The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1881-07-22
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Grained wood should b washed
with cold TEA.
Cut hot bread or cake with hot
knife. and y will not be clammy.
In dropping medicine place the
handle q the spoon between the leaves
OF book.
Meat can be prevented from scorch-
ing. during the roasting process BY
simply placing basin Or cup Of water
IN the oven The steam, generated not
only prevents scorching, nut makes the
meat cook nicer.
A good way 70 cook liver il to fry
II In butter. with m onion cut in small
pieces atterci over il. Cook slowly;
when done add lump of butter aud
little flour; stir well. and turn over the
liver. Serve with Saratoga potatoes.
For general purposes on the farm.
castor-oil. with . little kerosene added.
j. the best lubricaior and pre-erver.
For saws. mowers. buggies. ETC.. Il fur
nIshes m re body. with less gum. than
most oil. The amount Of Kerosene. II
any. 70 be added. must be governed by
the purpose for which il j. designed.
Drying umorcllas Most people
dry Their umbrellas handle inward.
This concentrates the Moisture al the
iii. where 4 Il close. rnsfs the wires
which secure the strrtchers. and rots
the silk. Alter the umbrella is drained.
II i better 10 inyert handle down. and
dry IL in that pos ton. or. better still.
not to spread il open. as nothing SO
quickly spoiIs its shape
Apple Cheese-Cakes. Take one
pound Of apples. boiled and pulped
through 4 sieve, one pound powdered
white sugar, the juice and grated rinds
Vi three large fresh lemons. and tour
eggs well beaten. Mix these ingredi-
enls carefully, and put them into a
saucepan ia which you have quarter
Of q pound OF fire ii butter melted. Stir
il constantly over slow fire for hall an
hour. and let il cool. Line pie dishes
with tine puff paste, pour in the apple
mixture, and bake. without upper crust.
in quick oven. Sprinsle with pow
dered sugar. and serve when perfectly
cold.
Very Fine Currant .JelIy. An
equal quantity Of white and red cur
rants free from stems. leaves and dirt.
Put into white porcelain kettle
with very little water. just
enough TO keep the fruit from burn
Ing ~ first. Boil twenty minutes.
DO not rush the fruit. Pour into a
clean jclly-bag. Hang where the juice
can run through. but do not touch or
squeeze the Bag. To each pint Of this
clear liquor add q pound Of loaf sugar
and boil in the cleansed porcela n kettle
twcnts-fi five minutes. Pass through an
other j.liy-bag and pour into glasses.
The bugs can bc well pressed out after
ward aud The juice thercfrom made into
an Inferior Jelly.
An ant bed on the lawn may be de-
Stroycd with hot water: stir up the bed
and pour on boiling water: by pour AZ
On strong brine thcx may be ar ven
away. ous a. they might take up quar-
terS n objectionable. il 4 always best
10 destroy them When the bed IL fat
enough from he house. and in posi-
ton u admit III Il. they mas be de-
stroyed by building q ire around them.
and wren hot enough. with hoe die
the bed up and thus burn them; when
the bed il well dug out ill the no y
with Goals, in this way we have De.
Strcyei large beds; but near dwelling
hot water Is the best. though X may ~
quire several gallons 70 make sure
thing Of il. The small red ants nest i
easily destroyed in this war. but large
ones being At 4 considc able distance
below the surface. must be 20 dnz up
A. ID len the hot water % The bottom
before il COOS. -- Massachusetts HouQh-
,arss.