The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-18
Housekeeper's Help.

ach may be quickly stopped i. j. said by
small doses Of salt.
To remove tar, rub Thoroughly with
clean lard, and then wash with soap and
warm water. This may be applied to
either the hands or clothing
Post.
A good way 10 test the purity of silk
is TO burn a sample. II il burns up
quickly, and flares and blazes, it is part
ly cotton. If it burns slowly and makes
an ash it is silk.
SUMNER palm-leaf fans NAV be
utilized for winter Cut olfthe handles,
bind the edges with crimson braid and
use for table and lamp mats
TINwARE that is stained with fruits
or otherwise furnished, may be cleaned
by dipping a dampened cloth in cooking
soda, rubbing briskly, rinsing in hot
water and wiping dry.
GOOD recipe for mullins is follows:
One cup Of sour milk, one egg, a
little shortening, a teaspoonful of bicar
Donate of soda. If the milk is not very
sour, less soda will do. Make batter,
add little salt and bake in hot oven.
n. Y. Herald.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Prairie
Farmer, who justly regards a grindstone
as one of the necessaries of the farm,
says that in buying a stone it should be
remembered that TIE larger it is the
easier it will run and the longer it Will
last.
WRITER in the Cultivator recon-
msnds covering work-tables with oil
cloth 1t will save much scraping and
securing. She also suggests covering
pantry shelves with it, or at least such
OF them as are much used, and stretch
ing piece back of the kitchen sink, as
spatters are much more easily wiped
from 1t than from paper or wall.
SAVE up your fairgrounds for a few
days before house cleaning time. then
steep half an hour in tin basin. strain
and use this tea for cleaning vanished
woodwork and pictures and looking glass
frames. For cleaning white paint, take
small quantity of whiting on a damp
flannel cloth, and rub lightly over the
surface, rinsing with clear water and
wiping dry.-Albany Journal.
10 MAKE LOTION EOR CHAPPED
HANDs.-Mix with half pint of rose
water, six dranchs of brandy, twelve
grams OF borax, and Que ounce pure
glycerine.
For CLEANING AND TAKING SPOTS
FROM CLcTH.-Put quarter of pound
OF white CASTLE soap, cut in small pieces.
into gallon of rain water; add half a
pound of ammonia, one ounce ether and
one Ouce of borax
RICE wailles for breakfast are made
of one quart of -four, half pint cupful
OF boiled rice, three eggs and little
lump of butter. Make into a batter with
milk, and bake in waffle irons. Salt is,
OF course to be put in according to your
taste.-N. Y. Post
LoosENEss of feathers is very un-
slightly. Many birds run around look
ing as though they were cold, their
feathers hanging limp to the skin. Such
fowls are out of condition, snd should
be let fly, fed we'll aud rusty iron kept
In the water they Albany Jour
nal.
VANILLA CANDY.-One and half
cups of white sugar, one cup of hot
water, one teaspoon of vinegar, extract
OF vanilla. To the sugar add the hot
water. Let 1t boil gently without stir
ing. When 1t begins to thicken it will
be yellow. Try it as you would
try molasses candy in water When it
strings and hardens into little lump in
the water it is done. Pour it into but
tered dish. When il is cool work white
while 1t Is being worked pour the extract
Oh vanilla on it. Cut it with scissors
into small pieces.
CANDY.-Two cups of sugar. one cup
OF vinegar; work white.
CHOCOLATE CeEAMs.-Two cups of
sugar, one cup of water, one and a half
tablespoons of arrow-root, one tablespoon
of vanilla, half pound Of chocolate.
To MAKE THE CREAM-Mix the ingre
dients Except the vauilla). Let them
boil live to eight minutes. Stir all the
time, After this is taken from the fire.
stir until it comes to cream. When il
is nearly smooth add the vanilla. and
make the cream into balls.
OyrsIDE.-Melt the chocolate, but do
not add water to do so. Roll the balls
into the chocolate when it is warm.
WHITE SUGAR CANDY Four pounds
OF sugar, one pint of water, four table
spoons of vinegar, four tablespoons of
cream; butter the size of an egg. Boil
all together slowly for three quarters of
an hour.
MoLAssEs CANDY-One quart good
molasses. half cup vinegar, one cup of
sugar. Butter size of an egg, one tea
spoon of soda. Dissolve the sugar in
the vinegar, mix with the molasses and
boil, stirring frequently until it hardens
when dropped from the spoon into cold
water; then stir in the butter and soda,
the latter dissolved in hot water. Flavor
to your taste, give one hard final stir,
and pour into buttered dishes As it
cools, cut into squares for 'tafIey," or
while soft enough to handle, pull white
into sticks using only the buttered tips
OF your fingers for that purpose.
SUGAR CANDY.-Six cups of sugar.
one cup of vinegar, one cup of water.
with one teaspoon of saleratus dissolved
in hot water.
Boil without stirring half an hour or
until it crisps in cold water. Pull white
with the tips of your fingers. This is
the best candy, says Marion Harland,
children can have, it is very nice; flavor
to TASTE
CHOCOLATE CARAMELs.-One and
half cups of sugar, one cup milk, one
cup scraped chocolate, and half tea.
spoon soda. Boil about half an hour.
Flavor with vanilla if you like, and
pour it into fiat dishes to cool: mark ii
with knife into little squares when il
Ii cool enough.
CocoA-NUT CoSEs.-One pound of
eocoa-nut grated, half pound of sugar.
the whites of two eggs, and the yolk Of
one egg. Beat the yolk well; add the
sugar 70 it, then the cocoa-nut and
whites of the eggs beaten to stiff froth.
Drop by the teaspoonful on sheets of
buttered paper placed on tins. Form
each little cake into the shape o. cone
and bake In moderate oven about an
hour.
Fruit CAKE.-Three cups -four, one
cup butter, half cup sweet milk, half
cup boiled cider, one third cup molasses,
one and twothirds cups brown sugar.
ono and a half teaspoons cream tartar,
one teaspoon soda, four eggs, three cups
raisins chopped, two cups currants, one
cup citron, spices of all kinds TO suit the
taste: more raisins If you wish This
makes two loaves. Stone and chop the
raisins; stir them and the currents into
the batter. Just ~ It il ready to put 10 |
The tins, put IN thin layer Of batter,
then put IL thin pieces Of citron, then
moro latter and citron.