice and CHINA
mon to taste. Cover with good, sweet
cider, and simmer very slowly, stirring
and MASKING it with a wooden ladle I'M
til the whole becomes dark-brown
jam, with no more juice than is just suf-
ficient to make it soft and buttery.
-Stewed 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
off 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.
MISCELLANEOUS.
To make hands soft: Mix honey,
olive oil and almond meal; use when
washing, then wear gloves.
To take fresh paint off wooden
garment: Rub the spot with stale bread
until removed.
-Carbolic acid may be used with sat
isfactory results during the summer
months to destroy ants and as disin-
fectant.
TO remove ink-spots on floors: Rub
with sand wet in oil of vitriol and water.
When the ink is removed, rinse with
strong pearl-ash water.
"A sure cure for warts: Make a
paste of willow ashes and strong vine-
gar. Four or five applications are
necessary. Apply like any other plaster,
moistening occasionally with vinegar.
To clean tinware: Damp a cloth
md dip in common soda, and rub the
ware briskly, after which wipe dry.
Any blackened ware can be made to
ook as good as new.
Silver spoons, darkened by acids or
rom using them for boiled eggs, can be
frightened by taking little moistened
'alt between the thumb and finger and
'riskly rubbing the stain, which will
'oon disappear.
"A tablespoonful of alum and q ia
of salt dissolved in gallon
II water is said to be effectual in retain
ng the color of lawn or calico dress.
soak the dress, and wash as usual; then
inse in the salt-and-alum water.
"A hctel-keeper who has "perhaps
'aid over $500 for various nostrums"
xterminate bedbugs, is quoted by the
National Farmer as saying that the most
Elective plan is to have the beds taken
lown, scrub all the joints with water
md soap, and then apply any hard var
lish to ends, Stats, etc.
Filtered water can be produced
aslly, BY taking large, sound, com.
non earthen fower-po and soaking it
water "a hours. Then fill the hole at
he bottom with clean sponge, put in an
nch layer of fine clean sand, and on the