Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-26
AROUND THE HOME.

To brighten furniture and remove spots
| take two tablespoOnfuls of sweet Oil, one
tablespoonful Of vinegar, half tablespoon
full Of turpentine. Use with q bit of flannel.
Pretty comforts for the beds in summer
are made of the so-called barbette veilings,
which can be bought for few cents yard
The scarlet make very pretty ones if tutted
with white and button-holed around the
edge with Germantown or similar wool
after being cut in deep and good-sized seal
lops.
Now is the time for boiled apple pud-
dings Make q paste and roll it out half an
inch thick pare and core apples sufficient
to fill the crust; close it up, tie it up tightly
in cloth and boil three hours. When
done turn into dish, cut a piece of crust
out Of the top, put i'll a piece OF butter and
sugar enough TO sWeeten it.
Here is good mixture for cleaning paint:
Dissolve two ounces of soda in Il quart of
hot water, which viii make ready and
useful solution for cleaning old painted
work preparatory to repainting. The mix
turc, in the above proportions, should be
used when warm, and the woodwork after
ward washed with water to remove the re-
mains of the soda.
Fruit iellies are made by so combining
the juices of fruits with sugar by boiling
that the product when cold becomes a qui-
vering, translucent mass, the consistence Of
which is neither that of solid or LIQUID
To make perfect jelly-we speak now of
perfection N regard to its transparency and
pretty ppearance-clarified sugar should
be used, but the best grade of refined sugar
viii answer every purpose of the house
hold and produce results quite gratifying
TO the eye as well as the palate
A correspondent asks how fruit should
be prepared so that the juice can be used
for tlayOring and cOlOrng ice cream. The
way in which most housewives do this is
10 allow the whole berries to stand for about
three hours, if they are fresh, with sugar
scattered over them, then the berries are
mashed and the Juice is strained sugar
should be added until it suits the taste, and
the Juice max then be mixed with the
cream. One quart Of fruit is the usual al
lowance for one quart of cream. One pound
Of sugar is not too liberal an allowance of
sugar New York Post.
Pretty curtains for she dinng-room are
made of plGin-col0red material, whether
Canton flannel, cretonne or sattcen; on the
edge put broad band or border of lowered
cretonne. This should be worked with
creWels and silk, and little gilt thread
may DC uSEU " IN excellent ciiCCI. II tne
outlines of the figures alone are worked
and only few stitches here and there III
the center Of the flowers, you will still have,
without great labor. very elegant curtain
These curtains are particularly pretty and
appropriate for winter, and working the
border viii furnish pleasant employment
for odd moments.
Rolled apple dumplings are novelty,
and are delicious Peel and chop fine
some tart apples; make rich
crust as for biscuit, roll it half an inch
thick spread it thiczly with the apple, and
sprinkle fine sugar and powdered CHINA
mon over it, Then cut it in strips
two inches wide; roll it up just as
you do Jelly roll put little lump of but
ter on each roll after it is put in the tin or
pan; a little juice will drain from
the apples if they are good ones; keep this |
to put into the sauce; flavor this with |
brandy, or wine if you like it, otherwise |
make plain sour pudding sauce.