The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-01-19
Useful Recipes.

tSefuH KecfpeS'
To REMOVE GLASS SHOPPERS. Young
ladies are sometimes In dilemma over
glass stopper that will stick fast In pretty
perfumc-bottle. Let them steam the neck
| Of the bottle over the tea-kettle and tap IL
| gently with knife-blade. II that VIII not
serve the purpose, put few drops OF sweet
oil about the cork and set the bottle near
the fire where 1t will get warm.
OUNCE JAN.-To the peclings ana cores
| from peck OF ounces allow hall peek Oh
tart apples; wash, quarter, and core, Dut
do not peel them. Put all into Kettle win
/ lust enough water TO show at the edge
when the fruit is well pressed down. Bon
gently until the apple Is reduced to pulp.
Strain through jelly-bag, and to each pint
Of JUICE allow pound of sugar. Heat gra-
dually, stirring till the sugar Is dissolved;
Boil gently twenty minutes, or until II VIII
harden on plate. Pour into jelly-giasses,
and cover when cold.
GRAPE JAM.-Wild grapes are the best
/ for this purpose, and they should be barely
ripe. Wash them and put them in por-
celain kettle over a slow fire, breaking the
grapes with n potat0-masher. When warm,
/ hut not hot--as scalding any fruit with
seeds gives a strong, unpleasant flavor-re-
move from the fire, cool little, and slit
through q coarse sieve. To each pint al
low three quarters of pound Of sugar.
Return TO the kettle and boil half an hour,
stirring often. Put IL in fruit-jars. 1t is
nice TO serve with meats, II only half q
pound Of sugar Is used; and il is good
plan to make part Of the jam in such pro-
portions.
SALT FOR BRONCHIAL AFFECTI0Ns.-The
value of salt a. cure for bronchial aflec-
ton and ordinary sore-throat can only be
properly estimated by those patients who.
after having become walking receptacles for
troches, pect0ralS, and cough-syrups, find
instant relief by swallowing a single pinch
Of salt. The disagreeablc tickling OF the
throat, the hacking cough. even bleeding at
the lungs, is ameloratcd by one or two
pinches Of salt. Try it, We lovers of nos
trums and observation-disclosures, and your
throat disease will yield before its simple
touch like magic, your body be strength
cned, and your purse be none the lighter
for the expenditure.
REMEDY FOR POIsoN OAK.-Dr. S. A.
Brown, United States navy, states in the
Medical Record that he has found a specific
to the troublesome eruption produced by
the poison oak, or poison ivy, so common
in our woods and along old fences. Thi'
specific he finds in bromine, which he has
used with unyarying success in at least
forty cases. He uses the drug dissolved in
oil, cosmolne, or glycerine, in the strength
of from ten TO twenty drops Of bromine tC
TO the ounce of oil, and rubs the mixture
on the affected parts three or four times {
day. The bromine is so volatile that the
solution should be renewed every twenty
four hours. The eruption never extends
after the first thorough application, and il
promptly disappears within twenty-four
hours if the application is persisted in.
To PRESERVE RED CRAB APPLEs.-Takt
the apples when they are quite ripe, wash
and wipe them, peel and core them, eX-
tracing the cores with a small knife very
carefully, so as not to break them. Weigh
them. allowing a half-pint OF water to q
pound of sugar and fruit, and the juice OF
a large lemon. Let 1t boil until no more
scum rises; then put in the crab apples,
adding little cochineal powder, rubbed
with knife into very small quantity OF
white brandy till it has dissolved. This
win greatly improve the color of the ap-
pies. Cover them tight, and let them boil
I slowly Till clear and tender. Spread them
out on dishes, and when they are cold put
them into Jars and por:r the syrup over
! them.