The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-05-20
Topics for the Household.

To DEADEN A FIRE.-Tf You are in
hurry to broil a steak and the fire is too
brisk, little salt will deaden it.
SpINAGF.-Spinage should always be
served hot, with slices of hard boiled
eggs arranged over the top,
Poor MANS PUDDISG.-Three cups
of -four, one cup of suet one cup of
raisins, one teaspoonful of soda, spices
to suit the taste; boil two hours; use
with sauce.
To MAKE NICE ToAsT.-Cut your
bread, not too thick, and dry in the oven
in a roasting pan fora few moments be.
fore toasting. The toast will be of
more uniform brown and will not take
half MS long to make.
MUSHROOMS WITH WHITE SAUCE
Melt piece of butter in n saucepan,
moisten with li.te white stock or water,
add grated nutmeg and finely powdered
sweet herbs; put in the mushrooms, stew
from eight to ten minutes, then stir in
off the fire the yulks of one or two egg:
beaten up with the juice of lemon and
strained.
To REMOVE GLASS SToPPERs.-
Young ladies are sometimes in n
dilemma over glass stopper that will
stick fast in pretty perfume bottle.
Let them steam the neck of this (the
bottle) over the teakettle and knock it
gently with knife blade. If that will
not serve the purpose put few drops of
sweet oil about the cork and set the
bottle near the fire where it will get
warm.
OH-PAsTE SHOE BLACKINa.-Any
one may make his own oil paste backing
by the following trustworthy receipt:
Molasses one pound, ivory black one and
One-half pounds, sweet oil two ounces.
Rub together in mortar till all the in
gradients form n perfectly smooth mix
ture; then add the juice of one lemon,
or about wineglass of strong vinegar,
and thoroughly incorporate, with Just
enough water added slowly to gain the
required consistency.
RHUBARD JELLY,-Take some rhu.
barb, wipe it with a clean wet cloth,
peel it and cut it into pieces an inch
long. To each pound of rhubarb add
three-fourths of pound of white sugar
Put it to boil for about ten minutes, or
until the juice is well drawn Strain it
into preserving pan, let it boil quickly
until it clings to the spoon, skim it, and
put into jam pots or moulds. The
quickest way to know II it will set is to
drop little on plate to cool,
CHURNING "A moments use of the
thermometer in the cream before churn-
ing is less trying to the patience, to say
nothing of the back and arms, than an
hours use of the churn to bring the
temperature of the cream up to sixty
three degrees. If the butter usually
comes quickly, sixty degrees above zero
is sufficiently high, but the cream from
some cows needs to be brought I'D To
slxty-fve degrees before churning. II
the butter is inclined to be soft, a few
dippersful of ice-cold water should be
poured into the churn 20 soon rs the
butter globules are seen floating in the
cream.
10 CLEAN LooKING-GLAssEs. Take
newspaper, or part of one, according
to the size Of the glass. Fold it small
and dip it into basin of clean cold
water; when thoroughly wet squeeze it
out in your hand as you would sponge,
and then rub it hard all over the face of
the glass, taking care that it is not so
wet as to run down in streams. In fact,
the paper must only be completely
moistened or damped all through. After
the glass has been well rubbed with wet
paper, let it rest for few minutes and
then go over it with q fresh, dry news.
paper folded small in your hand) till it
looks clear and bright, which it will al.
most Immediately, and with no further
trouble.
A WINDOW ORNAMENT.-The amer
lean Cuitipator says: MANY persons
know it, but some do not, that a pretty
and easily grown window plant may be
obtained by soaking round piece OF
coarse sponge in warm water until it is
thoroughly expanded. After squeezing
it about half dry, place in the openings
millet, red clover, and barley grass
seeds, rice, and oats. Hang the sponge
III d" ViuuoW WutEc tHt SUN SHINES
part of the day, and sprinkle it lightly
with water every morning for week.
Soon the tender leaves will shoot out.
and, growing rapidly, will form droop.
ing mass OF living green. If regularly
sprinkled, it will later be dotted with
the blossoms of the clover. |
ECONOMY IN USING SUGAR.-Many
housekeepers waste very large amount
of sugar by heating it with acid fruits
and other sour substances. It is noun.
usual thing for cook to place consider.
able sugar in sour fruits that are being
heated and TO stir it into the mass from
time TO time a. the cooking proceeds,
On tasting some of the substance beino
cooked 1t seems sour, and. more sugar i
added. 1t is often the case that three
times the amount Of sugar Is EMPLOYED
that Is necessary 70 impart the desired