Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-28
HOUSEHOLD HINTS

HOUSEHOLD HINTS
| A well-beaten egg is great addition to
dried-apple pie, giving lghtness, and .
good flavor also.
If the stair-rails are dingy, their appear.
snce may be improved by washing them
with little sweet milk polish with a
flannel cloth.
A good way to cook potatoes for break.
fast is to cut medium.sized ones in quar-
tiers, drop them into hot lard and fry till
brown, the same as doughnuts.
If baby must be fed with the manufact.
ured food SO much used now, it is consid.
cred best not to rely exclusively upon any
one, but to change from one to another.
If salmon is not put in the water in which
it is to be boiled until the water is boiling,
the meat will be nicer in every way. 1t
will be more firm, and keep its shape
better.
Brass ornaments may be cleaned by
washing with roche alum boiled to lye,
in the proportion of an ounce to pint
when dry they must be rubbed with fine
chamois.
One of the prettiest ways in which you
can garnish salads in winter is to fringe
short stalks of celery and put around the
edge OF the salad bowl. Fringe by means
of coarse needles.
To clean carpets Dampen some Indian
meal, mix salt with it and sprinkle over
the carpet; sweep vigorously. Take a
small, sharp-pointed stick to remove the
salt and meal from cracks and corners.
It is good plan to make little pair of
sleeves to draw over the baby's arms when
he is playing on the floor; rubber cord
may be run in the top if care be taken
not to have it too tight /; sleeves made Of
stockinet draw on and off easily.
Gold jewelry may be cleaned and made
very bright In this way: Line small
tin cup with soft paper, fill with nice suds,
put the jewelry III lone piece at time, of
coursel, shake it about WELL rinse with
clear water, and dry with piece of cha.
mois skin.
A correspondent asks how -four may be
Drowned for soup and gravies. Put it in a
saucepan and set it over the fire stir it
every moment, as it will be in danger of
burning. 1t must be kept in dry place.
Save your empty baking powder cans to
put it in. You can brown pint or so at
time.
For hygiene waffles take one quart of
flour, one quart of sweet milk, five table.
spoonfuls or about half medium. sized cup
of yeast, at least one tablespoonful of salt.
Mix well and let it stand all night. In
the morning stir in one tablespoonful of
melted butter and two well. beaten eggs
Bake in waffle.irons, and eat without fear
of pain or distress.
Unless you have hired help whom you
can trust implicitly, it is good idea to use
earthen dishes for milk in place of tin
they are kept clean with much less trouble
The scientists Of the present day and hour
claim that the germs of disease hide in the
creviees of a milk-pan, and that nothing
but conscientious application of absolutely
boiling water will remove the danger.
If troubled with the smoke from soft
coal 30 that you cannot lay your clothes on
the grass to bleach, you can improve their
looks in this way: After rubbing them
pour absolutely boiling water over them,
and let them lie in this water all night
Next morning scald and rinse as usual
This does a great deal toward clearing out
the yellowish color they would otherwise
certainly have.
If your hall is lighted by means of glass
in the door, pretty way to arrange a
curtain is to tack it at the top and bottom
then tie ribbon around the curtain in the
middle do not tie it so close that the folds
will be stiff and ungraceful, but let them
hang loosely, and have the bow on the in.
side. II the glass is in two panes the cur
tains will look still prettier if one is put
over each pane.
A very appetizing sauce to serve with
broiled mackerel is made by melting lit
tie butter, adding the juice of one lemon,
and teaspoonful of chopped parsley This
may be poured over the fish, or served in
bowl and added by each one at the table
to his or her portion of fish. An author
ity on cooking recommends letting mack
erel lie in enough milk to cover it for an
hour before broiling this to be done, of
course, after the fish has been freshened
over night in cold water.
Cinnamon tarts please the children. To
eight ounces OF butter allow one pound of
flour, one pound of brown sugar, three
eggs; rub the butter and sugar to cream,
add the eggs, leaving out the white of one,
stir in the flour, roll thin, and cut in three
irch squares before putting into the oven,
rub the top with the white of the egg, and
sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar mixed.
a blanched almond or an Eoglish walnut
may be placed in the center, or may be
broken in bits and piece put at each
corner.
a wholesome and excellent pudding is
made OF oatmeal Mix the oatmeal with
little cold water then stir it in boiling
milk, in the proportion of three table.
spoonfuls of oatmeal to one quart of milk
flavor, and let it cool in bowls or molds,
which you have first wet with cold water.
Make sauce to eat with this of cream and
sugar, or jelly sauce made thus To half
pint OF boiling water allow an ounce Of
sugar and two heaping tablespoonful of
jelly; teaspoonful of flour, cornstarch, or
sage, should be dissolved in little cold
water and stirred in. Let this come to a
boil, and it is ready for the table.-[N. Y.
Post.
The vapor of tobacco juice has been
tested in France as an insecticide in green
houses with great success. Instead of
burning or smoking the tobacco, which is a
very offensive process to some persons, the
tobacco is made into an extract by soaking
or boiling, and the juice is then placed
over chafng, dish, fire, or the fame of
an ordinary lamp, and deposited in the
greenhouse or conservatory. Delicate
plants, which are very sensitive to smoke,
are not injured by this vapor, and it
leaves no offensive atmosphere, while it eff.
fectually disposes of thrips, lice, scale in.
sects and slugs a One quart of tobacco
Juice vapoIized in house con tanning $50
cubic feet is an ample amount.
Ginger ale can be very easily made at
home. Peel thirty-two large lemons and
put the rinds into an empty jar with the
iuice after it has been strained II lbs.
of loaf sugar, l ounce of bruised ginger,
ounce of cream of tartar. Over these