The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-01
HOUSE. FARM AND GARDEN
DOMESTIC AIDS.

CRUST ON 4 EA hETTLES.--heep an
oyster shell in your tea kettle, and it
will prevent the formation of crust
ON the inside of it, by attracting the
stony particles to itself. sar
Following is recipe for polish
ing wood: Take piece of pumice-
stone and water and pass repeatedly
over the work until the rising of the
grain is cut down. Them take pow
dered tripoli and boiled linseed oil
and polish the work to a bright sur
face
To EXTRACT PAINT FROM CoTToN
SILK AND WOODEN GooDs.-Saturate
the spot with spirits Of turpentine,
and let it remain several hours,
then rub it between the hands. 1t
will crumble away without injuring
either the color or texture of the ar
ticle.
If you intend papering a painted
wall you must first get off the paint,
other wise the paper will not stick.
To do this, mix in bucket with
warm water sufficient quantity of
pearlash or potash, so as to make a
strong solution. Dip a brush into
this, and with it scour off all the paint,
finishing with cold water and fan
mel.
Stains occasioned by fruit, iron
rust, and other similar causes, may
be removed by applying to the parts
injured weak solution of chloride
of lime-the cloth having been well
washed-or of soda, oxalic acid, or
salts of lemon, in warm water. The
parts subjected to this operation
should be subsequently, well rinsed
in soft, clear, warm water, without
soap, and be Immediately dried in the
SUM-
To REMOVE STAINS FROM BROAD
CLoTH-Take an ounce of pipc clay
that has been ground fine, and mix
it with twelve drops of alcohol, and
the same quantity of spirits of tur
pentine. Whenever you wish to re-
move any stains from cloth, moisten
little of this mixture with alcohol,
and rub it on the spots. Let it re-
main till dry, then rub it off with a
WOODEN cloth, and the spots will dis
appear.
To EXTRACT RAxcIDrrY FROM But
rER.-Take small quantity that is
wanted for immediate use For a
pound of the butter, dissolve couple
of teaspoonfuls of saleratus in quart
of boiling water; put in the butter,
mix it well with saleratus water, and
bet it remain till cold; then take it
off carefully, and work teaspoonful
of salt into it. Butter treated in this
manner answers very well to use in
cooking.
FIG PUDDING.-Chop half a pound
of figs very finely, mix them with
one-fourth pound of coarse sugar, a
tablespoonful of molasses, four TIA
blespoonfuls of milk, half a pound OF
-four, quarter of pound of suet, an
egg, and pinch of grated nutmeg
put the pudding into buttered mold,
and boil five hours.
CELERY CREAM Sour make
celery cream soup, boil small cup
of rice in three pints of milk until
it will pass through seive: CRATE
the white part of two heads of celery
(three if SMALL on bread crater;
add this to the rice and milk after it
has been strained; put to it one
quart of strong white stock; let it
boil until the celery is perfectly
tender; season with salt and cay
enne, and serve; if cream is obtaina-
BILE, substitute one pint of it for the
same quantity of milk.-Scri6nsr's
monthly.
COFFEE CUsTARD.-Make a good
strong extract of coffee, by dripping
it as slowly as possible. For ter
people you will want two cupfuls
take eight of the same measures Of
milk, and beat into the milk the yolk
Of six eggs; add three ounces ofpow
dered sugar, mix into this the two
eupfuls of coffee; as coffee differs Ii
strength, better taste to see that Il
is sweet enough; pour the mixture
into cups, and put the cups in a, MOI
too deep pan, with boiling water
the level Of the water ought not t.
stand higher than half the cup; d.
not try and boil the water too hard
about fifteen minutes of boiling il