Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-17
TIE HOUSEHOLD.

camphor thessizs of walnut melted with |
half eupful of tallow.
Bar soap, when fret bought, should be
cut in pieces and put in dry place. 1t |
lasts better after shrinking
When boiling cabbage put slice of salt
pork in the water, and an agreeable favor |
with no Objectionable grease or fat will be
given to the cabbags.
A simple but delicious dish for dessert is
made by cutting up oranges in small pieces |
and then pouring over them some rich |
boiled custsrd. Serve with cake.
To boil ducks, choose q fine fat one, salt |
it for two days, then boil it slowly in |
cloth. Serve it with onion sauce, using |
milk instead of water in its preparation.
If before you put rolls in the tin to bake
them, you rub the edges with little melted !
butter, you will not be troubled by their
sticking together when baked, and the
edges will be smooth.
To make mint sauce mix one tablespoon
ful of white sugar to half teacup of good
vinegar, add the mint and let it infuse for
half an hour before sending to the table.
Serve with roast lamb or mutton.
To remove ink stains from printed books
procure pennyworth of oxalic acid, which
dissolve in small quantity of warm wa
ter, then slightly wet the stain with it,
when it will disappear, leaving the leaf IN.
| injured.
| AIMS cookies are thus made: two cups
of sugar, -four to roll thin, one cup of but
! ter, one teaspoon soda, two teaspoons cream
tartar, caraway seeds or nutmeg, or even
ginger is used if people prefer it. 1t is an
excellent receipt. They will keep for two
months in q dry place.
To make ginger snaps use one pint OF
| New Orleans molasses, one coffee cup
melted butter, boil together ten minutes.
| When cold add one teaspoonful of ginger,
one of cinnamon and two of soda. Use as
much flour as will work in conveniently,
and roll very thin and bake lightly.
An economical as well as nutritious coffee
is made from rye. Wash the grain, roast
until the kernel is crisp and very brown
almost black-grind and prepare for the
table as you would other coffee. 1t will be
found delicious, besides being much cheaper
than that you buy-an item for poor fam
lilies.
Port wine jelly is very nourishing and
refreshing for an invalid. Pat one ounce
or one package of gelatine and an equal
quantity of white sugar in about gill of
! cold water; let this heat gradually, and
stand on the back of the stove until the
gelatne is entirely dissolved then take it
from the fire and add one pint of port
wine strain through flannel jelly bag
When cold it will be found to be of the
right consistency.
An Indian pudding made after this recipe,
although unlike the Indian pudding of cur
fathers, is delicious Take four eggs and
the weight of three of them in meal, half
pound of sugar and quarter of pound
butter, and the juice and grated rind OF one
lemon. Beat the sugar and butter together
till light, then break the eggs in the dish
with them and beat briskly then stir in
the meal. Bake in quick oven /; serve in
saucers and pour over 1t some thin jelly or
jam, or wine sauce.
This is the way the Massachusetts cook
makes her lemon pies : One lemon, seventeen
tablespoonfuls of sugar and three eggs :;
CRATE the yellow rind of the lemon and
squeeze the juice of the lemon on the su-
gar; to this add the yolks of the eggs,
which should be beaten till light; cover
plate with rich paste, putting ring
around the edge; fill with the above mix
ture and bake till the crust ia done. Beat
the whites of the eggs to stiff froth, bea It.
ing in little powdered sugar; spread this
on the top Of the pie when it is done and
let it brown.
Drowned kidneys make an excellent dish
for the breakfast table. Melt some butter
IN saucepan, and when brown, put in
slices of kidney, cut thin and roll in flour ;
if you do not cut the slices thin, they
should be cooked for five minutes before
they are rolled in -four. One reason why
kidneys In the various ways they may be
cooked are not generally liked, is simply
because they are frequently served when
about half cooked, and there are few stom-
achs capable of digesting a raw kidney.
II onion is an agreeable favor, put a fsg
bits IN the melted butter.
A jam rolly pudding is made by pre-
pairing pudding paste with pound of
flour, rolling it down to fourth of an inch
thick and in an oblong shape, and covering
it with thin layer Of some kind Of fruit
marmalade: roll the paste on itself to about
three inches in diameter, then roll again
in buttered and Toured napkin, fasten
firmly on both ends and tie it also every
two or three inches plunge in boiling wa
ter aud boil continually for an hour and
half, drain, remove the napkin, cut trans.
versely in alfinch.thick slices and serve
with graduated sugar in bowl.
Potato salad is one of the best and most
easily made side dishes for tea. Boil
the potatoes or steam them with their
jackets on. When they are done, remove
the skins, and let the potatoes get entirely
cold, then slice them in thin elioes, Mike
dressing OF hard boiled eggs, chopped.
little onion also chopped, and as much
salad oil, salt, pepper, parsley, etc, as
| your taste dictates. Be careful, when mix
ing the dressing with the potatoes, not TO
break the slices; toss lightly with fork,
or, better still, shake the dish which holds
them, Line the salad dish with lettuce
leaves; pour in the salad, and you have
sn inviting dish for the table. Serve on
small plates; put one Leside each tea
plate, and have the salad dish passed to
each person.
No one but the very rich or the inexpe-
rienced housewife enjoys using Tides that
viii not wash, and there are few women
| who have not suffered pangs of grief in
I finding some delicate but useless article of
this description hanging by one pin in I'M
/ 0istinguishable ruin from the back of
/ caar alleF1he eXtsoI a gentleman Trend.
The tides made of macreme and of the
lighter fish-cord, emballished with bright
ribbons. are really pretty, and can be used
with uRconcern. Those crotched of the
fsh.cord are very easy TO make. After
making a chain of proper length for the
width of the tidy, make alternate rows of
thick stitches and of chains, so that spaces
viii beleft to which torun ribbons the rib
bons should be Of the exact width Of the
space; black velvet ribbons Is also pretty
! TO rua in. When it forms block on the
| right side work star in yellow and scarlet
silk.
An old fashioned opium o7ke" is made
of one pound each Of butter, sugar and
-four, Ten eggs, one pound of raisins, half
pound each OF currents and of sliced cit
ron. teaspoonful of ground cloves. one of