Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-02

square Of plush worked with spray of
flowers. This is placed about two-thirds
of the length of enc of its sides from the
end, or if it be set lozenge- wise, about half
the same distance.
a correspondent asks what will remove
the "shine from black silk This can
not always be done it depends on how
much worn it is but sometimes it can be
ireshened surprisingly by sponging with
cold coffee and ammonia-a teaspoonful of
ammonia to nearly cupful of cotfse. Use
very soft sponge or flannel cloth rub
very gently and, if possible to get along
without so doing, do not iron the silk at
/ all. Spread it out smoothly while damp,
and pin the edges to an ironing-table or
board, and let it dry in this way. If it is
too much wrinkled or folded, lay cloth
over the wrong side OF the silk afterspong-
ing, and iron it.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Fond husbands who fain would have home be as
Eden,
| For you and your Ewes all complete as a whole,
To read in, to write in, to sleep in. to feed in,
! Forget not the closets so dear to the soul.
But build them in corners, in hooks and in cram
MES,
Wherever closet may harbor or hide,
And give to your harys, your Hates and your
/ Armies
The big, airy closets their joy and their pride
The roOmy clean closets, the well-ordered closets,
The big, airy closets, their JOY and their pride
always think the flowers can see US and
know what we are thinking about
George Eliot.
Parquet floors should never be washed
with soap and water, but should be
cleansed with turpentine about once a
month.
Cold ham, either fried or boiled. is very
good mixed with macaroni. Boil the lat
ter until tender, warm dice of the former
in saucepan and mix them with the maca-
ron, adding little melted butter and milk
to moisten 1t.
a lady offers in the Rural Near Yorker a
remedy for cuIrant and rose worms Take
one pound Of quassia, put it into twelve or
! fifteen gallons of water over night, and
next day sprinkle the infested plants with
| the solution. 1t is safest, however, to pin
ones faith to white hellebore, which is a
sure and certain destruction.
Soft gingerbread, if eaten while fresh
and warm, may well take the place of more
expensive cake. 0ne egg, one cup of
molasses, one-third of a cup of melted
butter, one-half cup of sweet milk,
one teaspoonful Of soda, one teaspoon
full of ginger, two and one-half cups
Of -four, and little salt dissolve the soda
IN very little hot water. Bake in but
tered tin.
To make an excellent soup, allow four
pounds Of beef to two and half quarts of
water one small onion, one carrot and a
small head of celery Let these boil for
four or five hours. Three quarters of an
hour before dinner strain this soup, salt it,
and add heaping teacupful of macaroni,
broken in bits let this boil slowly. Add
any other seasoning you like; for some
tastes pinch of curry powder improves it.
The bread crumb comprises multitude
of cells of thin walls containing carbenic
acid gas, the product of fermentation in
the dough. These walls of the cells con-
tain both gluten and starch, and traces Of
dextrine and sugar. As a consequence of
the treatment with water and the applica
ton of heat, the starch grains, which, in
their normal condition, are little sacs filed
with minute granules of starch proper,
have been swollen and burst.
To make orange fritters, stir half pound
of -four to half an ounce of butter; add
the yolks of two eggs and milk enough to
make batter-that will drop from a spoon.
Beat thoroughly and add half salt spoon
full of salt and the whites of two eggs.
Peel and cut oranges in thin round slices.
using very sharp knife. Dip the slices in
sugar and then In the butter. Pineapple
fritters may be made in the same way, cut.
ting the slices Of pineapple into triangular
pieces and soaking them in wine if you
wish