The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1882-11-11

AOuseheeper's MOscsspDfch.
To USE DAMP MATCHES. Wet or
damp matches wiped little dry and
run through the hair, will ignite as
good as new.
A USEFUL LoTfoN. Alder leaves
stepped in hot water and applied warm
will speedily reduce or prevent swelling
occasioned by cuts, bruises, or wounds
Of any kind.
CHOCOLATE BIscUITs. Mix some
chocolate powder, with white of eggs
and powdered loaf sugar, into paste.
Mould this int biscuits aud bake them
at a gentle heat on a sheet of white
paper.
To Cure A CARBUNcLE OR FELoN. -
Lime and soft soap put in thimbls
and placed on carbuncle will speedily
draw it to successful issue. 1t is bet
ter than lancing and will effectually
cure it.
SWEET PoTATo CUsTARn. Boil tv 0
common sized potatoes; mash fine with
owe tablespoonful Of butter: put in half
cup Of sugar, half cup of sweet
milk, mix well; break in three eggs and
stir thoroughly; make good pastry
crust, and pour in enough for two pies.
SALAD OF LIMA BEANS. some
Lima beans, potatoes ard beets Gall
boiled tender ON ice, and short time
before serving cut The potatoes and
beets into rather thin slices, add the
beans, and dress with oil, pepper, salt
and vinegar. Garnish with few wa
tercreasses.
PUMPKIN Pies WITHOUT EGGS. -
Prepare the pumpkin in the same man
ner YOU would when you use eggs, take
a table spoonful of -four to pie, mix it
with milk, stir in the prepared pumpkin,
and when baked you will not be able to
tell any difference in the lies made
with eggs and those made with flour.
APPLE FoLLY-Two eggs, one cup
of white sugar, three sour baked apples,
vanilla. Beat the whites of the eggs
and the sugar together. then add the
inside of the apples, which should be
roasted soft, flavor with vanilla; beat
this to stiff froth. Any kind of jelly
CAN be used instead of apple. To be
eaten with delicate cake or biscuit, and
makes an ornamental dish for dessert
or tea.
WALL ORNAMENTS. Lovely little
brackets for the wall are now made of
ebonized wood, with the back shaped
exactly like round japanese fan.
The shelf and the power part. including
the handle of the fan, are of the plain
black, but the fan must be decorated
in gay colors. An ingenious woman
may improve the appearance ofan Or
dinary bracket by lacking round fan
TO the all behind it.
STEwED PEARS. If small and ripe,
cut but the blossom end without pairing
o. coring. Put into saucepan with
water enough to cover them, and stew
until tender; add one halt cup sugar for
every quart CT peas, and stew all to-
gcther ten minutes; take out the pears
and lay them in a covered bowl TO keer
warm; add to the syrup little ginger
or few cloves; boil 10 inmates longer
end pour over the fruit hot.
ELEcAMpANE OR CANDY CAKE
Take clarified loaf-sugar and boil te
candy height; rub it a little about The
sides of the pan till it begins to grain
or turn white; then throw. it out upor
warm slab, and divide it into squares
The sugar may be colored with cochin
al by adding some to the syrup while
boiling sufficient to give it the desired
tint. This used 10 be made from the
decoctioa of the roots of elecampane
whence it derives its name.
PRESERVED PEARS One half pound
of sugar to one pound of pears; dissolv,
the sugar with about one and one hal
pints of cold water to eight pounds o
sugar. When dissolved add three o
four lemons sliced, and about six ounce
of ginger scrapsd and sliced thin: pu
in the pears and let them boil till sol
enough to put a straw through; boi
the syrup down,if too thin, after takin,
out the pears and putting them in tn
jars. Seal tight.