Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-08-06
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

To make apple pudding, use one pint
sweet milk, little salt, two teaspooniuls
of baking powder, flour enough to make
a thick batter, then lightly stir in a pint
of fresh berries or sliced apples; steam
or bake.
To make pink coloring for cake, take
one tablespoonful of pulverized cochi-
neal, one tablespoonful each of alum, So
da and cream of tartar; mix thoroughly
with one glass OF half pint of boiling
water; strain and bottle.
To boil eggs hard, put them in hot
water to cover, and boil 20 minutes.
Ten minutes will boil them hard, but
they are not so digestible as when boiled
20; 10 minutes makes the yolks hard and
soggy, 20 minutes makes them light and
mealy.
A lump of bread about the size of
billiard ball, tied up in linen bag and
placed in the pot in which greens are
boiling will absorb the gases which oft
entimes send such an unpleasant odor to
the regions above.
To prevent flies from injuring picture
frames, glasses, ETC., boil three or
four onions in pint of water; then,
with gliding brush 60 over your glass
es and frames, and the flies will not
alight on the article so washed. This
may be used without apprehension, as it
will not do the least injury to the
frames.
For string bean succotash, take two
quarts of beans; string; cut fine; boil
two hours with water enough to cover
without boiling dry; cut the corn from
six ears and boil with beans twenty min
utes; season with butter, pepper and
salt; just before dishing up add table
spoonful of flour, moistened, also half
cup of sweet milk. Boil 10 minutes.
Most persons, when they come in from
the rain, put their umbrellas in the rack
with the handle upward. They should
put it downward, because when the han
die is upward the water runs down inside
to the place where the ribs are Joined to
the handle, and cannot get out, but
stays, rotting the cloth and rusting the
metal until slowly dried away. The
wire securing the ribs soon rusts and
breaks. If placed the other end up the
water readily runs of, and the umbrella
dries almost Immediately.
An acceptable gift for schoolgirl or
musical friend would be a music case or
roll. made of glazed oil-cloth, better than
which has never been seen for wear
OF neatness. Cut piece Of the leather
some inches larger than an open piece OF
music, bind it all around, double it and
sew together at the edges. The music
lies flat inside. Another shape is to cut
it the size of the music, with good
margin, line it, sew elastic in the center,
: under which the music is fastened, and
then roll music and case together.
To do up collars and cuffs: Wash and
dry the clothes; while drying make the
starch, boiling it a few minutes; use 1t
= cold, or nearly so. The laundry way OF
starching is to rub the starch on the
: wrong side until it comes through on the
right side-not wringing the starch out
: but hang them up to dry, letting all the
! starch remain on. After they are dry,
roll them up in sheet that has been
wrung out of cold water, leaving the
clothes in all night. Next morning iron
- with an indented iron, bearing on very
hard while ironing.
: The little draperies which are callec
v by the general name of lambrequin
t whether they extend across windo"
s curtain or hang from a mantel or braek
e ct, are very pretty, They are ornament
d ed with a great many of small, full tas
% sells that look almost like inverted fans
: and harmonize perfectly with the EN-
" broidered fans among which they are in
!, terspersed. A beautiful lambrequin IL
,e olive and turquoise blue has two rows
m these tassels and three of wrought fans
Y. artfully arranged in Japanese pattern
ii Another, intended for a bracket, is
N strainer cloth worked in peacock feath
IF ers and fringed with linen and worsted.