The Russellville Democrat., 1881-02-17
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 FEET TEA


 Beef sTea-Miscellanious Reoipes-Usefui
 Hints.
 EEEF TEA.
 MT. Wilkinson of St. Mary's Hospital, London, advises the following improved method of preparing beef tea:
 The meat is cut into small pieces and placed in the evening, in an earthenware vessel with sufficient cold water to cover the meat: in this it is allowed to remain all night. In the morning the meat is taken out, placed in other water, and boiled for several hours. The meat of the previous day is then passed through a mincing machine, and put into the cold liquor in which the meat was steep ed the previous night, and upon this the boiling liquor from the days beef tea IS poured, and the whole we'll stirred and it then forms the complete beef tea. The characteristics of good beef tea are that all the nutritious elements of the beef should be made available; and by the process carried out as above this IS effectually done, the albumen, fibrine, and gelantine being all retained and taken by the patient. Moreover, by the above method much smaller quantity of meat is required than under the or | dinary mode, and it would, consequently, not become a jelly if allowed to stand; but by adding larger quantity of beef l this result could of course be obtained. | This forms with us what is called beef | ielly.) It should, however, be remarked | that in very hot weather the beef tea | cannot be made in this manner, as it would become sour from the length of time required for its preparation. | MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS. | GRAHAM BIscuITs.-One quart Graham flour, two teaspoons baking powder mix ed with it, one teaspoon salt, one of but ter; make into soft dough with milk. DELICATE CAKE-The whites of four eggs and two cups white sugar beaten we'll together; four tablespoons melted butter, one cup sweet milk, three cups sifted flour, two teaspoons baking pow der mixed with the four. This cake ii baked in moderately slow oven will be very nice.
 SEEING an inquiry for recipe for bis cult, I send the following: Two cups oi sour milk, one cup sour cream, two tea spoonfuls soda, one of salt. Stir the soda and salt in the flour, then add the milk and cream; do not mix to stiff. Will some one please tell how to color a sub stantial red on cotton?-Cdrrie 'Solaher. land, Monroe, Wis.
 MARBLE CAKE dark. )-One cup oi brown sugar, one half cup molasses, one half cup of butter, one fourth cup oi milk, yolks of four eggs, two teaspoon fuls of cloves, two cinnamon, two nut megs, one teaspoonful of baking powder two cups of flour. Light part-One cuI of white sugar, one half cup of butter one fourth cup of milk, whites of foul eggs, one teaspoonful baking powder, ont half cup of flour, lay in layers or spots This makes two large layers.
 |. USEFUL HINTS.
 | A PERSON having twenty warts claims to have removed them all by applying two or three times a day, the juice of { common potato.
 THE Journal de Phdrmdcie gives tho following recipe for a mucilage whicl will unite wood or mend porcelain ol glass: To eight and one-half ounces O a strong solution of gum arabic add thirty grains of solution of sulphate of alu
 nina dissolved in two-thirds of an ounce
 of water.
 To renovate black lace mix bullock, | gall Wllll SulllCltHt lot NdltI lD Hldkt I
 as warm as you can bear your hand in
 and pass the lace through it. It must b'
 squeezed, not rubbed and it would bt
 musk. Rinse the lace through two colo
 waters, tinging the last with little blue
 After drying put it into some stiffenin. made by pouring boiling water on
 very small piece of glue. Squeeze it out
 stretch it and clap it. Afterward, pin il out on linen cloth to dry, laying it very straight and even, and taking care tt open and pin the edge very nicely
 When dry, iron it on the wrong sid' i having lain linen cloth over the iron ing blanket.
 PRETTY window gardens may be mad,
 by taking the tin boxes in whief ; mackerel is put up; paint them green O scarlet, and put in such plants as grow well together. When watering them dt not use more water than will be absorbed during the day. A few experiments vii , then enable one to judge correctly in re
 gard to the amount, and it is surprising to see how the plants will thrive in uttel defiance of all the wise things that ar' said about drainage. The tin or zin, f cases in which thread is packed vii also when painted and placed in stand f make very good window gardens. Wa
 ter in which the gridiron and frying-paI have been washed is an excellent fertil r izer.
 ' KEEP some strong spirits of hartshou s in ground-glass-stoppered bottle; tea ? spoonful in tablespoonful of water vii
 clean combs and brushes, and restor colors injured by acids. A weaker solu 3 ton, applied to ill-smelling feet and arm ] pits, removes the oder, and remove 9 grease spots from carpets and clothing l A weak solution in water makes a goo, @ wash for the hair, and stimulates it
 growth when impaired by fever, an, ,, cleanses the scalp efiectually. A weel l solution, scattered over the leaves O Q plants from fine, soft, Timber brush - gives new life to plants. Even if httl e is sprinkled over the earth at their root l their growth is invigorated.
 e >-FooTsTooLs and otomans may be manu !. factured out of old boxes, peck, or hali q bushel measures, or long store boxes e Nail old bagging loosly on the top. leav ing the side open until yon have filled n evenly and plumply with cotton, hay n moss or excelsior" la kind of popula |, shaving made expressly to pack fIrnitur c in.) Then nail the canvas very tightl, '- all around the sides and over the tor
 and cover with embroidery, or with ma e terial to match the furniture. Cover tn j. edges with gimp or fringe Nail piec