Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-16
HANDY TO KEEP.
Orange peel is fatal to slugs.

To cure canaries when they have fits,
put a drop of spirits of inter into the
water the bird drinks.
1t is said that drinking ice water,
arrests digestion. 1t drives from the
stomach its natural heat, suspends the
flow of gastric juice, and shocks and
weakens the delicate organs with which
it comes in contact.
A cold application to the bare feet,
such as iron, water, rock, earth or ice,
when it can be had, is an excellent rem
edy for cramp. If the patient be seized
in the upper part of the body, apply the
remedy to the hands.
To make good sausage meat, take one
third fat and two-thirds lean pork and
chop them, and then to every twelve
pounds of meat, add twelve large spoon
fuls of powdered salt, nine of sifted sage
and six of sifted black pepper. Keep in
a cool, dry place.
If you have been picking or handling
any acid fruit, and have stained your
hands, wash them in clear water, wipe
them lightly, and while they are yet
moist, strike a match and shut your
hands around it, so as to catch the
smoke, and the stains will disappear.
SALAD Three heads of lettuce, two
handfuls crosses, one cucumber, pared
and sliced thin, four radishes, also pared
and cut up, three hard-boiled eggs, cut UP
into sixths. Cut lettuce and crosses with
asharp knife, and mix with the other veg
etables in bowl. Pour over them
dressing and lay the sliced eggs on top.
To settle coffee without eggs, put the
ground coffee two tablespoonful or
more, according to the size of the family
to soak over night in a tea-cup of wa
ter. In the morning add more water
and put it on to boil, boiling fifteen or
twenty minutes; then fill in what water
is necessary, and put the coffee-pot on the
stove. In fifteen minutes it will pour off
clear as amber.
Take any cold fish, macaroni, milk,
butter, grated cheese, bread crumbs and
cayenne. Boil some macaroni very ten
der, and milk, about twice as much as
there is cold fish, which should be brok-
en- into very small pieces; mix with it
the grated cheese and cayenne; put it
into a flat dish with few bread crumbs
and some pieces of butter at the top, and
bake nice light brown. Any fish will
do for this dish.
Rock cream is a new dish, and is thus
made: Boil a teacup of rice till quite
soft in new milk, sweetened with pow
dered loaf sugar, and pile it upon a dish.
Lay on it in different places Jumps of
either currant jelly or preserved fruit of
any kind. Beat the whites OF five eggs
to stiff froth, with a little powdered
sugar; flavor with vanilla. Add to this
when beaten very stiff tablespoonful of
rich cream, and drop over the rice, Civ
ing it the form of q rock of snow.
A delicious suet pudding is made with
four eggs, half pound of suet, one pint
bread-crumbs, one quart milk, half tea
spoonful each of cinnamon and nutmeg,
two tablespoonfuls of flour; chop the
suet very fine and beat the eggs thorough
ly; heat the milk scalding hot and pour
1t over the crumbs; mix the suet, nut
meg, cinnamon and flour (the latter wet
a little to prevent lumps), and beat all
together; add eggs; sweeten to taste;
add salt and brown in oven half an
hour
For dyspepsia, the best diet is compos-
ed chiefly of milk and eggs, with the
lean of flesh in some form. The best
preparation of flesh is scraped raw meat,
with milk and eggs. 1 cannot recon-
mend this too highly as one of the best
and most nutritious articles we can use.
1t may be made by bruising meat in u
mortar, but better plan is as follows
Lay a slice of the round of beef upon a
firm board and scrape it laboriously with
a dull case-knife, until you get out of it
all the red pulp it will yield. This,
mixed with brandy and sugar, is not I'M
palitab to most persons. In using eggs,
it should never be forgotten that they are
much more digestible raw than cooked,
, and that in all cases of systematic feed.
ing they are to be given raw, diffused in
milk.
Tea should never be used at the same
/ time with animal food, as the tannin i'm.
pedes the assimilation of muscular fiber
although it is useful couple of hours
) after eating, as then it assists the Later
processes of digestion. Iced tea is moi
( stepped in hot water. Steep it for a few
) hours in cold water, using little more
9 tea than for the hot beverage, and having
e it strong enough to be weakened will
ice water when it is served. The flavor
and effect are much better than by th,
! hot-water method. The same plan il
, coming to be recognized as the best fo
the preparation of the herb teas used fo
medical purposes, especially such a
thoroughwort (boneset), and others
which, stepped in hot water, produce al
Z unpleasant and undesirable nausea.
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