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Hou.ehold Recipes and Hints.

Household Recipes and Hints.
Lemon stains on cloth may be removed
by washing the goods in warm soapsuds,
or in ammonia.
A nice dish for breakfast-or for tea
is made of sweet potatoes boiled. Re.
move the skins. rub the potatoes through
coarse colander, make into fiat cakes,
dip into flour, and fry in hot butter.
A delicious sauce for plain rich pud.
ding is made by stewing some apples and
grapes until perfectly seft, then rub them
through sieve, sweeten, put lump OF
butter in, and if too thin stir in little
cornstarch.
To keep stoves from rus,ing while
standing away through the warm weather,
grease them we'll with mutton tallow,
and before putting them up in the
autumn put them in the yard and build
fire in them, which will burn off the
tallow. Wash them with soapsuds and
then polish them. This is troublesome,
but effectual.
Excellent pies are made Of canned
currants. Take one cupful of them,
half q cupful of sugar, one tablespoon
full of flour. beaten with the yolks of two
eggs. Bake with an under crust, then
frost the top with the whites of the two
eggs and two tablespoonfuls of powdered
sugar. Be sure to beat the sifted flour
with the yolks, then there is no danger
of Jumps of undissolved flour spelling
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Appetizing sauce to be eaten with beef
steak is made of four tablespoonfuls OF
butter, one of vinegar or of lemon juice,
half a teaspoonful Of salt, quarter of q
teaspoonful of pepper, and teaspoonful
of parsley, or tablespoonful of tomato
catsup. The butter must not be melted,
but should be beaten to a cream; this is
to be poured over or spread upon the
steak, and hot plate should be laid
over it when it is being carried to the
table
When making soft pillow of the
crazy patchwork be careful to put the
brightest and most striking pieces near
the center. When the cushion is made
up the effect is quite different from
what it is when it is spread out fiat,
and it is of more consequence that the
center should be handsome than that
the corners should This. when reduced
to wiring, looks like foregone con-
clusion, but it is not. as an unfortunate
! pillow-maker can testify.
If apples are decaying faster than you
can use them, apple jam may be made,
which will keep for several weeks. To
every pound of fruit weighed after it is
Jared and sliced, allow three-quarters of
pound of sugar, and the juice and
grated rind of half lemon. Put the
apples into jar, and set this into pan
of boiling water. Let the apples stew
until quite tender, then put them into q
porcelain kettle with the sugar and
lemon juice. Stir until soft, and let it
simmer for at least half an hour.
! The excellence of the following receipt
for keeping tomatoes IS vouched for by
two good women who have proved Its
virtues for many years: Choose perfectly
sound, ripe tomatoes, the skin must be
unbroken, and the tomatoes must not be
soft but should be taken from the vines
at the stage when they have just turned
red; put them into jar and pour over
them vinegar and water in the proper.
ton of two quarts of water to one Of
vinegar; turn plate over them, and
put weight upon it so that the toma-
toes will all he kept we'll under, then tie
a cloth over the jar, put the cover on
and set it in q cool cellar or closet. Toma-
toes preserved in this way have been
known to keep for months; it is essen.
tial that the tomatoes shall be kept
covered with the vinegar and water, for
if one even is not, it will decay and the
ferment occasioned by it will spoil all the
others.