The Osceola times., 1880-10-23
HONE TOPICS.
naanfy Table Ornaments - Useful Infor-
nstasa-Honey ana Preserves-
H0asshold Recipes.

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rainky Table Oruaments - Useful Infor
nstasa-Honey ana Preserves-
Hoasshold 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 o.
rough glass made TO look like ice, and IN
some places real ice is used. 1t is made
In several parts, and the sides are pierced
with small holes. Wster 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 OF
glistening leaves. How much superior
this is in effect to the tall pyramids ol
flowers which efiectually hides people
on the opposite sides of the table from
each other.
HOUSEHOLD RFCIrEs.
CHOCOLATE CARAMELs. Il. Take OF
grated chocolate, milk, molasses, and
sugar, one cupful each, piece of butter
the size of an egg; boil until 1t will
harden when dropped into cold water;
add vanilla; put in buttered pan, ana
before ii cools mark Of in square blocks.
2. Four ounces of chocolate, two pounds
Of light-brown sugar, two gills Of cream,
four ounces Of butter, vanilla.
PRESERVED GRAPrs.-The fruit should
be mature, but not soft or broken. Our
native Catawba makes good preserv \;
wash and allow to drip; pick carefully,
rejecting the had 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 a 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. 1t win give prompt and perma-
nent relief.
FoR bites and stings, apply instantly
with sot rag, most freely, spirits OF
hartshorn.
To make the air OF a room heated by
furnace moist and more agreeable, hang
q wet cloth in front OF or over the regis
ter, 90 that the air will have to pass
through II. OF course the cloth must be
wet freqrestly, but If only done a few
times pcrceptible relief from the dry
air will be experienced.
DR. FoorE's Health Monthly says: In
cases of difficult breathing, friends gen.
orally at once raise the sufferer to sit
ting posture, allowing the head perhaps
TO fall forward. DIR. Howard suggests
that in all euch 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.
Mr.. L. II. Cate, who has been expert
menting with honey in the culinary
department. has attained grand success
IN 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
pies of honey jellies were excellent,
especially those made from Siberian
crab-appics.
The recipe is equal quantities of honey
and fruit, with favoring if any is
deeired) 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 branches of the
ordinary department it will take the
place OF sugar to great exeDt. Its
cheapness is quite consideration to the
economical housekeeper.
It's 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 ther.
We hope yet to see the time when
people will manifest a higher regard for
their health by discarding adulterate
sweets as well as every other adulterated
food, and show regard for the public
health by an act OF legislation punIshing
those who are engaged in the nefalious
practice of adulteratlon affecting public
life and health.- Correspondence Bee Mag
asine.