Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-31


by an outside door will protect the carpet,
and will require less care than piece of
-oilcloth
To make prune pie, stew the prunes as
for sauce, stone and sweeten, and, with
nice pie-crust, think you will call them
good. Be sure and not have them too dry.
The Household.
Silver may be kept from furnishing by
painting it with soft brush dipped in
alcohol in which some collodion has been
dissolved. The coating can be removed by
dipping the article in hot water, but it
completely protects it from tarnish.
Ripe tomato pickles are fine and q new
article to many. Take two gallons ripe
tomatoes, peeled but not sliced, one pint
vinegar, two pounds sugar; add mace and
nutmeg to suit taste. Put all in kettle
together, heat slowly to boiling and SIM
mer one hour. Put in glass jars.
This IS an excellent recipe for Graham
gems, and differs from any before given ::
One cup Of Graham foIr, one cup OF fine
-four, two eggs, two cups OF sweet milk,
one-fourth of teaspoonful of salt. Have
the gem pans not, and the oven hot, and
twenty minutes will be long enough to
bake them.
There is much difference in opinion as to
the relative value of white and yellow corn
meal for family use. Years ago two neigh
Dors on adjoining farms every fall ex-
changed a few bushels of corn to make into
meal for home use. One grew the white,
the other yellow corn and each preferred
to use the kind grown by the other. Cen
orally the yellow corn has more oil than the
white.
A small brush that can be bought for FIVE
cents viii be found useful for scrubbing
potatoes 10 bake, and to use in preparing
other vegetables If bit of the skin is
cut off on each end of potatoes that are to
be baked, they will be dryer and it will
enable you to see if the potato is good.
Large potatoes require an hour to bake, and
must be served the moment they are done.
A somewhat novel way to trim a table
scarf is to put three -cornered pieces of silk
or satin en- each end. Have these pieces
half yard deep at the longest side, in the
corner embroider a spray of flowers where
the satin or silk end joins the center part
of the scarf put row of fancy stitches
4 dark crimson felt scarf with one end
light blue, the osher of crimson shaded TO
brown, IS very handsome.
inexpensive but pleasing lavender water
IS made by mixing the following ingred-
tents together Three ounces Of the es-
sence Of bergamot, six drachms Of the
tincture Of musk, one drachm OF the oil of
cloves, four drachms Of the English oil of
lavender, twelve OUNCES OF rose water, and
seven and one half pints of alcohol OF
course smaller quantity can be made if
desired, preserving these proportions.
To cook lima beans in perfection they
should ooil OF simmer gently in covered
vessel for half an hour, then remove the
cover, and let the water boil and evaporate
until bat little is LETT. Then add cream or
milk with plenty of butter in it for the
gravy. The old time notion that they
could not be cooked without pork is not
true one, though if one does not dislike the
flavor II is economy to cook small slice
with say quart OF beans.
The best ginger cookies I ever tasted,
says a COOK writer, had, in place Of the
usual cup of water, cup of sweet milk.
This gave a hghtness to the cakes that
water cannot give. The formula for these
is: Two cups of New Orleans mOlasses,
one cup of sugar, one cup of sweet milk.
ginger and of soda, aud half teaspOonful
of salt The lard, instead Of being melted,
should be rubbed with the flour the same
as for pie'crust
The London Lancet calls attention to
the necessity Of guarding against overwork
in the education of children, and declares
" that no growing child should be kept
longer than half, or, at most, three-quarters
of an hour, at one task, or even the came
description of work. This is about as
long as the attention of young children
can be steadily directed to one and the
same subject a teacher who can fix and
hold their attention for such length Of
time may well be satisfied. To persist in
his efforts after their attention begins to
Gag has tendency to weaken the faculty
rather than to strengthen it.
The use OF the suuAower as living stake
for tomato plants continues to be recon-
mended by those who have tried it, espe.
cially where fowls are kept-the sunHOwer
seeds being excellent feed for them. A
little more room is left between hill and
hill, as there are two plants to be fed in
stead OF one bat, in a garden, about forty
inches will do very well, as the tomato
plant is kept strictly erect, to the great
advantage of the circulation and the fruit
The side branches are pinched at one leaf
beyond the first bunch of blossoms on
each, and the top as soon as enough fruit
is set TO be sure Of complete maturity.
Tomatoes, like grapes, must have light and
warm air to attain fine flavor, and like
grapes, too, they do best if thinly screened
from the direct blaze of the sunshine.
A writer in the New Y ork Epening Post
Is preparing for winter evenings. He says:
Popcorn, with all its associations of a
good time and innocent enjoyment, is
once more in season, and children or
Young people who like to experiment with
it can try the following recipe for crystal
lizing it Put into an iron kettle one
tablespoonful Of butter, three tablespoon
fuls OF water, and one cup of white sugar
boil until ready to candy, then throw in
three quarts of nicely. popped corn; stir
vigorously until the sugar is evenly dis
tributed over the corn take the kettle
from the fire and stir until it cools 6
little. and in this way you may have each
kernel separate and all coated with the
sugar. OF course it must have your IN
divided attention from the first, to pre-
vent scorching, Almonds, English wal
nuts, OF IN iACt any NUTS arc uSLiOlOu'
prepared in this way.
A writer in an exchange says upon th'
subject of preparing autumn leaves " Fol
my own part, prefer those that arr
pressed and dried in books, as they retair
their beauty and durability longer in tina
wav; but as this process takes time, many
prefer a quicker method. Leaves can bt
preserved by pressing and then dipping
them in melted wax, or ironing them with
a waxed iron. But the colors are muct
more brilliant when ironed and then wei
vanished, and they will keep their color
full as long. Gather the leaves and irOl
them the same day, and iron them dry. 4
little practice will teach you how hot t.
have your irons You must have goo'
supply of leaves as you will spoil many
For bouquets, bunches of leaves can b
kept on the twigs by careful ironing. I,