The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-30
RECIPES.

A TABLESPOONFUL of salt will weigh
about one ounce.
CooL rain-water and soda will remove
machine grease from washable fabrics.
Cur bread fine for filling for fowls;
this is better than to crumble it. No
sogginess. S 5+H
LARGE holes In loaf of bread are
proof of a careless cook. The kneading
has been sighted.
MILK-CANs or pans not kept clean are
liable to impart to the milk dangerous
fermentive poison.
To CLEAN kettles easily, pour little
hot water into them and put a cover on;
the steam will soften the dirt,so that it
may be easily removed.
To KEEP seeds from the depredations
of mice, mix some pieces of eamphor
with them. Camphor placed in trunks
or drawers will prevent mice from doing
them injury.
PAPERED walls are cleaned by being
wiped down with a flannel cloth tied
over a broom or brush. Then cut off
thick piece of stale bread with the crust
vi dItOl run Gll6ll dONn Will tt1lo. JD6-
gin at the top and go straight down.
CHOCOLATE COOKIES. Take the white
of six eggs, half pound of sugar half a
pound of grated chocolate, five ounces
of flour first stir the whites of the eggs
and the sugar together, then add the
chocolate. and lastly the flour; drop by
the spoonful on creased tins, and bake
in a moderate oven.
BRANDY CHERRIES. Choose fine, firm
fruit, wash, pick the stems off, stick the
cherries In two OF three places with a
needle pour over them n sirup made
by boiling a pound of sugar (to every
pound of cherries) in gill of water;
add II pint of brandy for every four
pounds of sugar pour the sirup hot
over the cherries cork and tie up care
fully when cold. They will be fit to eat
in week, and will keep for an indefin-
tie time.
SALT-AND-W WATER CUcuMBERs = Put
fifty freshY-piekled. cucumbers in
stone jar, separating each layer with
fresh grape leaves, and sprig of sweet
'fennel. Pour over them pickle made
by boiling pint and q half of salt in a
gallon of water, and tablespoonful of
cayenne pepper; only let it come to
boil have it perfectly cold before put
| ting it over the cucumbers cover well
with grape leaves; put a clean piece of
light wood and a brick on top to keep
the cucumbers down; they. will fer
ment, be slightly acid, and be ready for
use in three weeks This is a Holland
recipe. -1-s<
RASPBERRY VINEGAR. Pick and wash
five pounds of raspberries' and pour over
them gallon of the best white wine
vinegar let it stand twenty-four hours,
| then strain through a flannel jelly.bag
and put this liquor over five pounds
more of raspberries. Let it stand again
a day and night. Strain a second time
through a flannel bag, and add ten
pounds of lump sugar. Put in three
gallon stone jar set the jar in pot of
hot water and let it simmer for twenty
minutes, skimming any froth that may
arise. When perfectly cold bottle and
cork carefully. Keep in a cool place
during the summer. ks
The Miles-StOneS 0fs-Life.
Do those of us who are nearing and
passing some of the later mile-stones of
our one earthly journey, ripen well? Is
there an increasing sweetness, a brighter
mellowness of life and character? Have
we more of the gentleness of Christ, more
of the atmosphere and glow of heaven as
| we near our home? Onythese points, an
extract from the letter of a dear minis
terial friend, is too good to be kept pri-
oil
heaven side Of sixty, having just crossed
the line as sailors say. I thought sure 1
should feel like an old man, that the
grace of age which comes, they say, for
early piety.and such devoted manhood,
would fall all over me, and [ should feel
myself benignly glorifed But j don't
see as am materially improved by pass
ing this Dig milestone thought think
can see some improvement since l was
forty. think have conquered some of
the bad things that have bothered me,
though, alas, not all. [ think have
more patience and pity, larger sympa-
thies, higher hopes and more chastened
Joy. I think / love Christ better and
hold my friends dearer; that life was
never so full and sweet; the gospel never
seemed so rich and blessed; and the work
of the ministerial never so delightful.
You, / am sure, can say so much.
WHEN party of gentlemen and ladies
we're climbing to the top of high church
tower, one hot day, gentleman re-
marked, "This is rather spiral flight of
steps" To which alady rejoined. ayes,
perspiral, and she wiped her brow as
she spoke.
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