The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-03-11
Household knowledge.

OcG HESh w ATER.-W alter that
has stood in aneopen dish over night
should not be used for cooking or
drinking, as it will have absorbed
many foul gases.
NoLAssEs CANDY.-An excellent
recipe for molasses candy is: One cup
of molasses, one of sugar, one table
spoonful of vinegar, one of butter and
one teaspoonful of soda.
PICKING RAIsINs.-In picking
raisins leave two pounds of large, fine
raisins on the stems; add one pint of
vinegar and half a pound of sugar /;
simmer over slow fire half an hour.
CRACKER GRIDDLE CAKEs.-One
pint of cracker dust; the yelks of two
eggs; thin with milk, and when it
swells add more milk until of the
right consistency; salt, and when
ready to bake add the whites of the
eggs beaten stiff
DELICIOUS PUDDING SAUCE.-For q
simple and delicious pudding sauce
take two cups of powdered sugar and
beat it into the yelk of an egg. Into
this stir gradually the white of an egg,
beaten previously very light. Flavor
to suit the taste.
CAKE OR FRUIT SANDWICHES
Cake or fruit sandwiches are made
thus: Four eggs, their weight in flour.
sugar and butter; warm the butter
and beat it to cream, then stir the
-four and sugar into it gradually, beat
up the eggs and stir them in. Beat
the cake well for half al hour and
bake in rather quick oven. If for
sandwiches slice the cake in half and
put preserves between.
To MAKE RUG.-For a rug, use a
piece of small figured Brussels carpet
Around this place three rows of thick
cloth, cut in scallops 81 inches deep
and p wide. Make the first and third
rows of black cloth, worked on the
edge of each scallop in buttonhole
stitch, with scal let Germantown yarn.
Make the second row of drab cloth
worked with blue. Put strip of drab
worked In feather stitch with blue.
Cover the seam where the first row is
sewed on. The whole is then sewed
on another piece of carpeting to keep
it in place ON the floor.
IMITATION GROUND GLAss.-Cut
from tissue paper or thin white mus
lin fancy figures, and then with trans,
parent gum fasten them upon the
glass. These are good for hall doors.
The same end may be obtained by
to the windows with brush
hot solution Of sal-ammoniac, Glau-
ber's salts or Epson salts. The crys-
In the first will be in
straight lines; the EPSON salts will
produce four-sided prisms and the
Glauber's salts six-sided ones. A per-
feet and beautiful screen can be formed
in this way.
CLEAN KID GLovEs.-To clean kid
gloves use sweet milk and white or
brown soap. Take a large piece of
white flannel, dip it in the milk, then
rub it upon the soap and rub the glove
downward toward the fingers, holding
the wrist of it by the left hand. Con-
tinue this process until the glove, if
white, looks a dingy yellow, but if
colored, looks dark and entirely
spoiled. Now let it dry, and then put
it on your hand and it will be soft,
glossy and clean. This pro-
cess applies only to white and eolored
kid gloves. For black gloves that are
soiled, turned white and otherwise in
ured, take teaspoonful of salad oil,
drop few drops of ink into it and rub
it over the gloves with the tip of
feather, then let them dry in the sun.
To MAKE A NICE DIsH.-A nice
dish for supper is made of sweet or
Irish potatoes, which have been left
from dinner (either baked or boiled).
Slice them, but not in very thin slices,
lay in baking tin or pudding dish,
and cover each layer with little Jumps
IF butter and with pepper and salt. If
you like the flavor of pork put two
Or three thin slices of salt pork on the
,op. Bake for half an hour. Raw
potatoes NAV be prepared in the same
way, but will require longer time to
bake them. To give an excellent fla
ver to warmed-over potatoes take
,ome of the fat that you cut from slices
If beefsteak, fry in the pan till you
nave as much as you need, then take
,ut the scraps and put in the potatoes i.