The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15

BOILING MEAT In boiling meat for
SOUP, use cold water to extract the
Juices. If the meat is wanted for itself
alone, plunge it into boiling water at
once.
REMOVING OIL.-You can get a bottle
or barrel of oil off any carpet or wooden
stuff by applying dry buckwheat plentl-
fully. Never put water to such grease
spot, or liquid of any kind.
AMERICAN WoMEN.-An American
woman writes to the English Queen that
an American farmers wife works ten or
twenty times as hard as an English
farmers wife. .,
BRo1L1NG STEAK.-B roil.steak with
out salt: it draws out the juices; it Is
desirable to keep these if possible
Cook over hot fire, turning frequently,
soaring both sides, place in platter,
salt and pepper to tate.
To REMOVE PUTTY. - Soft soap,
mixed with solution of potash or cans-
tic soda, or pearl ash mixed with sufll'
cient water to form paste, ii laid on
with brush or rag and left Tor some
hours, will easily remove old putty and
paint.
DUpLIcATING PAPER.-Those who de-
sire to make their own duplicating paper
may do so by rubbing into a suitable
tissue mixture of six parts of lard, one
part of beeswax, and sufficient fine black
to give it good color. The mixture
should be warm and not applied to
excess.
Touch BEEF.-beef having a tendency
to be tough, can be made very palatable
by stewing for two hours with salt and
pepper, taking out pint of liquor when
half done, and letting the rest boil into
the meat. Brown the meat in the pot.
After taking up, make q gravy of the
pint of liquor saved.
GOOD .CoFFEE.-Take the coffee out
into the back-shed and administer several
healthy kickings. If it don't get good
then, fire it out. (lhe same process was
used before the war for making good
cufee.)
STAINS There are several ways of
removing ink from polished wood, viz ,
with spirits of salts and muriatic acid,
or with few drops of spirits of nitre
in a teaspoonful of water. In both cases
touch the spot with feather, and rub
it we'll with 4 morsel of soft linen.
DANDRUFF. -" Cheapside" asks:--
Would you inform me how to remove
dandruff from the head" The best
means is to wash the head once week
with the yoIk of an egg beaten up in
tepid water. Wash off in other tepid
water, and finish up with the coolest
water procurabIe.
To CLEAN WHITE KNITTED GAR
MENTs Take those not needing wash
ing, being only slightly soiled, place
them in pillow case, one at time,
sprinkle -four through it and shake
well, until it looks bright as new.
Borax is excellent 10 wash hanrels with,
dissolved in lukewarm water.
CHICKEN SALAD Take a cold
boiled chicken; chop it fine; take an
equal quantity of celery cut fine as the
chicken, little salt, mustard, pepper,
and Il gill of vinegar; stir all together
take the yolk of one egg raw, four tea
spoonfuls of salad oil; add the oil, droI
at u time, to the yolk, beating it.all the
time; then pour the dressing over the
salad after you put it in the dish tc
serve.
VERY STRONG GLUE.--Dissolve b.
application of moderate heat, one ounce
of best isinglass in pint of soft water
Strain through a piece of cloth and ado
an ounce of glue, previously soaked TO
a few hours in a small quantity of water
and gill Of vii egar. After the isin
glass and glue are brought to a solution
boil up once and strain off the i'm
purities.