The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-11
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I'ainty Table Ornamenta InIor- mation--H-1sc:s anu Preserves
 Household Recipes.
DAINTY TABLE ORNAMENTS.


 nation II Hezsr::s anu Preserves
 Household Recipes.
 DAINTY TABLE ORNAMENTS.
 A pretty center piece for a dining table in warm weather is what is called an iceberg. This is an irregular heap q rough glass made to look like ice, and in some places real ice is used. It is made in several parts, and the sides are pierced with small holes. Water is put inside, and ferns and other greens; also flowers are inserted in the holes till the glass is half hidden with the falling sprays or glistening leaves. How much superior this is in effect to the tall pyramids of flowers which cfiectually hides people cn the opposite sides of the table rom each other.
 HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.
 CHOCOLATE CARAMELs. = l. Take of grated chocolate, milk, molasses, and sugar, one cupful each, piece of butter the size of an egg; boil until it will harden when dropped into cold water; add vanilla; put in buttered pan, and before it cools mark of in square blocks. ?. Four ounces of chocolate, two pounds of light-brown sugar, two gills of cream, four ounces of butter, vanilla.
 PRESERVED GRAPEs.-The fruit should be mature, but not soft or broken. Our native Catawba makes a good preserv 3; wash and allow to drip; pick carefully, rejecting the bad ones. To every pound of grapes take one-half pound of white sugar; use no water; put grapes first in pan, then layer of sugar, then layer of grapes; cook slowly on moderate fire; stir continually and strain through a sieve when hot; put in air-tight vessels.
 USEFUL INFORMATION.
 FoR burns, bind on moistencd baking soda. It will give prompt and perma- nent relief.
 FoR bites and stings, apply instantly with a soft rag, most freely, spirits of hartshorn.
 To make the air of a room heated by a furnace moist and more agreeable, hang a wet cloth in front oi or over the regis ter, So that the air will have to pass through 1t. Of course the cloth must be wet frequently, but if only done few times a pcrceptible relief from the dry air will be experienced.
 DR. FooTE's Health Monthly says: In
  erally at once raise the sufferer to a sit ting posture, allowing the head perhaps to iall forward. Dr. Howard suggests that in all such cases the chest should be raised, allowing the h 'ad to fall back. The completest extension backward of the head and neck will give the surest relief.
 HONEY, PRESERVES, ETC.
 Mir. L.. II. Cate, who has been expert menting with .honev in the culinary department, has attained grand success Tn some of his experiments. We sam pied some of his peaches preserved with honey and found them most excellent. would not have known but that they were preserved in the best of sugar had we not been told otherwise. His sam ples of honey jellies were excellent, especially those made from Siberian crab-apples.
 The recipe is equal quantities of honey and fruit, with favoring (if any is desired) to suit. Care should be taken not to burn when cooking. We are of the opinion that when honey is fully tested in the various brancnes of the ordinary department it will take the place of sugar to a great exent. Its cheapness is quite consideration to the economical housekeeper.
 Its purity and healthfulness is another important consideration, being made by honest little beings that are strangers to adulteration and who would scorn to deal in the poisonous drugs that abound in the sugars and sirups that are so much used. So much have the American peo- pie been humbugged and drugged and poisoned that nothing short of cold poison seems to satisfy them.
 We hope yet to see the time when people will manifest higher regard for their health by discarding adulterate sweets aswell as every other adulterated food, and show regard for the public health by an act of legislation punishing those who are engaged in the nefaIious practice of adulteration affecting public life and health.-C Correspondence Bee Mag asine.