Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-21
THE HOUSEHOLD.

To make beef cakes, chop rare done
roast beef very fine; season with salt,
pepper, and little chopped onion; mix,
make into small cakes and fry in beef drip
pings.
To make violet perfume, put half an
ounce of orris-root, broken into small
pieces, place in bottle with two ounces of
/ alcohol; cork it tight and shake well.
After four or five days few drops of this
on a handkerchief will leave the odor of
fresh violetS.
A good way to purify sink is To one
pound of columon copperas that can be
bought for few cents pound put one
gallon of boiling water, and when dis
solved pour the liquid into the sink or
dain, or wherever required 1t must be
remembered that copperas is poisonous.
Our Swedish sisters bring us another
mode of using pie-plant The red stems
are stewed gently with sugar and water
enough for the consistence of lemonade.
Then strain and use the liquid to flavor
and color puddings of corn-starch. blanc
mango and the like, to be eaten with sugar
and cream.
A good borax solution for washing and
making hard water soft is the following
One and a quarter pounds of super-carbon-
ate soda quarter pound Of bOrax. Dis
solve in one gallon of boiling water when
cold add three ounces Of ammonia For
washing hands, use one ounce of this LIQUID
to one gallon Of water; for clothes, use two
ounces to one gallon.
Leather-hea nails, made of solid and
substantial leather with a shared tongue
for driving in wood, are widely used for
chair, sofa and other furniture decoration
rbn ba,. IL Of l.
in various colors bronzed, silvered and
plushed, so that they may be used not
aloneOn furniture, but on portieres, curtains,
heavy hangings, etc These nails when ar
tistically arranged on the curtain have a
very pretty effect, and add very largely to
the attractveness of the material.
A very pretty basket may be made by
crocheting over straws with either brown or
some rich shade of silk. The trimming of
the basket is formed with beads, bows and
ruche of ribbon to match the shade of silk
used. The straws over which you crochet
must be damp, so as not to be stiff. The
basket Is begun very much in the same
way as you would work for a fiat table mat;
this of course, represents the bottom of the
basket. Form the handle of bamboo cane
and cover with straws, over these work
with Silk THE Dorcas Magazine.
Viennese bread is celebrated 1t may in
terest our reader to know something about
it. The excellence of the bread is attributed
in Vienna to three reaSons-the oven, the
men and the yeast. l think another may
be added, and that is the dry climate An
ounce of yeast and az much Salts taken for
every gallon of milk used for the dough.
The yeast is Yiennese speciality, known
as st. MARINER Presshefe and its com
position is a secret. 1t keeps two days in
summer anda little longer in winter The
ovens are heated by wood fires lit inside of
them during four hours; the ashes are
then raked out and the oven is carefully
wiped with wisps of damp straw On the
yapOr thus generated, as well as that pro-
duced by the baking of the dough, lies the
whole art of the browning and the success
OF the - semmel'