Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-16
The HOUSEHOLD.

Pour clean boiling water through the
fabric and it will remove tea and coffee
stains.
Rice boiled very slowly in milk and
sweetened is very palatable and healthy
dish for children.
When peeling onions, says an exchange,
place pin tightly between the front teeth.
| This prevents the tears from coming.
A little borax put in the water in which
are to be washed will prevent them fading.
Tomatoes chopped with an equal guam
tity Of celery and miy ed with nice salad
| dressing is al agreeable and easily prepared
dish.
Gold and silver fish hive longer if fed
with nothing but water. This they should
have fresh every day, and the globe should
be thoroughly washed frequently.
Silver or silver plated knives should be
dried as soon as the meal over. If left
for half-hour or so, they are apt to be
stained.
Spice sauce for plain hasty pudding is
made of one cup of sugar dissolved in a
cup of water, and boiled for few minutes,
with mace, cloves and ginger added to suit
your taste.
Feathers slightly uneurled by the damp
air may be restored by holding over a hot
stove, then shaking and repeating until
curled. Care should be taken not to burn
the feather.
Lovely covers for the marble slab on the
or dol, arl do of a.
with fringe and drawn work around the
edge, and a border in outline stitch in
bright colors.
A very palatable dish can be made of
mashed potatoes and little finely chopped
meat of one or mora kinds, mixed together,
favored with salt and pepper, and fried in
small fiat cakes.
A delicious dish for dessert is made of
six sweet oranges, peeled and sliced, one
can of pineapple and one grated cocoanut.
Arrange in slices in glass dish with plenty
of powdered sugar between.
Peach sauce, which is excellent for pud.
dings, can be made from the extra juice IN
a can of fruit. Add a little sugar and
TO it. Let 1t come to boil and serve hot.
Flannel cakes are a great delicacy for
breakfast these cold mornings. Take
quart of prepared -four, one egg, cup of
sweet milk and spoonful of sugar Mix
with water into batter, then fry in hot
pan with little lard or butter.
Potatoes are thought by many to be much
better when steamed than when boiled in
the water. Put pot of water on the fire
and when it is boiling place over it tin
with perforated bottom, holding the pota-
toes. Put on this tin tight cover, and in
a hslfhou the potatoes will be done, and
will turn out white and mealy.
Lovely little aprons for those who wait
on the table at church sociable fairs are
made of pink or blue sllesia. and are trim
med with white lace; they are in shape
plain little gored aprons, with plating
about five inches wide across the bottom
dainty white ones are made with stripes of
lace insertion down the side seams, and
with no plating, but q lace edge across the
bottom and ny the sides.
We have it on good authority, says an
exchange, that an excellent stain for Civ
ing light-colored wood the appearance Of
black walnut may be made and applied as
follows: Take Brunswick black, thin
down with turpentine until it is about the
right tone and color. and then add about
one-twentieth its bulk of varnish. This
mixture, it is said, will dry hard and take
varnish well.
Have the water in your saucepan boiling
hot; sprinkle in the meal very slowly, to
prevent Jumps stir constantly when you
have added sufficient meal set the pan on
the back OF the range to simmer slowly
stop stirring in the meal when it is not
quite as thick as you would like-;t swells
when cooking let it simmer for ten or fif.
teen minutes add little butter and salt to
tsste; serve with cream and sugar, and you
have splendid oatmeal mush.