The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-02-28
HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

Bedsteads.-If a bedstead creaks {,
each movement of the sleeper, remove
the Stats and wrap the ends of each in
old newspaper This Will prove a
complete silencer, and is well worth
the tf5tib,p.
The Ironing Blanket.-Before be-
ginning to iron, sprinkle the table
plentifully with water and lay on the
ironing blanket This will hold il
firmly in place and prevent all wrink-
ling and showing about. Never try to
iron with blanket having wrinkles
or punches.
Oatmeal waters are telished by ba-
bies and older children, too. Take a
pint of oatmeal and pint of water,
with almost u teaspoonful of salt.
Mix, and spread on buttere1 pans.
Make it Just as thin as possible, and
yet have the bottom of the pan COW
cred: Bake slowly.
Frightening Tinware. For scour
ing tins cement (water lime) is most
excellent. Rub with damp clrth
dipped in the cement, then wash off
with soap and water and dry thorough
ly; then with a dry wooden cloth
all adhering PARTICLES with another
cloth.
Delapidated Fences-The American
Cuitivatur suggests that one great
reason why so much dilapidated wire
fierce is 81 en- Is because the wires are
stretched too tightly. Cold contracts
iron, making the wire shorter in win
ter than when the fence was build at
milder temperature, and something
has to give way.
A good rule for vegetable soup
without stock IS two tomatoes, Canned
ONES may be used, one onion, two pc
tatoes, ard heaping tablespoonful of
salt. Boil for an hottr in a quart OF
water. Split some Boston crackers.
dip them in water, put them in bak-
ing tin IN n hot oven. When brown
put them into the soup.
Pretty round pinGushions can be
made in semhlance of a suntiower.
Make the petals of yellow cloth, each
one curled and fastened together like
small per bag with the top opened
and pointed, and arranged around a
stuffed Girctilar cusiOn of brown velvet
or veIvet-en, with fIayed row of gold
colored silk Sewed on round the c Il
ter, which is studded with pins. The
whole is the size of large real sun
flower.
Protecting Grapes Chas. Laup-
pc, Urbana, Ohio, keeps the birds
from his grapes with a scarecrow cat
This animal is made of canton fan
mel. OF the color of a Maltese cat,
stuffed with curled hair. Hair is bet
ter than wool or cotton as it soon dries
out after a rain. A Fcat' OF, this kind
will effectlially protect the grapes
from the birds for twenty feet on all
sides. Mr.. Lauppe sets his cats upon
the grape trelliSes, where they may
be secure and in full sight or birds
wishing to plumber.
Dream cake, the New York Post
says, is new production, and will be
welcomed by all lovers of good cake.
It is baked in three layers. Each
layer should be about an inch and Il
half thick when baked. The two
lower layers are frosted with confec-
TONERS sugar and the white Of an egg;
the frosting for the bottom layer is
favored with lemon, the next layer
is thickly covered with cocoanut and
is favored delicaJely with few drops
of rose water. The cake may be made
by following any good and sufficiently
rich recipe for white cake.
Hyacinths in Glasses-The follow
ing maxims are tor the use of those
who grow hycinths in glasses. Look
for weight as well as size in bulbs;
use the single XII DIS only, as they are
earlier and harder; set the bulb in the
glass so that the lower end is nearly,
but not quite In contact with the
water: use rain water; do not change
the water. but keep lump Of char
coal in the glass; fill up the glass as
fast as the water evaporates; keep
them in the dark for at leastsix weeks,
then remove 10y degrees to full light
and air; the more light and air after
that time the shorter the leaves and
spike and the brighter the color of the
| flowers.