Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-23
The Household.

Iron rust may be removed from delicate
garments, upon which you dare not try
oxalic acid, by mixing the Juice of lemon
with some salt; put this over the rusted
spots and then hold over the spout Of a
steaming tea-kettle. This is almost always
effectual.
a delicious salad is made by boiling new
beets without scraping them. When they
are tender, drop them in cold water, re.
meve the skin, slice them, and put in a
salad dish in layers, with slices of hard
boiled eggs season with pepper and salt,
little butter and vinegar.
Graham biscuits are healthful and also
very nice if eaten while fresh and warm.
To one pint of milk allow half cup OF
melted butter, half cup OF sugar and two
eggs add enough flour to make stiff bat
ter; do not attempt to knead them, but
drop from spoon into no. mufip-tins.
If the paper which is put over Jelly and
jam is wet in the white of an egg, it will,
when dry, be tight and firm, and keep the
fruit from molding with much more GER
tainty than if it is dipped in alcohol or
brandy. The paper which is laid next the
fruit is meant, not that which is tied or
pasted over the glass.
4 noted caterer tells this story If green
peas are shelled and then are put in dry,
open-mouthed bottle, and are shaken to-
gether so as to occupy as little space as pos.
sible, then are corked tightly and sealed,
they viii keep three OF four months. They
must, however, be buried in dry earth in
the cellar. This is certainly worth trying.
There is no plant more pleasing TO the
eye in the garden than a bell pepper-plant,
and two or three Of these viii yield enough
CT the green peppers to make nice little
jar of pickles. The filling, if made exactly
as you make chopped pickles, is excsIlent.
a few seeds dropped in the hot-bed, or a
few plants purchased, Will well repay for
the trouble.
a cheap dessert is made by boiling two
large spoontuls of sage IN nearly quart OF
water add, when boiling, the peel of one
lemon, put in little muslin bag, and a
little grated nutmeg before taking from
the ire remove the muslin bag then add
three eggs and little salt; put in a
pudding dish, and let it bake for half an
hour serve with sauce, or with sugar and
cream.
Cornstarch blanc mango may be varied
almost indefinitely by adding fruit to it.
STIR the fruit N after the pudding is cooked
and is Just ready to be poured in the
moulds. 1t is delicious also with chocolate
in where you use four tablespoonful oil
cornstarch, use two of chocolate pour in
teacups which you have first wet with cold
water. A nice sauce for this is made by
beating one egg and adding milk and sugar
TO your taste avery little vanilla improve:
it, and still does not disguise the chocolate
/ favor.
Here is something for the young mother
who must tend baby and sew: Make
large square pillow, aud for this hens
| feathers will answer If the feathers of the
goose are too expensive; cover it with
bright-colored calico or bits of cretonne
when completed lay it on the floor and put
baby on 1t on his stomach. He will anus,
himself in many ways, and often learns hi
first lesson in creeping here. He viii lii
and pull or kick at the flowers on the car
pet, and will kick and roll aud gair
strength IN his limbs; and an occasiona
accident, caused by his getting too neal
the edge, VIII not alright baby who ma
proper spirit and determination.