The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-05-01
THE HOUSEHOLD.

of two eggs in -four, sugar and butter.
Bake in round tins, putting jam
between while warm.
Woelen hose should be soaked all
night and washed in hot snds with
beef's gall. a tablespoonful to half 3
pail of water. Iron on the wrong
side.
If troubled with wakiulness on re
firing to bed, est three or four small
onions; they will act rs a gentle and
soothing narcotic. Onions are also
excellent to eat when one is much ex
posed to cold.
Mock Duck.-Take a round eff bee.-
steak; salt and pepper; prepare a
dressing as for . turkey; lay in the
steak; sew up; lay two or three slices
OF fat pork upon it and roast; haste
often and you cannot tell it from
duck.
A cold application tc a bare feet,
such as iron, water, rock, earth, OF
ice, when it can be had, ia an excel
lent remedy for eramp. If the pa
tent be seized in the upper part OF
the body. apply the remedy to the
hands
Coffee Without Using FIlters.-Hsve
the coffee ground rather coarse, and
NIX it thoroughly With the white OIL
all egg. Pour the NAier on when
boiling hard, and let it simmer fifteen
minutes; pour of the grounds at once
and send TO the table.
Spiced Beet.--For ten or twelve
pounds OF beet take one tablespoon.
fuI OF Hllspice, SIX cloves, a piece o.
msc5; pound IN mortar; add large
spoonful brown sugar; reb we'll into
the beef; then with saltpeire and salt
turn and rub daily for ten days; then
boil six hours.
To keep away mosquitoes; DIP
a sponge or flannel in Dam phorated
spirits, and make it fasFto jhe top oil
the bedstesd. A deooction OF penny
royal, or some of the bruised leaves,
rubbed on the exposed parts will eli.
fectually keep off these troublesome
insects.
When water has once been made
to boil, the fire may be lessened, IS
but little heat is required to keep II
at boiling point. There is no Ad
vantage whatever in making water
boil iuIiously; the heat will escape in
steam, without rising the heat of the
Aater.
Plum Cake Take two cups Of
sugar, one OF butter, one cup of milk,
one teaspooniul OF sAleratus, a teas
pooniul of essence OF lemon, and sui-
fiicisnt -four to maks a stiff batter.
Beat this we'll together, add halt q
pound OF chopped and stoned rails
ons, half pound of currants, washed
and dried by the FIRE, and one quar-
of citroD, and bake in a brisk oven.
Use Of RooLen Clothiag.-Professor
Jaeger Stuttgart recommends the use
OF Toolen clothing both in summer
and winter, and has invented . sort
of normal dress by which he claims
the accumulation of fat and water in
the system can be prevented. This
normal clothing has two essential
properties: l. II consists exclu.ively
OF wool, avoiding ell materials woven
from the plant fibre (cotton or linen).
2. 1t makes a strong point Of keeping
warm the middle line OF the front Oh
the body. But the principal pecu
harity OF the clothing is the exclusive
use OF sleeps wool, even avoiding
pocket and other Innings OF cotton.
Remedy for Lockjaw.-A CORES
pendent of the Scientific american
says: Let any one who has bad an at
tack of lockjaw take a email quantity
OF warm turpentine, warm it aud
pour it on the wound. no matter
where the wound IL, aud relief will
follow in less than q minute. Moth
ing better can be applied ~ severe
cut or bruiss than cold turpet the; it
will give certain relief almost in.
sIaDtly. Turpentine is also a sover-
eign remedy for the Group. Saturate
q piece Of flannel with it and place
the flannel on the throat aod chest
aud IN every severe case three or four
drops on a lump of sugar may be
taken in Wardly.
ButtermiLk. A Detroit physician
asserts that for q wholesome drink,
n0.hIng equas butternilk. 1t is, he
says, both drink snd TODD, snd for
the laborer, is tbs best kno1n. 1t
supports the system, aud even in
lever will o1ol the stom ach admirably. |
Ii is also a most valuable domestic
remedy. 1t will cure dYsentery as
we'll and moro quickly than any
o,her remedy known Dysentery Ia
really a constipation, and Is the op-
DOsite of disrrhoea, L is inf1Ama-
ion OF the boSels with congestion OF
he portal circuatiou'-ihe cIrcula-
ion of tbs blood through the bow
bis and liver. Il is a disease always
prevalent 10 the summer aud autumn.
From considerable observation feel
in saying that buttsrnilk,
frank moderately will cure every
'ase OF il-certaiuly when taken 10
ne early ttsges."