Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-04-06
DOMESTIC.

as possible There is truly nothing very
attractive about thick piece of dry bread
and butter and cookie all rolled IN q
piece of coarse brown paper, washed down
by q drink from the cup that ''goes the
rounds" such luncheon will often inn
pair the appetite of a fastdious or delicate
child, and he will go without rather than
eat it. a little care in the cutting Of the
bread; the doing up OF the cookies or crul-
lers in tissue or white paper; the sauce or
custard put into pretty cup and all
wrapped in clean white napkin within q
bright tin pail, or, better still, a pretty
luncheon basket, will, by tie pleasure it
gives the child, we'll repay the extra care
and thought.
To MAKE A CHEAP WASH OR PAINT
Put half bushel of good lime clean
barrel, and add enough water to make a
thin whitewash, stirring with fiat stick
until every lump Is dissolved; then add
fifty pounds mineral paint Cthe color pre-
ferred, y fifty pounds whiting, fifty pounds
road dust. Then thln to the proper con-
sistency for spreading with brush, by
adding sweet buttermllk fresh from the
} churn in small quantities at a time, TO give
q chance for the ingredients to assimllate.
BLACK BEAN SoUP.-One quart of black
beans; soak them over night IN cold water;
dram off the water in the morning and
add three pints of fresh water; let them
stew gently four and one half hours Add
salt, pepper and little Glove. While
cooking, put i'll meat, cooked or Hneooked,
ns preferred. When done strain the soup;
cut lemcn in slices; place in your dish;
also add hard boiled egg cut in slices.
Pieces of bread toasted brown are an aG-
dition. Salt pork may be used instead Ut
meat
10 CLEAN MUsTY BARRELS. "A German
paper gives the following directions for
cleaning rusty or mouldy casks and bar
rels: First rluse them out we'll with water
in which little soda has been dissolved;
then fill up with water slightly calculated
with murlatic acid, and let thfa stand Cor
two days; then pour out the water and
rinse with clean water, and the casks viii
be found perfectly sweet.
We never had any patience with u
mother or nurse who would stick pins
carelessly in her dress, collar, or ribbon,
thereby inf1icting pajRfuls wounds upon
her innocent victim. Not PIN, except
ing safety pin, should be used about a
child, and wheE buttons will perform the
office of pins they should be made to do
| so.
COTTAGE GNGERBRRAD.--Takeo one cup
of butter and lard melted together, add
one cup Of New Orleans molasse5; stir into
this one cupful each of sugar and cold
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two eggs beaten; and four cups of flour
having In three large teAspoOnfuls of ba-
king powder. Bake IN moderately hot
oven
HOUSEHOLD WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Wheat flour, one pound is quart Loaf
sugar, broken, one pound is one quart.
w hite sugar, powdered, one pound one
ounce is one quart. Best brown sugar,
one pound two ounces Is one quart. Eggs,
average size, ten are one pound. Liquid
measures, sixteen teaspoonfuls are one
pint.
SUoToH BUTTER CANDY.-One pound of
sugar, one half pint of water. Boil as
hard as possible without gralning. When
done add half cup OF butter and lemon
juice to flavor, III desired. Turn on but
tered dish and when partly cool cut with
knife into small squares. When cold a
slight tap will break it of.
PAsTRY.-Fruit and custard pies are
almost invariably spoiled by having sog-
gy undercrust. Tins may be remedIed by
coating the top of the lower crust of pies
with the white of an egg; 1t will absorb no
moisture from the frut or custard, will
come out of the oven crisp and will re-
main so
To CLEAN MARBLE.-To clean smoky
marble brush a paste of chloride OF lime
and water over the entire surface. Greas
spots can be removed from marble 10y ap
plying paste Of crude potash and whiting
in this manDsr.
VALUABlR HINTs.-When ice is required
at night for a sick person, break it it into
small pisces, and if scarce care must be
taken to pre- evenT its melting, put into a
soup plate, cover with another plate, and
put between two feather pillows.
Coacoanut Cookies. cup Of milk,
one cup of sugar, one cup of grated cocoa
nut, and prepared -four enough to roll out.
Make very thin and bake quickly. The
dessicated coao3nut may be used, but it is
not quite so nlce.
To renovate black gre1adine, take strong
cold coffee, strain it, and wiring the greDa-
dine out of it quite tight, after which
shake out and fold up. Then iron 1t with
a moderately hot iron over piece of any
old black material.
Silk stockings must be washed in cold
water with white soap, rinsed in cold
water, laid fiat on q fine towel, rolled
tightly until dry, and rubbed with piece
of flannel to restore the gloss.
CoRE-STARcH CAKE.-Two cups of
sugar, one cup Of butter, one cup of milk,
one cup Of corn starch, two cups of -four,
four eggs, one teaspoonful Of soda, and
flavor with lemon or vanilla.
A few drops of ammonls added to gal
Ion of water and applied once week to
all pots of flowers will do much good and
keep the pots and earth from souring.
NEVER wear a good woolen dress into
the kitchen without the protection of a
large apron.
No flannel that has not been carefully
washed, and is not perfectly soft and
feecy, should ever touch the skin of an
, infant.
Your fat must be boiling when you put
your meat in 1t to fry.
''Middllngs" flour contain the best ele.
napfa Of xuhaot