The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-30
Household Recipes.

If you are buying carpets for dura
bility, choose small figures.
Butter will remove tar spots. Soap
and water will afterWard take out the
grease stain.
Bedbugs are kept away by washing
the creViceS with strong salt water,
put on with brush.
A tablespoonful of turpentine
boiled with white clothes will greatly
aid the whitening process.
All cake must be well beaten before
the whites of eggs are added. They
should be the last thing, and stirred
in lightly.
Hot slaw garnished with fried oys-
tiers is an eDtrea of excellence, and
cold slaw garnisbed with picked
oysters is almost as nice.
A Recipe for White Cake-Beat
one pound sugar and fourteen ounces
butter to a cream, add one cup Of
sour milk, to which beat one tea
spoonful of soda (dissolyed), flavor
with citron, and the last thing, stir
in the whites of twelve eggs, beaten
very stiff.
To Gloss Shirt Bosoms.-Take two
ounces of fine white gum-arabic pow
ders, put it in a picher, and pour on
pint or more of water, and then,
having covered it, let it stand all night.
In the morning pour it carefully from
the dregs into clean bottle, cork,
and keep it for use. A tablespoonful
of gum water stirred in a pint of
starch, made IN the usual way, will
give to lawn, white or printed, look
of neWness when nothing else can re-
store them, after they have been
washed.
Kerosene for Ivy Poisoning.-A
waiter says that kerosene will relieve
the irritation occasioned by poison
from ivy In forty minutes, and eradi-
cate the poison entirely in as many
hours. With the point Of the finger,
or soft brush, rub small portion of
the oil over the place where the erup-
ton appears, repeating the applica-
ton three or four times day. Relief
from the itching will be almost i'm
mediate, and the cure certain and
speedy. Other cutaneous diseases, he
adds, such as ring-worm, itch, and
the lighter type OF letter can be cured
by the same treatment, and the min
utest drop Of kerosene will kill bed
bugs quicker than lightning.
Oatmeal Cakes.-Fill two quart
basin half-full of fine oatmeal, add a
small piece of dripping, mix thor
I Oughly with the hands until the meal
feels moist (more dripping should be
added If not thought moist enough, ),
then pour some boiling water over the
whole, stirring quickly with spoon
while doing so; strew plenty Of meal
on the board, turn out the dough and
cover thickly with meal; knead 1t well
then roll out until of the desired
thickness (cakes should be kneaded
out until thin enough, in preference
to being rolled); stamp into round
cakes or squares, place them on the
griddle after streWiGg some meal over
| it until they are hard, and toast the
other side front of the fire until ready
The dough that remains after the
cakes are cut out should be Gf hard
put in the basin and some more hot
water mixed with it, then kneade6
and rolled out. The quicker the cake:
are made the better IN. Y. Herald.
Washing Fine Underclothing.-A
leading firm, importers and retailer!
in hosiery goods in Philadelphia, give.
the Germantown Telegraph the fol
lowing directions for washing merino
lambs wool and silk underclothing
and that paper bears witness to IL
excellence: Use one pound of dis
solved soap in four gallons of warn
water, in which well rinse the article
to be washed, drawing them repeat
eddy through the hand; wiring then
as dry as possible to remove the soap
rinse them again briskly in clear luke
warm water; wiring and stretch t.
their proper shape, and dry In tn
open air if possible, The only effect
of rubbing are to shrink and destro
the material; it should therefore neve
be resorted to. The material used i
manufacturing silk underware, bein
an animal product, it is absolutel
necessary that nothing but the bes
, quality of soap and warm waite
, should be used. All kinds of washin
compounds destroy the nature of til
material, giving to the fabric the al
pearance of poor cotton.