St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-07
Home Matters.

Home Matters.
To prevent the under piecrust from soak
ing glaze it with beaten egg.
Leather book bindings may be revived by
rubbing them with white of egg.
A sure test for eggs is the following:
Dissolve one ounce of salt in ten ounces OF
water and put the eggs in. Good eggs will
sink and bad ones will float.
Cure for Felons Saturate bit of grated
wild turnip, the size of a bean, with tur-
pentine, and apply it to the affected part.
1t will relieve pain at once and destroy the
felOn in twelve hours.
If you use crystal finger. bowls always
have leaf of rose-geranium and bright
blossom in each. A single blossom from a
truss of scarlet geranium will produce a
charming effect with the green leaf
COldslaw Dressing-The yelks of three
raw eggs, a teaspoOnful of SALT and the
same of mustard. Beat these well together,
then add very slowly three tablespoonfuls of
olive oil and one Of best white wine wing
gar.
If the plants that have been in the house
all winter show signs of weakness, are
Spindling and pale, water them once aweek
with ammonia and water. A small tea
spoonful of ammonia in a quart of water
will cause foliage and blossoms to become
luXuriant.
''Piazza" Knitting Sheepskin Rugs
These are knitted in with Irvine with the
cOarseSt white feecy wool. The wool is
knitted in loops passed over wooden
mesh 2 inches wide, and afterwards combed
out with large coarse comb. The teeth
should be strong and not close together.
To those who prefer growing plants for
table decoration, groups of shells with ferns
and oxalis are very pleasing. If the Oxalis
be placed in the sun and plentifully watered
when not on duty, it will be covered with
bright bloom. Instead of the shells, any of
the pretty pottery OF majolica bowls or
dishes may be used.
Watercress sandwiches are very appetiz-
ing. Wash the watercress well and dry it
thoroughly with a fine napkin, SO that no
moisture remains. After detaching the
leaves from the stalk chop them fine and
spread them upon slices of thinly cut but
tered bread from which the crust has been
removed.
Clam Chowder. -Half peck of round
CLAIMS, chopped fine, three slices of salt fat
pork in the bottom Of the kettle; let it fry
few minutes, then put in layer of CLANS,
then potatoes, then crackers, until all are
in; then pour over them the liquor the
CLAIMS were boiled in; add butter and pep
per, and boil three-quarters of an hour.
Luncheon cloths and napkins may be
made at home. Buy Russian or German
linen, cut it the required size and embrOider
the borders in crOss-stitch in one Of Prof.
Lessing's old German designs. Canvas of
the required width is basted securely on the
linen, the pattern worked in and then the
canvas threads drawn out, This is much
easier way to count the linen threads, The
monogram may be worked in the corner of
each piece.
Bats for Rats and Mice.-If you bait a
trap with an egg, no rat can resist it; a
boiled egg is safer for your floor. There is
no preventive except timing over any rat
hole you may find, and you are quite right
to use no poison that will send either rats
or mice to die in un-get- at-able parts of the
house. AS for mice, they are said not to like
the smell of ''pennyroyal," but you had
better catch them with the smell of toasted
cheese.
It is great help in housekeeping to have
supplies ready for use. For instance, when
rice, raisins, or anything Of that kind come
into the house. they should be carefully
picked over before putting away, and then
they require no time when wanted. Cur
rants should be washed and dried by the
quantity, as it takes but little more time to
do all at once than to do a cupful. Beans
should be picked over ready for soaking,
meal sifted by the half peck and kept in tin
pals, ready for corn cakes or brown bread.
Potatoes enough to last week should be
washed clean and put in box or basket.
Asparagus Cream Soup.-Take off the
tender stalks Of two punches of asparagus.
Boil them in sailed water until tender.
Drain off the water and pound them with a
very little sugar; salt and nutmeg to taste.
Add one quart of cream or broth. Mix a
quarter of a pound of butter with as much
flour as the butter can absorb; add to the
liquid and stir until it boils, then remove to
the back of the stove and let it simmer for
about fifteen minutes. Strain through a
hair sieve. Serve separately a few pieces
of toasted bread. If you wish the soup to
be green pound half peck ofspinach, strain
and add the solid part to the soup.
Hoe Cake.-Sift one quart of white In
dian meal into pan, make hole in the
middle and pour in pint of warm water,
adding one teaspoonful of salt; mix these
gradually with spoon into soft dough,
stir very briskly for fifteen minutes or more
until it becomes light and spongy; then
spread the dough smooth and evenly on a
straight, fiat board "a piece from the head
of flour barrel will serve for this purpose),
place the board nearly upright before an
open fire or the crate of the range and put
an iron against the back to support it; bake
it well, and when done break into squares,
tear open, butter and send to table hot