Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-03
From a Correspondent.
SACRAMENTO, June 80, ISIS

laurel bush, ever adding new talent TO us
gallant corps of Tanglers, taking new de-
partures into fresh pastures, and keeping
the interest of the public at the boiling
POINT, while our poor g Household y has
been languishing for correspondents. This
is not as it should be, and yet whose
fault is it, if not our own? 1t is q depart
ment which must draw its life and inspira-
ton from the women, to whose interests it
is devoted it cannot lead healthy, Wig
orous life without an infusion -of fresh
blood in the shape of original contribu-
tions, and that genial interchange of
thoughts, queries and answers, which form
the very bone and marrow of all newspaper
departments. When we look at the Agri-
cultural column, for instance, the mascu-
line counterpart of cur 6 Household,
how timely and practical are all its
articles, how full and valuable its informa-
ton, we may well be proud of our
virile brother farmer, and look to his col
umn for information how to make our own
a matter of pride to him as well as to our
selves. | can well imagine the editor sic
ting in the sanctum, waiting in vain for
that desirable boon, original, avail
able MSS. from thoughtful housewives.
think correspondents ought to help in a
weekly array of nice, practical suggestions
how to prepare all the good things of the
season in the most palatable and healthtul
way ; how to cook so as to avoid stove heat
and headaches, and thousand items OF
interest, especially to young and progress
sive housekeepers. Have the housewives
become tired of the everlasting round of
recipes and inquiries for recipes published
a dozen times? Perhaps some of US have,
and to such and all score of interesting
branches of the great household depart
menE are open and ready to welcome their
pens. There are the nursery, the sick
room, the flower garden; nor should edu-
cation, especially the education in and for
the household, be considered inferior to
canning and pe-making. How to make a
kite construct a Union flag and embellish
a grace-h hoop is as truly womans work as
anything she can do. And there is sci
ence, most important branch of which is
ali our own, and whenever we shall care to
claim it and exchange notes on this subject
as other scientists do, our column, the
woman's viii boldly stand beside that of
our agricultural brothers, it will be more
fascinating than a novel and more bene-
fetal to mankind than our Board of Health.
| refer to the chemistry of the kitchen"
As an earnest of my wish that the
- Household may live and flourish, and
hoping that others will follow my example,
l add few scraps apropos or the season,
and remain TELzA.
SUBSTITUTE FOR ICE.CHEsT AND CELLAR.
There are women who have neither OF the
above commodities, and who forever COM
plain of sour milk and melted butter. As
| belong to this class, and am not troubled
that way, can recommend the simple and
efficient way in which avoid both evils.
1t is an old remedy, but az good as when
it was new. Put your butter in glass or
ironstone china dish mo objection to
Sevres or china, if you have it, but avoid
wood and metal), having cover-one
which projects is best; set this in a shall
low earthen dish half or one-third full of
water, to which tablespoonful of salt has
been added cover the butter dish with a
clean, thick, coarse towel previously wet
with cold water, and let the ends Of the
towel hang into the water in the earthen
dish. Be sure and have the towel in the
water all around the butter dish, and not
only here and there. Now. set your dish
in as cool place as you have-in
a draught, if possible. Change the
water in the lower dish every day or
every other day, not forgetting the salt,
and be sure to keep the cloth on all the
time, never leaving it off on any account,
if you value the firmness of your butter
The latter will not be as bard as when
kept in the ice chest, but it will be quite
firm enough TO spread nicely. Milk can
be kept in the same manner, substituting a
pitcher or jar for the dish, but there is one |
difficulty about milk which is sometimes
hard to overcome. 1t has been found that |
Earring and shaking has as much tendency |
to sour or turn the milk as mere heat, and |
the only remedy in this case is to place |
your milk on terra frma, as every footstep, |
every passing vehicle which shakes your
building agitates the milk as well. / do
not know if suspension from ceiling would |
overcome the difficulty, but perhaps the
idea is worth testing.
How TO KEEP VEGETABLES FoM Wilt
NET once met with AN item on the sub
ject which recommended the wrapping of
fresh vegetables in coarse brown grocer's
paper, which paper must be thoroughly
dampened and kept damp as long as the
vegetables are TO be preserved, Which,
however, must not be an unreasonable
length OF time. The vegetables, moreover,
must be.put In as cool place as you have
to spare, and away from the sun and stove
heat. have tried this many times, and
1t has never failed me, provided the vege-
tables were really fresh WIDEN so treated. l
have kept heads Of lettuce and radishes fresh
three days in the middle of the summer,
and they were not in the least musty. A
clean wet cloth may be wrapped around
the paper parcel, but cloths are apt to be-
come musty, and impart that quality to
things wrapped in them if without the
protection of the paper. Common brown
wrapping paper is the best.
TOMATOES AND APPLEs.-Some people
object to tomatoes chiefly ON account of a
certain rankness OF taste and the great
quantity of seeds, which spoil the looks of
the stew. The latter is improved very
much, both in regard to taste and appear
ance, by the addition of apples. The
quantity OF the latter may vary to suit
the taste from one quarter to one. half
apples suits most people. The apples
must be prepared as usual for stewing and
put in with the tomatoes, the whole being
stewed until done. A harder dish, which
may not suit everybody, but which is
equally healthy, ID tomatoes stewed with
an onion OF two, sliced. Tomatoes and
apples make very nice preserves, and to-
mato pickle, with small onions, is too well
known to need praising.
[Telza has set good example. The
Household Department has grown in inter
est from the first, but there is room still
for hundreds of women to contribute to it.
All that we desire is conciseness, practical
statements, pertinent suggestions, brief ex-
periences. Selected receipts are also de-
sired Notes of value gathered relative to
the home, the sick chamber handiwork,
art decoration, etc., are all desirable, and
originality viii meet with special atten-
ton.
To Bake a Turkey.
After it is dressed, salt and pepper it in