The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-22
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
To Boil or Stow Fresh Meat. Put
over the fire in hot water, that the juices
may be kept in. Then let simmer only
for a long time.
TO Make Good Soup.-Put the
meat on to boil in cold water, in order
to let the juices out Let come to a
boil slowly. and then keep boiling slow
~ but surely.
Cream Muffins.-Take one cupful OF
sour cream, teaspoonful of saleratus,
one egg. and flour enough to make a
thick batter. Bake in rings, on q grid
die iron.
Pressed Veal.--To three pounds Of
veal allow one-half pound of bacon.
Chop both until very fine; season with
pepper and minced. onion and press into
deep-baking dish and bake slowly two
hours. Serve cold.
-Parsnips.-Boil until tender, scrape,
cut lengthwise, and put into saucepan
with three tablespoonful of butter, a
little pepper and salt, and a table
spoonful of chopped parsley. Shake
until the mixture boils, take up the
pieces carefully, and pour the butter
over.
-Cocoanut Cake.-One fresh Cocoa
nut grated fine, after removing the
shuck and pairing off the outside of the
meat, having it perfectly free from any
specks; take the whites of two eggs,
beat in pulverized sugar and little OF
the cocoanut, spread this on, then
sprinkle on cocoanut, and so on till your
loaf is complete.
Puff Omelet.-Beat the velks OF
eight eggs and the whites of four until
very light, stir in tescup of cream, in
which tablespoonful of flour has been
mixed, and season with salt and pep
per. Melt tablespoonful of butter in
baking pan, pour in the mixture and
set the pan in hot oven. When it
thickens spread over the remaining
whites beaten to a froth. Return to
the oven and bake a delicate brown.
Slip on to large platter and serve at
once.
Oil cloths should be washed but sci.
dom, and use no soap if you wish them
to keep their color and wear well.
Scrub them thoroughly with damp In
dian meal. wash off with clear water,
wipe dry and they will look as we'll as
new. Keep them well vanished, and
there is almost no limit to their dura-
bility. Brooms made of bristles are the
best for sweeping oil cloths, but when
an ordinary broom is used they can be
made free from the fine dust which is
such an annoyance to those who wear
black dresses by tying piece of old
cloth over the broom and going over it
with this after the usual sweeping.
If a person swallows any poison
whatever, or has fallen into commissions
from having overloaded the stomach,
an instantaneous remedy, most efficient
and applicable in large number of
cases, is heaping teaspoonful of COM
mon salt, and as much ground mustard,
stirred rapidly in a teacupful of water,
warm or cold, and swallowed instantly.
1t is scarcely down before it begins to
come up, bringing with it the remain
ing contents of the stomach; and lest
there be any remnant of the poison,
however small, let the white of an egg
or teaspoonful of strong coffee be
swallowed as soon as the stomach is
quiet, because these very common arti-
Giles nullify large number of virulent
pOisons.
When rooms require re-papering,
the old paper should always be torn or
scraped from the walls before the new
is put on, as it has absorbed exhalations
from the bodies of those who have occu-
pied the room, and gathered smoke and
dust till it is very foul. If successive
coverings are put on, one over the
other. one can easily see what source
of disease it must become. If the paper
around the bottom of the room has be-
come soiled while the rest is compare
lively fresh, it can be fixed so as to
look nicely, as well as form fashiona-
BILE dado, by getting some striped paper
which harmonizes, or contrasts pleas
antly with that already on. If of panel
design it will be all the prettier. Cut
it out in points around the top of the
panels, and fit it on up as high as the
back of an ordinary chair. When buy
ing wall paper it is well to get roll
more than is needed SO as to have it on
hand to repair damages.
A pretty and really artistic mater
ial for covering sofa pillows, cushions,
brooches, etc., is made by cutting scraps
of all kinds and colors of silk, satin, vel
vet, and ribbon into eighth or quarter of
an inch wide pieces about four inches
in length, sewing them neatly together
after the manner of carpet rags, and
crocheting or knitting them together
promiscuously. The effect is good, and
the material extremely durable.
Pieces of cloth prepared in the
same manner, but cut wider and longer,
make serviceable rugs for the floor,
or even bed covers for the poor.
Another novel sofa-pillow cover is
made from similar scraps of silk, etc.,
cut the width of pencil and three
inches long, taken up and knit in with
coarse crochet cotton or Germantown
wool in the manner that fringe is knit
into mittens. The material produced
is strong, and rather rugged in appear
ance, but quite genuine, and therefore
will suit the Eastlakean taste. As the
work is heavy, however, we would adj
wise that squares or strips be knit, and
put together according to taste; in some
cases solid colors may be used in blocks.
These rugs must be shaken and not
swept.
To Tell the Age Of Cows.
The ages of horned cattle may gen.
orally be known by the rings on the
horns till their tenth year, but after that
time they give no indication of age
further than that the animal has passed
its tenth wear. The first rinp anDears