The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-04-29
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

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If lime has fallen into the eye, drop
in some sweet oil.
Thorough tillage is the best and
cheapest manure.
--Ammonia should be used plentifully
in house cleaning.
In pruning roses cut away all shoots
that have fiowered.
Slow cooking and long cooking will
make tough meat tender.
1t takes no more to keep good
COW than bad one. Always get the
best. n. d .-. .
An old and good recipe for graft
ing wax: Two parts tallow, three parts
resin and three parts beeswax.
The best way to apply hen drop
pings to q garden is to sow it on broad
cast and rake it in, mixed with . few
barrels of ashes. .
Light soil is not suitable 4 for cur
rants. On such soil they are apt to drop
their leaves early, which causes q poor
croo the next season.
Completion Wash.-Tincture ben
zoin, two ounces: pure alcohol. one
pint. Battle the skin; allow the wash to
remain on few minutes and then wipe
off. at'
The sitting hen needs feed and wa
ter once . day, or once in two days at
the farthest. Sitters are sometimes shut
up by themselves to keep others from
disturbing them.
Boston Cookies. Two cups sugar,
one cup butter, one cup milk, one egg
and the yelk of another, one-third of
teaspoonful of saleratus and one tea
spoonful of cream tartar. Mix stiff,
roll thin, rub the white of one egg on
the top, sprinkle on q little sugar.
-Bayarian Cream. - One pint of
milk, three ounces sugar, half ounce
gelatine, two eggs; beat the yelks and
stir into the boiling milk, dissolve the
gelatine in q little hot water; beat the
whites of the eggs separate and stir in
when cool; cream is better whipped;
flavor to taste and then put in molds.
To Take Stains out of Linen
Place the stained spot in tin pan; pour
boiling water enough to entirely cover;
let it steep like you would tea or coffee,
then rinse we'll, and hang it out Of
doors; iron the spot and it will not
show. For fruit stains you must wash
directly after pouring on the boiling
water.
Chocolate Layer Cake.-Two cups
of sugar, one of butter. three cups of
flour, five eggs, one cup of milk, one
teaspoonful Of cream of tartar, one half
teaspoonful of soda; take nearly q cup
of grated chocolates; sweeten to taste;
add milk enough to moisten-abOut
half a cupful; flavor with vanilla and
spread between the layers; ice.
Delicious oatmeal Cruel may be
made by stirring q cupful of oatmeal
into q bowl of water, allowing it to
stand for q few moments until the
coarsest particles have fallen to the
bottom, pouring off the water and re-
peating this once or twice. The water
must then be boiled, stirring it con-
stantly until il is sufficiently cooked.
Queens Pudding.-Three pints OF
milk, one quart of bread crumbs, the
Helks of four eggs, one teaspoonful OF
vanilla; put the bread to soak in the
milk, then add the eggs beaten, one
Auarter pound of sugar; bake it when
done. Beat the whites of five eggs to q
stiff froth, add five ounces of sugar, put
on the top and put in the oven for few
minutes.
-Omelet.-Break all your eggs in
one dish; stir rather than beat up the
yelks and whites; to each three eggs
| you use put in q teaspoonful of cold
water; salt and pepper to taste
put two ounces of butter in
the pan; when the butter is very hot
pour in the eggs; just as soon as cooked
on one side turn quickly and cook on
the other side; double over and serve
on q very hot plate. The cold water in
the eggs makes the omolet light and
| moist.
-Rhubarb Jelly.-Prepare as fol
sauce, cutting up into small pieces
Put into preserving kettle with a very
little water. Boil until very soft. Drair
| through q sieve; then press through {
jelly bag. To every pint of juice allow
one and one-haf pound of sugar. Boi
the sugar by itself until nearly ready te
form candy and then mix with the juice
Boil together moderately, keeping wei
skinned until the jelly falls from ths
skinner in sheets. Put away same a.
any other jelly.
Remedy for Cracked Hands,
Get ten cents worth of Venice tur
pentine. Have it melted and put in Z
bottle. The last thing you do before
going to bed, heat your bottle so it viii
run out. Now put . tin can lid on the
stove and pour out enough to rub ovel
your hands once. Then drop coal-oi
enough in to thin it, hot too thin, bu
thin enough to rub on easily. Aftel
you have rubbed carefully every chafei
place, put on old gloves and go to bed
In the morning wash good with CASTLE
soap. Make it thin enough to wash of
nicely. They will be better after tn,
first application, and after the thirt
they will be well.
Folding Shirts. from tn,
number of badly folded shirts fire
quently see, says q correspondent, an
led to believe that large percentags
of ladies are ignorant of the proper
method; therefore a few words on tn,
subject may not be amiss. Twas taugh
to lay the garment, bosom down, upor
the ironing table, and with the right
hand grasp the left sleeve, taking hole
of the same side with the left hand; thi
part was to be folded back one-thirt
the width Of the shirt, measuring from
the widest point. The sleeve mus
then be laid down, with its upper edg,
even with the recently made fold. Tn,
same process is repeated with the 9th
er side, and the bottom is folded unit
the hem reaches the neck-band. Thi
is all very well as long as its owner re
mains at home, but should he nttemp
packing his shirts in . trunk or valise
the bosoms would very likely becom,
soiled. To avoid this Q friend taugh
me to lay the shirt with the back upoI
the table and fold the bosom inside.
The poorest way to cook pork curet
in any manner is to boil it. Boiled han
is favorite dish with most persons, bu
ham first boiled and then baked til
the surface is slightly Drowned is vastl,