Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-02

chickens Tor more if they are small, dis
joint them and cut the backbone, etc., as
small as convenient. Boil them with few
slices of salt pork in water enough to cover
them; let them boil quite tender; then
take out the breastbone. After they boil,
and the scum is taken off, put in little
onion, cut very fine, not enough to taste
distinctly, but just enough TO flavor a lit
tie; rub some parsley very fine when dry,
or cut fine when green-this gives pleas
ant flavor. Season we'll with pepper and
salt and few ounces of good fresh
butter When all is cooked well, have
liquid enough to cover the chicken; then
beat up two eggs aad stir in, also some
sweet cream. Line five quart pan with a
crust made Ike soda biscuit, only more
shortening put in the chicken and liquid (;
then cover with a crust the same as the
lining. Make an opening for the steam to
escape. Bake till the crust is done, and
you VIII have a good chicken pie,
HARD SoAP-Slake three pounds of
lime in a gallon of boiling soft water. Add
SIX pounds of washing soda and three
gallons Of boiling soft water. Boil to-
gether fifteen minutes, then let it settle
and pour off the clear liquid, replacing it
with two gallons more of boiling soft
water Put SIX pounds of clean TAT into
the clear solution and boil it for two hours I;
drain the second water from the lime and
soda and add it by degrees when there Is
danger of the mixture boiling over, 1t
should be, when done. of the consistency
of honey. Try a little by cooling in u
saucer, and when thick enough puv in a
teacupful of salt and turn it into q wet
tub. When firm cut it into bars; place
ON a board to dry slowly. Rapid drying
will make it crack. You viii have about
forty pounds of good soap, tirmer than
made with potash. 1t should not be used
fer two or three months.
BUcNwHEAT CAKES. Three parts by
measure of buckwheat -four to one part Of
graham flour, aud mix with buttermilk in
stead of water. Keeping buckwheat bat
ter is often very troublesome, especially in
mild weather. II can be kept perfectly
sweet by pouring cold water over that left
from one morning, and which is intended
to be used for raising the next morning 5
cakes. Fill the vessel entirely full of
water, and put in a cool place. When
ready to use pour off the water, which alb
serbs the acidity. -[Harper's Bazaar.
TOILET SoAp.-Make the lye in the man
ner just described, use nice lard or beef
tallow; add sight ounces of glycerine just
before taking up, and STIR until nearly
cool Perfume with oil of almonds and
cassia, or use the oil Of eassia with oil of
bergamot or rose geranium. The soap may
be colored red with tincture of dragon 5
blood or yellow with little annotto.
FLORIDA WATER. - Dissolve half an
ounce each of oil of lemon, oil of lavender
and oil of bergamot, and half a drachm
each of oil of cinnamon and oil of cloves in
quart Of the best deodorized alcohol.
Add two quarts of filtered water and bot
tie for use in the toilet.
PoNcINE SoAP-May be made by adding
to a portion of the uncolored toilet soap
half It's weight of finely powdered pumice
stone. Work it in thoroughly and make
into balls. It will be found excellent for
roughness of the skin, as well as for clean
ing very dirty hands.