The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-22
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

COOL auu one ounce Ol dIuluOuld- LIE
will make a good silver polish.
Sulphur matches placed in flower
pots, the sulphur ends down, have
been found to destroy the worms
which are SO fatal to house plants.
A solution or six grains of chloride
of tin and six grains of sulphate OF
copper dissolved in one quart of water
will be useful in plating small articles
with brass.
For a square hall or dining room
in country house dado of colored
mating is very effective. 1t should be
surmounted by shelf, on which may
be arrayed any ceramic treasures in
the way of plates, cups, vases and the
like.
To cause grlddle cakes to brown
nicely, add little molasses or coffee
to the batter; and to bake them with
out that binding smoke use soap
stone griddle, and simply rub it over
with damp cloth each time before
putting on cakes.
Polish salad is very easily made.
Cut in very small pieces any sort of
baked or roast meat (veal, mutton or
beef,) add soft-boiled eggs and finely
minced onion, lettuce or endive. Mix
all thoroughly with dressing of oil,
vinegar, mustard and pepper, and
serve.
A charming panel for square
screen is made of plush of sold red''
color, with conventionalized peoples
in silk embroidery. The deep red and
the brilliant flame color of the flow
ers, and the cool green of the foliage,
are very effective upon the soft back
ground.
A very good sugar cake may be
made by this recipe: One cupful of
sugar and tablespoonful of butter, |
mixed together; two cupfuls of flour,
two table spoonfuls of baking powder,
one cupful of milk, little salt and
one well-beaten egg. Flavor with
nutmeg or lemon, and bake in loaf.
Try this recipe for cooking cabbage:
Boil the cabbage gently until cooked,
and drain 1t. Put two ounces of but
ter into saucepan; set it on good
fire and, when melted, put in the cab
bage with some salt and pepper. Add
half q pint of cream or milk and one
of flour, stirring constant
ly with wooden spoon. Simmer I'M
til the sauce is reduced, and serve hot
Don't put elaborate brass CRATES in
your rooms unless you intend to use
hem. A snowy brass CRATE unstained
~ smoke or ashes suggests in all it's
differing newness a showroom and
lot home. A flre place not conse-
rated TO fire, that has neither
warmth nor suggestion of warmth, is
. dreadful sham; il is not artistic; it J
s not decorative; it kills rather than
gives pleasure.
Cold meat may be used to advantage
n the following way: Rub half pound !;
+ beef-drippilg into one-half pound of
Our, with little salt. Moisten the
aste with the water and roll it out :
alf an inch thick. Mince any kind of :
old meat, season it and add a few !;
poonsful of gravy. Spread the :
linced meat on the paste and roll it q
p. Tie it up in a cloth buttered and :,
CURED and boil for an hour and half. :,
TO clean and freshen old mating rub .
with a cloth wet in salt water. being r
areful not to allow any drops of wa .
II to dry in the mating, as they will
ave spots difficult to remove. Heavy
arnished furniture should never rest r.
lrectly upon the mating, for even
GOD varnish, becoming soft in warm h
Gather, will stain the Straw. Mat IL
ng may be turned if the loose ends W
the cords are threaded in a large
sedle and drawn through to the other a
de. ri
Don't hang upon your walls huge b
ack engravings set in vast spaces of "
hite margin. Pictures of this sort p
Q very depressing. Instead of white p,
argins substitute gray paper, and m
you must have black prints select Sc
ose that have a good deal of gray in
with tone and mellow Ell
ects Etchings commonly have more o,
fitness and artistic effect than en- s:
avings. Don't hang chromos on your "
Ill, or colored prints; don't display it.
nc lines of family photographs; don't in
ng MOSES or colored leaves or dried SIT
asses about. in
You can iron table cloth so rs to X
We good center piece to put your co
wer pot OF glass of cut flowers on. We
Id the cloth, whether square or OBJ ba
lg, in four, so that the center shall le
in the doubled corner at your left is
nd. Begin at this corner and turn su
er about an inch, creasing 1t sharply te
d pressing the iron firmly down on m
Then move this fold forward at
the cloth and crease another half er
III, not doubling under the part al ph
ady ironed, but making fresh tn
ease. So proceed until you have as ga
ge center-square as you wish. an
III can vary the distance given We
accommodate the thickness of your a ,
It'll. tr,
An excellent rice pudding is made by to
S recipe: Wash four ounces of rice els
cold water and set it on the fire with ins
lint of milk and the rind of half a CA
non. When nearly done, if the milk if
absorbed by the rice, add little sol
re, so that the rice may be nearly of
cred with it. When done, remove
rom the fire and mix with it two for
lespounfuls of sugar, two ounces for
butter, two tablespoonfuls of Ma
k, three yolks of eggs, 8 pinch of bu
!, and, if liked very little nutmeg. yo,
back on the fire for min a